Dementia Joe does it again. Less than 24 hours after Secretary of State Blinken genuflected before the Chinese, assuring them that the United States really, really, really is sincere in supporting the One China policy and eschews calling for Taiwan’s independence, Biden opened his yap and called Xi Jinping a dictator. While this garnered applause from the American financial donors, it destroyed Blinken’s credibility with the Chinese and confirmed their worst suspicions about U.S. intentions.
When it comes to the art of diplomacy, saying what you really think or believe is not an acceptable practice. While many Americans believe that China’s Xi is a dictator and are wondering what the fuss is surrounding Biden’s intemperate, off-the-cuff remark, saying this in public stiffens Chinese doubts about U.S. intentions and makes it virtually impossible for the United States to have any kind of productive working relationship with China going forward.
Just a day after Blinken’s weekend visit to China, U.S. President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping in a move that has infuriated Beijing and left U.S. officials perplexed. Biden said the comments in front of donors at a California event.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning called the comments a “provocation” and “irresponsible.” U.S. officials have privately sought to inform the Chinese that this doesn’t represent a shift in tone or mood since the Blinken visit.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/27593
I suspect there were some of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy advisors who warned that receiving Blinken was a mistake and that the U.S. could not be trusted to live up to its promises. Guess what? They are serving up a big load of crow to those in the Chinese Government who advocated for the meeting with Blinken. Those advocates have lost face; big time.
American political leaders, including those in the Biden Administration and Republicans, need to make a choice — cool the bombastic, threatening rhetorical comments or prepare for deteriorating relations with China that will inflict enormous damage on the U.S. economy for the foreseeable future. There is no middle ground.
Many of the so-called American China mavens advocate more deterrence (i.e., more cowbell). CSIS published the results of a China/America war game in January:
CSIS developed a wargame for a Chinese amphibious invasion of Taiwan and ran it 24 times. In most scenarios, the United States/Taiwan/Japan defeated a conventional amphibious invasion by China and maintained an autonomous Taiwan. However, this defense came at high cost. The United States and its allies lost dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and tens of thousands of service members. Taiwan saw its economy devastated. Further, the high losses damaged the U.S. global position for many years. China also lost heavily, and failure to occupy Taiwan might destabilize Chinese Communist Party rule. Victory is therefore not enough. The United States needs to strengthen deterrence immediately.
The proposal to “strengthen U.S. deterrence”, which is academic jargon for building up U.S. military capability in the Pacific, is a non-starter. The U.S. already is bogged down in Ukraine, has depleted critical weapon supplies and lacks the industrial capability to rapidly replace weapons and build tanks, combat aircraft and ships required, in theory at least, to deter China.
China is likely to become more firm in defining its territorial waters and air space and will make normal commerce with Taiwan more difficult for the United States, but it sees war as a last resort. China has a number of other cards to play. The most important of these is the January 13, 2024 election in Taiwan where the party that wants a closer relationship with the mainland appears to have a chance to win the Presidency. If the Kuomintang prevails then the door is open for a peaceful reconciliation between the mainland and Taiwan. This will be a punch to the gut for the United States and will upend Western plans to foment a rift in the Communist Party.
You can be sure that Western and Chinese intelligence agencies will be actively interfering in this election to secure their respective interests. Hypocrisy alert — don’t be surprised that many of the American politicians who decried alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election will be enthusiastic supporters of the U.S. Government and its subsidiary agencies meddling aggressively in the Taiwan election. We can do it to you but don’t do it to us.
If you’re holding your breath in hopes of a peaceful resolution to this conflict you will pass out from lack of oxygen. I fear that the American political dynamics are so toxic and twisted that we are setting ourselves up for an inevitable war with China. I also worry that the Chinese leaders have reached this same conclusion and will ramp up their efforts to work more closely with Russia in building a new world order that will weaken American influence and will bolster its naval, air and hypersonic missile capabilities.
Totally agree. This is absurdly comic – if it weren’t potentially cataclysmic.
I wonder how many American ambassadors are getting a cold shoulder in their host countries ?
The world is currently chuckling at US behaviour.
How long before they start laughing openly ?
…if not already…
Brzi
I think the sane world is doing a lot more than chuckling at US behaviour (sane world excludes all the aligned western nations joined at the hip to the American nightmare). The non-aligned nations aspiring to freedom know this is the big final event and they are preparing for the big one.
What is the CSIS smoking?
This discussion on The Duran with retired American Ambassador Chas Freeman is enlightening in terms of how America and its sock-puppet allies will fare in a conventional war with China over Taiwan.
New World Order w/ Ambassador Chas Freeman, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen
Refer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0DzClQtn0&ab_channel=TheDuran
In that Duran discussion I noted at 1hr 29min 20sec Chas Freeman’s comment about American diplomacy which he likened to that of the Roman and Han dynasties i.e. “All stick and no carrot”.
I further noted at 1hr 14min 18sec Freeman’s comments about current superiority of Chinese conventional weapons compared to American weapons systems i.e. the Chinese carrier-destroying missiles; China’s air to air missiles have longer range to those of American air to air missiles; China has hypersonic missiles and railguns both of which America has failed to produce.
Refer: https://youtu.be/zp0DzClQtn0?t=4458
Add to all that, right now today China is in relative terms of manufacturing capacities where America was in comparative terms leading up to WW11. Which means that in event of a hot war between China and US that is waged only with conventional weapons and does not go nuclear, China can ramp weapons production like America did in WW11 and will wipe the floor in any war with America today. Whereas America today simply does not have the manufacturing capacity nor has it the resources to ramp up weapons manufacture that would have any hope of competing against China. And that Chinese weapons manufacturing superior advantage will only widen dramatically with time.
But war there is going to be, and the Chinese and Russians are preparing for it like there is no tomorrow. It seems inconceivable to me that the Neocon crazies will not resort to the nuclear option in event China were to look like whipping them in a conventional war.
There has been a lot of reporting about Putin and Lavrov in their recent speeches indicating their willingness for a negotiated freeze of the Ukraine war which presumes a Korea type settlement with Russia holding on to all the conquered territories. BUT this would be fatally dangerous in the long term for Russia; and I suspect that Putin, Lavrov and others in Russian government know this and are only making such public proclamations for the future historic record showing their willingness to cease hostilities and negotiate a peace settlement.
The following article published on RT 14 June 2023 is by Professor Sergey Karaganov who is honorary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and academic supervisor at the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. Karaganov has been a presidential adviser to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.
In the article Karaganov expounds the realpolitik as he points out the horribly obvious. Unless there is clean sweep regime change in the Anglo-American-NATO power centres then Russia will always be threatened by the Western hegemons even if Russia were to take over all of Ukraine necessitating a much longer and bloodier struggle. Karaganov is clearly persuaded, along with most intelligent Russians and other intelligent people around the world, that to ensure their future security Russia will have to take the war full scale to take out the western fascist power centres including all the war criminals operating out of them today.
Realpolitik has dawned with its usual terrifying and unavoidable reality. There can no longer be any illusions about Western Anglo-American-NATO treachery and deceit. There is only one way this can proceed to ensure the future security for Russia, China and the rest of the BRIC-aligned nations seeking sovereignty and a shared multipolar free world.
Sergey Karaganov: By using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe
14 June 2023 article on RT as follows:
https://www.rt.com/russia/578042-russia-nuclear-weapons/
Meanwhile Putin, Lavrov and the Russian decision-makers make the necessary public symbolic gestures of declaring willingness to negotiate a settlement knowing all too well that they are eventually going to be forced to do what most Western leaders are convinced will never happen.
The clock is ticking and that second hand is a mere few seconds from midnight.
We can only hope that de-dollarization, the expansion of BRICS and the establishment of a parallel world economic order that can operate independently of the west effectively de-fangs the fascist/neocon leaderships in the west.
