matthewehret.substack.com Ever since Russia and China began challenging the Anglo-American scorched Earth doctrine in 2011 with their first vetoes against US intervention into Syria, the Gordian knots that have tied up the Arab world in chaos, division and ignorance for decades have finally begun to unravel.
Where just one decade ago the unipolar vision of the ânew American centuryâ reigned unchallenged, by 2013 the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) had sprung into life, and the largest purges of Chinaâs deep state on record were launched under Xi Jinpingâs watch. This latter crackdown even earned the ire of the American intelligence community, with war hawk John Bolton complaining that Xiâs authoritarianism has made the CIA job of maintaining its spies inside China nearly impossible.
