The United States seems hell bent on provoking a violent confrontation with China and is doing so without a clear strategic vision. Consider the following:
- The General in charge of the U.S. Air Mobility Command sent a letter to his subordinates stating his belief that America will be in a shooting war with China by 2025.
- The United States shot down a Chinese balloon (the Chinese insist it was a weather balloon off course) without making any attempt to communicate with the Government in Beijing prior to destroying the balloon.
- Delegations of bipartisan U.S. legislators (former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was the most prominent) traveled to Taiwan and vowed to defend Taiwan against China.
- Republicans on Congress’ foreign affairs and armed services committees are asking President Joe Biden to propose as much as $2 billion in military aid for Taiwan when he releases his fiscal 2024 budget request, expected next month.
The Pelosi visit to Taiwan last July sparked outrage in Beijing and the Chinese vowed to retaliate. Do you think the Chinese anger has ebbed in light of the three other events listed above?
Joe Biden’s policy towards China confirms former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates assessment of Biden:
Robert Gates, the former defense secretary under President Obama, seemed to reiterate in an interview that aired Sunday night that he believes President Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. . . .
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gates-seems-to-double-down-on-claim-that-bidens-been-wrong-on-top-foreign-policy-issues-for-decades
While there is credible evidence from the Hunter Biden laptop that the Biden family has cut sweetheart deals with prominent Chinese officials connected to the defense and intelligence organizations, Joe Biden is not behaving as someone beholden to the Chinese. Just the opposite — he is poking them in the eye.
Biden is going out of his way to provoke the Chinese. In 2021 he sent an unmistakable message to his former benefactors:
President Joe Biden has selected a delegation of five former top Pentagon officials to visit Taiwan on Tuesday as a show of support for the island.
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mike Mullen will lead the delegation, with former deputy national security adviser Meghan O’Sullivan along with former Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy. Former senior directors for Asia on the National Security Council Mike Green and Evan Medeiros will fill out the rest of the delegation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-to-send-former-top-pentagon-officials-to-taiwan-as-sign-of-support
Relations with China have entered dangerous waters. Instead of trying to find a diplomatic solution to lessen the heightened tensions, the Biden Administration is doubling down on projecting an aggressive posture:
The Pentagon’s top China official is to visit Taiwan in the coming days, a rare trip to the island by a senior US defence policymaker that comes as relations between Washington and Beijing are mired in crisis over a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down two weeks ago.
Michael Chase, deputy assistant secretary of defence for China, will go to Taiwan in the coming days, according to four people familiar with his trip. He is currently in Mongolia for discussions with the country’s military.
Chase would be the first senior defence official to visit Taiwan since Heino Klinck, deputy assistant secretary for east Asia, went in 2019. At the time, he was the most senior Pentagon official to visit the island in four decades.
https://www.ft.com/content/b6b4a624-212b-408b-8cdf-82118ed1da26
It is bad enough that the United States is struggling to supply Ukraine with weapons while draining its own surpluses and escalating the conflict with Russia, Biden and his team are opening the equivalent of a second front in a war that the United States is totally unprepared to fight.
Unfortunately, Biden and the Democrats are not alone in adopting a belligerent tone with the Chinese. There are many Republicans publicly describing China as an enemy that must be confronted. The insanity is bipartisan.
Nearly half of likely U.S. voters view China as an enemy and expect a war, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday.
The survey comes a week after the U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that Beijing said was a wayward “civilian airship” used for meteorology.
China then declined a request for a secure call between Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe, after the incident and filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Embassy.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/war-china-enemy/2023/02/09/id/1108026/
Put yourself in the shoes of the Chinese military planners. Do you think they are shrugging all of this off as meaningless posturing by unimportant players in the United States? No. Any intelligence analyst worth their salt will be briefing Xi Jinping that the United States is behaving irrationally and is serious about provoking a confrontation. Accordingly, I am sure the Chinese are preparing for this war.
Here is the problem for the United States — it lacks the military power to defeat China with conventional forces. We failed to learn that lesson in Korea 70 years ago. The situation now is more precarious. America is totally dependent on air craft carrier task forces to project force. China is fully stocked with hyper sonic missiles and the U.S. Navy has no defense against them. Yet the political mood in America, egged on by a corporate media completely clueless about the peril facing U.S. forces if they embark on a war with China, makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for Biden to reverse course and seek a peaceful accommodation with Beijing. I fear I am watching a car driven by a drunk that is on a collision course with a steel bridge and there is nothing I can do to prevent the crash.
The War Party can’t decide if they want a 2 or 3 front war ;
Russia
China
Iran
The lunatics took over the asylum.
Fortunately for American people and the rest of the world, Biden will not be president in 2025.
I’m confused how half of American voters believe China is your enemy 🤔
They uncritically believe what their government and the MSM tells them.
Don’t be too sure another warmonger will replace him.
i am not very confident in the American voter.
As an American voter, I share your lack of confidence.
Tecnicamente los estadounidenses promedio son tontos!
Es la verdad.
Covid. Trade. Racism. Ignorance.
Any country where anyone voted for Biden is in serious trouble.
I could tell you the same thing about Trudeau, Macron, Sunak, Meloni, et tutti quanti.
So am I. What exactly has China done to the US other than keeping its inflation in check for decades, at the US’ long-term industrial expense of course but that was by choice.
Beyond that, I have absolutely no idea how or to what purpose the US would fight a war with China. Turning Taiwan into what they failed to turn Crimea, an Asian NATO base controlling the China Seas? To what purpose? Does that weaken China or beat off any challenge to the almighty dollar? Have no idea what they hope to accomplish, nor do I think they do.
I suppose they’d fight China on the same grounds as they fight Russia, to weaken (?) it by sacrificing the Taiwanese, to the last man.
I see no rhyme nor reason to any of it.
There is no rhyme nor reason other than US politicians believe their own nonsense that the US is invincible and their electorate also believes the same. The US lives its own echo chamber and is incredibly ignorant, arrogant and often very stupid. American education in public schools is pathetic. How does the nationa propose to keep its “exceptionalism” with an uneducated, ignorant, tribal group of young people that have no idea of what discipline, sacrifice and hard work mean?
You’re assuming someone more rational will replace him?
Fortunately for American people and the rest of the world, Biden will not be president in 2025.
You’re assuming someone more rational will replace him?
US has 2 political parties
The anti- Russia and the anti-China party.
So for the the American public it’s the choice of who they most want to fight
A three front war is already baked into the cake:
Russia
China
Civil war against the conservative half
But yes there are many in DC that are deeply disappointed about the lack of a fourth front against Iran
Don’t forget the balloons!
You forgot North Korea !
Yes. The great joker in the deck. They, all by themselves, could kick off WW III.
I wonder if the Norks have war-gamed how to do it? What could they hope to win? South Korea plus?
North Korea doesn’t aim to “win” South Korea ( a fake US construct), they want reunification (as do many in the south), and the removal of US military bases and constant threats.
Remember the Sunshine Policy? That was sabotaged by US criminals.
IIRC, Rumsfeld proclaimed, to a quaking world, after the stunning success of Iraq mkII and the plastic turkey ‘Mission Accomplished’ posturing on USS Abe Lincoln, laboriously turned around to ensure that San Diego was the backdrop, “the US could easily fight,and win, two separate wars in different hemispheres!”.
Nemesis noted the hubris and visited accordingly.
Personally, I suspect that some of the Republicans on that ‘wind down Ukraine, turn to China’ bandwagon are just using it as a convenient excuse to bail with honor …….as in:
“Time to stop the runaway train heading to a nuclear showdown with Russia, throw off the Ukrainian ballast and switch the tracks over, because there’s a Chinese train bearing down on us on a collision course from the East.”
They want all of it and think they can manage it. But what the US really needs is a war with Russia on the battlefield, just the USA and Russia. Then after hundreds of thousands of dead Americans are piled on ships headed back to American after the greatest a$$ whooping the nation ever had, maybe, just maybe, things might change. However I believe the MSM and government would ban all information about American losses and the public would still think America is #1. Dream on folks…
Three’s a charm.
Wondering though, as I’m checking out this rage against the war machine rally going on today, what do the viewers think about the guy in the crowd waving a large Russian flag behind a speaker (Jackson Hinkle) in one cut and a Soviet flag behind another (Jimmy Dorr).
Genuine? FBI? Ukrainians? Lindsay Graham incognito?
Just watched a few. More to come?
You can easily add
* North Korea
*Serbia
to that list too
The good thing about a China-US war is that there is a vast ocean between us. It will be difficult for either side to project force on to the other’s land and neither side will use nukes against the other’s mainland due to MAD principals. This will largely be a naval war. Unfortunately for the US, the Chinese have the technology to destroy US naval vessels, including -and especially- aircraft carriers.
And yes, the US is instigating this. We poked the bear. And now we are pulling the dragon’s tail.
But, one side has hypersonic missiles that can be devastating with conventional warheads. One all by itself can level the entire Pentagon and the US has no effective countermeasures. Poking a bear (or dragon) very possibly can end up with the US finally getting a taste of what it has done to the rest of the world.
I watched RRR yesterday and this puts Maverick to shame as a jingoistic anti-colonialism movie (this time the Brits). I also watched the Chinese film “The Battle of Lake Changjin” and it is similar by portraying the US military as incompetent and that the Chinese can ultimately defeat vastly superior forces.
These 2 movies are obviously PSYOP to motivate the respective populations in preparation for what is coming. Together they represent 2/3 of the planet’s population. Do we believe we can defeat them? The insanity in the US is becoming existential for the RoW who see us as the neo-colonialists we are and all the RoW ha suffered sometimes terribly under Anglo-Saxon colonialism.
I believe that the RoW (but particularly Russia, China, India, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea) see the US as a rabid dog that must be put down to stop the never-ending threats of war. Maybe if the US becomes subjugated the world might just see some peace. It is certainly obvious this is necessary and the US is extremely dangerous so it is going to take all these nations acting together to accomplish this. The US acts with impunity because it sits in a geographically protected area protected by 2 oceans and borders 2 weak nations (one of whom is becoming very anti-American)). Maybe a few well-aimed hypersonics can shake some sense into the US?
The U.S. will only get put into its place when it suffers tremendous destruction and death on its soil. Nuclear level destruction or as you mentioned, hyper-sonic weapons used against multiple targets such as the Pentagon, NSA, coastal naval facilities, and a few interior cities. The shock of that would force we the people, to take stock of what has happened and then rein in our government. It will take five or six well placed hyper-sonic missiles to shock America out of its sugar and TV induced stupor.
