By Jamie Mcintyre
The Multipolar Shift: Why BRICS and Southeast Asia Are Rising
Pt 1: By Jamie McIntyre, Chief Editor of Australian National Review, founder of independent media in Australia, and analyst of financial trends
For years, Western media outlets told the public that Ukraine would defeat Russia, sanctions would collapse the Russian economy, and NATO’s industrial might would overwhelm Moscow.
From day one, I said the opposite.
Russia would win the war.
Not because Russia is invincible, but because military conflicts are ultimately determined by industrial capacity, production costs, economic endurance, and public tolerance for prolonged conflict. Russia can manufacture weapons and ammunition at a fraction of the cost of the bloated Western military industrial complex, which has become less about defence and more about endless taxpayer-funded profit extraction.
The same applies to the escalating tensions involving Iran, Israel, and United States.
From the outset, I stated Iran would prove far more formidable than Western propaganda suggested. Iran possesses asymmetric warfare capabilities, missile technology, regional alliances, and the ability to severely damage U.S. military infrastructure throughout the Middle East. If Israel continues escalating regional conflict recklessly, it risks provoking consequences far beyond what its political class imagines possible.
Western media is no longer functioning as journalism in many cases. It increasingly resembles state-approved narrative management. For those without time to become geopolitical experts, one crude but often effective filter is this: when the propaganda machine pushes an emotional certainty, reality frequently moves in the opposite direction.
Original source: https://x.com/jamiemcintyre21/status/2057671450866372973