by Christopher LaBorde, Gold Seek:
Last Tuesday (Nov. 22), during an emergency virtual BRICS meeting Putin declared that US unilateralism has wrecked all chances of peace in the Middle East. The statement was made with the support of China, BRICS nation supporters, the Arab world, and much of the Global South.
The following day a temporary cease-fire was brokered. A month after a UN General Assembly meeting voted on a Humanitarian truce, a week after the UN instructed the need for Humanitarian Pauses, and 12 hours after a Russian President explained that the US is destroying peace; the bullets will stop for increments of 24 hours. The accusation was that the US was killing people and destroying all options on peace by monopolizing diplomacy for their own interests. Putin’s timing, audience, and framing for this statement were that of a master chess player. Its moves like these that have left Biden looking more confused and bewildered than ever.