You sound like what a Frenchman would say in the 19th century if told that English would replace French as the lingua franca in the years to come.

We may never get the true picture until the US government is properly audited (which will almost be never).

We should also ask, “Cui bono? (L: who benefits). Seems only a certain percentile of the population made extraordinary gains while the average man suffered during this period.

The only sure thing is that the actors behind this whole affair will try again

Why don’t you lead by example, take up a rifle and head down to Donetsk or anywhere else Zelensky or Syrsky needs? Otherwise, you’re just all hat and no cattle.

Hilarious! It should be shared more widely.

LOL. Communism is to China what Democracy is to the USA. Get with the times.

Xenophobic, racist? Such appellations rightly belong to the USA, for why else does it go around the world killing others not like it (Xenophobia = fear / hatred of the other), or thinks others unworthy of owning their own resources.

Pepe’s opinions are his own and you may disagree with them, but his knowledge of history, geography, cultures and languages is expansive. You should spell out why you think him unwise, else it be regarded as mere braying.

Conor McGregor is a troglodyte but he is right in tapping a popular sentiment. The Emerald Isle is fast becoming unrecognisable, no thanks to the politicos who seem to listen to Brussels instead of their voters. Ah, I forget, we only have the illusion of democracy. The rulers pretend to hear the people but turn their backs on them, and seem intent to replace them with immigrants. It is one thing to have people who can contribute to society but what we have instead are riff-raffs and criminals . Soon enough, more scenes like these will happen again.

Defending the indefensible.

Deliberately attacking civilians, regardless of the flag / origin, is beyond the pale.

Funny how someone like you always claim to speak for the white race yet display so little of the finer traits of the Renaissance or the Enlightenment. You don’t speak for all whites and only claim affiliation to whites so as to borrow the glories of past achievements. Worst still, you make all whites look like petty racist ignorant yokels. Why don’t you just speak for your own tribe?

The Chinese will use the existing systems until they find or create their own system such as the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). Having seen the example the cabal has made of the Russians, the Chinese has expedited the movement of capital. Unlike the West, they won’t go for flash and announce what they’re doing.

Hah. Typical of an Anglo-Saxon to call others rude names yet tell others not to.

Your diatribe shows all too clearly that your tribe has been the instigator and executor of all the wars and chaos in the modern century.

All too true you should go back to your perfidious Albion (justly named by all your neighbours) and leave the rest of humanity alone. Or is it too late with your self-inflicted wounds? Is that why all you can only do is wail and call people names?

I couldn’t agree more.

Hahaha. I’m so bedazzled by your ‘erudite’ response.

The only advantage that the USA has now is space. China is crowded. The USA should take about 10% of China’s population over. It will help raise the average IQ as well.

LOL. You must be a card-carrying member of the Gordon Chang “China is collapsing” club, repeated ad nauseum since the early 2000s.

Well, would you take IMF’s word for it? GDP based on PPP, as per cent of world share: China: 18.92; USA: 15.39
(https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPSH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD)

Even the CIA’s website agrees that China’s PPP (2021) already exceeds USA.
(https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/real-gdp-purchasing-power-parity/country-comparison/)

China’s economy will eventually slow down and there is corruption, but it pales in comparison to the US. Care to share any non-biased data or objective comments instead of just “feelings”?

With this reality in San Francisco, shouldn’t you spent more time worrying about your neighbourhoods?
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Haha, I don’t think I have a chance to drink any kool-aid, since apparently you have drunk it all.

It is naive and unwise to compare U.S. “Air Supremacy” in Iraq and Afghanistan with the current Russian Military Operation in Ukraine. After 13 years of genocidal sanctions (U.S.-led warfare terrorism) and UN weapons inspection, Iraq was stripped of its air defences. Iraq air force became absolute and its missiles (including the Scuds) and chemical weapons were destroyed. Furthermore, before the 2023 U.S. criminal invasion, all Iraqi military commandos and high ranking officers were bought (bribed and evacuated) by the Gulf rulers, Iran and the US. In addition, Iraq’s arid terrain, lacks of Intel and any outside support made it the perfect ripe fruit for the U.S. to show its manufactured “Military invincibility”. The invasion of Iraq was a criminal attack by U.S.-led modern armies (with more than 1.8 million troops), including Britain, Israel, Australia, Iran, Jordan among others.
Afghanistan wasn’t much different, if not worse. In both cases, Iraq and Afghanistan were demonised (Muslims are “terrorists”) by the media and Western regimes). They had no outside support. Russia was delusional about its place in the US-led “European family” and sided with the U.S.-NATO. In fact, Russia allowed the U.S. to use its bases to attack Afghanistan from.
How can you compare the above with Ukraine? Before the Russian Military Operation, Ukraine had the largest and most armed and trained army in Europe. Ukraine enjoys the most sophisticated U.S.-Israeli Intel. In addition, more than 30 countries are competing with each others to supply Ukraine with state of the arts weapons, including missiles, drones, intelligence, cash and other war tools. The U.S.-led pro-Ukraine war propaganda is dwarfing Nazis propaganda in its sophistication. Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukrainian terrain is forested and criss-crossed by rivers and lakes. Since 1945, we have been living under U.S.-led Neo-fascist hegemony. Let’s hope the war in Ukraine will change all that, and put humanity on the road to peace and prosperity.

“I would love for you to elaborate on what transpired in those 2 Amazon buildings.”

LOL. Wonder how many will get this reference. Or more chillingly, was the series prescient about our future?

I have to imagine that “the way of the world” isn’t lost on all of the countries that serve as our various enemies, and that at some level, they have to be planning a way to take us down, by working together.

No matter what our “news” tries to tell us, they aren’t all antagonizing us constantly, for no reason whatsoever, except to be “evil”.

Even our allies are sick of our shit. They’re sick of our military bases being in their countries, they sick of our service members fucking with their various populations, they’re sick of us always telling them what to do, how to act, who to hate…

If Iran, Russia, China and North Korea aren’t working on a plan to kick our teeth in, then they are fools, and I don’t think they are fools. I also think they are smart enough to know that if they give us a chance, we will pick them off, one by one, forever, just as we have done in the past.

We, the US, have hyper-over-committed to defend too many places around the world, to NOT be taken advantage of.

Let’s see- All of NATO & the EU, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The UK of course, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan… So, what would any smart person do? Get us sucked into 1, 2, 3, or more, and see us try it. See us try to defend all these places at once.

We know we can’t do it, and they definitely know that we can’t do it. The only question then becomes, what’s the best trap to lay, to get us to over-commit to one place, before they start the second place?

Just like NATO used the Ukraine as proxies, to try to wear down the Russians, the Chinese would use NK to get us sucked into defending SK, and then Iran goes after Israel, and then China goes after Taiwan, and Russia…. maybe they settle some old European scores, or help get the Serbian-Balkan thing ignited again.

Hell, all China needs to do is dump our treasury bonds and stop exporting to us, and we’re instantly in the worst crisis in US history, and that’s before firing a single shot.