In my opinion we could lose DC completely and the US and the world would be vastly better off. It’s like a huge deadly tapeworm sucking the life out of the country. The warmongers in DC want war? I say I hope they get it, “they” not “us”.
Lance the festering boil so we can go back to being a normal country.
Most likely we are going to have to do it ourselves sooner or later. I hope we are up to it.
I think we can prevail. Don’t forget they’re running out of ammunition.
Don’t forget Silicon Valley. Flatten those two precincts, Americans and the rest of the world will all be better off.
Don’t forget Hollywood! That crap pile needs to be disinfected, permanently.
yes and those F-16’s have to land some time, LOL
asi es, desde 1836 en adelante.
I dont think China wants to project force into the US, they might break something they already own, like Biden or the Senate lol. However its pretty clear that the US politicians/Corporations, pretty much the same thing these days, would like to own and rob china of its natural resources, much like Iraq. This COA would entail the projection of force. However China backed by Russia is a formidable enemy for armed Forces who have no track record of victory, even against men in sandals, in currently serving members and are hell bent on fighting the last war, and its pretty clear the naval projection of force by Carrier is a dead duck. Shame so much has been invested in them. No-one in the US appears to be watching the real threat against the US – the propensity, amongst the US Powers that be, to believe that the status quo is inviolable as evidenced by the Dollar starting to fall out of world trade as BRICS+ grows ever more powerful. Now that aint gonna end well for the US! Wake up guys its 2023 not 1945/48.
No, don’t wake up! Hubris is taking its intended path.
The neocons want to do for Taiwan what they’ve done for Ukraine. These mass murdering psychopaths have never been right about anything, but with nothing but cheerleading from both parties and their sycophants in the MSM, there’s nothing left for the average citizen to do but pray.
I wish I could be more optimistic, but all I see is an out of control ideologically-driven cabal that is drunk on their own Kool-Aid. They don’t give a crap about what “we the people” want.
“The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.”
~Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.313
A great quote from Gibbon, Juan. How true that is of the US. And how sad. The Pentagon itself has studies indicating that in any war with China, the US and Japan would lose.
As Larry points out – and as I did in an earlier article on Substack, the US is dependent on carrier groups, which have no defense against hypersonic missiles. US bases in the Okinawa are also fat juicy targets.
In addition, China is upgrading its submarine fleet to the newest generation of fast, ultra-quiet subs that are a match for anything the West has. And China has developed a new generation of radars, with quantum radars likely available by 2025.
China is not afraid of war with the US – -but it doesn’t want Taiwan as collateral damage. At present, it is strengthening diplomatic efforts to sideline the independence movement in Taiwan, which increasingly sees China as the future and the US as the past. Below the link to my article on China vs the US (mostly military technology).
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/china-wins-the-us-loses
i just posted a question to mr. johnson about sub war in the pacific without seeing your article 1st and it looks like yu answered it.
Yes, and China very likely has extremely accurate submarine detection using satellites measuring sea surface changes as they move underwater. Couple that with magnetometers and there really is no safety with submarines anymore and it has probably been true for at least a decade now. The quantum radars are not particularly accurate yet but they do act as a gate showing something is passing through the beam and can determine speed. This would then be used to augment other layered radar, AWACS, and satellite data to accurately target aviation before it gets within target range. All stealth is capable of being defeated and this is probably why Russia and China aren’t wasting tons of money on them. Stealth has the benefit to lower the detection range so as to get close enough to the target to launch but as always detection is easier than avoidance technologies. But, stealth has huge drawbacks in cost as well as internal limitations on armament and range tanks. The F-35 also can’t go supersonic without losing stealth at the rear as it burns off the stealth covers when the afterburners are lit. It can go supersonic for something like 30 seconds and then it isn’t stealthy anymore. Anyway, it is stupid to depend on it but likely sounds cool to Congressmen who spend (waste) tons of money on it. The bottom line on all US military systems is profit and grift.
The next generation of semiconductors is being developed in the US. Once production is up and running, tensions will be ratcheted up, our Mass Media will propagandize, and false flags will create WWIII.
“The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies…………..”
This must be the quote of the day. I’ve seen it in the comments section on 4 different websites.
I think your car analogy is more accurate if you take it where you’re not watching it, you’re in it, as are all the rest of us.
Sadly, true.
The American public chose to get into the car with these crazies. Now they don’t know how to get out of a car careening crazily to its destruction.
Actually the US public chose to walk but then they kicked them out of the voting centers, boarded up the windows, threatened charges of insurrection and forced them into the car.
Facts!
But at the end of the day we’re better than them. We will prevail. Why? Because where we drink milk and eat steak, they drink soy and eat… soy. Their brains and muscles are atrophied.
Meanwhile, hordes of young military aged men are streaming across the border.
Reporter Micheal Yon went to the Darien Gap and witnesses many young Chinese men making the trek to the US southern border.
Train derailment, fires in food plants, electrical substations shot, East Palestine was nearly bungled into a mass casualty event ( and may yet be).
The country is already being attacked and the Defense [sic] Department is busily de-arming themselves and shooting at balloons.
Its going to get real, very soon. Be ready.
Toxic clouds of vinyl chloride, poisoning the air and water? How will America survive? Oh the horror, the humanity of it all.
Causally forgetting that NATO in 1999 created 1000 times that very same, right down to the tank farms of vinyl chloride, ammonia, anything and everything in sight and a devastated Danube, wrought with chemical pollution for decades.
As Dan Bongino points out in a recent video —
https://www.bitchute.com/video/eFo0sHmjc6th/ — China (and for much of the time, the Soviet Union), via the Communist Party’s tactics over the last century or more, has already invaded the U.S. He names the 4 stages of invasion as being:
— infiltration (taking ideological control of our educational system, Hollywood, and the news media, not to mention the tens of thousands of young Chinese men of military age who have recently joined the flood of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border);
–collaboration (building an internal network of Quislings, including politicians, media, and heads of universities who respond predictably to cash payments or the ideology taught by the schools and media);
–destruction (train derailments, buying up farmland and removing it from production, burning or blowing up food processing plants, shutting down energy production, pumping Fentanyl into our arteries); and
–subjugation, which appears to be the next step. That might be a bridge too far for China, unless an EMP or cyberattack can bring down the U.S. grid (permanently), and the U.S. government is too compromised by people on China’s payroll to respond in kind. 90% of the population would be dead in a year after a grid collapse and the survivors would be fighting over any remaining scraps of civilization, which would make colonization by China a fairly simple task at that point, providing lebensraum for their massive (but shrinking) population.
Seems like an extremely pessimistic viewpoint, but in light of China’s massive penetration of and influence over our society in recent decades, they clearly have a strategy that is being implemented, very successfully so far.
Biden biting the hand of his erstwhile Chinese benefactors is reminiscent of Nicholas Sarkozy getting €30 million from Gaddafi as a personal loan to finance his reelection campaign before whole heartedly supporting and participating in the French NATO bombing of Libya that killed Gaddafi.
That’s how these people are.
Just what I was thinking. Confuse the issue bury the problem in a nice war. Unfortunately the dynamic Biden family were at it in both China and Ukraine.
I noted on Glenn Beck’s show today he interviewed a former general of the “Space Force” who was sacked, and the general coaxes the idea China is trying to attack us and Beck went along, reciting Chinese communist plans to destroy us, and that the BLM is an incarnation of the red Guards, enriching AI development is guided by China, and drugs…all guided by Beijing, of course, and even the Ohio train disaster could be…?
It’s apparent the media is going full blast on war with China. I note talk shows are getting callers angry about China, and it is fully blamed for Covid and “unleashing” it on us. It’s a balance between lunacy and rage. If we really started something with China and they cut off our supplies and goods, it would be a catastrophe for them and us. So, for all of this on this site, it’s cui bono? time.
I’ll say the usual suspects in the defense industry, as they are pimping that we are”weak” on defense and need, yes, to spend more. It’s the same old pattern from 1947 on, and of course the public is ready and Congress will just go along.
So, is there nothing to worry about? Is it just another organized threat on schedule?
It seems, with all the troubles America has now are ignored for the sake of fighting a war, of “showing our resolve.” It’s the Top Gun approach to foreign policy, and despite all the problems, it is still a popular one for enough people. We seem to want that crisis, whatever it is. War, drugs, and Marvel Comic movies are the last real American exports to the world.
Now that you bring up Covid…. Ron Unz over at Unz Review has a series of articles claiming Covid was a US bioattack on China.
Unz is an unrepentant vaxtard and uber covidiot.
His articles on the scamdemic are puke inducing.
I stopped reading at Glenn Beck. I can only tolerate so many maniacs in one day.
Do you read him so you can balance out the demomaniacals with the repubmaniacals in some sort of Scales of Justice thing?
In Korea you were faced by a Chinese army less well equipped than a WWI one; an army with no motor transport, no artillery heavier than man-portable mortars, no air cover, almost no radios (they used dispatch runners for most communications), not even maps (they used maps torn from school atlases).
And you still couldn’t beat them.
I must allways think of the slogan in WWI:
‘The war to end all wars!”
Meanwhile, it turned out to be the war to seed all wars to follow.
You can almost hear the approaching hoofbeats off in the distance.
These “visits” by “top people” are simply distractions for the US public so they don’t see the chaos at home. The Chinese see “Dogs barking at the Moon”, a noisy but futile performance. China won’t move unless the Taiwanese govt publicly declares independence. Then we’ll see a Chinese response. And all sides know it.
The US has found another Ukraine in the pacific in this country Philippines. Barely after 2 weeks back last Jan. from his state visit from China, the Phil. president Marcos jr. acceded to the command of sec. Austin to add 4 more bases here. Last week a Chinese coast guard ship flashed a laser at a Phil. coast guard ship off the disputed sea and we have media and gov’t pundits invoking a defense treaty for the US to come to its aid. It’s people believe in the propaganda out of Washington and is just as corrupt as Ukraine.
In the case of Marcos the apple didn’t fall far from the (poisonous) tree.
Say what you will about Duterte he at least had the balls to tell the bullies to fuck off.
Wow Mr. Yam
That was an intersting thougth, i’s not Taiwan but the Phillipines that will be in focus. The main american goal will be to start a war and isolate China. But of cource, it doesnt matter to the American side who will be their proxy. But will they be able to cut the shipping lanes west?
Many thanks Larry for your work and thanks to the community here who provides additional insigth and new angels.
