On November 11-17, 2023, the San Francisco APEC summit will be held. At this scene, the meeting of the leaders of two largest economies of the Pacific, China’s Xi and US’ Biden, is appointed. And — which will be not so visible, but even more important — a high-ranked cross-talk of the delegations from both countries will also take place.
This meeting remarks the worst situation for the West since its triumph in the Cold War in 1991: the NATO-backed Ukrainian army is about to be defeated by Russia; the US did not manage to hit Chinese or Russian economics by trade war; the pro-American separatists on Taiwan are likely to lose the upcoming 2024 elections; and, finally, the Israeli efforts to overtake Gaza with an instant drop-shot has failed.
Thereby, according to the information from my journalistic sources, the US is planning to distract all its adversaries one by one, in a desperate attempt to win the New Cold War. I don’t know whether this US’ plan has ever been summarized in an integral written form and whether it has any codename, but I’d like to title it ‘The Opossum Plan’.
What does it mean? An opossum is an American animal which can simulate death to avoid predators; the Americans call it ‘playing dead’. An opossum can lay for an hour, barely breathing, waiting for the enemies to calm down and to leave — note how close the words ‘lay’ and ‘lie’ are.
Thus, according to my information, the US is planning two simultaneous false-flag operations against China and Russia within this plan.
A false-flag operation number one is to convince the Russians that the US would pay all its attention to the Israeli-Palestinian war rather that to the Ukrainian war, and also to convince Russia that the US would lift the Western economic sanctions if Russia might have been ‘stepped back’ at Ukraine — meaning not destroy the current Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev.
Yet the REALITY within this plan would be quite another. If Russia agrees, weakens its current economic autonomy and opens its economy to the West, the Russian economy would aggravate and Russia would be incapable to handle the war in all meanings of this term.
This false-flag operation is now being performed by the liaisons among the Russian oligarchs and celebrities which fled to the West after February 2022 but now are returning home to conduct private talks with their counterparts among the Russian elites.
Simultaneously, the US is conducting a false-flag operation number two. Its aim is to convince China (during the above-mentioned Xi-Biden talks at the APEC 2023 summit) that all the US aggression would be aimed at Russia rather than at China. As a leverage, the US will also offer China ‘the best Trade Deal ever’ to improve the US-China relations. As a part of this deal, the Biden administration is planning to convince China NOT to help the Arab states and Iran in their fight against NATO/Israel. As a prize for the Chinese neutrality in all these conflicts, the US will offer China ‘a near-zero oil price’ — explaining that the US would be able to fulfill this part of the deal ‘when Iran and Arabs would return under the US influence’.
Yet the REALITY within this plan would also be quite another. With the Russian-Chinese Union broken, the ‘US-China trade deal’ would be used to distract and to deceive China because in reality, this deal would bring economic benefits only to the US.
Then, after China would be isolated from the Russian gas, the US would also isolate China from the Near Eastern oil — in order to finally strike China in the war at the Pacific as Beijing would have already lost all its foreign allies before.
As I’ve already remarked, ‘the Opossum’ remains only a plan. Like any other plan, it can be corrected, postponed, or even cancelled. Will Russia, China, and the countries of the Global South including Turkey be so naive to let Washington split and defeat them one by one? I count on the best, but the worst scenario should never be ignored.
About the author.
Edvard Chesnokov (1987) is a Moscow-based international journalist, a professor at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia).
