More and more countries have aspired to belong to BRICS since 2009, but none from the West. The BRICS countries represent 40% of the world population and 25% of the global GDP. Thanks to BRICS, China can impose its vision of international cooperation and Russia can show that it will not be isolated on the stage of global players. The group is a thorn in the side of the Americans all the more so that a dozen other developing countries (marked in orange on the map below) want to join the current five countries of the alliance (red).

What America certainly doesn’t like is the fact that French President Macron communicated the other day his interest in attending meetings of the alliance. France in BRICS would be a trigger for profound changes in the geopolitical landscape. We bet that Turkey can also join soon, which, like the case of France, will weaken the importance of the UN as a purely Anglo-Saxon project and that of NATO. Indeed, the BRICS countries are against the UN’s attempts to link the issues of climate with the issues of security, and France in BRICS can return to the de Gaullean concepts of foreign policy outside NATO. 

Source: Silkroadbriefing

A challenge to cohesion in BRICS is the large disparity in countries’ capacities (in favor of China) and the members’ focus on cooperation with the PRC, which results in a smaller number of relationships among the other partners. However, the main factor that has weakened the BRICS in recent years is the deterioration of relations between the largest member states, China and India, since 2017. Border and trade disputes culminated in the clashes on the Ladakh border in June 2020, which almost led to the cancellation of the BRICS summit in the same year and prompted India to deepen cooperation with the United States and the EU.

Now, the West’s involvement in the war in Ukraine is reviving anti-Western sentiments, not only in the BRICS countries. Indeed, it is clear to more and more countries that the war was provoked by NATO’s excessive expansion. The BRICS politicians also want to fight inflation whose cause they perceive not in the Russian attack but in the Western sanctions.

Whether you are pro-Western, pro-Russian, or in favor of the New Silk Road, it is better for all of us to live in a multi-polar world rather than to have all the strings pulled on the Potomac.

May, 1926, Paris. One Sholom Schwartzbard keeps shadowing Symon Petlura, a one-time commander in chief of the Ukrainian army and the leader of the ephemeral Ukrainian People’s Republic. Sholom Schwartzbard, who was Jewish, undaunted, having traced the whereabouts of Symon Petlura, confronts him now in a Paris street, draws out a gun, abuses his victim verbally and fires a few shots at point blank, killing the Ukrainian leader on the spot. Composed, he calmly lets himself be captured by the police, stands later due trial in France and… is fully absolved of guilt. Why? Because Symon Petlura in his capacity as a political leader of Ukraine encouraged or remained inactive while his subordinates decimated the Jewish population in Ukraine during the times of the civil war ensuing after the 1917 Bolshevik coup d’état.

October, 1959, Munich, West Germany. One Bohdan Stashynsky, a KGB agent, lurks in the staircase of a tenement house. Once he sees Stepan Bandera negotiating the flight of stairs, he comes up to him, pulls out a gun and fires or rather sprays cyanide gas, killing Stepan Bandera, who was one of the leaders of the Ukrainian nationalistic movement, morally if not legally responsible for ethnic cleansing, genocide and massacres of tens of thousands Poles, Jews and Russians in Volhynia, then Eastern Poland, today Western Ukraine.

July, 1768, Serby, southeastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (today’s Western Ukraine). Ivan Gonta is mutilated, tortured and eventually executed for his leading role in the massacre of Uman (Human), where his Cossacks (=Ukrainians) murdered tens of thousands of Poles and Jews. Ivan Gonta had been surreptitiously captured by Russians, who then handed him over to the Polish authorities, since most of the atrocities that he had committed were committed on the territory of the Polish Crown.

March, 1950, a village near the town of Lvov. Surrounded by the NKVD (Soviet counterpart of American FBI), Roman Shukhevych, a leader of the Ukrainian nationalistic movement (in importance to be regarded on a par with the aforementioned Stepan Bandera) most probably commits suicide, unable to fend off the Russian troops or to break through the encirclement. His identified corpse is burnt and the ashes are scattered in a river. (The same was later done in the seventies in East Germany with the ashes of Adolf Hitler, which – though partially charred – had been kept by the NKVD there.)