I read an article last year (link below) and several times since then, & again while reading this I have thought of a particular sentence in this article. At first I thought naaa, yet more & more I’m not sure… To give it some context, I copied & pasted 3 paragraphs below which includes the sentence which keeps nagging at me “Joe Biden is going to take a predetermined dive”.
“…The most problematic aspect of all of this rests on a longer timeline drawing back to late March 2021 and it is three-fold.
For one, it’s the emergence of a two-front war and for the second, it’s a reversal of positions as an outcome of U.S. Department of Defense war gaming exercises respective to one of those fronts that was made by a Biden White House national security advisor; thus leading to the third, which is also an exclusive position – Joe Biden is going to take a predetermined dive.
That’s boxer’s vernacular to say that Biden intends to lose this war as the mechanism to strike the final blow in handing over this nation to this cartel of Globalists and Marxist communists who have constructed this war scenario out of thin air and drawing back to the Euromaidan Revolution back in 2014….”
https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/war-at-all-costs
Thoughts? Ideas? He seems to have some good points in his article, and I remember when I first read that sentence I had the same naaah as when I first read that the covid “vaccines” (which aren’t vaccines) are for global depopulation, in addition to the manufactured food shortages to cause famine. There has been several hundred attacks/sabotage globally on food processors, farms, etc and now a large part of the US which grows food has had a huge ecological disaster due to the train derailment in Ohio affecting rivers, waterways, and soils depending in what direction(s) the massive cloud moves…
https://planetwavesfm.substack.com/p/palestine-ohio-train-wreck-its-the
hello linda T – regarding ohio
in the 1st 18 minutes this podcast did an excellent job describing the derailment on palestine and our food supply attacks especially eggs. According to reports some of the wheels were on fire for a long time before it finally derailed.
Date: 02-15-23 – ted and austin broer
https://media.blubrry.com/ted_and_austin_broer/b/content.blubrry.com/ted_and_austin_broer/021523.mp3
this is what makes me think this was not an accident; it is just too conincidental
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/the-largest-environmental-disaster-in-us-history/
Speaking of simulations and smoking guns, the Netflix movie, ‘White Noise’ appears to have been one of those Event 201-type tabletop exercises, training for the events in East Palestine. It’s quite stunning, how the images of the derailment and the plume that we’re seeing from this event are almost exactly the same as the images foreshadowed in the film. And guess where they shot the film in 2022? In East Palestine! Many of the chemically-bombed residents appeared as extras in the film.
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/if-they-are-willing-to-poison-the-chickens-to-stop-them-from-laying-eggs-they-are-likely-poisoning-the-human-food-supply-to-stop-us-from-having-children/
regards,
ralph
Thank you for the links. Mike Adams, of Natural News has been doing several podcasts this week covering the train fiasco. I’ve been bookmarking & printed a few articles yesterday. This morning I had already read the articles on Aim4truth which were mentioned in the first Republic Broadcasting link.
This article was one of the first ones I printed yesterday. The color map showing the possible area affected as the dioxin & other toxins spread in the water is mortifying and breathtaking. If I remember correctly, another article yesterday said 40% of the food grown in the US comes from those areas… lots of large farms there.
What goes around eventually comes around. It’s a law of nature.
Thanks for the links.
Thoughts? Stop reading rubbish by folk that don’t even know what a Marxist or a communist is. You’re going to learn nothing from such analysis.
Clearly peace is out of the question.
That’s never been an option for the war / plunder machine of the ‘free for all’ west.
Ever since Sir Francis Drake was a pirate.
However, the top brass et al know they’re juggling unwinnable wars.
Their only option to retain control at home is to keep us convinced they’re not losing.
We’ll be incessantly bombarded with the virtual reality of successes in far off lands, while they manage losses to protect us from the truth.
Welcome to the American Corporate Hologram.
The only viable option to preserve their privilege & control of we, the people, without losing the home front too.
At some point, maybe a hundred years from now, someone will write the all encompassing reference on The Rise and Fall of Western Civilisation, likely over three or four volumes. What a fascinating tome that will be and a shame I will never find out how it turned out. I note Martin Armstrong the prolific forecaster via his Socrates AI suggests that China will be the dominant country by 2034. Socrates has a significant record of accuracy. Given this forecast I can only surmise that if there is conflict between Asia and the West then Asia wins.
“At some point, maybe a hundred years from now, someone will write the all encompassing reference on The Rise and Fall of Western Civilisation”
You are quite an optimist: you think someone who knows how to write, maybe a hundred years from now, will be alive to write anything. And that there will be any humans alive to read it.
A hundred years ago, Oswald Spengler wrote Der Untergang des Abenlandes. He forsaw all that is coming to us now.
the USA is in the grip of an entrenched corrupt regime. The US will need an immense catastrophic political/economic system failure to allow a purge and rectify the problem. Fortunately, the very corrupt nature of the system is being the cause of it’s own demise.
Anyone who bemoans the fact that the lowbrow fantasy loons that run the US don’t have an efficient effective military weapon must be nuts.
It seems to me that China reacts mildly to all the American provocations, of which there are many. The EU has been completely defeated by the failure in the conflict with Russia, and in addition very severely weakened economically by America. America can only count on Europe as its colony in the world, but Europe can begin to think about its liberation, and America has no choice but to open a war with China in order to keep Europe as a colony.
Do you think the polling about China would even ask this question? Sounds like a ginned up fakenewspoll to make Americans think other Americans think China is a bad guy.
The people of America probably have a real good idea of who the bad guy is by now. They may not have understanding why America is trying to start a war over nothing. But that is being created by Goebbels on the Potomac.
Balloons. No debris, no spy master short wave radio set, no holocaustic bombs waiting for the command. No Maxwell Smart secret decoder ring. I had a feeling nothing would really be found. Not even the cigar shaped UFO described by the chase pilot to have interfered with his control of the plane. A real story rises up out of the morass.
Move along, move along
I think the conundrum for the US is how to maintain the appearance of the superpower while at the same time being faced with a clearly deteriorating status. This latest chest puffing is another sad attempt to bluff the Chinese, while at the same time failing to bluff Russia.
Both Taiwan and mainland China agree Taiwan is part of China, but only disagree as to who the legitimate government is. The PRC some point in the near future, will clarify that for the whole world to see. The US can’t stop it, and must know that, but continues the pathetic charade clinging to their past sole-superpower dream.
They can’t win, and surely they know it. The trouble with bullies is they can’t just start acting like normal, mature people, but desperately try to hang on to some “king of the hill” idea. Those who suggest the US change its focus to making the country a better place for its people, and becoming self-sufficient are called “isolationists” as if that’s a bad thing.
Re-focusing will apparently be forced, and thus far less pleasant than it otherwise could have been. It’s sad to see this bluff and bluster BS continue, as it will likely lead to a lot of dead people to no good end.
All I see and hear is absolute desperation on the US side regarding China. They aren’t able to get China on the phone, they’re going mad that China just doesn’t care about them. Unlike Russia, who won’t even counter sanction the EU or US. Russia is still all in knots about the US. As for the Taiwan trip.. eh meh…just showing the world how desperate for China’s attention they are. Sad really.
“Unlike Russia, who won’t even counter sanction the EU or US”, sanctions are totally illegal and an act of war….do you really think Russia needs or wants to follow in the footsteps of the psychopathic bully? Russia is acting, legally, within the laws ascribed by the UN. Russia has NATO and the US beaten, militarily, financially and psychologically….all within the confines of the law.
China tied itself in knots over gasbag pelosi’s visit. Russia quietly suggested it ignore the old hag. Good to see China taking the suggestion. Maybe sending one bag full o’hot air over the US for every gasbag we send there.
(HT to Big Serge for the 1-on-1 gasbag exchange ballunacy)
Introduction
Recently, there is a lot of talk about where the escalating spiral will end. Will it conclude in World War III? Will there be a nuclear war? What are the determining factors? And what would indicate World War III is imminent?
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/prospects-for-world-war-3-dedicated
Jim Rickards points out that the situation in Ukraine is an “existential crisis for the US and NATO. China and Taiwan have that potential too. Like a one-two punch, lead with Ukraine to wear them down and expose weakness, then finish them off in Taiwan, all the while jabbing away at the economy.
https://dailyreckoning.com/the-horrifying-endgame-in-ukraine/
It’s like a pathetic boxing match where everybody knows who the loser is, but he’s so punch-drunk that he’s clueless. Except this clueless punch-drunk sap has nukes. That’s Rickards’ point here – it’s all that’s left, or will be, then what? God help us all if they’re stupid enough to try and use them.
MAC – Richards has been posting allot lately- his article is also in zerohedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rickards-horrifying-endgame-ukraine
this is a bit older
https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/breaking-former-cia-advisor-biden-bombed-nord-stream
P.S. In the next 75 days, I predict Americans will face fuel shortages, widespread blackouts, empty grocery shelves, $1000 energy bills, drained retirement accounts… and a new crime wave. See my full warning here.
this is a video he just released; am listening to it know
https://pro.paradigmnewsletters.org/p/awn_energyarmageddon_0123/PAWNZ207/?h=true
this is the transcript of it
https://pro.paradigmnewsletters.org/p/awn_energyarmageddon_0123/PAWNZ207/Full?h=true
regards,
ralph
Thanks for those links Ralph.
China fired a hypersonic missile that travelled around the globe before dropping off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, and impacted the target in China.
That was back in 2021.
I wonder if the psychos in DC understand that a war with China would inevitably result in the massive use of hypersonic weapons.
The conflict would also likely draw in the Russians, Iranians, OPEC +, ASEAN (excluding US lackey Australia), and BRICS nations against the Americans and their weak allies.
Japan and Israel would in my view stay neutral.
Based on current military strength, it would all be over very quickly. Who knows if anyone pulls through it, but the US sure wouldn’t. I’d love to think that the psychos in DC understand this, but sadly I suspect they don’t have a clue.
“Deputy assistant secretary of defence for China, will go to Taiwan in the coming days, according to four people familiar with his trip. He is currently in Mongolia for discussions with the country’s military.”
What are the landlocked Mongolian military, sandwiched between Russia and China, doing talking to this ‘deputy assistant’ bozo?
Following on from the electoral coup in the US in 2020, the “crazies in the basement” have accomplished much. It is true that Ukraine has been destroyed and Russia strengthened, but on the other hand Europe has been severely diminished. Especially, Germany has been deindustrialised and disarmed, and any thought of a German-Russian-China axis has been nipped in the bud.
In Asia, the false-flag of Taiwan continues apace while Japan rearms, the Philippines is firmly back in Washington’s pocket and any thought of Australian sovereignty is a distant memory.