When western economies collapse in relative terms political change will follow – or so one might hope.
That political change may avoid this inevitable conclusion, though so far it has been observed on every occasion over the last 20+ years that the crazies in the US and Europe/EU have no reverse gear.
I doubt a man like Gorby, God bless his soul, would emerge to effect change from the top. No, what’s more likely is these neocon/neolib crazies are going to take everyone with them with another World War before the economic collapse. I doubt many people appreciate what the USSR and the Red Army DIDN’T DO when faced with the same situation.
I know what you mean, but for a country that has maintained wide-open borders for forty years to poke powerful countries with a sharp stick is just an invitation for every country in the world–the remaining sane ones, that is–to activate their assets inside “our” country and thereby forestall the neocons’ mad plans. The power grid is totally indefensible, and it is by no means necessary to shut down the entire power grid from coast to coast to cripple those parts of the continent necessary to stopping the lunatic neocons in their tracks. Shutting down banks or Wall Street would do the trick, I suspect.
And governments nowadays have far more fearsome weapons than the 70-odd-year old nuclear technology: bioweapons; cyber attacks, and things I can’t even imagine. I don’t see the need for nuclear weapons at all.
What political changes are possible when all the major political parties in the Western Nations are actually part of a WEF-controlled uniparty. Change of leadership is simply replacing one set of puppets with another which follows exactly the same set of instructions. Subversion of the democracies is complete. In England, one could hope for the King to recognize this and take power while the parties are cleansed, but the King himself seems to be Woke. It looks like complete anarchy is required with a purge of existing ‘leadership’.
to date, the collective west have not yet been truly confronted with the dire economic consequences of their sanction policies toward china and russia. besides, the collective west is not (yet) prepared for a full-on military confrontation with the russia/china axis.
leading western economists ascertain that the economic straits should kick in by winter 2023/24, in which case the collective west may well soon have more worries on its plate than food, and implode before its war machine can explode.
Blinken previously negotiate with the Chinese by insulting them.
Biden previously called Putin a killer before contacting him for negotiations.
Today, the US has adopted a foreign policy of absolute falsehood.
The latest falsehood is to raise money to keep the US Corporation going for another month.
Blinken was sent growling before the Chinese in order to have them accept a delay in US midyear debt payments thereby postponing a US default.
At the same time Biden was calling Xi a dictator before the Globalist Elite, in order to sway them to finance his administration another month.
When neither of them succeeded, the Pentagon discovered a second accounting error of $ 6 Billion.
China and Russia realized long ago that a conflict with NATO was inevitable.
Today, China and Russia are prepared for the final show down with the US.
The US has picked a fight against both Russia and China on the worst possible time.
Russia, China and the BRICS control the supply for strategic manufacturing.
All BRICS Nations are exiting the dollar and the SWIFT transfer banking system.
Russia is bleeding NATO dry of munitions and ground troops.
Zelensky is now kept in office on Pentagon accounting errors:
The Biden administration has turned the US and NATO into a complete joke on the world stage.
foreign policy by schizophrenia
The US does not do “diplomacy” — it does farce. Saturday Night Live simply cannot compete with the State Department and there is job waiting for Blink’n at SNL when he moves on.
Most analysts, including myself, look for method in the apparent madness. But a lot of the time, there is only madness. Blink’n’s trip to Beijing is a good example. And what transpired on arrival back to God’s Country, even more so.
As I write in this article (text and podcast) here:
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/blinken-and-biden-having-your-duck
Blinken and Biden: Having Your Duck and Eating It Too.
Absolutely Brzi!
Soon and Very Soon, ….
Let’s Go Brandon! 😇🙈
Laughing in a dark humour sort of way, but taking the increasing threat of totally irrational actions VERY seriously. The possibility exists that Xi and his advisers deliberately insisted on a certain order of events. First Burns is summoned to gauge/adjust the CIA’s attitude, and send a direct message via Burns to Blinken. That didn’t work, so Blinken was called up on the carpet and forced to openly, officially affirm the One China Policy etc.
The Chinese and Russians know the Nuland/Blinken NeoCon rogue clown car is not paying much attention to “direction” from Biden or the Rothschild Class. Congress and ZATO gov’ts are either too stupid or too bought/blackmailed to cut off the money for the Ukraine Debacle. Macron is proof of the Rothschilds’ disapproval of the NeoCons.
The Trump indictments are domestically playing the “squirrel” card, a shiny object to distract from what is coming.
Biden’s “gaff” and Blinken’s sullen, obviously insincere One China announcement confirms what the Chinese and Russians already know.
The US/UK is Agreement Incapable at every level, fracturing into factions that have no cogent strategy individually or collectively. The US/UK/ZATO is a Tower of Babel, not just in training the Ukie armies, but from top to bottom.
Unless the Ukie military totally collapses before, the ZATO Vilnius meeting will show how much or little power “old Europe” and the Rothschild Class still has. While the US/UK military analysts will know Russia and China can decisively decapitate US nuke systems with conventional weapons, the political class seems to not understand just how vulnerable the US mainland, surface ships and remote bases are. The UK politicos seem to have no clue whatsoever, still trying to eradicate Bojo from any influence.
Again, I think a major reason that Russia and China have not simply crashed the US economy is pure self-interest. A destroyed US will be even more unpredictable than the idiocy on display now. And a trashed US/EU economy will be a drag on the world economy, complicating the BRICS etc. Project.
How bad this gets lies totally with the US/UK “braintrust’, such as it is. Scary.
Stupid is as stupid does.
But Blinken lied, Brzl, he’s from the same school of liars Pompeo attended also, it’s not words one should believe, it’s the deeds that matter, there’s no way the American Governing Elite would give up on Taiwan, it’s the equivalent of Ukraine in their effort to bring China to her knees.
The US President told us that President XiJingPing is a dictator and just after the Secretary of State Mr. Anthony Blinken returned from BeiJing with what looked like something promising. That was fixed very promptly.
When you are pressing for war, there shall be no deals. They’re desperate alright . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/p/washingtons-ukraina-grandioznaya
Before he was demented, he was retarded.
You never go full retard!
The country is being run by midwits: stupid people who work hard and thus put themselves through university. Recall the words of the immortal Kurt von Hammerstein:
> One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage
Biden is (or was) a lawyer. Can you imagine him standing before a judge, in a court of law saying: “Come on, man!” What did you expect? The folks at Syracuse University Law School must be blowing chunks. As must be the University of Pennsylvania over both Donald and Ivanka Trump being alumni. Tsk. Tsk. Even over 40, at least Ivanka Trump still has the whole hottie thing going on.
You have mischaracterized both of the Trumps. Neither are stupid. And no one has gut instinct like Trump…put his obvious personality flaws aside. There is no one who could have withstood what the left did for four plus years.. imagine what could have taken place if there had been a peaceful transfer of power in 2016 instead of a running coup attempt snd a staff of Brutuses.
I have “mischaracterized nothing. You didn’t bother to read my comment.
I never said either Biden nor Trump are stupid. Although plenty of really stupid people have graduated from colleges and universities.
I didn’t vote for Biden. Why bother? George Soros’ record ballot stuffing in all of recorded history (more votes for Biden than there are registered voters). Most rigged election ever.
I did however vote for Trump. I would vote for him again. None-the-less, I really don’t get the guy. The idea is to snatch victories from defeats. Worst administration ever. Somebody needs to tell Trump that it’s supposed to be “Pyrrhic Victories” not “Pyrrhic defeats.”
best succinct statement yet!
Before he was retarded, he ran a carny shooting gallery with bent sights along with his bent son.
+China/china controlled…supply the strategic manufacturing.
+China/BRICs/Islamics/South America – are exiting the dollar SWIFT transfer banking system.
+RU is bleeding the NATO and west friends of conventional munitions. RU is bleeding the west of ground troops.
