I love it! Anything and everything which demonstrates the the fall into disrespect of the US among sovereign nations of the world in today’s world of faltering and rising orders, is to me a thing of beauty. It kind of makes waking up in the morning with an air of expectancy a thing to look forward to. And almost every day now, there is something in the news – at least the news I read – which reinforces that the US and its slimy cohorts are more and more ‘on the nose*’ almost everywhere.
* ‘On the nose’, I should explain, since it has several connotations, means ‘distastefully stinky’.
The ‘chirping of crickets’ is not a thing of beauty. It is actually an annoyance, difficult to ignore, and a pestilence to eventually get rid of.
Imagine relatively little Cambodia telling the US to ‘shove it’. Well we don’t have to imagine that now, it’s already happened. See “Cambodia is not obligated to ‘allay US suspicions’: Global Times editorial”, in which story Cambodia has also refused the US permission to inspect their new naval facilities built with the help of China. How sweet!
Just because you hear the chirping of crickets, does that mean you should stop farming?
Global Times Editorial (link above)
And it is not only Cambodia taking this kind of stance. I can’t recount all of them but only very recently it was the Solomon Islands which asserted its own independence – from both Australia (US lapdog) and the US itself.
Many nations in Africa (around 40 – are now meeting in St Petersburg at the second Russia-Africa Forum). They are turning to Russia for further support – since they all share many common traditional principles. Africa is emerging as a non-colonial economic powerhouse of independent states. Colonialists and bullies no longer welcome.
It gladdens the heart of anyone who values their own independence and freedom to see that taking shape.
The west has nothing now to offer the world. And the world is beginning to realise that and to seek a better way. What they see is a rising volume of other nation states with similar values and ambitions opting to gather where equality, sovereignty, and peaceful security are principles mutually shared.
If the west wants no part of this new and rising world, instead choosing to retain their own vision of superiority in isolation (superiority over what?), then whose loss is that?
Not Something Else 
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