In the Middle East the Iran issue bubbles along. With that arch war-whore Netanyahu back in charge of the Palestinian Zionists, anything might happen. Apparently Israel has just purchased an island from Bahrain to build hotels for tourists. Yeah, right.
The recent CSIS wargame of a US response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan on average predicted the destruction of two carriers (and most of their strike groups) with a worst case of four CSGs sunk. And they are Military/Industrial Complex lap dogs.
Every previous RAND wargame over the past ten years, while still classified in detail, simply saw the US Navy and Air Force get their asses kicked. Badly.
The average normie American dumbtard has no clue about any of this.
It’s all here:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-states-taiwan
mr. Johnson- a question.
in a naval war between china and the usa; i think nuclear attack submarines would be a big key for the usa since only they can hide from hypersonic missles. They of course can cannot win a war on their own.
Am curious; how you think the usa fleet of them stacks up against the chinese.
found the below in wikipêdia
Composition of the current force
Los Angeles class (29 in commission, 2 in reserve) – fast attack submarines
Ohio class (18 in commission) – 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), 4 guided missile submarines (SSGNs)
Seawolf class (3 in commission) – fast attack submarines
Virginia class (19 in commission, 1 delivered, 1 fitting out, 7 under construction, 2 on order) – fast attack submarines
chinese submarine fleet
Currently, PLANSF operates a fleet of 66 submarines which include nuclear as well as conventional submarinesNuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines
The PLAN currently operates two classes of ballistic missile submarines with another under construction:
Type 096 submarine (NATO designation Tang-class) – 6 planned, 2 under construction
Type 094 submarine (NATO designation Jin-class) – 6 In service 2 more planned
Type 092 submarine (NATO designation Xia-class) – 1 In service.
Nuclear-powered fleet submarines
Type 093 (Shang-class)
China was the first Asian country and the 5th globally to successfully design, build and commission a nuclear-powered submarine. The PLAN currently has two types of nuclear-powered attack submarines in service with another in development:
Type 095 submarine (NATO designation Sui-class) – In development.
Type 093 submarine (NATO designation Shang-class) – In service – 6
Type 091 submarine (NATO designation Han-class) – In service – 3 left in service
The PLAN currently operates four different classes of conventional submarines:
Type 039A submarine (NATO designation Yuan-class) – In service – 17 – 3 more planned
Type 039 submarine (NATO designation Song-class) – In service – 13
Kilo-class submarine (NATO designation Kilo-class) – In service – 12 – russian design
Type 035 submarine (NATO designation Ming-class) – In service – 13 in service
On October 26, 2006, a Chinese Song class submarine “popped up” and “surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected” within 5 nautical miles (9 km) of the carrier USS Kitty Hawk while she was operating in the East China Sea between Japan and Taiwan. It was spotted by an F/A-18C aviator and confirmed by the crew of an EA-6B from the Kitty Hawk’s Air Wing.[2]
this is their surface force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Navy_Surface_Force
this is the usas
https://www.military.com/navy/us-navy-ships.html
there is also the russian sub fleet to contend with; although i guess the brit , french and other nato fleets may be of some help depending on the shape of their fleets.
https://www.globalfirepower.com/navy-submarines.php
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a19863945/here-are-all-the-submarines-of-the-russian-navy-in-one-infographic/
this is an interesting website. i think the results are a little skewed.
https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php
this is a very telling stat on whom has what. the brits, french and germans barely have any artillery or armor at all compared to russia , usa or china.
https://www.globalfirepower.com/armor-tanks-total.php
https://www.globalfirepower.com/armor-self-propelled-guns-total.php
https://www.globalfirepower.com/armor-towed-artillery-total.php
https://www.globalfirepower.com/armor-mlrs-total.php
this is a joke. they say the total people in ukraine are still 43 million where we know by know in zelensky occupied territory there are half that many left and the rest have fled the country, live in russian occupied territory or are unfortunately dead.
https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=ukraine
regards,
ralph
If they don’t use nukes then the subs are left with using conventional weapons that have limited effect. They can cause some serious damage but cannot eradicate the Chinese military. By the same token, China can do the same to us.
What if someone play with loitering torpedo drones ? Just for the sake of it 🙂 🙂 🙂
The CCP doesn’t control the Biden family; the Bidens serve globalist interests. Furthermore, they are grifters–extraordinary grifters, but grifters and not masterminds. The globalists are playing hardball with the PRC right now, but the objective is a renewed alliance, not the subjugation of China.
Between 1994 and 2017 communist China and the globalist West made money hand over fist together and it was rare for Western MSM to criticize the PRC, even when PRC unilaterally claimed and occupied the South China Sea, and certainly not over the Uyghers or Tibet. Many Party members grew fabulously wealthy, the global elitists grew wealthier still, and the proletariat both East and West essentially got trinkets in exchange for mortgages and credit card debt. The West turned a blind eye to PRC industrial and scientific espionage and even gave technologies outright to China. The Clintons reportedly gave a list of Chinese CIA assets to the PRC, which promptly rounded them up and executed them. CIA-founded Google helped and is helping PRC build its surveillance state despite being banned in China.
This is the alliance the globalists wish to renew. The feud is serious, but not so deep as you might imagine. Why else would the Biden Administration sell a significant portion of the US strategic oil reserve to China? It was an overture. The Administration wanting to let the airship pass unremarked upon was another overture. Other Western nations have been making overtures as well. Stick and carrot stuff. On the Chinese side a sizeable faction within the CCP would like to renew the alliance as well.
Money isn’t a sufficient motive to explain this, but control is. Globalization allows the elitists to circumvent national borders and laws; more importantly, it helps break down the middle classes and leads to politically-neutered populaces. And sitting at the top, holding the reigns, will be the elitists, paternalistically guiding us into what they know is best for us. That’s the idea, anyway. On the Chinese side the CCP will use the West’s wealth to maintain control of China, because without it China will collapse under the weight of communist policies. There’s a good chance East and West will come into some kind of accord in the near future; then the globalists can turn their full attention to Russia.
It’s a serious error to view China solely incidentally to US follies. C’mon fat, this clown show will make anyone look good. PRC is not USA which is a big plus in its favor, but if one scrutinizes PRC and CCP like we scrutinize the US Government (or ought to, for most people) they don’t look so good. Rather frightening, actually.
I don’t understand your Western wealth statement.What wealth are you referring to.Specifically?
Forgive me if I’m mistaking your question but Western wealth here means direct foreign investment in China. Blackrock is currently hyping it, as you probably know–the same Blackrock which has contracted to reconstruct Ukraine. In both cases it’s not so much about return on investment (a laughable idea when it comes to Ukraine) as cementing relations (Ukraine, proxy; China, potential ally). As you note in comments below the 21st Century Chinese economic miracle was funded by Western investment; CCP is realizing they still need this support.
That was a good read. I have a comment that is a corollary. They thought they would kill Russia with sanctions. Trade and globalization does one thing. It makes “you” compete with everyone “else” in the world. At your expense, and at the enrichment of a very few. Russia has food and energy. If they are completely cut off? They exist and thrive. We NEED their shit. If they wake up and realize they need nothing from us? Devastating. Stealing oligarchs yachts. GOOD. They should keep their money in Russia and spend it there. This works for very few people. Russia is an outlier. China dies without trade. Which is why they keep kissing the US ass regardless of any provocation.
There are only a couple of points I’d like to comment on: “hardball with the PRC right now, but the objective is a renewed alliance, not the subjugation of China”… I disagree with this because they had an alliance. They had trade, and were able to get China to buy & hold treasurers & loan $$$ all the time. The reason they need to “renew” the alliance is because they made their move of “subjugation” too soon, and at the wrong time. Many would claim that was what COV19 was all about. But it failed. China is well aware that US is two faced, surrounding them with bases and allies. Also, it’s a mistake to believe that China would “collapse” because of their “communist policies “… it’s exactly those policies that the majority of Chinese people respond to and why the CCP is so popular. Like all other nations, it may collapse under the economic strain of a sharp economic crisis, but so is France, Sri Lanka and many other nations are and will. But the CCP party will definitely hold power for a very long time now. Eventually the US/UK/EU will have to give up the ghost of global imperialism and get along, or a very long & East/West Cold War will prevail. The UN as well as UNSC will disappear, like the League of Nations did, it’s already cracking and fragmenting. The US is simply desperate at the moment. But China isn’t stupid enough to believe there is any sincerity in any “olive leafs” the US extends at this point. They were arrogantly to obvious in their sites on China. The East (including India, Russia, global South) views globalism in terms of trade, tech, transport, resource sharing etc.. the West views globalization in terms of United global governance, no nationalist policies, interference in any nations internal affairs & maintaining a Western financial hegemony in all financial global spheres. Since 1991 this is the global game. None of it will come to pass. Although it sure got close…
Thank you for your comment.
The current US-China divorce began in 2008/2009 when elements of the CCP began to realize the globalists weren’t going to be able to deliver on their promises of perpetual prosperity and began taking steps to build their own trade network. I think it took some time for the globalists to figure out what to do about this as they also had to paper over the domestic fallout of the Global Financial Crisis. Enter DJT, whose administration took some drastic measures to disentangle US-China dependency which the globalists are apparently running with (although they would like to reintroduce that dependency in the long term).
The evidence suggests the Wu-flu was a joint venture by the Chinese and US governments with significant other Western involvement (ie. Soros, Gates, Schwab, et al). The globalists almost certainly originated the project, but the CCP seems to have gone along with it in order to implement stringent social control (zero-COVID), which has now failed. Similar Western attempts have failed or are failing, but the elitists keep trying to string them along.
Next, is PRC communist, or is it capitalist? Is the 21st Century Chinese economic miracle due to communism or to capitalism? Given that Marxism holds capitalism to be inimical to its ideals, purports to be a remedy to capitalism, these questions are worth asking. In any case the Chinese people are becoming increasingly angry at the CCP as they are now being asked to pay for its failures.
The contemporary CCP is not truly Marxist, but continues to wear Marxist clothes, so to speak. In the same manner Western governments such as the US Federal Government wear the clothes of Liberal democracy while implementing authoritarian measures as quickly as they can. The PRC is corrupted from its founding ideals as the USG is corrupted from our ideals. The alliance they seek is not one of international friendship and cooperation, believe you me.