July, 1657, in Subotiv, Ukraine, dies Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the leader of the largest Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He dies in his bed, so to say, but he, too, has made a name for himself through numerous acts of slaughter aimed against Poles and Jews, with the victims numbering tens of thousands.

All these individuals are among the greatest national heroes of today’s Ukraine, having many monuments, commemorative plaques and street names to their honour. The voice of Jewish or Polish organizations – representatives of Jews and Poles, two main ethnic targets of Ukrainian ethnic cleansing, massacres and genocide – raise weak objections to the procedure of conferring to these characters a status of Ukrainian national heroes, and turning them into paragons for the Ukrainian youth. Strange. All the more so that the atrocities committed under the official guidance or spiritual leadership of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are still within living memory! German nationals with a comparably reprehensible historical record – Adolf Eichmann, who notoriously sent tens of thousands of Jews to concentration camps, or Hans Frank, who in his capacity as governor-general of occupied Poland was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths of Poles – were duly tried (the former in Israel, the latter in Germany by the allies) and executed. The same fate met Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, who stood trial in Poland and was duly hanged in 1947.

Somehow comparable atrocities inflicted by Ukrainian leaders on Poles and Jews go almost unnoticed. It is strange when we think about Israel, it is strange when we think about Poland, it is strange when we think about the collective West: after all, people in the West are oh so much sensitive to antisemitism even in trace amounts. All of a sudden Ukrainians get a pass: they are allowed to honour those who were flagrantly antisemitic, and they are allowed to elevate those who carried out ethnic cleansing and genocide on an industrial scale. Why? For decades you could think that in the collective West antisemitism was the gravest, unpardonable, unforgivable deadly sin of them all, graver than racism, white supremacism, homophobia, xenophobia and the rest of them. What has happened? Has the hatred towards Russia surpassed the West’s moral code? Khmelnytsky, Gonta, Petlura, Shukhevych and Bandera were antisemites par excellence, and yet they are honoured in today’s Ukraine while the West (and Israel) turn a blind eye to this cult; is it imaginable that the leaders of the NSDAP could be honoured in post-war Germany?

Worse, the chauvinistic salute or greeting “Glory to Ukraine!” with the response being “Glory the the heroes!”, both coined most likely by Roman Shukhevych, were modelled on the German “Sieg heil!” if not “Heil Hitler!” Who are these heroes who merit glory? You will have known by now: Khmelnytsky, Gonta, Petlura, Shukhevych and Bandera, with each name evoking memories of bloodbaths, slaughter, massacres, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Why do Western politicians wilfully and willingly use that salutation while greeting President Zelensky? If they don’t know what that salutation is associated with, then their advisors and counsellors ought to know; if even their advisors and counsellors do not know, then we are governed by ignoramuses.

One final note: even the battle-hardened, death-inflicting notorious SS-troopers were aghast at the atrocities committed by Ukrainians. The German occupation authorities allowed the Polish locals in Volhynia to possess small arms for the defence against the bloodthirstiness, bestiality and ruthlessness of Ukrainian henchmen inspired by the ideology of Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera. Despite all this the West weaponizes the likes of Bandera and Shukhevych to spite Russia. Who can the West field in the war against Putin? Their own citizens? No. So, Washington and London and Paris and Berlin and even Warsaw! resort to Ukrainian nationalists who venerate Ukrainian war criminals, antisemites and Polonophobes because Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and Warsaw badly want to destroy Russia. It turns out that every deadly sin can be absolved by those who have the power to forgive or retain sins if the sinner can do a piece of dirty work in their interests.

It is really a sorry sight to see young, manipulated people in their twenties who rant in the EU Parliament about putting an end to economic growth. It is a sorry sight to see their gray-haired supervisors who have groomed those youngsters and are now parading them for the whole world to see and having them deliver pseudo-lectures, pseudo-appeals to give up on development. That the likes of Philippe Lamberts or Ursula von der Leyen have had enough and cannot keep pace with the vibrant advance of technology and sound ideas is understandable; that there are young people who want to jump from childhood straight to senility is really sad. Two generations back their peers dreamt of conquering outer space, today young men and women are dreaming of going back to a leisurely existence in the countryside. Why do the young men and women do it?

