News Review: 12/11/2022

COP27 Climate Conference: Biden claims ‘The United States is acting’

According to The Washington Post:

President Biden sought to assure a global summit that the United States is committed to confronting climate change, but poor nations pushed back against the large U.S. delegation that joined the conference Friday, demanding that the world’s richest countries pay more to help.

In an address to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Egypt, known as COP27, Biden guaranteed that the United States would hit its climate commitments and said it was willing to share its climate progress with the rest of the world. But he also took aim at other major greenhouse gas emitters whose leaders skipped the gathering, including China and Russia, saying that only collective action could avert a planetary catastrophe.
“The United States is acting,” Biden said. “Everyone has to act.”
The president framed the $369 billion in spending on clean energy from this year’s Inflation Reduction Act as an initiative that can help other countries, though it was intended primarily to boost the U.S. economy as it transitions to cleaner energy.

“Our investments in technology, from electric batteries to hydrogen, are going to spark a cycle of innovation that will reduce the cost and improve the performance of clean-energy technology that will be available to nations worldwide, not just the United States,” Biden said, drawing applause. “We’re going to help make the transition to a low-carbon future more affordable for everyone.”

In truth, climate change has become just one more manifestation of great power rivalry over the world’s oil wealth. It was Britain that first introduced America to Saudi Arabia. But once the US had tasted the oil of the Muslim world, it did not stop until it ejected Britain from most Muslim countries. The OPEC crisis of the 1970s was just one attempt by Britain to fight back against American oil domination. The climate change movement is just the successor to that. Initially Britain covertly backed environmentalism to build opposition for American nuclear weapons in Europe; but then Britain extended this to opposition to Big Oil. Any movement against oil will harm America much more than Europe. The old European imperialist powers also have substantial oil assets but they also retain access to a much wider range of the Earth’s raw materials and mineral resources within their former colonies. US wealth, both domestically and internationally, is much more narrowly built on oil.

For decades, the US and its oil companies were put on the defensive against the climate movement. The Republican Party, in particular, became known as climate deniers. But leaders within the Democratic Party began to embrace the climate movement and devise a way to still safeguard American interests. President Joe Biden has been able to align climate policy with present US objectives for re-industrialisation to counter Chinese economic competition and reclaim strategic American economic sovereignty. It will be difficult for Britain to cause further difficulties for America over the climate. But the politics of climate change will continue to be used by Western powers against China and the rest of the world.

These days some of the highest polluted cities in the world are in Muslim countries. The disbelieving imperialist Western powers continue to exploit Muslim lands for materials and labour, paying minimal rates for a vast supply of invaluable resources and products. Muslim countries are left without the legal, administrative or financial capacity to bring improvements to their industrial processes. Climate activists are calling for reparations from the West. We don’t need reparations. We need only to eject the disbelieving imperialist, retake control of our own lands, and manage our own industry for our own benefit. This will never happen as long as Muslims continue to be governed by an agent class of rulers, the remnants of colonial times, supported by the Western legal systems that the imperialists left behind that only facilitate their continued exploitation of our lands. But with the permission of Allah (swt), the Muslim Ummah shall soon arise and re-establish the Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) State on the method of the Prophet (saw) that shall re-unify the lands of Muslims, liberate her occupied territories, implement the Islamic Sharia, restore the Islamic way of life, and carry the light of Islam to the entire world.

US Continues to Use Muslim Countries as Proxies to Undermine Russia

While the world views both Turkey and Iran as being more friendly to Russia than to America, the reality is that these countries are completely subordinate to American foreign policy, tools by which America extends its domination over the world. In an opinion piece this week, Stephen Blank, a Russian expert, notes how Russian weakness due to Ukraine is damaging its influence in Central Asia also:

A major casualty of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine has been its weakening position and leverage in Central Asia. In truth, this war has plainly demonstrated Moscow’s risky imperial impulses are clearly damaging the region. The most obvious example of the region distancing itself from the Kremlin is Kazakhstan, which has repeatedly asserted its independence from Russia (Trendsreserach.org, August 26). But more recently, other Central Asian states have followed suit.

For example, Kyrgyzstani analysts have reported a distinct cooling of ties (The Diplomat, October 11). Indeed, Kyrgyzstani President Sadyr Japarov cancelled joint military drills with the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) due to Russia’s support for Dushanbe against Bishkek in the controversies over their shared border; opposed the railroad project to connect Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and China; as well as decried Russia’s overall colonial hauteur directed against Kyrgyzstan (if not all of Central Asia).

Similarly, Tajikistani President Emomali Rahmon, normally a dependable Russian client, publicly upbraided Russian President Vladimir Putin for not respecting “small states” and for not paying sufficient attention to the needs of all the Central Asian states (Al Jazeera, October 18). He also complained that Moscow did not treat Tajikistan as an equal strategic partner. Finally, Rahmon further lamented that Russian businessmen only care about hydrocarbons and are not helping develop Tajikistan’s economy. These signs of common disapproval of Russian policy and the willingness to reprimand Russia and Putin publicly clearly derive inspiration from Kazakhstan’s example, which, like these actions of regional assertiveness, also continues to affirm its more independent course.

However, he ends his article by explaining how it is Turkey and Iran that are benefitting from this:

In truth, we are also seeing increased mutual attention being paid to Central Asia by both Turkey and Iran. Between Astana and Ankara, this attention manifests itself most clearly in recent military deals. And in Iran’s case, Tehran seeks to increase its economic presence in Central Asia through various trade and transit agreements (Studies.aljazeera.net, April 1, 2014). Thus, it is clear that Moscow’s pretensions to hegemony in Central Asia are coming under severe pressure from the impact of its war against Ukraine on its military and economic capabilities, as well as on its relations with the respective regional governments. These trends are sure to lead to the European Union and United States showing a greater interest and bolstering their presence in Central Asia. For all these reasons, we can assert confidently that Russia’s ties with Central Asia are and will continue to be casualties of the war in Ukraine.

America knows well the capabilities of Muslim countries. But instead of Muslims themselves benefitting from these capabilities, it is America that benefits. The US wishes to discipline Russia and force it to conform to US aims and objectives and is employing Muslim countries to do so.

But with the permission of Allah (swt) the re-established Khilafah State shall liberate the Muslim Ummah from subservience to disbelieving foreign imperialist powers. The Khilafah State shall, almost from its inception, enter the ranks of the great powers on account of its immense size, overflowing resources, vast youthful population, unparalleled geography and unique Islamic ideology. The Khilafah State will take full control of its own foreign policy, confront, contain and calm the other world powers, and return the world to the general peace and prosperity that existed during the thousand years that Islam previously dominated world affairs.