These claims that China will turn against Russia for no reason (and commit national suicide by doing so) are just malicious propaganda from western idiots. It only takes the minimum of critical thinking ability to determine that China has nothing to gain from going against Russia and everything to lose. American puppet states like Germany and Japan may be willing to self-immolate when the USA gives them the order, but China has no reason to do this.

[Vladimir Putin Is Still Useful to Xi Jinping. Until He Isn’t]

One of the silliest, most ignorant articles to appear anywhere. The split between Russia and China started with Khrushchev falling for the West’s divide and conquer strategy. This strategy took years to bear fruit. British media often harped on the “irreconcilable” difference between a Caucasian Russia and a China that allegedly thought Siberia belonged to Mongoloid peoples. The hint was clear: Soviet Russia needed to side with the West against the oriental Chinese.

Khrushchev’s first step towards moving away from China was to promote “peaceful co-existence” with the West. This includes not only friendly relations with the West but also sending a clear signal that he would do nothing to strengthen China. And he did this in a dramatic way: aid agreements with China were torn up, including blueprints for civilian projects such as building bridges, heavy industries, etc.

Politically, Soviet media became friendlier with the West and increasingly hostile towards China. The Chinese counterattacked Khrushchev ideologically, but that couldn’t make up for the losses incurred by large, unfinished projects. Refusal to help in new projects wasn’t as devastating as leaving projects such as China’s Yangtze Bridge half done. It took tremendous efforts in time and money and getting the necessary expertise to complete such projects. To a poor country like China what Khrushchev did was a gigantic stab in the back.

The overthrow of Khrushchev by Brezhnev and company didn’t heal the breach between Soviet Russia and China. Brezhnev’s links with North Korea, Vietnam and forays in China’s neighborhood began to be seen as attempts at surrounding China. The worst mistake by Brezhnev was his claim that the Soviet boundary with China’s Northeast included all the islands in the Amur River. In other words, against international law, Soviet Russia’s boundary was to be at the Chinese River bank.

Putting his claim to action, Soviet troops were sent to occupy the Chinese island of Chenpo (Damansky in Russian). Mao Zedong was still alive then, and of course it took the PLA just a few hours to settle the matter. Several Soviet army officers were killed: their bodies handed over to the Soviet side. Brezhnev threatened nuclear war. American periodicals like Time and Newsweek more or less laughed at his threats to Mao Zedong.

That was how the 1969 conflict occurred. The hostility was started by Khrushchev and the ill feelings didn’t ease until the fall of the Soviet Union.

Around 1989 Gorbachev visited Beijing and said “let the boundary be in the middle of the Amur River.

“That’s the plan: Force them to accept child anal, and they will accept anything”

Not an exact quote from Anglin, but a good enough paraphrase.

When Theodore Dalrymple (a pen name of a British Medical Doctor) done a formal personal study of Eastern European communist countries in the early 1980’s he was left with the impression that the purpose of all the lying propaganda was not to convince, but to humiliate. A population of emasculated liars who had to parrot the most obvious lies when it was demanded of them (or get their lives ruined by the state machinery) was easier to control.

We now have the ability in some states (Washington) of a teacher or councilor to claim your child has told them they want a sex change, but you as a parent aren’t allowing it, so the State of Washington can legally abduct your kid at school, take them to a hospital you aren’t told about, surgically mutilate them into a sterile parody of the opposite sex, inject them with either masculinizing or femininizing hormones, and perhaps have them raised in state orphanages or return them to you if they agree to it.
DONT THINK FOR A SECOND THAT THIS LEGAL ABILITY WONT BE USED AGAISNT CULTURAL OR POLITICAL “OPPONENTS” of the regime. They can dope up, and hormone up a kid, use sleep deprivation, and get a child to say anything for a camera.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” —Lord Acton

Best outside-the-Book of Proverbs quote about humanity’s fallen nature ever right there. That’s why I fear a global government. It will have no restraints, will not admit mistakes, and will try to jam square pegs in round holes (no pun intended) relentlessly, and blame the holes for insufficient squareness.

Ukraine war grifting is far worse than we imagined … seems it goes like this:
IMF lends many tens of billions to National Bank of Ukraine NBU at low interest
NBU lends billions to Ukraine banks owned by oligarchs like Kolomoisky at low interest
Ukraine banks make huge profits lending to Ukraine government, at usury interest rates as high as 25%!
When Ukraine and its banks are all bankrupt … Ukraine oligarchs still keep the profits they made from this

‘IMF and 115 billion in cash flow for Kolomoisky, Zelensky, and Ukraine oligarchs’
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2023/07/cash-for-ukraine-oligarchs-imf.html
summarising John Helmer here
https://johnhelmer.net/cash-is-king-of-the-thieves-in-the-ukraine-according-to-the-imf-chief-accountant-to-the-thieves-den/

USA has given 41 billion to Ukraine in weapons, with an additional 15 or so billion from other NATO countries … and many believe there is much corruption from this in Ukraine’s military, Defence Ministry and the Zelensky government

But this, it turns out, is dwarfed by the cash in ‘external support’ for Ukraine’s central banks and then downstream to oligarch-owned private banks, chiefly via the IMF International Monetary Fund, under effective USA control under its current Bulgarian chief, Kristalina Georgieva

That support – with huge direct profit opportunities for Zelensky and his oligarchs – is estimated by the IMF itself at $115 billion dollars … soon to expand to $140 billion

This is 10x the cash flows for Ukraine in the old days with former Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and former IMF chief Christine Lagarde

The IMF has allowed Ukraine’s banks to stop lending to businesses and postpone paying on obligations

But Ukraine’s banks – owned by oligarchs such as Igor Kolomoisky (Privatbank) and Victor Pinchuk (Credit Dnepr) – are making massive profits by ‘lending’ to the Ukraine government itself … at interest rates as high as 25%! … and these ‘Ukraine government borrowings’ profiting Ukraine’s oligarchs, are being guaranteed by the IMF!

The IMF has issued a report declaring Ukraine’s banks in wonderful shape … tho no audits or inspections can be conducted until ‘conditions allow’ someday … and no mention of profiteering by Zelensky and his oligarchs

Day Late and a U$Dollar Short…

1) TSLA joint-ventures with CHNese+CHE Firms for EV Semiconductors
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202211/1280646.shtml

2) CHN’s Sanan Optoelectronics and CHE’s STMicroelectronics have agreed to jointly invest USD3.2 billion in a joint venture to make chip devices for EVs.

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/20230608-02-chinas-sanan-switzerlands-stmicroelectronics-to-invest-usd32-billion-in-sic-chipmaking-jv-in-china

FAKE Fear Pr0n.

This is just a mild disruption to CHN Consumer Electronics as they’ve plenty of Chipmakers, plenty of CN¥ invested, plenty of Engineers.

Same go for Russia. They needed to get off their Arses and make their own Consumer Electronic Chips anyway. They’ve plenty of Chipmakers themselves.

Personally, I expected both RUS+CHN to have decoupled from importing Western Gear back in 2014. Lessons Learned.