They are – to put it politely – not quite in their rights senses. They have for the most part graduated from social “sciences” or gender studies; if some of them have dealt with economics, then a special type of economics, like the one socialist countries practised and ended up as they did. These young men and women, groomed to be future Baerboks and von der Leyens, genuinely believe in all that has been fed to their minds. They believe in the end of the world that is looming large unless we – the whole mankind – stop developing. They also benefit from this pro de-growth activism: how many people can have the floor at the EU parliament, stay at a Brussels hotel and play big? How many people can attend such conferences repeatedly every year and travel the world round at who knows whose expense? How many people can feel that important? Narcissism in full blossom!

In the meantime the powers that be have a problem with money. The rising debt, the debt ceiling that is not crossed only because it is constantly raised, the emergence of crypto currencies and the engineering of central bank digital currency are all on the agenda. Let the young care about climate change, immigration, sexual deviance, cancel culture and white supremacy while we – the managers of the world – are busy designing a system of total control. Gefira 75 sensitizes us to these problems. Sadly, while socio- and psychopaths at the top echelons of the world’s elite are hell-bent on preserving their power and subjugating humanity, their red guards – or rather – their green guards are doing their danse macarbe and calling to us with the gladiators words: Morituri vos salutant! 

 

True, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki /ma-TEH-oosh maw-rahv-YETS-kee/ has studied history, but he is sort of oblivious to history’s lessons. What of the low quality of the educational services offered at the university where he was a student or of Mateusz Morawiecki’s lack of diligence, even the most recent events have been lost upon him. Why?

Well, he and the whole Polish establishment (of which some others have also studied history!) are, first, very much belligerent in their relations with Russia, and, second, they have put unlimited trust in the protective powers of the United States, NATO and the European Union. That is to say: Poland is flexing its muscles as if nothing bad whatsoever might happen to her. This is very strange both from the common sense point of view and – as mentioned above – from the lessons that history should have taught Poles (and apparently it hasn’t).

Consider the last one hundred years. Subsequent to World War One, central Europe saw the emergence of a number of more or less national states that sprung up on the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy, on the debris of the Russian Empire and slightly at the expense of the defeated German Empire. Central Europe was thus carved up between Poland, Czechoslovakia, (territorially reduced) Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. There also emerged the three Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The existence and independence of all those new political entities located roughly in between Germany and Soviet Russia was guaranteed by the Treaty of Versailles and the accompanying treaties, by the League of Nations and a couple of international agreements, especially between France and Czechoslovakia or France and Britain on the one side, and Poland on the other. (As an aside: the interbellum in Europe was full of treaties, pacts and alliances, all guaranteeing the signatories territorial integrity and political sovereignty.) How effective were these guarantees?

In 1938 Czechoslovakia was dismembered by the consent of the then European superpowers (the Sudetenland was annexed by Germany, Slovakia was torn away) and in 1939 the rump state of Czechia was incorporated into Germany; in 1939 Poland was attacked and devoured by Germany and the Soviet Union, despite the guarantees from Paris and London, which pledged solemnly to defend it. Before the war erupted, the Polish authorities would have posters placed in cities and towns that showed the might of Poland’s allies: both France and Great Britain were depicted against the background of the whole globe with all their colonial and dependent territories in Africa and Asia and America. The pictorial message left no doubt: not only the United Kingdom and France, but also almost all of Africa and almost all of southern Asia along with Australia, New Zealand and Canada that were formally parts of the British Empire presented an overwhelming power as compared to the speck of land occupied by Germany. In a word: a tiger and a mouse.

Soon it transpired that there was no force strong enough to stop the German steamroller, with France – a World War One victor from twenty years earlier – being crushed by the Teutons within the length of time comparable to that taken by Germany to conquer Poland. Did that teach the Polish elites a lesson? Not in any way!