Another thing not often mentioned about the Korean War was the effect on the balance of payments. As Michael Hudson documents so nicely in his Super Imperialism, the Korean War was so expensive due to military spending, that the entire US balance of payments went into deficit from that point onward, culminating in dropping the gold standard because America had run out of gold. Currently other countries have to finance the balance of payments deficit and military spending because of the petrodollar but that system may not last for much longer and it looks like they want a war before the system ends…
It is a pervasive thought among Americans that war can’t hit our shores except nuclear. A cyber attack does not seem significant and EMP does not get much media. Conventional missiles destroying a US transportation hub is thought to be suicide. Incomparable US military would quickly overwhelm any foe.
I can’t imagine the chaos if China attacked the mainland when people realized they have been lied to and kept in the dark.
Rather than a 2nd front, I think that the new focus on China signals that the US is preparing to walk away from Ukraine.
In simple terms…
The great obstacle to American Hegemony comes from the alignment of Russia & China (ignoring Iran, which complicates things). The Imperial Imperative demands that at least one be removed or, better brought onside. Two long-standing factions within the West’s halls of power had been arguing for one or the other for more than a decade.
Obama pivoted to Asia, but the anti-Russia faction, supported by similarly minded Europeans and a large Ukrainian diaspora ultimately prevailed. The simple, ideologically driven plan they came up with was too simple by half and led directly into the reverse trap that the Russians had set for them. The trap trapped the trapper, the prey got away and they’ve been trying to rescue themselves ever since.
As the Russia project headed deeper into failure, the faction that had long maintained that China was America’s real challenge saw their chance and the Imperial eye started shifting back to China. Unless the Russia faction shows progress soon, they and Ukraine will be left to fend for themselves. In fact, we’re already seeing resources being delayed/denied.
Working their agenda, the anti-China faction has roped the Philippines back into compliance, emboldened Japan, are working the S. Koreans, and are now working hard to complete the encirclement by flipping Taiwan into their camp. If they manage it, Ukraine will slide off the table and the MSM will be all China 24/7.
Unlike Russia, China isn’t close to autarchical. Its economy depends utterly on international trade in real goods, both import and export and the vast majority of that is sea-borne. The modern Chinese state was built on trade. With Taiwan, the US will have three unsinkable aircraft carriers within range of the Chinese mainland, but most importantly fire control over China’s sea trade routes.
A major disruption to that trade means that China takes economic hits that will hurt both it and its trading partners and it wouldn’t take much more than threats to disrupt it. The BRI project hasn’t matured to the point where it can help much in the case of a blockade.
China is vulnerable in ways that Russia isn’t. Whereas Russia’s invulnerability was apparent to anyone without ideological blinders, China’s vulnerabilities are manifold, not least because it has 1.4B mouths to feed.
Its strengths, OTOH are also manifold. Whereas Russia is the world’s wealthiest nation in terms of resources, China is the wealthiest in terms of industrial and real economic power. The collective real value the combination represents can hit the West’s financial centres and institutions hard where it hurts.
The shift to China may become too interesting by half soon.
HMS,Iwon’t argue with your thesis but Iwill point out the other side of that coin.Yes China built it’s economy on foreign trade but so did the rest of the world,(on trade with China).The collapse,if it comes will be universal and no one will be spared.China has a trade surplus with every nation on earth.China does not need to be autarchic,they have Russia.I do not believe for a minute that Russia will stand by while the US sinks Chinese ships.Now you can add the Russian navy to the other side of the coin.
“China has a trade surplus with every nation on earth.”
Globally true, but in 2022, China ran a trade deficit with 9 of its top 20 trading partners.
“China does not need to be autarchic,they have Russia.”
China buys a lot more than Russia can deliver, and they can’t produce everything China buys (EG: rice). A mature BRI is needed, but that’s at least a generation away.
The US doesn’t need to “sink Chinese ships”. They just need to announce that the S. & E. China Seas are off limits and no vessel originating in or bound for China will get the insurance to sail there. There are workarounds of course, but without BRI they’re costly and much less efficient.
Excellent article. China is vulnerable. Russia is not. China only exists when it can bring resources in and send second tier manufactured items out. Russia even if it lost all trade? They could exist as a closed biosphere. China starves without ships coming in. But China has allowed this. They sat on the sideline and let Russia fight by itself. And as you stated, the West is preparing island aircraft carriers to cut China off. The China myth is that they play the “long game”, and their superior Asian intellect is tactically superior. The reality is that they are so monolithic that decision making is glacial. One thing the Evil Empire of the US can do? We have an election, and we can invade half the world the next day. They will sit and ponder, and fill “iron ricebowls” for Generals that never fight, until the day the sea lanes snap shut. And then China dies.
China can not be cut off. It shares a land border with Russia.
And those “island aircraft carriers” will be within Chinese submarine & hypersonic missile range.
“China can not be cut off. It shares a land border with Russia.”
There’s a reason China bought 25% more from Australia last year than from Russia, including the oil/gas pipelines. The border is almost completely undeveloped and the rather meagre rail-borne trade is straining capacity as it is.
“And those “island aircraft carriers” will be within Chinese submarine & hypersonic missile range.”
That would mean all-out war with missiles and bombers headed for HK/Shenzhen/Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing etc. I’m not at all certain that China wouldn’t make a deal to prevent that. They’d have vastly more to lose than to gain in the short term, and could simply wait for a time when the US can no longer float a Navy.
The fact that the USN can shut down much of the world’s sea borne trade at will is the hard foundation underpinning America’s Dollar Empire. Only a major war and/or an internal collapse can take that ability away from it.
China is highly vulnerable to loss of markets in the West, and it needs those markets to pay for its imports of natural resources, like oil and gas, coal, food, iron ore… Those dependencies will never change.
However, if push comes to shove, China has the modern factories and skilled laborers, and the US only has T-bills. It also has a huge, undeveloped domestic market (600 million peasants). So the real question is whether China can still get the raw materials its economy needs via Russia, if war comes, and the sea lanes are blocked. And if so, how does it pay for the imports?
In 2022, total exports to the US & EU amounted to ~$1.6T with a positive trade balance of ~$700B. That’s a hit for sure, but China has long been aware that that’s gonna go away when the Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ($ & €) of currencies collapse.
China has been diversifying their markets, including development of the domestic market as rapidly as they dare, but the entire world economy will take a big hit when the currency crisis arrives in force.
“Unlike Russia, China isn’t close to autarchical.”
In theory this would seem to be the case, and certainly Russia has the greatest potential to achieve nation-state self-sufficiency, but in practice, one has to question whether the Russian Federation is truly dedicated to this purpose.
For instance, as recently as a month ago, the President of the Russian Federation was answering questions and once again, spoke of the need for more privatization of the Russian economy, and bolstered his arguments, as he always does, by sprinkling in quotes from the most virulently anti-autarchical economist there ever was, Milton Freidman.
Talk like that from anyone in a leadership postition in China would get them imprisoned or exiled, if they were lucky.
Autarky is an interesting concept. For example, a majority interest in three largest Russian oil and gas companies are privately owned (mostly by Wall Street banks), whereas Sinopec and PetroChina, two of the three largest oil and gas companies on the planet (Saudi Aramco being the other), are owned by China.
So it leads one to wonder, who is in a better postion on their quest* toward nation-state self-sufficiency, if we were to examine just the oil and gas front (the Russian Federation’s seemingly biggest advantage), Russia or China? It’s actually not as clear cut as it should be – at least to me it isn’t.
*Quest is the operative word, as autarky is a mindset.
The big knock against China, really since they “opened up” in 1979, is those son-of-a-bitch’s are going to trick us, just you wait and see, and instead of privatizing their nation-state out of existence, like the rest of us, are going to become a self-sufficient and wholey sovereign nation-state.
Should they succeed in this task, then we all must work together to destroy them. And the Russian Federation, up until quite recently, would likely have been on board with this. Instead, mostly due to Western stupidity (sanctions!), the Russian Federation is getting dragged kicking and screaming down the same autarchical path that China is on voluntarily.
“… a majority interest in three largest Russian oil and gas companies are privately owned (mostly by Wall Street banks)”
I suggest you look again.
Investopedia says that the 3 largest are, in order of size Gazprom, Rosneft and Lukoil. The first two are majority state owned, while the 3rd is private with the top 3 shareholders holding 44%. Lukoil’s top 2 shareholders are Russian nationals (the founder and a director) while the 3rd is Lukoil itself having bought the shares back from Conoco-Philips. All other shareholders are ~1% and below. The next 3 largest aren’t owned “mostly by Wall Street banks” either. In fact #4 is almost wholly owned (96%) by Gazprom.
As for autarchy, Russia’s imports represent a smaller percentage of its economy than any major economy. By and large, that means it’s importing what it wants rather than what it needs. China can never approach that level of autarchy simply because it hasn’t got the resources needed to run an industrial economy of that size. They’d have to go back a few decades and a largely agrarian economy to come close.
As for China’s trickery, you’re quite right. They “promised” to open their financial sector to Wall Street and The City, but have always found an excuse not to do it. That was part of the deal that got them into the WTO in 2001 and brought industry to China, but then the country came under new management (Xi) who had a better idea and bought all the West’s gold instead. Soros et al are hopping pissed, and that’s why they’ve sicced the USN on ’em.
Apologies for spreading disinformation.
You are correct. Of the big three, number three Rosneft is 100% state owned, number one Gazprom is 51% state owned, and while number two Lukoil is largest privately held company in Russia, no matter how you slice the total up, the Russian Federation does seem to be the dominant force in its own energy sector, especially when you factor the state’s control of most of the rest of it.
Which is good news if you are a Russian citizen. Or it should be. However, if you follow numerous Russian vloggers, which I do, one wonders where the money goes, and so do they, because no where is it apparent on the street level, that Russia is sitting on more relative wealth than any civilization in human history.
Which they are.
On the other hand, when you walk around – or flyover via drone – resource constrained China, the first thought that comes to mind is, how are they doing this? And the second, the core of this civilization (perhaps best represented at the moment, by its top 50 or so megacities), is more spectacular than anything to be seen in a Star Trek movie. All 12 of them.
Even out the farthest boonies you see the autarchical touch, best exemplified by the seemingly never ending series of record breaking suspension bridges that are being erected – in tinker toy fashion – in remote mountain regions, with the stated purpose, to link the poorest rural communities in the land, not with only each other, but with the core, thereby increasing every citizen’s chances of knowing prosperity.
Does China have a much tougher path than Russia on its way to nation-state self-sufficiency? Of course. China’s path seems impossibly twisted, whereas Russia’s is smooth and ready made. That’s why China focused efforts are so impressive to me, while whatever the Russian Federation is doing (and the Soviet Union before them, for that matter), continues to be such a disappointment.