Think you have to update your numbers. A paper from the Congressional Budget Office (https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2023-04/58764.pdf) states that the
“… dollar’s share of all international trade and financial payments was roughly 40 percent in 2021.” [page 13, “Invoicing currency”] or refer to figure 3 on page 31 for a graphical representation.

Looking at the other figures with the declining trend seen in foreign exchange reserves, trade balance and current account balance, this points to a ‘slowly, slowly, then suddenly’ case of withdrawal from the USD. I suspect that it will come a lot sooner than you think.

The Chinese already have, as in you get what you pay for. They have a gradient for the products according to the amount you are willing to pay. They are also quickly improving.

https://www.hqts.com/new-perspective-made-in-china-products/

https://wsafety-news.com/safety/made-by-china-a-new-leader-in-quality/

However, the problem is that if an American corporation wants to be cheap, they will get the cheapest and then charge the most from you. And that product (made to specs for the corporation) and its maker gets the blame.

Good article, Mr. Whitney.

LOL @ “foreign corporations who think China has an unfair advantage and is not playing by the rules”. What corporations nowadays are playing by “the rules”, or any rules for that matter? They can go pound sand.

Ok thanks. Sad the young people in the South no longer want to unify as much. I guess it’s a sign of the times. Young people only care about social media around the globe. A reunified Korea would save them some defense money and allow freer travel in their own homeland…. And would make Korea overall stronger – which is why Japan doesn’t want them to reunify under any circumstances!!! Japan doesn’t want more scientific/economic competition from a United Korea. Sad.

Idiocracy was an underrated satire. Sadly, like so many dystopian books (1984) and shows, it was prescient in describing our soon-to-be state.

Good grief! You sound like the 19th century Qing emperor when he rejected the goods, and opening up to the world.

Perhaps one shouldn’t be surprised given the state of many European peoples and their governments. Europe may have shone and dominated the last 3 centuries but that is glory past. What is more important, is what’s next. I think the Chinese have learned that despite their past glories, being complacent will get their lunch taken so there is now a renewed vigour in their enterprises.

Sadly, I see Europe and the USA behaving more and more like China in the 19th century, just before they are being supplanted. And with the people migration / invasion from the south, I’m doubtful of another European renaissance. Isn’t history sometimes ironic?

Well, he’s more right than wrong, or should I say, more white than wong?

The nuances of the various people of the Orient aside, geographically, everything he says makes perfect sense. Why wouldn’t you want to join together, as a region, and work together, versus siding with a country that is on the other side of the planet, and using your country as a proxy vassal state?

Moreover, from a purely military strategic point of view, all of those countries allied would be a serious geopolitical force to contend with. They would “own” that entire region, making it virtually impenetrable, and with solidarity, they could challenge the EU or “The West” in real geopolitical/economic terms. China would also be the head of it, but would it be better if they were your enemy because you’re tied to the west?

If using the similarities of their race is a vehicle to begin that discussion, then good on them. They don’t have to all love each other, just like we in the US don’t have to love Mexicans or people from South America, but they are in our hemisphere, so it’s better to ally with them, even loosely, then make enemies of them, just because of “stuff”.

Of course, the US is so stupidly arrogant, that we are actively turning most of SA against us, and effectively making them allies of China, which just demonstrates how stupid our government is, but that’s another story.

I have to suspect, that many of the people in the Orient, already recognize that China is ascending, and the collective west is descending, and that you can either choose to be on the stronger, local side of this alliance, of your own free will; Or, you can wait until things get ugly, and America turns it’s back on you, and be stuck in that alliance by failure, weakness, and force, but I doubt it will be nearly as friendly for you.

This multi-decade game of Risk, is starting to see regional alliances, almost all as rejection of the west. Africa is coming together, sort of, so is the Orient, eventually, the Middle East Muslims are figuring it out, slowly, and Europe will wake up, eventually (maybe after Russia shakes them from their slumber).

The post-WWII alignments are breaking down, because more and more nations are waking-up.

I don’t think AA said that the Chinese and Russian defeated Genghis Khan. (An aside, it was Kublai Khan (Genghis’ grandson) that conquered Song China.)

Once the grandkids took over, they just all started riding against one another, which is when the Chinese and Russians had gotten their shit together.

Zhu Chongba or Emperor HongWu (1st Ming Emperor) overthrew the Mongols (1368), and the last Mongol emperor, Togon-temür, fled into the steppes and died there in 1370. Like AA said, the Chinese chased the Mongols out, when they got their shit together.

Seriously, people don’t read AA like a serious research article, it’s more like reading something in the tabloids. Relax and take it with a pinch of salt.

What’s your definition of homogeneity? Currently in China, the Han Chinese makes up about 92% of the population. Unless you are counting the other 55 ethnic groups as well. The Han Chinese of that time (Song dynasty) may have called themselves differently but their culture and identity were alike (with regional variances), and recognised themselves as such.

“resource scarcity solved by technology,”

Uh, not so fast. For a time it sure looked like that. But as the rich keep forcing populations up, the good old bad old days of resource scarcity are coming back.

Look at how much of the world is desperate for food. Chemical fertilizer and the green revolution are wonderful, but they were a one-time increase in productivity, not an unlimited source of food that can grow exponentially forever. In India and Pakistan and Bangladesh etc., they have tapped out modern technology, they remain chronically malnourished and the fertility rate has fallen because it is physically impossible for them to have more than two children. Population growth is tracking foodgrain availability – just like it was in the 10th century.

And fresh water? You can’t really make fresh water, at least not in the quantities needed for mass agriculture. Look at all those places starting to squabble about fresh water. For example, India is in the process of draining the last of it’s groundwater, and is starting to push against China for control of critical watersheds.

Russia has lots of natural resources – if it had the territory of, say, Albania, would it be anything like as powerful? Not a chance.

And how’s the industrial powerhouse of Germany going to get by without cheap energy? Lots of luck.

We in the west have taken resources for granted, the way a rich kid takes money for granted, but like anything, if you take it for granted that it will also be available in ever increasing amounts, sooner or later it will run short.

Eh, the Mongols ruled China via the Yuan Dynasty from 1271 to 1368. That’s less than a century (98 years to be precise).

That’s why this adage still applies, “Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And the USA is very mad (as in crazy) right now.

Or in a more pedestrian vein, the economy is bust, the oligarchs avaricious to the detriment of the polity, the men-at-arms are shaky, the hoi polloi and vassals are restless. Are we now within the century of “Rome’s” fall? Will we see a Diocletian to prolong the US empire for a few more centuries or are we now in the reign of Julius Nepos?

Many people do indeed prefer McDonalds, some perhaps because they are too lazy to cook. Others prefer the benefits of slow cooking. The latter being more nutritious. Thanks to Ron Unz, his site is the equivalent of slow and nutritious cooking. Equally, so are many of the comments.

University today is like McDonalds — mostly empty calories. No wonder you are bored by Mr G’s essay. Multiple choice testing is the result of the empty pouring into the void.

There is such a thing as scrolling on, or skipping it. It’s your choice.
It’s just not yours to make it others too.