Biden pokes CN with a stick while Zelinsky is surviving on Pentagon accounting errors:
Babylon Bee
https://babylonbee.com/news/zelensky-admits-he-already-spent-the-next-3-accounting-errors
Sheerpost
https://scheerpost.com/2023/06/21/pentagon-says-accounting-error-provides-extra-6-2-billion-in-ukraine-military-aid/
Western arrogance is providing a clown show for the ages.
The way the Pentagon keeos track, there are probably enough “accounting ” to keep them going indefinitely
Hell of a way to drain the swamp.
These war game scenarios seem like a joke. As if the PLA is gonna just launch human wave attacks and storm the beaches.
They’ll just bombard Taiwan into submission with artillery and missiles.
Why? They know Taiwan is part of China and most of the Taiwanese populace support closer relations. Don’t clad China in western garb.
This isn’t about east vs west. Based on most polls Taiwanese don’t consider themselves Chinese. The older ones do but not the young generation.
That being said China doesn’t care about feelings. Taiwan is part of China. China will try to resolve things peacefully but if push comes to shove they will unleash hell. And they’ve made that pretty clear in statements and actions time and again. It’s up to Taiwan. Do they want to live in peace or die for some psychopathic neocons in America?
War game scenarios by America who in the name of God would trust a result from these pathetic American gaming morons the Chinese will wipe the floor with them in reality.
No, they will blockade until Taiwan submits, sinking any approaching vessels. Simple, and very low risk and nothing anyone can do about it. Which is why it was not wargamed. CSIS gamed the war gaming, following a long tradition that supports the US entering wars it loses, at great profit and no risk to the mainland (though that likely will change wrt Russia).
It’d be nice if someone would put him out of our misery, but then we’d have President Skank.
You never know. Maybe she could woo the Africans out of the BRICS orbit with her special skills.
“When the Gods want to destroy them, they make them first mad”.
It appear that the US has adopted a universal policy at home and abroad of absolute falsehood, unpredictability and fomenting social chaos.
Continual lies, and substituting fiction for reality is making the remaining “sane” and “logical” people MAD!
How do you deal with a leadership which has taken on a policy of behaving and talking like the “insane”?
We need a twofer.
This two-faced approach seems to be common practice by American officials. Remember when the Blinken team meet the Chinese foreign ministry officials in Alaska early on. Blinken started off by basically in publicly no less accusing China of all kinds of villainy. The FM official Yang Jiechi (who I think is also a member of the Politburo) responded back in obvious anger and gave Blinken the middle finger.
Blinken must have believed that he could negotiate with the Chinese while insulting them. Biden the same with Putin calling him a killer several months before they met. These guys are idiots. Short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBezZ8CYzxQ
BTW, Chinese buddy said the female interpreter for Yang Jiechi became quite the heroine in China for her translation in the face of the tense stand off. I think Yang Jiechi speaks English as he used to be the ambassador to US.
Biden also called Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman a pariah and then begged him to increase oil production to benefit USA.
Likewise for Venezuela, insulting the leaders, smear that elections are rigged, recognised instead another person who DIDN’T join the election as US designated Venezuelan president and then begging them for oil.
Which all of course reasonably told USA to F off.
I think USA’s thinking is “Everyone MUST love us regardless of how we insult, sabotage or invade them because we are sooooo exceptional”.
Yeah he speaks English. He actually corrected her during the meeting because she mistranslated something.
was it another Biden gaffe? or was this intentional from Jake Sullivan? i think the latter. Blinken had to know the neo-cons would do something after he left China.
God save the queen!
No need to add Sullivan into the mix.
One problem is Biden – last year he made a statement, and the very next day when a reporter asked him about it, he denied saying it. We’ve seen this deteriorate (Biden and others) to the point where lying is the norm, and they think nothing of it.
On the Chinese side, well, they have a few thousand years of mostly civilized behaviour. You do not, unless there is no other option, put another in a position where they lose face. That makes you an enemy forever, and maybe your family too. Decorum and leaving room for interpretation.
Here’s an example I watched back in the 90’s, an altercation between a policeman and a citizen. It got tense and loud, arguing, even pushing back and forth. My Chinese friend explained as it developed. The policeman saw a crime, the citizen denied it. Those standing around offered their opinions of what they saw, from their perspective (that’s a key to this). After much discussion, everybody cooled down, the crowd relayed as how they did not see an offense, but noted how, from the policeman’s viewpoint he could have seen an offense. The policeman’s perspective was acknowledged to be correct, but he didn’t see al the details. He let the citizen go, and they shook hands. The citizen told the policeman he could see how the policeman could have thought an offense was committed and thanked him for his diligence. The policeman thanked the bystanders for helping to provide details.
They have figured out how to live quite peacefully despite a high population density. A significant part of this is the way they interact to, as much as possible, not have anyone lose face. And they don’t forget. British, Japanese, Americans have all interfered in China’s business causing them to lose face in the past. Biden just piled on more of the same, demonstrating a complete disrespect for “civilized” behaviour. China has to take Taiwan. If they don’t, after this kind of treatment, they lose face. It’s coming, and it will happen. Biden just shit on Xi’s shoes, and it will not be forgotten.
Perhaps not despite population density, but because of it?
That hasn’t helped New York city.
Different demographics. Being from Chicago I am sure you understand what I am getting at.
“China called President Biden’s suggestion that its leader is a dictator ‘extremely absurd and irresponsible’.
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-states-taiwan
The Chinese should knock it off with the dainty diplomatic answers and just throw it right back and call Biden a demented old pest who can’t think without his nursing aides handing him written instructions in big crayon letters when he is watching tv in the day room. If Joey cannot address his global counterparts/adversaries properly during these dangerous times they should find Kamala wherever she is and give her the job of addressing foreign powers at least until such time as Joey can hire better nurses and writers.
The Heavenly Empire’s well-educated and intelligent politicians may need a lot of effort to negotiate with such unwashed, uneducated Kuaj Lo representatives who do not even know the basic rules of civilized human behavior !
I can imagine how they hurried to wash their hands after shaking hands with Blinken. I always smile when Western diplomacy talks about future planning, when the Westerners talk about a maximum of five years when planning the future (maybe I exaggerated a bit, 2 years would be enough :)) when the Russians think in 50 years, while the Chinese think in more than a hundred year! In the West, it should be taken a bit back from the face when we talk about intelligence, especially if it is related to a country like China, which has thousands of years of written history, or in relation to the Russians, where most of the chess grandmasters were born !
Problem is that Kamala is dumber than Joe is demented. Besides Kamala would insult everyone she tried to speak with or about by laughing at everything she or they say – with her signature mad cackling noise. Kamala would be laughing her head off as she pushed the red button.
“China called President Biden’s suggestion that its leader is a dictator ‘extremely absurd & irresponsible’.
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-states-taiwan
How does the US “war game” without the mujahideen, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Nazis, the Mexican cartels, or any other lawless proxies that the CIA almost always uses ?
Do those “war games” pretend US fighters are there doing the fighting ?
Hard to believe…
Syrian elite troops trained by the Russians in Syria are reported to be fighting in Ukraine along their Russian saviors.
It was a false report. Someone posted of photo from some drill in the forest.
I got the info from Simplicius. He’s been pretty solid.
He is solid. I was just paraphrasing what he wrote here:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/afu-suffers-horror-breakdowns-as
It looks like you may be correct. Doing and Arabic language search through Google translate. shows articles dating March 2022. The first article cited was Arabic BBC. Enough said.
A few comments:
1) People spent the last year or so lamenting American dishonesty (and the resulting distrust in other governments of America). Now that America is being honest (Biden’s characterization of what he thinks Xi is) – all of a sudden that’s no bueno as well. Make up your mind 😉
2) Some people may have advised Xi not to meet with Blinken but Chinese (like the Russians) need to demonstrate to the non-western world that they are open to negotiations and willing to listen, even if internally they all know what time it is and who is honest and who is not. Putin does the same thing when he says on camera that he is willing to negotiate. He was a year ago (maybe), not anymore, but he has to say it for the benefit of the BRICS and global south and for the benefit of looking morally superior.