During the Second World War the Polish government in exile operated first in France and then in the United Kingdom, again cherishing hopes that with the aid of the superpowers – this time Great Britain soon to be joined by the United States – Poland would regain its prewar territory and preserve its political system despite the advance of Soviet armies! Polish soldiers were sent to fight in Norway, in the skies over England, in North Africa, in Italy (Monte Casino), in France and the Netherlands. A large number of the Polish soldiers hailed from the eastern territories of prewar Poland that would soon be annexed to the Soviet Union, leaving them no place to return to. One might understand that common soldiers could not figure out how world politics operated, but how about higher officers, generals, the members of the government? Did they really believe that Great Britain and the United States were so powerful that Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s leader, would tuck his tail between his legs and withdraw his troops from prewar Poland, leaving its territory to the Polish government in exile? Did they really believe that the United Kingdom and the United States would declare war on Soviet Russia in case Joseph Stalin refused to comply with their demands regarding Poland? If they did, then they were not quite in their right senses. If they did not, then why did they enter into all those alliances? Why did they sacrifice the blood of Polish soldiers, why did they demand that the Polish soldiers be killed, injured, maimed somewhere in Africa or the Netherlands? If those soldiers could not go back to their homeland, and many did not, why fight and die in the first place? In the name of what?

Today’s Polish elites resemble their prewar predecessors. They face a formidable neighbour – this time Russia rather than Germany – and they recklessly provoke him, they recklessly poke the bear in his backyard. Why? Because they feel safe because, first, Poland is allied with the United States, second, Poland is a member of NATO, and third, Poland is a member of the European Union. Today’s Polish elites might as well have posters placed in towns and cities – resembling those from prewar Poland – showing the powerfulness of the Western world. People in their vast majority would fall for the trick just as they believe in all the talk about the righteousness of our side and the wickedness of the Russians.

The question arises: why are the Polish elites operating the way they are? Do they not know recent history? Most of them certainly do not, but some of them – as mentioned in the opening of this text – have studied it, so it would be impolite to suggest that they don’t. If they are aware of the past, then why are they taking the risk of having Poland overrun by the formidable neighbour? Why do they believe that the collective West will stand up for Poland when push comes to shove? Even those who do not know history (the majority of the ruling class) can still hark back to events within their living memory: the withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan, the incapability of Americans to effectively oppose Russians in Syria and MOST IMPORTANTLY the current, unfolding fate of Ukraine! For years Kiev has been offered guarantees of support, security, aid – you name it – and look what has happened to the country! Ukraine’s 1991 population of 50 million has dwindled to at least 25 million, its economy is in shatters, its population keeps living in duress caused by the hostilities and the country lost huge chunks of territory. If the missiles with depleted uranium are eventually applied there, Ukraine will have had vast swaths of territory contaminated by radiation. Can’t the authorities in Warsaw – and in Prague, Bratislava, Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn – see this destruction, this annihilation, this obliteration that are visited upon Ukraine DESPITE the West’s help? Do they really think that Ukraine will win this war? Do they really think Americans or the French or the British will send their soldiers to stand up for Ukraine or Estonia, or Latvia, or Lithuania, or Poland if the formidable enemy advances West? Are they not aware of the fact that Americans only get militarily involved when they oppose a very weak and politically isolated enemy – Iraq, Yugoslavia – when victory is served them on a silver platter?

Why do they pursue a policy of confrontation with the formidable neighbour? Do they not care what will happen as a result? Is it so hard to imagine the outcome of a possible confrontation? Perhaps they already have their families far away in a western country and so they don’t care…?

It is not the first time that the Polish elites act as though they were in the pay of Poland’s enemies i.e. as though they were acting to the detriment of their own nation. The same goes for Ukrainian elites and the elites of the Baltic States (all these elites without an exception tormented by a deep-seated inferiority complex towards the West and everything western to the effect that they are willing to forfeit the interests of their nations for… a stay in Paris or a trip to Venice or a Western grant or award). They can easily visualize the fate of their countries if Russia invades: they will be provided with weapons by the West while Russia will suffer a hundredth wave of sanctions and they will have their countries turned into a battleground. If the elites have no power of imagination, then let them look at Ukraine, for goodness’ sake!