Emslander,

That’s another effect of having Wagner “out of the way”. The Russian military will now have no more excuses for executing storming operations in critical areas, to break open the stupid war of attrition. .

This war of attrition is deliberate and cunning by design. It is waged on the cheap by Russia. The lopsided casualty rate average since the beginning is about 7 to 1 in Russia’s favor. Russia has used the war for development, testing, overhauls, and revision of hardware, doctrine, and experience. Before, the entire Russian military was structured for a DEFENSE WAR of the Motherland. Russian fighting forces have almost never been an invasive or expeditionary force. A war fought outside of Russia has to be logistically structured for the long term.

The acute observer will notice the many changes within the entire military structue, command, personnel, doctrine, and materiel. Another benefit is the depletion of NATOs military arsenal to next to nothing. Time has given the sanctions the necesssary effects of severely depleting the Wests’ resources, prosperity, economic instability, stubborn inflation, and ever close to economic collapse.

Why rush things when your enemy is committing such wonderful self harm and slow suicide??

Plus, now Russia can portray Wagner as “gone rogue”. Any shady activities done by Wagner can now be disavowed by Moscow.

Pretty convenient, I would say….Maybe too convenient.

Military transport plane carrying NATO generals shot down in Poland? “We in the Kremlin would never do such it thing. It was that rogue Prigozhin”.

Military logistics trucks carrying depleted uranium ammo blown up in the UK? “We in the Kremlin would never do such it thing. It was that rogue Prigozhin”.

Also pretty convenient now that Prigozhin is hiding out in recently nuclear armed Belarus…..too convenient.

Why do these vile and disgusting creatures seem to live beyond their time, spreading chaos and pain? It’s like they can’t abide ordinary people just living their lives in relative peace and harmony.

Nah, I’ll leave the biting to one of those that belong to your ilk. Wouldn’t want to wash out my mouth with disinfectant.

So, if a Karen (white middle-aged female) has a dog that bites someone, you’ll call for banning that same demographic from owning dogs?

It’s nothing to do with the infringement of liberty. You wouldn’t want any idiot behind a wheel, or someone who has never been briefed on gun safety around in a range, would you? Rules for others, not for me?

The very fact that you wouldn’t want to take a course in being a good owner, yet at the same moment turn it into a general discrimination for a select group – speaks much about your worldview, and is discounted.

Perhaps there wasn’t more to it than meets the eye. Perhaps Prigozhin threw a tantrum and Lukashenko brought him back to reality. Just as Ukraine could never ever win a war against Russia, Prigozhin’s coup could never ever succeed and it simply fizzled out. There’s a silver lining though: the West must be pretty desperate to place its bets on an ex-convict cum caterer cum presidential chef cum private military entrepreneur. Clown world.

The problem is that any idiot can own a dog. Potential owners should go through a dog handling course first, and have a license before being allowed to own one. While this may be impossible to enforce in a rural area, this requirement for city owners can be done. Moreover, it’s usually untrained owners having untrained dogs in the cities or towns, that causes these types of problems.

I love dogs but it pains me to see so many untrained dogs and their clueless owners go around doing so much damage. Sometimes, I have to refrain myself from telling off some idiot that I feel should be on the other end of the leash.

“the opium wars of the 19th century” were waged to protect the opium trade of the Jewish Sassoon clan. The Sassoons became fabulously wealthy (“Rothschilds of the East”) thanks to their massive poisoning of the Chinese population.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/ukraine-open-thread-2023-144.html#comments

The Jewish Museum in New York is currently celebrating the genocidal Sassoon clan, famous for its fabulous wealth acquired through the opium trade in China. The massive opium poisoning of the Chinese by the Sassoon cartel (only Jews were allowed to work within the cartel) was protected by the British army (Queen Victoria had a cut on the opium trade.) The Sassoon’s’ wealth was built on the “Chinese Holocaust.”

Some ten years ago, the internet still had a wealth of information about the opium trade in China and the role of Sassoons in this trade. And then suddenly, everything was scrubbed. Even the Jewish Encyclopedia has removed the critical information about the source of Sassoon’s riches and left only paeans to Sassoon’s philanthropy (strictly for Jewish causes). All videos about the Opium Wars were removed from YouTube.

It seems that the Jewish Museum in New York took serious precautions before showing their exhibition celebrating the Sassoons, the family of mega-poisoners. According to the Jewish Museum site, The Sassoon exhibition “highlights the Sassoon family’s pioneering role in trade…” Do the Jewish Museum curators really believe that using British bayonets to enforce the murderous opium trade constitutes a “pioneering role in trade?”

“David Sassoon – a Wikipedia whitewashing for the biggest drug dealer in history:” http://churchofnobody.blogspot.com/2010/11/david-sassoon-whitewashing-for-biggest.html

The Opium Wars, the theft of Hong Kong, the rampant looting and destruction of China’s cultural treasures – variously depicted heroically in Hollywood pictures such as 55 Days in Peking and The Sand Pebbles, or through a lens of subjugation and humiliation in Chinese flicks like the Once Upon a Time in China series – all of that may be laid at the feet of the greatest drug kingpin in the history of the world, David Sassoon.

And astoundingly, nobody has ever heard of him. He has no listing in Encyclopaedia Britannica at all – nothing, not a sausage. The only Sassoon they acknowledge is anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon… Who was it that said, “Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws”? … Unsurprisingly, the Sassoons married into the family of whoever it was that didn’t say that and who certainly don’t control the monetary policy of almost every nation on Earth.

David Sassoon (1792 – 1864) was a prominent Bombay (now Mumbai) businessman of Jewish-Iraqi origin who is best known for monopolizing the opium trade into China and encouraging its use there. In Bombay, David Sassoon established the house of David Sassoon & Co., with branches at Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton and Hong Kong. His business, which included a monopoly of the opium trade in China, (even though opium was banned in China), extended as far as Yokohama, Nagasaki, and other cities in Japan.

In 1836, the opium trade reached over 30,000 chests per annum, and drug addiction in coastal cities became endemic. In 1839, the Manchu Emperor ordered that the opium smuggling be stopped. He named the Commissioner of Canton, Lin Tse-hsu, to lead a campaign against opium. Lin seized and destroyed 2,000 chests of Sassoon opium.

An outraged David Sassoon demanded that China compensate for the seizure or Great Britain retaliate. [And the GB did retaliate]. … The Chinese Army, decimated by ten years of opium addiction, proved no match for the British Army. The war ended in 1842 with the signing of the Treaty of Nanking. The “peace treaty” included these provisions:

1. Full legalisation of the opium trade in China
2. Compensation from the opium stockpiles confiscated by Lin of two million pounds
3. Territorial sovereignty for the British Crown over several designated offshore islands: “China had to cede the territory of Hong Kong to British control, open treaty ports to trade with foreigners, and grant special rights to foreigners operating within the treaty ports. In addition, the Chinese government had to stand by as the British increased their opium sales [via the Sassoon cartel] to people in China.”