How do you manage to do so little, when you have so much? Asks the American, who knows the answer all to well.
I don’t think “autarchy” means what you think it means.
This would mainly be for the idiot generals article that was the last one.
this is a pro ukraine podcast. am sending mainly for the german caller thomas at the 1st segment of the show. The guy bemoans the gas shortages destroying the german chemical industry which makes fertilizer for europe ; but still supports the govt. of the country that caused the problem. I think that is called stockholm syndrome. Even Mr. Nyquist ; one of the most pro-ukraine zelensky guys out there admitted that biden may have ordered the blow up of the pipeline which he said would be wrong.
When i traveled germany i noticed that former east and west germans think differently. In that way they are mildly similar to east and west ukraine without the violence and pure animosity. I did not realize why these differences really existed until after the ukraine conflict. I suspect most of the resistance to supporting the us-brit led war against russia comes and will come from the former east germany.
https://www.republicbroadcastingarchives.org/the-john-moore-show-02-15-23-hour-3/
https://media.blubrry.com/rbn/ins.blubrry.com/rbn/stream_2023-02-15_085959.mp3
The ex-colonel really lays it out in the 1st 50 minutes of this video.
https://odysee.com/@RoystonPotter:b/gen-fred-flintstone-milley-and-us:2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nai-xEKQjA
anyone of proud french heritage might like this.
SABATON – The First Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ9pmGsQcaM
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/la-woman-backs-over-and-kills-man-underneath-her-ford-trying-steal-its-catalytic-converter
regards,
ralph
The neocons love to tell everyone about their plans. Right down to detailed maps.
Consequently Iran knew they were next, after Iraq. And Hezbollah knew they were next, after Syria. So both made sure the US got bogged down in those countries.
China will make sure that Ukraine is a total wipeout for NATO, and will likely use the region to test their hypersonics.
Not only will Russia not run out of their own weapons, they will get lots of free ones as well.
Yes to poking without a plan (unless the plan is to revive war as a distraction from failing internal policy and ‘justify’ debt spending and calls for sacrifice.
To add to the list, and I think at least as antagonistic as the other recent events: cooperation from Japan and the Netherlands to deny China high-grade semiconductor microchip technology.
MSC kick-off:
https://securityconference.org/en/msc-2023/
see Agenda, Participants, etc.
2023 – Loss to Russia in Ukraine, hard pivot to China.
2024 – Sanctions against China for “human rights” boomerangs on US: Faltering economy spun by media to fuel anti-China hysteria. Biden re-elected against Trump.
2025—China provoked into war, sinks 2-4 aircraft carriers, in panic US uses nukes. Russia joins in and the first Sarmat will hit London.
Good addition to US provocation: accusations of Uighur “genocide”.
Our (US) leaders are sick, like John Fetterman. The song performed by John Lennon, ‘Give Peace a Chance’, seems so far away. Our leaders have chosen crooked paths. They ARE crooked. The way of peace they have not known. When have they chosen diplomacy, reason and cooperation with no devious motives. Biden talks about balloons violating US sovereignty. His and the government bullshit is violating our nostrils. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_0GqPvr4U
what is the cause of this anti-Chinese sentiment in America ? The American govt could easily implement a managed trade policy with China which would address the trade imbalance. America could copy China’s foreign investment practices (B&RI).
From a military perspective, America has military installations of various descriptions bordering China’s periphery, isn’t this enough ?
Larry writes about Joe Biden and ‘poking in the eye’. Soon Russia & China (and their allies) will be poking in the eye of the US: by blinding US satellites. As long as the US is not taking responsibility for its terrorists acts (North Stream 1 & 2 sabotage among others), Russia & China will quietly sabotage US satellites, disabling them one by one, until the US will admit its guilt in having committed terrorist acts and pay for the damages done to Russian-German infrastructure. Just imagine a super-imperialistic hegemon that curiously resembles a cyclops and imagine a cunning Odysseus who curiously resembles a Russian president…
The lesson of China is clear. A nation of bright, capable people can be brought to its knees by a bunch of misguided ideologues. It happen to China under Mao during the Cultural revolution. Its happening to the US under the new leftist fanaticism of woke, one world government.
Why all this pro China bullshit in these comments. The truth is told militarily we will fail but there is long train of abuses coming from China…I suppose everyone forgot about their economic warfare on us through Covid-19. Our government did exactly what China wanted. How about their massive influx of spies in corporations and universities? Their financing communist propaganda bullshit, their trade war on us (aided by our government). Russia is not an enemy but China IS. We should seek diplomatic solutions though with them while poking them in the eye domestically by restricting their access to our country in terms of trade, tariffs, etc. I think Trump kept them in check and was working on keeping them at arms length. Joe Biden is only doing this for publicity. He has been in their back pocket and beholden to them for a very long time. Anyone that can’t see shit and run Joe’s tactics are blind.
Joe you are drinking the Kool Aid.
“their economic warfare on us through Covid-19” The scamdemic and the MRNA poisons are DARPA funded and US military directed. This has been proven beyond any doubt (through patents and released documents).
How about their massive influx of spies in corporations and universities? Their financing woke neo liberal capitalism propaganda bullshit, their trade war on us (aided by our government). Russia is not an enemy but the USA IS.
Tghere, fixed it for ya’. Your’e welcome!
Lots of ignorant anarchists, socialists, communists and assorted other deeply hateful, mentally and emotionally disturbed human detritus that like to jump on board whenever they see fair criticism of the US. The US is the devil in their utopian garden of Eden in their childish cartoon level understanding of the world.
War against China is already a thing. It’s a silent war nobody dares to talk about : the NGO’s war. USaid Vs BRI.
Here is the basic scenario : Look every countries with massive debts to western institutions like the IMF or the World Bank, then a local government says OK for a BRI investments, then a “problem” magically occurs , a revolt ensue and an halt is made to all further Chinese advances by the “elected with USaid” new government. See Ceylon.
If the revolt+elections thing fail, the coup thing is played on political level as recently in Peru , Bolivia or Pakistan.
Most people think war is when guys in olive green shoot at thing , but it’s a very limited form of war and far from be the only one… it also fails sometimes so “things” have to be done. Sometime it escalate the escalator as Alex would say 🙂
There are what, 1.4 billion Chinese, residents of what is likely the largest industrial manufacturing country of the world? I mean what could go wrong, how could the U.S. possibly lose a slug-fest with the Chinese? All written tongue-in-cheek.
Well, I would expect that any air and sea landing craft between the two respective coasts would never make it across the great divide of the Pacific. This leave a proxy war with Taiwan which the Chinese would easily win or, a nuclear slug-fest. I expect the Chinese would be quicker to hit the nuke button than the Russians. Putin is predictable and patient and that is why the U.S. has played the games they have with Russia. China on the other hand is patient and not prone to putting up with nonsense.
I am still of the opinion that nukes against the U.S. will be deployed via underwater AI managed large torpedos. No incoming visibility of a air delivered warhead, no easy way to point blame. This Ukraine conflict which the west have entrenched itself into has caused many other countries to view the western way of government as something that needs to go. I doubt the world at large will make too much of a ruckus should the U.S. be the recipient of several nuclear warheads. Make your bed…sleep in it.
I’m not yet convinced that the US is actually trying to stir up a war with China. To me this seems like the beginning of a 6-month campaign to cover up the punishment and extreme humiliation the Russians are about to impose on the West.
Well…that is a good point, just another distraction to keep Americans from realizing the West has lost in Ukraine. Point the mindless masses to China and soon they do not care about Ukraine. Americans will have a ‘well, it was not our problem anyway’ type of attitude towards Ukraine.
Here is a speculative piece titled the Four Front War+ Or World War III: A sketch. Fits with USA as crazy for wars.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/11/23/the-four-front-war-or-world-war-iii-a-sketch/
They need to start a new war in order for Netflix to make movies about the previous one.
https://t.me/SrbijaRusija/18177
I noticed last week the USSNimitz (a ship I sailed aboard 1976-1981 with an A-6 Intruder squadron, VA-35 with AirWing-8) is now sailing back and forth through Taiwan’s straight and all around the South China Sea. They’re going to get a hole poked in them with a missile one of these days. They laid the keel for Nimitz in 1968, 55 years ago. I’d say we got our money’s worth out of THAT hull! Obsolete then, obsolete now. But F-14’s were WAY cooler than F-18s, though.
I think many people focus (wrongly) on military aspects of confrontations.
I think China and Russia view the military aspect as a necessary evil to prepare for and this is mostly because USA is quick to pull the trigger every time it has a problem with a country (this is the US/UK mentality of aggression).
I think both China/Russia/BRICS understand that USA is much more vulnerable economically. Huge debt burdens and growing, woke/cancel culture preventing development, lazy/uneducated population with no access to proper healthcare, corporate owned state pursuing its goals which are more important than national interests, dollar losing its status as reserve currency etc. etc. A lot of the effort of US adversaries has lately been focused on simply making USA spend more and more on ensuring it can keep up. This works from a $2,000 balloon being shot down by a multi-million effort (air-air missile + fighters in flight + ships in sea + people working around the clock + …) to being forced to patrol oceans to being forced to spend money in various military bases to having to bankroll various “democracy” and “color revolution” attempts across the world….
Adversaries have understood for a while now that everything is expensive in America and that we are slowly going bankrupt. De-dollarization is the other end of the effort – the only reason we are still in business is the USD reserve currency status.
So, expect the challenges to mount, internal infrastructure to keep failing, healthcare system to charge more and offer less (it is 20% of the GDP now), education to get more expensive, inflation to keep going up, debt to keep climbing (20% of taxes collected will be spent on interest payments + if inflation keeps going -> interest rates keep climbing -> more gets spent on paying interest) etc. etc.
In this kind of a situation it is no wonder USA is in a hurry to fight wars. It is now or never…
Seems like China would attempt a blockade of weapons imports to Taiwan.
At this point the global economic bock split will be all but underway and USA could attempt a retaliatory naval blockade of Chinese ship traffic using its outposts in Philippines, Japan etc. That wont go over well obviously. But I tend to think the USA will seek pretext to utilize its surface fleet to forcibly restrict Chinese trade while continuing to mount coups and color revolutions and counterinsurgencies all along the BRI in the Eurasian heartland. Eg as we speak Samantha Power was just in Nepal. Big concerted effort to flip pro Chinese regimes.