3) Never interrupt the enemy when they are losing. America is showing the whole world that it is the blind leading the deaf. Why get in the way of that?
4) American policy may be “crazy and crazier” (or dumb and dumber?). Keep everyone confused and guessing by issuing contradictory statements and doing things in practice that contradict what you say. Others usually fear unpredictable crazies?
Yes. We pay big bucks in form of taxes in USA to have these people put on these shows. It is sad, we all agree (for the millionth time)?
If Biden knew what he was saying, you could say he is being “honest”. But the latest “dictator” comment is simply Senile Joe not remembering the last thing he was told, only what he can remember from when his brain/memory used to function properly. He apparently can’t even read off a teleprompter unless he is having a good day, or more likely, has been medicated-up for the occasion. But like all drugs, a level of tolerance builds up and the effectiveness drops. (L-Dopa anyone?) Some refer to it as “Swiss cheese brain”, due to all the cognitive holes that develop as dementia takes its toll. Anyone who has dealt with a dementia-sufferer knows the signs.
Sad to watch this dragged out elder-abuse, but this may be the only way USicans realize just how broken their gov’t/electoral systems are. Kamala is simply incompetent, a classic, over-the-top example of the Peter Principle. Again, it is abusive to subject the mentally challenged in this way. So the Uniparty has to stick with Sleepy Joe and Giggling Kamala as Trumpty Dumbty may end up running the US from a jail cell.
How is it that the Blinken/Nuland/Sullivan/Graham NeoCons and the Parquet Generals Milley/Austin can end-run the Pentagon professional soldiers, using the CIA as a front to wage a “non-war” that is a war? We know drooling Joe Brib’em will sign anything put in front of him, but isn’t Congress supposed to control the money, let alone whether a war can be undertaken? Beyond broken, and the world sees it clearly where the American public and apparently politicians don’t.
As for your Point 4), neither the Chinese nor Russians are fooled by the crazy/dumb act by various US/UK/ZATO officials. And certainly not afraid. Both Russian and Chinese citizens KNOW their history, where the colonialist Europeans, then the US, proceeded to terrorize/enslave their citizens and steal their resources.
There will be no WEF/Rothschild Great Reset, despite Macron crab-scuttling about trying to infiltrate the BRICS to covertly re-install the Rothschild Agenda at the top of the international list of things-to-do. The much-hyped national Central Bank Digital Currencies will fail for the same reason as their fiat currencies are failing… they are based on debt, not assets.
At least Bitcoin is honest, nowhere is there any hint of it being backed by anything, other than a distributed network of encrypted files that those who want to participate determine the value of. It is literally the “greater fool” made real, except no one knows for sure yet if Bitcoiners are fools or geniuses. The next few years will tell, especially after there are too few remaining Bitcoin to be mined and the network must learn to survive on fees. Countries that built their economies on debt will suffer in proportion to that debt, whether Bitcoin succeeds or not. The tide is going out and the US looks to be the most naked swimmer out there.
not another bit coin adverstisement disguised as rambling comment post..
i saw this a lot on other forum/media where the poster blabber about nonsensical stuff and sometime off topic then at the end posting bitcoin is safe nonsense
Of course the Chinese leaders have reached this same conclusion. It is the only sane conclusion. Why wouldn’t they be preparing to fight and win?
Same old cowbell. Nod (brandon bi-dette) says stupid things as he tries to relive the glorious corn pop daze from back in 1873. The guy has the original ‘cowbell.’
Blynkin was lyin to ‘be buyin’time and the Chinese knew it coming before it happened. (Come on Larry, China lose face by indulging bleating Blynkin in what passes for die Neue Welt diplomacy?) Interesting to see Bombard’s take on Blynkin’s x-cellent x-cursion to Cathay.
https://bombardsbodylanguage.com/2023/06/20/body-language-blinkens-china-trip/
CSIS is a phantasy phantasm of phony phalse dreamz. No
T(for taiwan)-Day storming of beaches will happen. However, it gives agit-prop to tout an imaginary ‘sucess’ to peddle bigger MIC spending.
Now, what is Wynkin up to in 404???
The #JoeMentia clown show got old long ago. By far the worst president in my lifetime especially on foreign policy. The US is a complete joke on the world stage. Thanks for your reporting.
New poll: 75% of Americans agreed it would be in America’s best interest to join BRICS.
To destroy it?
Haven’t there been links between the Bidens (at least Hunter) and the chinese secret service, including payments? If yes, I would expect some potential of blackmailing Joe Biden, and he be cautious with his words, accordingly. Obviously, he is not. Or are there good reasons for the chinese government, not to use its information?
As far as potential blackmailers of the Bidens, jeez….take your pick.
It wouldn’t suprise me that China will determine, like Russia, that a conflict with the ‘West’ is inevitable and that the prudent thing to do is invest in defense, ASAP. And then China will ‘bait’ the USA to cross ‘red lines’.
I believe Larry is wrong this time because he fails to appreciate the psychological depth of the game we are playing with the Chinese. They are scared stiff!
I am sure the Chinese are despondent with confusion and fear. They probably tell themselves:
“What incredibly cunning game are the Round Eyes playing, for Confuc ‘ s sake?
They trot out this cardboard figure of a senile old extortionist and want us to believe that he is really POTUS? Please! Ramen with ketchup makes more sense. No way!
They send over this suspicious character claiming to be their Sec’y of State who looks and behaves like a secon-hand furniture salesman (not that there is anything wrong with the profession that gave Israel its premier), who tells us that “One China” is the firm US policy.
But the POTUS impersonator snarls and spits, mixing nonsense with insults (“dictator”) and shouts something unintelligible about Taiwan.
What in the world are they up to? It must be something terrifying if only we can guess what.”
So we have them just where we want them! He, he, who are the “inscrutables” now?
Thank you for that, which made me laugh. During these turbulent times there is so little humor I look for what I can find, even if it ‘dark humor’.
” this suspicious character claiming to be their Sec’y of State ” heh
I posted yesterday about Blinken’s state photo with the Saudis where they left out the American flag: he’s a paperwork American, not a real American, and everyone knows it at least instinctively. We are a conquered people, and our former homeland is someone’s else plaything. Such is the civilizational cycle.
your posts contain uninformed stereotypes that insult chinese and their culture.. even the most delusional western people know ramen is japanese copy of chinese noodle and by using it on your posts showed your ignorance
sorry @LJ , seem like there’s uptick on nonsense posts recently , while 99% posts still great there’s seem like increase troll posts here
Larry, you are spot on, and it’s even worse, as Biden cannot win in 2024, leaving the Dems with a huge political engineering issue.
Until today, I thought Biden’s intelligence was best characterized by its absence.
Now the whole world knows that Biden’s intelligence is artificial, as his diplomacy is as well…
Not only can Biden win? When the Dims won the Wisconsin Supreme Court a few months ago? He did. They have the cheating infrastructure in place and my Repukes are going to do ritual seppuku with the Mad King Ludwig (Trump).
Madness of King Joe and his courtiers
god save the queen
I guess the CSIS did a lot of war games before they tricked Ukraine in to the proxy war with Russia.
I wonder what result the CSIS got from those games? 🤣🤣
Based on wargames they expected Ukraine to surrender in 3 days, so they did not bother sending heavy weapons in advance.
There is so much at stake for the Western corporate capitalistic system.
To function it needs:
control of the vital ressources in the world,
a currency which every country has to use for trade and reserve holdings.