Although David Sassoon did not speak English, he became a naturalised British citizen in 1853. His son, Abdullah changed his name to Albert, moved to England, became a Baronet and married Aline Caroline de Rothschild in 1887, which linked their fortune with that of the Rothschilds. The Queen also had Edward knighted. All 14 of the grandsons of David Sassoon were made officers during World War One, and thus most were able to avoid combat.

http://www.renegadetribune.com/precursor-global-crime-syndicate-19th-century-opium-trade/

Dumb analysis. Japan attacked China after China was cut up for decades by an 8 nation alliance against it. Japan began to stagnate in the war. It attacked the US because now it wasn’t getting any new war material from the US that it had been buying for years. More Japanese died fighting China than fighting the U.S. but the US cowardly used atom bombs to prevent more U.S. soldiers from dying – not to help China.

what i’m more worried about, is a bioweapon attack disguised as a pandemic (sound familiar?). with the west being pushed out of africa, they may decide to proceed with their long threatened ebola or marburg bioweapon they have been cooking up for years. this would allow them to directly attack the russian troops and people, while murdering their own populous, for plausible deniability (as well as making a “killing” for the pharmaceutical, military, industrial complex). it’s ugly to think about but what other scenario allows them to walk away from the train wreck of their own design, while declaring themselves “heros” for having saved us from this terrible “african plague”. seeing bill gates in china, smiling gleefully while shaking hands with an equally gleeful xi, seems a might unnerving to me, hopefully he’s just offshoring his dollars while their still worth something.

the west has absolutely no defense against an icbm attack (if i remember correctly, they currently have 40 some intercept missiles available on the west coast), in a day and age of hypersonic multi warhead missiles, even if they worked (which they won’t), the u.s. is defenseless against a nuclear strike. on the other hand the russians have s-400 systems deployed around stratigic centers and are even exporting the systems. the s-500 is in serial production and are most likely already deployed around super sensitive areas like the kremlin. depending on who you talk to the russians have destroyed some or all of the patriot systems, (unless you talk to cokeheads, who insist they are all fine and doing a wonderful job of defending kiev).

western hubris is about to find out, that just because a people are polite, non-violent, accommodating and willing to compromise, that does not mean they are weak, afraid or unable to defend themselves.

China has no desire to take over the whole world. They have never shown that inclination, and there’s no evidence that they desire to do so. Therefore, we don’t need people saying “There’s nothing wrong if China takes over the whole world.” China wants to be a regional hegemon, the greatest power in East Asia, where they will have political, military and economic influence. They have no desire to take over the countries of East Asia. I am not talking about Taiwan, where I live, because the Chinese see Taiwan as a historical part of China. China wants to trade with Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, etc. China has no desire to “take over” these countries.

China has no history of being extractive colonialists the way the western nations were. They used what could be described as a system of tribute. Everyone recognizes, respects, and trades with the great power, and the great power leaves the smaller states independent.

Several well-known right-wing commentators were saying that China would never commit material to Russia’s war effort, even whilst they’ve already committed in full to propping up Russia’s economy.

They have already been sending material aid to Russia.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-aids-russias-war-in-ukraine-trade-data-shows-11675466360

The commentators you’re citing have been watching too much Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones crap. Neither their target audience nor the average shitlib has ever heard of BRI, BRICS+, SCO, etc in which both China and Russia need each other and are gaining the support of over 80% of the world’s population to achieve their shared vision of a multipolar trade bloc encompassing Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.

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This mouthbreathing nonsense that the Chinese plan on betraying the Russians is completely retarded. Just like their musings about the Chinese planning to invade the U.S. in some Red Dawn scenario. Us, along with Japan, Russia and Taiwan are China’s largest trade partners. Why the hell would they risk nuclear war and derail a beneficial arrangement as it now exists?

The greatest threat to Americans and the rest of the world is TPTB (The Powers That Be) ruling over the collapsing FUSA (Former United States of America).

https://americandigest.org/who-is-my-enemy/

Who is my enemy? He is the one who:

1. Taxes me into poverty
2. Inflates my dollars until they are worthless
3. Murders children in the womb
4. Vows to seize my guns
5. Allows crime to run rampant
6. Forces me to get the vaxx
7. Threatens to use the US Military against me
8. Forces pedophilia, sodomy and sexual degeneracy onto school kids
9. Uses government agencies to break into my house in the early morning and haul me to jail
10. Punishes opponents of the ruling class
11. Calls me an extremist and an enemy of the state
12. Conducts a coup d’état against a sitting American president
13. Rewards traitors but punishes and kills patriots
14. Hands out medals to those who perpetrated Ruby Ridge and Waco
15. Corrupts all elections and so makes my vote worthless
16. Opens the borders of my homeland to the most violent and depraved criminals ever conceived
17. Appoints Satanists, pedophiles and the sexually depraved to positions of authority and power

Neither Russia nor China nor Iran does any of these things to me. The US government does all of them to me.

So who is my enemy?

Western Europe has been imperialistic and expansionistic since the 16th century, with the exception of a handful of states (Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland), on a looting and killing rampage across the globe. Perhaps this is just the universe’s way of balancing the books. Alternatively, a popular view is that the {{{Cabal}}} is engineering all this behind the scenes.

Whatever the reason or motivation, I have to ask why is the pain also inflicted on the handful of states that did not colonise others? All the more for Ireland, that had not too long ago just gotten the UK jackboot off.

You are accurate with everything… Except the right wing war criminals in Japan mostly went unpunished after WW2…. Their spawn still run Japan – just under US military occupation. Now the US can’t afford an arms race with China…. So they are enlisting Japan and Japan is following orders. Their quality of life will suffer as they divert money to the military – but the people have no say in it. I have 2 relatives there… It’s sad because they indeed would be a target

Very sad. And tragic.

Japan wants trade, not war, with China & Russia. Germany wants trade, not war, with Russia & China.

The USA has become the headquarters of the Anti-Christ.

Helpful data and agree with your comments.

However, your deadline might be revised downwards if the USA goes on another misguided adventure.

a very interesting and well written article. connecting jfk and de gaulle clarifies the bigger picture. thinking back to 1968, in april they wack mlk, for finally speaking out on vietnam. in may, they launch “may 68” in france to depose de gaulle (after failing in umteen assassination attempts) and in june they murdered bobby kennedy. that was pretty much it, for challenging the ptb.

it’s astounding to think that the same bloodthirsty pack of nazis, has been plying the same murderous tactics for 75 years or more. thankfully their end is drawing near, as their utter corruption and incompetence, has hollowed out both their economy and technological base, the russians and chinese, are the ones to call the shots now.

This skit would be funny if it were not so deadly and damaging to bystanders.

History is written by the victors.
The truth may or may not be revealed centuries, but alas too late for its victims.

Even today, the lies in the mainstream media are so pervasive and corrupting that the average person no longer thinks for himself. For those who can, the current situation is like watching a train wreck occurring in slow motion.

Oh, and the best are those shysters who have never set foot, don’t speak the language (Pǔtōnghuà), don’t know the history, spoken to any Chinese – can declare themselves “experts”. Where do they get the chutzpah?!