What has Ukraine gained from relying heavily on the West? Was it all worth the price that the country and the nation is paying now? Could Ukrainian elites really not foresee what had been looming large at least since 2014? How irresponsible must one be to act like that? To think of it: they all – in Poland, Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States – shoot their mouths off about how they want to make the world a better place to live, a place where each individual can develop his potential to the full. What world have they created for the tens of millions of Ukrainians? They should all – the managers of the United States and the European Union – have a very troubled conscience i.e. if they had a conscience in the first place. Chances are they have none, for if they had, they would long have worn sackcloth and sprinkled ashes over their heads. As it is, they rescue INDIVIDUAL Afghans or Somalis and do not give two hoots about the lives of MILLIONS of Ukrainians which they have purposefully ruined only to spite their nemesis: Putin’s Russia.

The negotiations were not easy. Hungary, that defiant child of Europe, refused from the start. Poland argued that it took in so many Ukrainians that it met all the migration quotas for many years to come. No, said the hypocritical Scholz and von der Leyen, who shapes Europe’s demographic landscape. You must take in at least 30,000 migrants a year! And behold: They gave in… Those quasi-right-wing Eastern Europeans like Orban and Morawiecki. What they were frightened by by the powerful EU technocrats, we will certainly not know.

This shows that Brussels and Berlin are not about, say, helping Ukrainians and seeing them as migrants on an equal footing with Africans and Arabs. Evidence of this was provided by the beginning of the war, when Poland took in most of the “refugees” from the East and provided the most military support to its Eastern neighbor, while Scholz sent only the familiar helmets, which was like: Are you hungry? Ok, then I’ll send you some bowls and plates, you have to get food by yourselves.

Now the EU under Swedish leadership continues to show its true face. It is still about ethnic exchange and bringing the uneducated masses of people from the remotest places in the world. That the very commissioner from Sweden stands for the pact and advancement of the exchange is striking. A woman from a once quiet and idyllic country, where crime was zero and whose cities have since turned into a paradise for Arab and African gangs, pleads for the planned abolition of her own nation.

The facts are these:

① By the end of May, 72,585 migrants had arrived in Europe, most of them via sea. Since the drive is organized by criminal gangs from Italy, Spain, Libya, and Morocco that despise human life, 1,246 people died or were classified as missing in the process (Nachrichten, Al Jazeera English, 2023-06-08, 23.00 Uhr). These gangs are particularly looking forward to the pact. The pact will surely encourage more droves to make their way to Europe.

② Among these migrants, most people came from Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Syria, Pakistan, Bangladesh. No wars are currently being waged in these countries, so these people should not be called refugees and given free money, shelter and food, unless: they are superhumans and Europe belongs to them a priori.

③ 70% of the asylum seekers in Austria can neither write nor read. They will enrich Austria and lead it to the bright future.

④ The number of terrorist attacks after 2015 (after Mutti opened the gates) increased dramatically in Western Europe. In total, there were 133 attacks with 385 deaths. Do you remember the attacks in those years in Poland, Czechia or Hungary?

⑤ The EU opened its borders, but at the same time paid billions to countries like Turkey, Mali or Niger to stop this flow of migrants. Where is the logic? Or is it about transfers from the pocket of Western taxpayers directly to the pocket of dictators in the mentioned countries?

⑥ How would the German sociologists interpret the fact that in 2022 there were 25,111 car thefts in Germany (84 million people), while in Poland (about 38 million people) there were only 6,157. how would they explain that the number of bicycle thefts in Germany has increased dramatically recently? And so on and immediately. The percentage of citizens with the migration background in the country of Goethe is 28.7% and the percentage of these citizens in crimes is 37.4%. Even Statista cannot embellish reality, but if you live in Germany, then you know that there are big lies, even bigger lies and statistics.