These facts have been clear since the days of the Club of Rome’s warnings in the seventies of last century. Anyone who then believed that these warnings were about environmmental concerns or food security for all was mistaken.
Put yourself in the shoes of the hundreds of USD super billionaires with their rigged platforms of exchange (Wall Street, The City etc.) the hedge funds, the investment banks – what would be your long term strategy? The backlash started with Putin coming to power and they immediately understood that they had to prepare for the war against Russia.
In their unlimited greed they transferred the USA’s industrial base out of the country and relied on China to be pliant and manufacture for their corporations. But China became a competitor in the field of technology and Obama pronounced the “pivot to Asia”.
Now we must hope that these corporatist leaders are smart enough to depose the crazies in the basement whom they had put in power. Otherwise there will be a nuclear exchange.
I want to say one thing, as it stands right now, the best diplomat America has is Dennis Rodman. We should fire everyone else and just have him running the state department. I’m 100% convinced he’ll do a better job.
i wonder how much money the silver tongued devil “raised” from those CAL elites?
Biden has always been famous for being corrupt and a foreign policy disaster. Two characteristics very specific from Delaware. It wasn’t now that began to salute the Queen that he was going to get better! The loss of global influence by the US and the US dollar today is huge. And China’s response with an military base in Cuba is precisely what Russia should have done in 2021 before the US deployed the missiles to the PL and RO! And probably today there would be no conflict in Ukraine. There is nothing the US can do against China today that doesn’t further damage the US economy! Which only makes a loose cannon like Biden even more counterproductive to the US economy. This why a seconf term is impossible! China is not the EU that was completely brought to its knees after the crash of 2008!
Americans did not invent lies… the Bible tells us that Satan is the “Father of all lies”.
Americans, simply took lying to the highest level of “perfection”!
Bible invented lies?
“we are setting ourselves up for an inevitable war with China”
There’s going to be a nuclear war with Russia so China and everyone else is going to die.
From Gilbert Doctorow:
End game in the Ukraine war approaches with lightning speed
Today Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made an announcement that has not yet been carried in Western media but which is of the most grave nature.
According to the latest intelligence reports, Russia believes that the Ukrainian armed forces now intend to cover their failed counter-offensive in the Donbas by using US-supplied Himars multiple launch artillery and UK-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles, possibly in the longer range domestic version, to attack the Crimea.
If this happens, says Shoigu, Russia will consider both the United States and Britain to have fully entered the war as co-belligerents. And Russia will immediately respond to any such attack on its territory by destroying “the decision making centers” of the Kiev regime. This is a fairly transparent threat to “neutralize” their government apparatus and personnel, logically including President Zelensky.
The statement by Shoigu leaves little doubt that we are entering the final phase of the Ukraine war as a war limited to the geography of Ukraine, and are possibly heading into a wider war with unforeseeable consequences both for Europeans and (finally) for Americans.
The ball is in the court of Washington and London.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/06/20/end-game-in-the-ukraine-war-approaches-with-lightning-speed/
I’ve said repeatedly that these people are going to kill us all. Once the nukes start flying it’s all over.
May God deliver us from evil.
I don’t see nuclear weapons coming into play.
More likely a Ukrainian attack on the NPP will be blamed on Russia and be used to put in “peacekeeping” forces.
So a nuclear attack by NATO, but not with nuclear weapons. And blamed on Russia.
Do you think that Russia will live with nuclear contaminated regions, poisoned by NATO puppets?
Any nuclear attack, dirty or standard nuke, on Russia or its citizens will be countered with a nuclear attack, on a NATO state or states. Russia will only talk terms with the USA, as they have said they are the puppet masters, so highly likely that the USA will be the first nation to be hit.
No one outside of NATO believes the nonsense printed in the West about Russia bombing itself ffs. Russia are the worlds leading military power, they don’t need vassal states to take out the USA, unlike the USA who use every proxy they can find to fight the Russians.
I believe that “the decision making centers” of the Kiev regime actually refer to Brussels, London, and Washington. That is where the decisions are made. Kiev is just puppet central.
I believe Russia will start with conventional hypersonics.
Zelensky will follow with conventional hyperventilation.
The German Drusilla will calm him with another $50 billion pacifier.
Who’ll go into hyperinflation first I wonder. US or EU?
I agree with you fully. I know I will not survive a big escalation to nuclear but neither do I want to given my age. My hope is that perhaps with a lot of luck I might survive a couple of weeks longer than the rest. It will be very satisfying seeing some scum of the earth get finally get what they deserve. I realize of course a lot of decent people will perish. We need to realize that our deaths are unavoidable under those circumstances. It is part of the tragedy of life.
That’s the point when the Rules-based International Order is subsumed by Darwin’s Law of Expungement of the Dumbest.
Speaking of dictators, the US (and the French for that matter) president have more dictatorial powers than Xi Jinping. Parliaments in Western “democracies” are every bit as co-opted as the CCP in China. The only remaining liberty that the US has that the Chinese don’t have is freedom of speech. Sort of. For saying things that TPTB really dislike, you only get cancelled in the US, instead of going to jail like in China. At least in jail, you are accommodated, fed and clothed. Good luck with that when you’re cancelled. That said, in most of the “democratic” West nowadays, speaking your mind can get you both cancelled and jailed.
A propos des “wargames”, le général Français Delawarde écrit ceci:
” Pour entrainer les états-majors, et tenter d’évaluer les chances de succès dans un éventuel conflit, des exercices d’état-major de haut niveau (Wargames) sont organisés chaque année. Ces wargames se veulent aussi, en fait, des répétitions d’actions militaires qui sont envisagées. Il y a, en bout de chaîne, des unités des trois Armées pour matérialiser les décisions prises par les États-majors US.
Il faut savoir que tous les wargames envisagés contre la Chine ont été perdus par le camp US, ce qui explique peut-être la prudence des USA dans leurs relations avec la Chine.
J’ai moi-même participé au printemps 1998 à l’un de ces wargames qui n’était autre que la répétition, avant l’heure, de la guerre d’Irak de 2003.
Il faut aussi souligner que des wargames contre l’Iran ont été perdus par la partie US et notamment, en 2002, le Wargame Millenium Challenge. Cette année-là, le général du Marine Corps Van Riper qui commandait l’OPFOR iranien a coulé l’ensemble d’un groupe porte-avions US (19 navires) et 20 000 hommes en quelques heures, avant que le leadership US ne s’aperçoive de ce qui lui arrivait …
A lire l’article en entier: https://reseauinternational.net/operation-speciale-russe-en-ukraine-temoignage-precieux-du-general-dominique-delawarde/
A message to Gilles: Peut-être que la prochaine fois, vous pourriez utiliser “google translate” pour commenter un site Web en anglais ? Merci.
Here`s a translation of Gilles`above comment, courtesy of “google translate”:
About “wargames”, the French general Delawarde writes this:
“To train the staffs, and try to assess the chances of success in a possible conflict, high-level staff exercises (Wargames) are organized each year. These wargames are also intended, in fact, as rehearsals of military actions that are envisaged. At the end of the chain, there are units from the three Armies to materialize the decisions taken by the US General Staff.
You should know that all the wargames considered against China have been lost by the US camp, which perhaps explains the caution of the USA in their relations with China.
I myself participated in the spring of 1998 in one of these wargames which was none other than the repetition, before its time, of the Iraq war of 2003. It should also be noted that wargames against Iran have been lost by the US side and in particular, in 2002, the Wargame Millennium Challenge. That year, Marine Corps General Van Riper, who commanded Iran’s OPFOR, sank an entire US aircraft carrier group (19 ships) and 20,000 men in a matter of hours, before US leadership stepped down. see what happened to him…
Read the full article: https://reseauinternational.net/operation-speciale-russe-en-ukraine-temoignage-precieux-du-general-dominique-delawarde/
To the americans in the comment section:
How, do you think, the Biden presidency will be remembered in the history books?
