from alethonews.com by Alastair Crooke at Strategic Culture Foundation | via thefreeonline
By Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation | May 30, 2022
Klaus Schwab, passionate for Ukraine, essentially configured the World Economic Forum (WEF) to showcase Zelensky and to leverage the argument that Russia should be kicked out of the civilised world.
Schwabâs target was the assembled crĂšme de la crĂšme of the worldâs business leaders assembled there.
Zelensky pitched big: âWe want more sanctions and more weaponsâ; âAll trade with the aggressor should be stoppedâ; âAll foreign business should leave Russia so that your brands are not associated with war crimesâ, he said.
Sanctions must be all encompassing; values must matter.
Disquiet ran through the Davos set: The WEF is high-octane globalist, right? Yet this Schwab line suggests a de-coupling âon stiltsâ. It precisely reverses interconnectedness.
Plus, the western generals in charge are saying that this conflict may last not just years, but decades.
What will this signify for their markets in parts of the world that refuse action against Russia, the moneymen were wondering?
It is unlikely that this whiff of disorientation is what Schwab had intended.
Perhaps the latter was more aligned with Sorosâ later intervention that a quick victory over Russia was needed to save the âOpen Societyâ and civilisation itself â and that this was intended as the WEF 2022 message.
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The Davos âgreater disquietâ emerged however, from an unexpected quarter. Just before the WEF began, the NY Times had run a piece from the editorial team urging Zelensky to negotiate with Russia.
It argued that such engagement implied making painful territorial sacrifices.
The piece attracted indignant and angry push-back in Europe and the West, possibly because â albeit couched as advice to Kiev â its target was evidently Washington and London (the arch belligerents).
Eric Cantor, a former whip in the U.S. House of Representatives (a legislator well versed on Iran sanctions), also at Davos, questioned whether the West would be able to maintain a united front in pursuit of such maximalist aims as Zelensky and his Military Intelligence Chief have demanded.
âWe may not get the next voteâ, Cantor opined (in wake of the $40 bn vote ostensibly earmarked for Ukraine).
Cantor said excluding Russia entirely would require secondary sanctions against other countries.
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