Something thats not mentioned enough is that at root the principal conflict with China will be articulated in cold war speak: as a war against communism. Which is ridiculous, but thats what it will come down to: a redux of 1950. After all, if China “wins” that is really a kind of final validation of 1917 and the Bolshevik project. Then we really are at the end of Fukuyama’s wet dream
“U$A – against China”
“U$ANATO – against Russia…”
“U$A on 2 fronts, against 2 enemies…”
the paradox of this situation is that NO ONE has ever dreamed of threatening U$A and/or NATO
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/did-an-f-22-blow-up-some-illinois-hobbyists-pico-balloon.html
This should wrap up the balloon situation.
This should scare this shit out of everyone.
POTUS is shooting down $100 foil balloons after blowing up an ally’s civilian infrastructure – what the hell will he do next?
I think any direct war with China (or Russia) will also mean the North Koreans will decide their moment has come.
There will never be a better opportunity. Otherwise, why all the missle tests?
Owners of the MIC are sucking out the trough of extorted taxes from the US populace to pay for hyper-priced, obsolescent armaments. They are the cause of constantly increasing war propaganda carried out by tools in Washington and the MSM. Do they know at some level that the US can’t hope to win an overseas war against a peer competitor? Do they know that war with China, even if it remained “conventional,” would inevitably destroy supply chains for raw materials and consumer goods we dearly require? Probably yes to both questions. That’s why there at least is some reason for hope.
But aren’t not pulling back from this brink, not negotiating honestly for equitable solutions, and not redirecting these misused resources to peacefully rebuilding our economy (which would be a win-win for us and China) all historic failures of ”our” ruling circles? Draw your own conclusions.
Joe Biden was once described as “that drunk guy at the bar who tries to pick a fight with everyone” and we know how that usually ends.
China is not our friend or ally but then again the US government is not our friend or ally either so where does that leave us? Well if the US was capable of sane, rational pragmatic foreign relations the two countries would agree to get along for each other’s mutual benefit. Unfortunately, the US is an irrational hegemon denying the emergence of a multi-polar geopolitical reality that has little tolerance for the US-dictated and EU globalist embraced rules based international order.
The US can defend Taiwan but at what cost? That campaign would be air and naval asset intensive–US losses would be heavy as would Chinese. I agree 100% that the US is not prepared for such losses militarily, politically, financially or as a society. I doubt that will stop Joe though as rationality has little to do with his decisions.
Lastly, if Taiwan goes hot…North Korea would never have a better opportunity to smoke South Korea–as we know, China and North Korea have coordinated efforts before. Plainly stated, the US and its allies would be overwhelmed. And, let’s face it…North Korea is not led by a rational leader/government either.
Joe will keep taking drunken swings and pokes at China until China swings back…does anyone really think this will play out differently?
Spot on. When the shit starts, everyone is going to see their opportunity. And the spiral to madness begins. And it will not just be Asia. The Middle East will go. And shit, I never thought Russia wanted Poland. But since Poland went collectively insane, and has turned into some anti-Russian genocidal regime? Why not? And then why not send a squad to Lithuania? And surely someone will take out the insane warmongers that reside in London. One of my jobs was as a police officer. And every once in a while, you get a full bar brawl. 30 SOB’s, men and women in the bar, on the street, just going at it. One squad car shows up, then another, then you got a circus. And when it is all settled down, and you find out what happened. It started with two people. And the moon was full, and the stars were right. And old grudges were remembered. And the USA has not a single friend in the world. We have fucked everyone over.
Fo’ sho’ WWIII…well I guess it’s gotta happen every 50 years or so. Gonna be strange sitting this one out…lots’ of buddies that need to retire ASAP.
For the record I would fight to the death to defend America as I am sure you would too Curt…but Europe ain’t America–nor is Asia etc.
” I doubt that will stop Joe though as rationality has little to do with his decisions”
Do we remember in Sniffy Joe’s first few days signing the many executive orders that Kameltoe Harris pushed in front of him?
He sheepishly said ” I don’t even know what I’m signing”.
He doesn’t ‘make’ decisions.
Yeah hard to argue with that GRR…it’s all smoke and mirrors…”his decisions” are really the neocon political elite decisions.
France has just announced that they will take part in a coming Belt and Road Initiative meeting in China. At the same time Germany says that those who have advocated for sending tanks to Ukraine must deliver on their promises (Netherlands, Denmark ++ have pulled out).
These are small signs that the US-Europe alliance may weaken in the future. If the US is going to fight China I guess they’ll have to find their proxies in the far East.
China is fully aware that its adversaries are disarming themselves rapidly in Ukraine, so they’re just Biding their time.
Sure, the US could always do a “Bolt out of the Blue” against the next two large nuclear states, but that’s a FAFO move.
The need a war to cover up the domestic disaster they have caused. They are dead meat without a “boogieman” to blame their debacles on.
I would argue that North and South Korea would have peacefully reunited decades ago.
If not for outside meddling.
> And, let’s face it…North Korea is not led by a rational leader/government either.
How do you know this? The same people that have been lying to us for decades are suddenly trustworthy when it comes to North Korea?
Question everything.
“Question everything.”
Agree.
“China is not our friend or ally”
And yet “we” (China and US, I assume) are still doing hundreds of billions of $ in trade each year.
Maybe “we” should work harder on making and keeping friends than creating enemies.
Wrong symbolism. The Chinese regard the dragon as a good symbol. Listen to the symbols. They may be important.
One quibble. Not “corporate” media. Nor “legacy” media, nor (gag) “mainstream” media. They’re the Deep State Media.
Willful, knowing, highly paid jackals and parasites endlessly riding the Deep State’s lucrative merry-go-round from politics to lobbyist to academia to NGO to media and back again, their ceaseless lies, fraud, defamation, and censorship are integral to the Deep State, essential to its power. Deep State Media
Other than serious stupidity and arrogance, maybe these trips are meant to build up Biden and the democrats as the serious war party in the same way the gop did after 9-11. When Hillary was running, she really pushed that she was the one that could take on China and Russia, and not Trump. She always mentioned them together.
Sorta interesting but the secular left has been pushing the idea that the Chinese in particular are really racially white. And in the US it is acceptable to hate white people. So soon all the racist memes that are allowed about the Russians will soon be allowed against the Chinese. And thus making war acceptable to the populace.
On the face a completely irrational course of action given the ongoing irrational (in the fact of factual data) support of the Ukraine client state and the war by proxy with the goal of destroying Russia. It is so irrational to be antagonizing the PRC could it actually be a manipulation by the Biden regime to foment PRC hardliner and non-western (globalist) world support for Chinese military action. If the Biden regime was seeking the ultimate destruction of the US by engaging in a unwinnable two front peer power war with the ongoing collapse of western economies due to abandonment of petroleum based energy this would seem to be a sure way to do it.
In 2005, Chinese Defense Minister, General Chi Haotian, gave a speech to high-level CCP Cadres, sometime before his retirement, detailing CCP plans to depopulate North America and use it for a Chinese Lebensraum. In the speech, he spoke of plans to develop bio weapons which would genetically target specific ethnicities. The speech is long, but you should take the time to read it, and decide for yourself whether or not the CCP is an enemy of the United States.
https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/
They keep telling us that China is a threat, but they never explain what exactly the threat is. Maybe China threatens US corporate profits, but it doesn’t threaten Americans. But the hate campaign will do to China what it has done to Russia. Americans are too stupid and gullible to think for themselves, and conforming to “authority” suits them just fine. It might take a nuclear war to shake them out of their stupidity — and the bonus is there will be fewer warmongers left.
Larry, we are not watching a car driven by a drunk that is on a collision course with a steel bridge, we are in the back seat of said car….
Well, Mao had his “Cultural Revolution”, it took millions of lives…
We -the Western World- we are starting our ‘Wokultural Revolution’…
Now, every revolution costs lives cut short, implementing new structures,
fierce social disruptions, pauperism, hunger, and obviously Oppression!
And our ‘Wokultural Revolution’ it’s just ‘being stage’ Netflix Drama Series degree…
SOP for the American Empire: provoke the war you want to start.
Smedley was right.
The decline and fall of the US empire is already history, not speculation.
“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem.”
“Chesty” Puller, Lewis B. USMC
Oligarchs and their political pawns spent 25 years gutting US manufacturing and building up China’s industrial base.
They now say toxic masculinity is a big problem, castrate boys, and conducted a two-pronged political / vaccine purge of the military. Recruiting is terrible and training focuses on DEI, gender and pronoun issues.
The MIC gets no bang for the buck and weapons programs have largely become instruments for industrial and political corruption. Stocks of everything needed for war are low and take many years to replace. That is, if China and Russia will sell us the needed materials to replace them.
So of course picking fights with China, Iran, and Russia – simultaneously – is on the menu. This is surreal stupidity. If it wasn’t so hilarious to watch them self immolate, I’d be distraught.
How would you rate this conspiracy theory?
1) WW2 finally threw Great Britain off the pedestal, which historically will always claim 1st place.
In the UK, since the days of Waterloo and the emergence of the Rothschild clan, there has been a hmmm … not quite Anglo-Saxon)) national influence group of a wide spectrum – politics, economics, and, possibly cultural and scientific influence. It is believed that they penetrated not only the parliament and the nobility, but almost the royal family.
The Rothschilds, Disraelis and others like them had a strong influence on the development of Britain and its position in the world. And now they are no longer number one.
And not even the second. In the army in scientific and economic terms, they were out of competition. Revenge was taken in the cultural – rock music, literature, cinema, etc. It was within their means and within their power. They did it flawlessly.
2) Let’s go back to the end of World War II.
It was at this time (for some reason it coincided) Leo Strauss, previously worked in British Cambridge, heads the Department of Political Philosophy at the University of Chicago, organizes an elected sect for selected (mostly God’s chosen) talented young people, who are then promoted to high positions in politics.
It was from there that all these Nuland, Kogan and others surrounding the current president -dementia.
3) Return to Britain. The British are masters of politics and intrigue.
They provoked revolutions in other countries, pitted European states, and each time the scale of these conflicts grew.
=> Napoleon at the head of EU-1 against Russia,
=> Hitler with EU-2 against the USSR, and now …
Why not allow two conflicts
=> Russia against the EU + the USA (the USA will then receive for the second war – AUKUS (Anglo-Saxons) against China) and overstrain.
At the same time, Britain has every chance to suffer much less enemies and allies,
because the US will receive the main retaliatory damage.
4) Small observations – Seymour Hersh, the same breed and from the same nest as Leo Strauss (University of Chicago).
Most of his investigations are conducted in defiance of the US government. He made a name for himself by criticizing the authorities of his country.