Worst president ever?
Last, if (((they))) keep poking the Bear.
It’s a tough call. So many to choose from.
Depends on who writes them. History books tend to be full of fiction anyway.
The last president ever.
This is my perspective from Iran-Tehran. Yes there may be a war with China on the horizon. But let’s not forget that there’s also a war coming up against Iran and its allies in the Persian Gulf region. Only this time Saudi Arabia, other Arab states will be siding with Iran- Russia-China against the combined west. If I was a US policy maker, I would have seriously considered moving into this abyss before it’s too late. It will kick start absolutely grave consequences for the US but much more so for the tiny island of UK and EU. The winner of the current epic geopolitical dislocation is already sealed which happens to be the Russia-China alliance the power behind the new Eurasian World Order. It’s because they already entirely control the center of the geopolitical chess board simply by having Iran and Arabia squarely on their side. Yes US can control Iceland, Greenland…. but that doesn’t mean anything in the current situation. There’s nothing the west can do as they have completely lost the center of this great global chess board unlike the last historic round – during the last global geopolitical tectonic transformations some two-three centuries ago – when western powers and their agents could easily bribe illiterate local king of kings (Shahanshah) and khaliffs, handing them pocket money in order to stop Eurasian integration led historically by the emerging Russian civilization.
to give credit where credit is due, resident biden is at least being honest. although it is highly questionable whether his honesty is purposeful, biden`s demented utterances should prove more than enough to confirm to the chinese their own worst fears: whatever secretary blinken, resident biden or any member of the current US government may say, they cannot, under any circumstances, be taken seriously.
we can all rest assured that china will act accordingly.
Well, as time goes by there is less and less doubt that West can avoid total defeat – they don’t have energy, they don’t have resources, they don’t have human potential, they don’t have industrial capacity, they don’t have support of the rest of the world, they are even losing propaganda advantage, and militarily are completely over-matched – basically are losing on all levels and fronts.
Only question is will they manage to do it peacefully, or will they be stupid enough to pull nuclear exchange which those West’s elites would not survive for sure even if it would be just a limited one, because RU knows who they are even tho regular people do not – in general, smart choice would be to plan their own retirement, but the question is if they are smart enough for that…
“Only question is will they manage….”
No that is not the question.
The question throughout has been and continues to be “will they continue to attempt to manage” whose answer to date increasing through experience has been “yes”, and hence the reasons for the co-operation of many in the continuing world war over at least the last five hundred years through multiple lateral vectors, since “they never managed”.
They never were this close to defeat, that’s the great difference between historical parallels and this occasion…
“They never were this close to defeat”
“that’s the great difference between historical parallels and this occasion…”
No.
The difference is different based on “historical parallels” by “The United States of America” but not by others, since parallels are linear frames of emulation.
“They never were this close to defeat”
“that’s the great difference between historical parallels and this occasion…”
No.
The difference is different based upon “historical parallels” by “The United States of America” but not by others, since parallels are linear frames of emulation.
” There are five possible scenarios”
Since the purposes of “the law” are always political in attempts of sustaining social relations within “acceptable tolerances”, there will be a continuation of a sixth scenario, namely the illustrations of ineptitude/revenge/vindictiveness of “The United States of America” worldwide.
This will encourage further development of multi-polarity thereby decreasing the populations in the rest of the world being rendered food sources and human shields of “The United States of America”, encouraging increasing attempts of “The United States of America” to develop “the rules based order of Oceania” as substitutes, undermining present bases upon which “The United States of America” are facilitated not restricted to f*cking the EU, in ignorance that absence makes the heart grow fonder, ignorance breeds contempt, and be careful of which loose threads you pull to not unravel the clothes.
Those Gordians – they are making knots again.
https://journal-neo.org/2023/06/21/mosaic-nature-of-chinese-european-relations/
It is up to the US citizens, military or other security forces to oust this corrupt warmonger from the Presidential office and to jail those who have gone along with this policy of war with anyone their financial sponsors want a war with.
There is no point waiting for Russia to clear these fascists away, that will be WW3 for certain. It’s about time those freedumb and demockery loving patriots got off their behinds and put a stop to this madness before we all go out with a nuclear bang.
Creepy Joe will be the death of us all if he’s not stopped, and quickly.
No one can believe that Biden with his state of mind is really running the nation, someone must be doing it in his place. If things are like that, the nonsense we see must be part of the plot of who is behind the curtain.
No one can believe that Biden with his state of mind is really running the nation, someone must be doing it in his place. If things are like that, the nonsense we see must be part of the plot of who is behind the curtain.
I think we heard you the first time, or the second time. But both times? Don’t think so. And “No,” the third time will not be the charm.
In the midst of report after report of how Zelensky is trying to pull NATO directly into the Ukraine war, and how NATO members may intervene, completely missed is the extensive effort of the United States to draw China into the Ukraine war.
“While many Americans believe that China’s Xi is a dictator and are wondering what the fuss is surrounding Biden’s intemperate, off-the-cuff remark, saying this in public stiffens Chinese doubts about U.S. intentions and makes it virtually impossible for the United States to have any kind of productive working relationship with China going forward.”
“Intemperate.” There you go Larry. Editorializing. Inserting your bias.
Truth is, we really don’t know what China thinks. They are too busy being inscrutable, always sugar coating everything.
I have always been suspicious of the logic of never telling somebody how you really feel. If your goal is to kill as many people as possible or achieving total world domination — maybe then.
I am one of those people who sometimes admits to having “learned everything I know about life from the Godfather movies,” but even I have had to question this philosophy of not telling people (especially your enemies), what you really feel.
In the end it didn’t work out very well for the Corleone Family. If the Corleone Family had spent more time on plain speaking and less on “Il bacio della morte” they would have gotten a lot farther on the whole “making him an offer he can’t refuse” thing.
This whole not telling people how you feel is why the atomic clock set at 90-seconds before midnight.
How much better things might be if the world leaders told the United States what they really think about the demented old codger currently passing himself off as President of the United States. By calling Chinese President for Life, Xi Jinping, a dictator, Biden is just doing what Trump did by calling out “shit hole countries.” I really don’t know what the big deal. We are 90-seconds from wiping out everybody on the planet. I believe a little (meaning a lot) of plain speaking is required.
I don’t know why China is upset, except at how Biden makes the whole dictator thing look easy.
I’m kind of surprised that I didn’t get feedback on this. I expected just a little piling on.
Adolf Hitler requested that anybody who had a problem with the way the Reich was doing things to please feel free to state their objections. “Please, be honest.” Those people ended up in concentration camps.
Stalin did the same thing. Anybody who had any problems with how he was doing things should just drop him a line. “Please, be honest.” Those people ended up in the Gulag.
The United States has the most prisons and the most prisoners of any regime that ever existed ever, combined, since time began. The United States still has a “complaint department.” Except the United States is much more efficient at dealing with its patriot problem. They destroy them. They lie, they steal, they cheat, they two-time, they are home-wreckers, they are losers. They take away their citizen’s livelihoods. They expose their old age nest eggs to risk. The spend Social Security, thus breaking a social contract. They strip them of their bank accounts with lawyer’s fees. They will hate you forever, defame you, defraud you, and make homeless, anybody they don’t like.
Here’s what I have experienced from being an American: “You will have a job (a house, a home, a family, a life, a retirement account, breath in your lungs), until somebody doesn’t like you, and then you won’t.”
“Please, be honest” or keep your mouth shut. Choose your poison. Either way, you’re dead. Might as well push the button. Human beings are a**holes. And now the whole world knows.
Xi had a response to Bidens comments
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8tVxk6Nj4&pp=ygUTUm9tYW4gbWFyb25pIHNwZWVjaA%3D%3D
Taiwanese are in a shitty position right now : or they go with China and they can forget about the global west markets, or they go with the west and can forget about Chinese market , their industry and in the end the western markets (looks what was negotiated about localizing TSMC in the US …) but will remain an “independent” proxy for decades.