Nothing to do with the Chinese playing ball, it was the liberals that refused to understand a civilisation with ancient culture and roots. China didn’t say it outright (Chinese thinking they were dealing with mature or rational actors) but it was couched diplomatically that they have their way of doing things but those virtue-signallers thought that they had the upper hand. Their motives were far from altruistic and the Chinese read them better than they knew.

Most westerners behave that way unfortunately, and then they wonder why the Chinese didn’t behave as they should. (again a demand first before a mutual understanding). You sound like one of them.

I’ve noticed the hubris to declare knowledge of China is inversely proportional to the time spent in China. Those who spent a week in China wants to write a book, a month for an article, a year for a paragraph, and years to say I’m still understanding. I was that way as well till time taught me better.

Kevin Rudd although a Sinophone, was not a Sinophile, as his objective was to make China follow his planned path, and then brag that he made China listen (read his pronouncements that made him sound like he was the only interlocutor for the Chinese – as if they didn’t have their own diplomats) . He now behaves like a scorned fanboy who never properly understood his subject in the first place. Realism is the furthest dimension any western politician carries in his head nowadays.

Doesn’t seem to stop the Chinese from having a vast population…

Historically it is because the main Chinese social concern has been the family, but also a male heir, in order to carry on the ancestral line. Second wives. Mother-in-laws nagging the couple to procreate, and such…

Also, we remember that not too long ago the country was more rural; an agrarian centric village working for self sustenance typically requires and supports larger families than does factory oriented city life.

As with all modern industrial (or post industrial) countries, Chinese population has declined. Unlike the West, however, which now encourages obviously barren forms of behavior as a norm (homosexuality, pornography, the bizarre tranny phenomenon), the government is now encouraging marriage and larger families.

Women in the workforce remain an overall negative as far a marriage goes. Also, television dramas featuring ‘strong’ women in business roles, is unhelpful, at least from a propaganda ‘role-model’ standpoint. Divorce is definitely a negative.

So it’s a mixed bag, over there.

However, most Chinese girls of marrying age would prefer to simply stay at home as a housewife, and raise some kids. At least that is my impression gained from living there a while.

Because of certain self-imposed standards (most girl’s requirement for a house and a car before they will marry), it’s sometimes difficult for women to find a suitable aged mate–definitely can be difficult for the young man. The cost of living in large industrial cities can be sky-high. Not something a young man might readily afford.

A groom’s family can sometimes help with the bride-price which, in spite of ‘official’ misgivings toward the practice, still remains an intact custom.

For poorer village men, you hear of SE Asian women for sale at a cheaper price, but I have no real knowledge about that, having mostly stayed away from the rural scene.

In any case, I wouldn’t concern myself with Chinese demographics, one way or the other. I think some Americans still have the “You better eat everything on your plate–there are starving people in China who would love to have it,” impression of the place.

The US has no friends and allies, for these imply equivalent status. The US seeks to be the sole hegemon, and only keen on vassals and sycophants. Look at the current cast of EU, Canada/UK/Aus/NZ, Japan and South Korea leaders and identify an independent actor (only Hungary’s Orban stands out).

The US enforces this vassalage as it gives it control, but once the benefit/threat falls away, how many countries would still align itself with the US?

China may have fewer friends but at least it knows they are forced together to survive, and their motivations are clearer.

I do agree with you. That is an inherent weakness of pure socialism/Communism.

At this juncture, I think it is useful to distinguish the terms as I use them. I put Communism on one end of the scale, and Capitalism on the other end. The many flavours of socialism fit somewhere in between.

On the other end of the scale, despite all its benefits, problems also arises with pure Capitalism. Because Capitalism, by its very nature, concentrates wealth in the hands of the very few. Leading to the situation in the US today…plutocracy.

If one traces back the root of the argument with Untruthful Vigilante, I posited that “both Capitalism and Socialism are tools for the betterment of society. Why choose either one other the other?”.

Later I gave examples of Singapore and China as being hybrid systems,
Singapore being basically Capitalist, but with Socialist features.
China being basically Socialist, but with Capitalist features.

Of course Untruthful Vigilante is unable to grasp anything beyond black and white, so he launches in a tirade, challenging me to “name a single Socialist country that has made any progress”…. “and Socialism = Command Economy”. He seems to refuse to distinguish between Communism and Socialism.

The rest, that followed is a waste of time, when he showed that he could make one pronouncement in one post, then a 180 degree diametrically opposite pronouncement on another post, all to suit the current tangent of his sophistry.

But at least I have managed to form an opinion that his moniker is not deserved

Absolutely agree. The movers-and-shakers should have ample opportunities to experience it themselves.

Care to share your sources? Or did you pull it out of your nether regions?

“The people get the government they deserve.” ~ Seneca

It continues to amaze and confuse me that people who can’t be trusted to run a simple grocery shop, are leading a nation’s policy making bodies. It seemed almost deliberate, and like a re-run of Rome’s dying days.

I hardly think Xi is naïve or impulsive. He just does not react the way many people in the West expect him to. Remember the Hong Kong riots in 2019? The West was waiting for the PLA to be ordered in to crush the protests yet it was left to the HK police to handle the situation. If he had done so, as wished by the West, China would have given them an excuse to sanction.

As it stands now, I believe Xi is simply waiting out for Washington or Brussels to make a misstep. He could also be playing to the non-Western audience (the 85% of the world) , to show that he is patient and conciliatory. When the West exhaust it, as they are likely to, then Xi will have all the justification to fully support Russia.

I couldn’t agree more. You’ve identified the archetypes. The latest labels they’ve adopted are just a means of disguising their true nature.

I worked for a US company in China for 7 years. I think they definitely have the momentum, which is depressing. I remember the 60’s-70’s in the US and we were great back then but now we have progressivism; Trannys, BLM and open borders, etc.. It’s awful. Chinese culture is very conservative and the US looks insane to them. It does to me also. The Chinese work their asses off, raise families and are a whole lot more wholesome than your standard Democrat. Believe it or not, they want a strong man government as they are used to Emperors, they think “Democracy: is too messy and they have a point. Because of Diversity, it’s an endless political conflict never to be resolved. And they don’t piss their money away starting wars but instead build modern cities. We have ChiCongo and Baltimore. Unless we Nuke their cities, they’ll surpass us. Which wouldn’t surprise me. If you can’t compete, blow them up is the US Gov’t standard response.

Really? How do you exactly know how the Chinese will act or not? Listening to some PhDs who have dubious motives to cast aspersions on their target? Maybe the PhDs are agents of the Ashkenazim?

Surely you must know that the easiest way to lose the initiative, is to respond exactly to how your enemy expect you? The IQ barometer mustn’t raise very high, does it?

The Chinese have responded, just not in the flashy manner you are used to. They have brokered a major peace between the Saudis and Iranians. Result: less disruption to energy supplies. Also good for them: The OPEC has now reduced the oil production. Extra money to the Russians.