He wrote an article in which he accuses his native country of terrorism and, in fact, opposes it to a nuclear power. Provocateur.
A little earlier (immediately after the Nord Stream explosions) – Radoslav Sikorsky, like a Pole, but who exchanged his homeland for Britain – pointed the finger at Biden as a terrorist and thanked him on Twitter, drawing attention and, like Hersh, creating public opinion.
A year ago, the Straussian Nuland, who holds a political post in the United States, pointedly threatened NordStream. Then – fervently rejoiced at the destruction.
A year ago, Biden read a prepared answer to a prepared question about NordStream, a threat to NordStream. I wonder who writes these questions and answers,
speeches, changes Biden’s punched card and batteries? Aren’t they Anglophiles-Strossians?
Such conspiracy detective fantasies come to mind. As you read, take into account the use of Google Translate.
P.S. – I am by no means an anti-Semite, I remember that not only Judas was a Jew, but also Christ. But we must not forget that not only Christ was a Jew, but also Judas…
P.P.S. – Alexei Efimovich Vandam, Russian major general, military intelligence officer, writer, author of works in the field of geopolitics, geostrategy and strategic geography, referring to Britain, said 100 years ago – “only friendship with them can be worse than a war with the Anglo-Saxons”
Look at who is the successor in interest to Yűkøs and the money guy at Gěniē Energy. Check out the bizarre 2003 stock transfer. Ukraine being about toppling Putin and Syria (the countries with Russian ports) along with politician, NGO, and media flood the zone attention explained. Remember the debate when Hillary blithely said she’d put a NFZ over Syria and shoot down Russian pilots in 2016? Guess who her best friend is that she pays “penance” (per W-leaks) to? LdR, same person behind the McCain Foundation.
Y, now owned by JR, has a 50 billion dollar outstanding judgment against Russia it would like to collect. That’s real money even for JR.
How would you rate this conspiracy theory?
1) WW2 finally threw Great Britain off the pedestal, which historically will always claim 1st place.
In the UK, since the days of Waterloo and the emergence of the Rothschild clan, there has been a hmmm … not quite Anglo-Saxon)) national influence group of a wide spectrum – politics, economics, and, possibly cultural and scientific influence. It is believed that they penetrated not only the parliament and the nobility, but almost the royal family.
The Rothschilds, Disraelis and others like them had a strong influence on the development of Britain and its position in the world. And now they are no longer number one.
And not even the second. In the army in scientific and economic terms, they were out of competition. Revenge was taken in the cultural – rock music, literature, cinema, etc. It was within their means and within their power. They did it flawlessly.
2) Let’s go back to the end of World War II.
It was at this time (for some reason it coincided) Leo Strauss, previously worked in British Cambridge, heads the Department of Political Philosophy at the University of Chicago, organizes an elected sect for selected (mostly God’s chosen) talented young people, who are then promoted to high positions in politics.
It was from there that all these Nuland, Kogan and others surrounding the current president -dementia.
3) Return to Britain. The British are masters of politics and intrigue.
They provoked revolutions in other countries, pitted European states, and each time the scale of these conflicts grew.
=> Napoleon at the head of EU-1 against Russia,
=> Hitler with EU-2 against the USSR, and now …
Why not allow two conflicts
=> Russia against the EU + the USA (the USA will then receive for the second war – AUKUS (Anglo-Saxons) against China) and overstrain.
At the same time, Britain has every chance to suffer much less enemies and allies,
because the US will receive the main retaliatory damage.
4) Small observations – Seymour Hersh, the same breed and from the same nest as Leo Strauss (University of Chicago).
Most of his investigations are conducted in defiance of the US government. He made a name for himself by criticizing the authorities of his country.
He wrote an article in which he accuses his native country of terrorism and, in fact, opposes it to a nuclear power. Provocateur.
A little earlier (immediately after the Nord Stream explosions) – Radoslav Sikorsky, like a Pole, but who exchanged his homeland for Britain – pointed the finger at Biden as a terrorist and thanked him on Twitter, drawing attention and, like Hersh, creating public opinion.
A year ago, the Straussian Nuland, who holds a political post in the United States, pointedly threatened NordStream. Then – fervently rejoiced at the destruction.
A year ago, Biden read a prepared answer to a prepared question about NordStream, a threat to NordStream. I wonder who writes these questions and answers,
speeches, changes Biden’s punched card and batteries? Aren’t they Anglophiles-Strossians?
Such conspiracy detective fantasies come to mind. As you read, take into account the use of Google Translate.
P.S. – I am by no means an anti-Semite, I remember that not only Judas was a Jew, but also Christ. But we must not forget that not only Christ was a Jew, but also Judas…
P.P.S. – Alexei Efimovich Vandam, Russian major general, military intelligence officer, writer, author of works in the field of geopolitics, geostrategy and strategic geography, referring to Britain, said 100 years ago – “only friendship with them can be worse than a war with the Anglo-Saxons”
Your conspiracy theory “Англичанка гадит” has the right to life.
But, the fact is that now it is impossible to either confirm or refute any of the suspicions put forward, although they are based on a logical chain of cause-and-effect relationships between accomplished facts. Even if everything in the theory turns out to be true, we cannot go beyond reasoning, and the theory itself has no practical application.
England remains in its paradigm of eternal intrigue. You can take note of this, but you cannot change it.
Жаль вообще-то, что никто не откликнулся на призыв порассуждать.
This is because the population of America has no clue of anything. They have been shut down in an electronic dome of information, which is not false, nor true, just soul crippling. Meaning, China is a show enemy, a fake enemy to make the american masses believe that they participate on powers decisions. They have been omitting the total ideological and economical symbiosis of both countries, in order to make the masses believe they are part of it, that they decide stuff, and increase the patriotism, meaning, the will to power. Of course all this will be channelled to fight Russia. Increase the patriotism against China, which the Americans don’t like because of course they are weird, yellow, speak a strange language and eat dogs… excite the will to power… and use it against another. Because the feeling of power has a short memory.
American masses are just as racist against Chinese as it is required by the will to power. But they are on an objective level friends and partners. It is a matter of exciting a waning patriotism (will to power, will to fight and defeat others) which cannot be excited by Russia because they are perceived as white and christian, and then picking this feeling of power and use it against the real enemy. Power is dumb, it doesn’t have much cares except satisfying its immediate will to subjugate others. So the american government is exciting the already pretty high and irrational hatred against the Chinese, so that the patriotism or will to subjugate be used against Russia. More precisely, the Americans hate all east asiatic peoples, which they have to consider as Üntermensh.( no Übermensh without Üntermensh). This is the greatest source of patriotic feelings (will to power) for them, since the Second World War. The Arabs can’t do that, since they are perceived as a colorful and morally righteous people who are a bit too savage, but pardonably so. (Lawrence of Arabia) But that America and China cannot enter a shooting war, is evident, since they are ideologically the same . By raising the patriotic feeling it ensures a commitment to the protection of the home-land, which will be necessary , since the Russians themselves will probably have to interfere there at some point in time. It’s that damn uniformity which enslaves and inhumanizes everyone. For the Americans it is natürlich that they should hate the Chinese. But why fight Russia then? Because the Russians are on a different ground than the rest of humanity, meaning that the nazist instincts have not taken very deep roots there.
What do you mean that we don’t know what we are doing?
Hillary was supposed to win.
We were to be in a nuclear war. Uranium one anyone
We were to lose
The plan is still hot.
Bankers are rejoicing
It has nothing to do with “winning” wars. The lite behind these government clowns, psychos, rats and sparrows are vicious, amoral and depraved, and they don’t care about what amount of death and destruction is unleashed. The world has been turned upside down by the corporate mindset that has infiltrated our humanist tradition. Besides, the elite want to squeeze as much utility out of Biden while he is in office and stirring more chaos and ruin is not a bug, it’s a feature of our degenerating and fast fading empire.
It has nothing to do with “winning” wars. The elite behind these government clowns, psychos, rats and sparrows are vicious, amoral and depraved, and they don’t care about what amount of death and destruction is unleashed. The world has been turned upside down by the corporate mindset that has infiltrated our humanist tradition. Besides, the elite want to squeeze as much utility out of Biden while he is in office and stirring more chaos and ruin is not a bug, it’s a feature of our degenerating and fast fading empire.
Larry, Did you mean “twerking” the dragon’s tail, or “tweaking?” Just wondering as the woke crowd in the Brandon admin. is more apt to “twerk” than “tweak.”
LOL!
He definitely meant tweaking
“praise the lord and pass the methamphetamine”
“and we’ll all stay ……………….clueless”
Neocon fall down and go boom
PS. It’s a real belief and faith this. It may be largely subconscious but these people have a medieval faith in god’s agency.
For them all this amounts to a ‘trial by faith’: you are pure, so you jump off the cliff and wait for the hand of god to deposit you safely at the bottom. They believe in their right and have faith in Providence.
They think something is going to happen, some new condition will appear that’ll change the outcome. It’s a vague hope, probably the Chinese rising against their government is the most they can imagine, because, you know, how can’t the people recognise their natural lords?
It’s a mental morbidity that arises from the combination of a certain Christian worldview and the situation in which the American postwar elites have found themselves, in which they have never experienced real consequences to their actions.
It’s a powerful mix this. Think of it, the whole of the data input that’s gone into those brains is making come up with the wrong calculations.
The people of the US suffer from the same to various degrees. And unless they wake up pronto, in sufficient numbers the fall is going to be sudden and devastating.
But hey, such is the human condition. The only really new element in this is nuclear power, which brings a danger to the whole situation of epic proportions. We are in danger of bringing the Marvel world into reality.
No offense Larry but you clearly fail to see the theatrics in all of this. Or how much hot air has been thrown over the China issue ad nauseum with only words and zero action whatsoever (on both sides).
There is nothing that “serious” about any US-China conflict — the Chinese (unlike the Russian forces in Ukraine) are not a threat to any US-centered “military” dominance whatsoever.
You might say China is a threat to “economic” prowess of the US, especially exemplified via their reluctance to partake in any sanctions against Russia (at behest of the US). But, even that is only just a minor squabble to US politicians and elites that’s convenient for them to sanctimoniously amplify as a way to avoid focusing on more pertinent domestic issues facing the American population.
Present-day China, and the CCP, at the end of the day, is a submissive partner of the US that will squabble over completely pointless things like sanctions (and Taiwan “land” claims) merely just to make the politicians on both sides look “tough” to their constituents (as if both countries are “standing up to one another”). When, in the end, both sides end up exchanging nothing but mere words (ultimately aware this is nothing but theatrics).