FUBAR in any cases , their only choice left is about the level of anal dilatation they gonna suffer.
Or the “Taiwanese” just wake the fuck up and admit to themselves that they are Chinese people living on a Chinese island.
Just in order to regain a smile on your face amidst an insane ‘Dumb and Dumber’ clown world.
Alexander Kots from Komsomolskaya Pravda reports about short stories that are being written in the trenches. They remind me of the endless TV serial M*A*S*H. Here one of the three short stories, written by call sign ‘Adler’. https://www.kp.ru/daily/27519/4782214/
ABOUT MEN AND NIT-MAJORIKAH [Lice, parasites]
(REALLY, OF COURSE, ABOUT WOMEN)
The day was hard, the feeling that the Nazis decided to fire all their stocks of shells at us. Four guys were three hundred (wounded. – ed.) . In the evening, all those free from duty gathered in my dugout. The roar of shells, the earth is shaking from explosions, the walls are vibrating.
The dim light of a light bulb pulls out our faces from the darkness. Tired but not broken.
We drink tea, try to dilute the painful silence with useless conversations. My castle (deputy platoon commander) is especially gloomy.
– What happened, Miron?
He reluctantly, through his teeth, says to me:
– The wife wrote that she fell in love with another man.
– What? – all exclaimed with one voice.
Castle just shrugs.
– That’s such a *****, guys.
Nevertheless, I ask in more detail and find out: for a month now his wife has been dating some kind of major. Cool car, fashionable outfit, plump wallet. He goes to an elite gym, pumps his muscles, narcissistically admires himself in the mirror. In general, a complete set.
I look around. My boys are somewhat subtly similar to each other. All emaciated, with dirt ingrained under the skin, unshaven … Yes, not Alain Delon. But real. Men who turned out to be men. Who do such a necessary job: burn German tanks. How I love them all.
Everyone is silent, the pause drags on.
What to say in such a situation? No one knows. What are we here for? For our wives, mothers, children. For the sake of our Motherland and all its inhabitants. Somewhere among them such nits-mazhoriki [lice, parasites] wormed their way. They live for their own pleasure and do not blow in the mustache. And they find the audacity to attack (excuse my French) women whose husbands are at the front…
– Let’s go back home, kick his ass, – our opinion is unanimous.
– Don’t, boys, – Miron waves his hand. – I have already let go of the situation, God is their judge, and life will put everything in its place.
The light goes out, which means that the diesel has run out of diesel fuel. In complete darkness, everyone disperses to their dugouts. Another day of war comes to an end…
(Continuation of the Trench prose of “Adler”, we really hope the whole “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, will follow)
The Whitehouse contains more clowns than a three-ring circus. The Blinken Idiot barely gets through the Beijing Kow Tow routine then Big Mouth Biden throws a bucket of water over him.
The Chinese officials are left offended and confused; are these people really this incompetent and stupid? Or is it part of some cunning plan? What it proves is that for the time being, there isn’t a grown-up in the administration they can talk to.
I think your comments regarding the loss of face for those in favour of talking to the Blinken Idiot are spot on. Face is something oft under-appreciated by Westerners.
Having lived for eight years in a S/E Asian country that has a large Chinese influence on it’s culture I know that murder is committed by some that lose face.
Western observers would be incredulous as to the trivial matter that they thought led to the murder/assault, not realising the loss of face was the true cause.
It is serous business to them.
A Taiwan election coming up next January? Well, let’s hope their people have some sort of sense and vote for the Kuomintang. I haven’t the first clue about the everyday knowledge in Taiwan of how badly Ukraine, backed by the US, is doing on the proxy battlefield against Russia. Like getting wiped out, for instance. Does your average voting Taiwanese citizen know this? How would Taiwan fare against China with Americans directing their war for them? Take an honest guess, not a CSIS one. 24 million against 1,455 million, only 60 to 1. And on a tiny sitting duck island the size of Maryland to boot. Hell, it’ll be a cakewalk for the Taiwanese with modern US weapons on their side and Patriots to defend their skies. Ukraine is almost the size of Texas by cntrast. Don’t expect Taiwanese amphibious offensives against Beijing across the Formosa Strait. They’ll just have to sit there and take it until the US wins the war for them, ahem.
Maybe the Taiwanese public are only fed the same Ukraine BS news we get here in the West, but if anyone at the top is awake then the thought of being the next set of dopes fighting a proxy war on America’s behalf should haunt them. Do they really believe the US horse manure that they have Taiwan’s best interests at heart? Do they want to die for nothing is really my point. So far you’d think they do. Dumb.
Ukraine has been run by idiots for the past 30 years and had the worst economy in Europe by far before the SMO. It’s almost non-existent now. Easy to bribe those people with visions of sugar plum fairies and better times ahead with a few Uncle Sugar bucks and weapons. America has your back! Now go and kill Russkies! Slav versus Slav, oh how the neocons must giggle. Next it’ll be Chinese versus Chinese. Glorious!
Taiwan is an economic powerhouse on a per capita basis. The polar opposite of Ukraine. Surely they don’t need more American bases and weapons, because they know PRC is willing to wait decades for them to rejoin, and to discuss reasonable terms in the meantime. Not good enough for Old Snarler Joe. Gotta get him some Chicom dead now so America can re-elect him next year as a warrior president supreme! He thinks he’s fantastic, a swashbuckling pirate of a neocon. Sitting in the catbird seat even.
So how (why) on earth the current Taiwan government allowed itself to accept more US military “aid” and weapons on its territory is beyond me. The leadership must be as stupid or corrupt as Biden. Their world-leading chip fab industry will be razed in the event of war, if not by the Chinese, then by their wonderful American allies who have promised to blow up the plants if Taiwan looks to be losing a US proxy war, which they will in very short order. None of this makes any sense to anyone but the US neocons, foaming at the mouth to be #1 in the smoldering ruins they’ve brought worldwide, where they get to order everyone around like marionettes. Digging up stolen resources or stealing anything not bolted down for America’s elites is the plan, and eliminating rivals in order to do so the strategy. Mafia thinking. Spending any money on America itself and its tax-paying citizens? You must be crazy! What’s yours is the elite’s. Who cares about America’s potholes and homelessness and inflation and low wages? Not the big boys.
Blinkity Blinken’s visit doesn’t make sense. Why was he going to China without a guaranteed audience with Xi, in the first place? Why did he seem like the good cop and Binden the bad cop? Why not just insult Xi and China from here and save the trip?
When something doesn’t make sense, it usually means one hasn’t all the pieces for a plausible conclusion.
So let’s add in the mix Jamie Diamon, chief executive of JPMorgan visiting mainland China late last month. As we know our Colonial Masters who own the WEF plan on a one world central bank, which means US commercial banks become obsolete under such a system and the US looses its economic sovereignty. It is not hard to believe, with all the attacks on all our institutions, that our financial institutions are also under attack.
So what do you think Diamon was doing in China? Was he getting in the face of the Chinese or perhaps he was saying something like: we are going through a dedollarization divorce and maybe it’s best we work together for a smooth as possible transition?
So Blinken takes for ever to get an audience with Xi, yet he is dispatched without knowing if Xi will even meet with him. Finally, Blinken gets an audience provided he promises to reiterate in public the One China policy. What do you think Blinken talked about with Xi before the Fed meeting? It was about asking China for a favor. Did China grant it? I think China refused to deal with the WEF and screw the US Banking System. The Chinese don’t like messy relationships.
Bliken, warned if he doesn’t reiterate the one China policy, he will never have another meeting with Xi, and he does it. People thought he was playing good cop. However, Xi didn’t do what Bliken met him for. Why? Because the WEF and their stooge Obama with his ventriloquist dummy Biden on his knee insulted China and threatened to invade them, again. This made Biden look like the bad cop dummy.