They have pushed the de-dollarisation of major sales (UAE, Brazil, France). Slowly, slowly then quickly the USD ponzi scheme will collapse, and then the support for the US arms will atrophy. The Chinese are attacking the source discreetly, while the Russians challenge physically. They are playing to type but their actions are co-ordinated against the war-mad USA. Of course, the sooner they do the quicker we can leave the claws of the beast.

The Economist has been corrupted from within. The managing editors and the board find their seats too comfortable to stir anything against the Washington & London cabal.
As such, I fear that with reputation soiled, and blinkered eyes, the newspaper/magazine will soon be a hollowed façade of its former self.

Trumpo IS america. Unmasked.

Americans are not a serious people. They came to power by accident, thanks to two devastating world wars, and are now losing their place in the world without ever wondering why.

The USA is thoroughly propagandised. They have been proven to be easily led to do anything so long as the right signal is given. Yesterday, it was the Middle East; today it is China. Plus all the yellow peril conditioning previously applied, can be reused to divert resources and lives to serve the plutocracy.

Long live the dollar! /s

In TECHNOLOGY, ancient Chinese were far ahead of Greeks or Romans. This Chinese technological superiority over Europe lasted until the coming of the Industrial Revolution.

For your information, the Western domination ONLY began with the coming of the Industrial Revolution. From the ancient times to the Industrial Revolution, along with India, China had the biggest economy in the world and was far ahead of Europe EVEN in TECHNOLOGY

I’m going to list some of many Chinese inventions and ideas that were transmitted to Europe through direct or indirect or stimulus diffusion before the Industrial Revolution (some of the Chinese technologies were even transmitted at the late stage of the first Industrial Revolution) and revolutionize Europe.

China invented compass, rudder, leeboard, centerboard, multi-mast( ships with more than 3 masts
without using oars) and also bulkhead – watertight compartments (Europe didn’t use for their ships until the late 18th century). Without adopting all these Chinese inventions, the European voyages of discovery and later -day high sea sailings wouldn’t have been possible.

Also China invented not only paper but also printing (both woodblock and movable type about 400 years before Gutenberg who had been very likely influenced by the movable type developments in China and Korea beforehand, developed one). Without assimilating these Chinese inventions, the SPREAD of Renaissance would have been extremely difficult.

China invented not only gunpowder but also gun, cannon, rocket including multi-stage ones, both land and sea mines, bomb, even hand grenade. All these Chinese military technologies were transmitted to Europe by direct or indirect diffusion . Can you imagine the modern military without these Chinese inventions?

Also China invented blast furnace, cast iron ( China invented cast iron in the 5th century BC but Europe didn’t have cast iron until 14th century AD, the time lag is 1800 years !!!), the coking coal and so- called Bessemer Steel Process, Siemens’ Steel process, weaving machines (the British weaving machines such as spinning jenny , flying shuttle were inferior copies of existing Chinese weaving machines), drilling techniques for oil and natural gas ( China drilled for natural gas and transferred it through pipelines for heating and lighting starting in the 4th century BC,

on the other hand Europe didn’t use natural gas until the 19th century but again Britain was the first country in Europe to use natural gas in 1798 and Europeans and Americans finally got the deep -drilling technologies for oil and gas from China in the 19th century).

All these Chinese inventions were transmitted to Europe. So without using all these Chinese inventions, the Industrial Revolution wouldn’t have been possible.

Even in agriculture, Europe got modern horse collar, moldboard cast iron plow, rotary winnowing fan, MULTI -seed drill technologies and the techniques of row cultivation of crops and intense hoeing by horse-drawn hoes from China( with the exception of the horse collar which Europe adopted in the 8th century, the rest of the Chinese agricultural technologies were adopted by Europe only in the 18th century).

This really shows how technologically backward Europe was at the time. By adopting all these Chinese technologies, Britain could bring about an agricultural revolution in the 18th century These are just some of the ground- breaking Chinese inventions and ideas that were transmitted to Europe before the Industrial Revolution.

According to Robert Temple, a well-respected sinologist, more than half of the basic inventions and innovations that laid the foundations for the modern world BEFORE The Industrial Revolution, came from China.

Also America is the granddaddy of industrial espionage and counterfeiting. When America was a developing country in the 19th and early 20th centuries, An America that lacked both creativity and originality, was the biggest thieving- copycat in the world. Consequently, the U.S. became the counterfeit capital of the world.

America copied other countries’ inventions, ideas without regard to patents, copyright, trademarks. Even the U.S. Treasury Department in the 19th century even set up a bounty system for rewarding anybody for stealing and bringing foreign technologies to America.

As a matter of fact, the 19th century American textile industry was basically based on stolen British technologies.

China only fell behind Europe in technology with the coming of the Industrial Revolution because China missed out on the Industrial Revolution.

But now China has a good chance to become the technology superpower AGAIN by 2050.

One other clarification.
When the Fed prints trillions, on computers, insiders amass at the money spigot. They get near-free money at super low interest rates, literally near zero, and piles of it, not millions upon millions, billions upon billions. They then go looking for anything that pays a greater-than-zero rate of return, to play the spread and earn profit, or acquire assets with long-term value by borrowing with money created out of thin air.
Workers buying houses are grounded somewhat in fundamentals. They must save a down payment. They must earn wages to make a payment. Etc. This means that workers can only drive prices up so high.
Some guy making $5G a month can’t bid a half million extra for a house. Some guy borrowing $20B from the Fed at 0.25% interest can bid more, as long as he believes he can make his money back somehow (or can funnel the money out and drop the eventual hot potato bankruptcy in someone else’s lap). The overall result, keeping it simple and avoiding the “monetization” of houses into MBSs or their use as assets on balance sheets, is that when the insiders getting endless credit at the Fed spigot enter the real estate market, they drive prices up astronomically because they are using Duck McScrooge monopoly money, which they never earned, which was simply conjured out of thin air for them. This obviously then hoses middle class workers who end up paying MUCH higher housing prices, having to compete with the spigot-money speculators. This entire mechanism destroys the middle class. Yet another reason the Fed is evil.

Let’s set some basic definitions.

Since Imperial is pertaining to Empire, the definition of an Empire
= a group of countries ruled by a single person, government, or country- (Cambridge Dictionary)
= a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority (Merriam-Webster)

And power
= possession of control, authority, or influence over others (Merriam-Webster)
= the amount of political control a person or group has in a country (Cambridge)

Doesn’t the UK / USA exercise ultimate power over the territories / ‘possessions’ they control?
Put in another way, can the ‘possessions’ do the following as a Sovereign entity:
1) issue their own currency (and not as a branch of the centre’s central bank)? and
2) negotiate with foreign powers directly, for their own interest?
If not, then isn’t the central sovereign (Washington / London) an Empire, regardless of what it calls itself? Just like many countries like to call themselves democracies but are at best representative republics.

Colour me surprised that you as an English do not understand this. You must still be thinking that imperial power is like that of yore, with armies drawn from all corners of the empire, and gunboats blazing. UK is still an imperial power, though much diminished, and London still thinks as such with its grandiose proclamations recently of taking on the Russians.