Now my whole thing here could be totally off base, but the point is, not everything that appears to be unreasonable should be categorized as stupid.
This was the decisive moment I saw we were living in a madhouse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FydQpRNhDS4
The CSIS wargames left out Russian support for China.
“Fantasy wargaming”.
Muricuh
he so classy
It is quite amazing that the US aristocracy, its oligarchs, have so de-industrialized the US in pursuit of their superlative profits, that they have effectively rendered the US military an expensive folly. That they used cheap Chinese labour to do this at the cost to ordinary Americans and in doing so made China the colossus it is to day would breath new life into even the most jaded students of irony.
Also, they turned their back on one of the most productive workforces, the American workers, destroyed their education, froze their wages and maintained the standard of living with credit card debt. Furthermore, to maintain population control, they pushed the pill and imported drugs.
Now, they are back trying to raise a war time workforce. Are these the smart people they are made to be or just ruthless parasites who build nothing but destroy everything.
Want to fix America and see improvements immediately ban Public Debt and limit Sodomy to the bedroom. Woke is social Marxism.
Before Napolean came to power, France was taken down financially by the Moneylenders. In the beginning, a French Livre was worth an ounce of gold, by the time France was hollowed out, one ounce of gold was worth 50,000 Livres.
Napolean was asked, how will France regain the trust of its trading partners? He said, we will pay for everything in gold. If we don’t have it, we will not buy it.
Larry,
“U.S. officials have privately sought to inform the Chinese that this doesn’t represent a shift in tone or mood”
My guess is that this private communication is solely to the Washington Post and NYT – Can’t imagine the Chinese taking their calls.
Thanks for the briefing – the first five words excellently summarize the entirety!
“When it comes to the art of diplomacy, saying what you really think or believe is not an acceptable practice.”
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.
I never really knew Biden until I saw how he treated Scott Ritter at the Senate hearing on WMD. He showed himself to be a nasty piece of work. Before his dementia eroded his social inhibitions, Biden could keep the con going, but now his prefrontal cortex has degenerated into a fatty soup, he says exactly what he has always thought, but before was afraid to say so.
That he is in charge of the US is quite frightening. I’m sure the Chinese would have worked him out years ago and would be ho-hum about his latest utterance.
You could not make this stuff up!
How anyone in the US could vote for him is utterly beyond me. When my mother had dementia we literally locked her up in a dementia ward, We didn’t put her on the local campaign ticket.
Xi receiving Gates, having a polite attitudevtowards Musk are certainly moves that contribute to creation “a rift in the Communist Party, especially after seing Gates involved in the Covid thing ( in fact a biowarfare attack against V
China) and Musk with his development of a brain-interface using nanotechnology to control the brain from electromagnetic emissions (cell); China better be careful. On these issues, I’m at corrolating attitudes/ways of operation to link sources of power
what kind of propaganda nonsense addled mind would regurgiate all these crap ? sorry LJ , this post is just pure nonsense trying to jumble insane fake facts into an even more laughable conclusion..
the patronizing tone of the post is just insulting to china
Chinese not particularly perturbed by all this.
only thing that happened as far as they were concerned was that
Biden undermined/contradicted his own main man, Blinken
whom we can be assured is not yet in la-la land, as is Biden.
heard word that Biden needs to throw Blinken under the proverbial bus
just to show him as to who’s boss.
All of the above are true. US policy has been One China for a 1/2 century now. The US hasn’t abandoned that. Dementia Joe hasn’t, he’s just whining, shilling for the MIC, running for reelection, and trying to keep Taiwan separate. Welcome to ambiguity. Too bad Joe’s ill though. Others would do the same, but with style.
Thanks again Larry, your humor save us !!
” If you’re holding your breath in hopes of a peaceful resolution to this conflict you will pass out from lack of oxygen.”
There would be nothing more to add !
Unfortunately !
“Biden blows the job Blinken got done!”
Sorry.
How does this relate to BRIC?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/22/biden-modi-to-nurture-growing-defense-partnership-with-ge-engine-deal-00103042
That’s a mystery to me.
From the article:
Mr. Johnson- would like to post something that many of your readers can relate too- the vietnam war. After watching this movie my perception of war changed .
https://www.military.com/history/how-you-can-read-about-director-oliver-stones-combat-experiences-vietnam.html
“Platoon” was a film based on Stone’s own experience in Vietnam. When it was first released, his fellow Vietnam War veterans described it as the first “real” Vietnam War movie. John Wheeler, veteran and president of the Center for the Study of the Viet Nam Generation, said of the movie, “It is part of the healing process. It speaks to our generation. Those guys are us.”
Oliver stone essentially took some of his personal experiences of the war and put them into another character played by Charlie Sheen into a movie. This is a reunion of the cast discussing the making of the movie 30 years later.
Platoon: Brothers in Arms (2018)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/L8m6gCA5cZcc/
https://seed191.bitchute.com/p2cIhhlNqD6H/L8m6gCA5cZcc.mp4
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6111980/
regards,
ralph
“We can do it to you but don’t do it to us.”
A good summary of present day American foreign policy.
To call Xi a dictator is to deny his political legitimacy as the Chinese leader. At least that is how it sounds to Western ears since we have been conditioned to view our form of democracy as the only legitimate form of government.
To call someone dictator then is to imply that they rule arbitrarily through force, not by authority or according to law. The fact though is that Xi is the lawful leader of his country according to the rules of its representative system.
To take the implication a step further, to imply that such a leader is illegitimate is to make a statement against the legitimacy of the system itself and by extension against the legitimacy of the nation’s government.
Can an “illegitimate” government have legitimate security interests? The USA’s actions with regard to Russia’s concerns and now China’s suggests that it does not think so.
The question then is whether it is possible to have meaningful diplomatic relationships with a country such as the US?
I’m amazed the shadow government still lets their filthy old pedophile puppet even take the stage anywhere. I’m a dumb millennial girl, and I could run a better psyop.
Xi permitting the Blinken meeting was a smart move. Blinken got the scolding he deserved, and Biden’s insults will confirm for many what US intentions are towards China. Patience on the part of Russian Federation and People’s Republic of China will be vindicated. The insular West governments will destroy themselves. Only then will there be peace and security. It did not have to
US wasn’t even serious about overtures to China. This is all theater. President Bribem just reads the script handed to him.
The US continues its slide toward a dictatorship while Biden accuses Xi of being a dictator. The employment of illegals in police and military is a reality: “The Illinois House and Senate recently passed Bill 3751 allowing some work-eligible non US citizens to serve in law enforcement in the state.” “It begins.”
Agreed with LJ’s posts , the same biden who blurted so many stuff outside the control of his handler is a jewel for people who seek the truth behind the lies of US foreign policy direction.
blinken mission of deception are just that , deception and no one in the world believe in america’s overture toward china. China knew this far more than publicly available information as they saw the numerous incursion of their sovereignity , increased anti china info on western media , constant effort by the west (read US) to seek alliance against china.
there’s not even a single effort by US to curtail all these anti china actions. so blinken’s single diplomatic mission is just a blip in chinese radar and useless in the long run.
a talk talk with no walk walk is useless
I want to believe that somewhere in the US military there are some smart sane people. The idiocy of talk on war with China (and Russia) has me saying either we are truly insane dumb asses across the board or we possess a weapon that is so devastating and unstoppable that it allows us to be this arrogant.
🤡 Briefly on Ukrainian news.
“Fifty thousand Russian soldiers surrendered at once. The HIMARS are hitting the Urals. The Ukrainian army entered Donetsk and took the airport. The head of the DPR asks for negotiations.”
Wasn’t the Kuomintang the ones that fought the communists in 1949?
Kinda funny they’re the pro-CCP party now