The US behaves like an imperial power although it does not call itself one. What else would you call its haughtiness in demanding countries to do as it commands, use the USD, extra-territorial economic levers like the FATCA, buys its weapons, allow its military to set up bases. Wasn’t it Karl Rove who said, “we make our own reality?”

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck – what else is it but a duck?

Was it necessary to belittle Russia and Chine’s efforts when they are trying to help? You could have simply stated that Iran has done a lot of hard work and needs to be recognised.

You also realise that the Western MSM would be doing their best to cast all this in a bad light?
Trying to nitpick simply makes you a pawn in their mind games.

Focus more on the actual enemies, will you?

Since when did a UN vote stop the USA/NATO from doing whatever it liked?
If it got a vote its way, USA/NATO will then add it into their propaganda. If not, they’ll just carry it out.

Anyway, regarding the vote, Russia and China assumed wrongly that the West’s doctrine of “Responsibility to protect”(R2P) was just to stop the civil war. That is why when the 2nd time around for Syria, Russia stepped into the fore with China in the background, to support Syria.

Really, if you wanted to blame, blame the USA/NATO and whatever entities backing them.

Eh, what about the acquisition of American Samoa, Hawaii, Wake, Northern Marianas islands, Puerto Rico, Guam? Former colonies such as the Philippines, Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau?

I agree that “the USA is simply a global rogue state,” and while there is no obvious colonial administrative like the British Colonial offices and the control appears to be self-governed, there is congressional oversight.

Let’s call a spade a spade, the USA ever since it broke out from the 13 colonies has been expanding and acquiring lands, mostly by force of arms. The USA has not stopped being an imperial force, through its multitude of bases (800) and is hampered by funds running low, not for lack of trying.

Unsurprisingly, like many Americans, you are ignorant of what the USA actually is. Probably like a citizen of Rome who thinks it is still a republic in the days of the Caesars.

A more eloquent examination for your reference:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/15/the-us-hidden-empire-overseas-territories-united-states-guam-puerto-rico-american-samoa

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Your logic does not compute. On one hand, you say:

All countries in the World project, including China. Blaming others for something for what one does is classic classic classic Communist tactic.

On the other hand, you say:

Whites do not project on Jews or Blacks. The personalites and mentalities are too different.

Aren’t whites also part of the countries in the World?

Now, I’ll like to believe that we don’t project but let’s be honest, everyone does it. Question is to what degree. Similarly, prejudice exists in everyone. Only to the extent and how much it is actually acted upon.

I am eager to read further comments from these two economists – I am especially interested in their comments as to why the USA has stirred up this Ukrainian mess. Anyone with an independent brain can see how Nuland, et. al. started a revolution in that country and exactly how it will end to the absolute destruction of Ukraine. I am interested as to how Ms. Nuland, et. al. were empowered and allowed to pull off this stunt and just why can’t the Ukrainians not see their eventual destruction themselves.
I don’t fear WWIII or some nuclear exchanges coming out of this little nonsense – China and the rest of the World will not allow it. And I really believe that China will soon run this World and we will probably be glad when it happens – it will be nice to get rid of Zionist control.

Hahaha. How puerile – calling names. Is that all you can do? Or maybe that is all you can do.

When was the last time the Muslims ruled India, and when did the British leave it? It has been 76 years since. That’s the equivalent of 3 generations, and how much has India done?

Caste system is intelligent? When it denies people social mobility and forces people into fatalism? So, if I was born a Dalit, I should hope to die and be reincarnated as a Brahmin? I mean what’s the point of trying hard if I am going to be stuck in this lifetime? No wonder there’s a malaise among the lower classes, and they make up the majority. So, how will the economic energies be unleashed? Apart from a few key cities, how far removed are the rest from the 19th century?

By their deeds you shall know them. India has been meddling in all of its neighbours, and even suppressing the locals of the north-east region (7 sisters). In fact, the British did them a greater injustice in attaching them to the artificial construct called India.

Ask the Sri Lankans, the Nepalese, the Bhutanese how they think of the overbearing demands you do over them. Even the Afghanis who were initially receptive of India, has now cooled seeing the true colours of India.

You are right that India can be a teacher – in what not to do. LOL.

LOL. Talk about deranged. Indians like you never fail to amuse with their bluster and oversized sense of self-worth/ entitlement.

Rule and teach the world? In hygiene, social stratification (Dalits etc), sexism towards half your population not to mention the very casual attitude in treating them like sexual objects?! As at Dec 2021, India’s GDP was USD3.18 trillion and GDP per capita USD2,257. How much significance can it play when it is neither a major (>=50%) buyer / seller of commodities / finished goods?

I think the American Indians should get rid of YOU whether you like it or not.

The Rothchild’s motto would probably be “What’s wrong with getting more money?” (even it if comes from the blood and tears of others)

I think the Russians are applying a saying from Napoleon Bonaparte, “You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” So, by expending the known weapons, the Russians deny the USA/NATO the opportunity to learn until such time when they have to meet on the battlefield.

Just like many collapsed empires of the past, Washington will overextend the US’ capabilities at a time when its production base can no longer support its imperial ambitions.

Politically, the elites (like the Roman Patricians) are more interested in their own benefits than the larger polity and their extraction has outweighed the carrying capacity of their masses. The USA was never a democracy. Perhaps it was once a representative republic. Today, it can only be a classed as a kleptocratic-oligarchy. Do the voice of the citizen have any real say?

Although the “end of history” briefly made an appearance in the 90s, the US has not adjusted its hubris and thinks it can change the world in its image. Or more cynically, make everywhere a disaster so that no one can be strong enough to challenge the USA.

Economically, the patrimony of the past are being consumed without a thought for its sustainability (shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations – sounds about right for an empire’s 300 years). In the 60s, the US comprised 40% of the world’s GDP. As at 2021, it is 24.2% and dropping.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD

In addition, the Gini coefficient of the US (41.5) places it below Malaysia (41.1) and Iran (40.9)
(the higher the Gini coefficient, the greater the gap between the incomes of a country’s richest and poorest people.)
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=US&most_recent_value_desc=false
And the gap has been widening within the US:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/219643/gini-coefficient-for-us-individuals-families-and-households/

Socially, has there ever been a more fragmented society like the US today with its forced diversity, gender dysmorphism, covert racial stratification, pedophilic tendencies and boundless permissiveness? It’s like Sodom and Gomorrah wrapped together. Sadly, given the dominance of the infomedia under a few hands, are there any independent voices? Looks to me like the demise has been scripted in from the beginning.

Technologically (and infrastructurally), if the US is unable to maintain its infrastructure (with 1,000s of train derailment and myriad failures
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-america-aging-infrastructure-sags-pressure.html),
how then can it boast and showcase itself to be a leader when it cannot even provide its citizens with the basic necessities.

So, the only tool left is the military and even then, with expensive boondoggles like the F35, it is looking increasingly fragile with a decaying economic-technological base.

In the end, the USA would spend much blood and treasure without anything to show for it, except for the benefit for a few.

the Chines leaders decided to target Japan and rile up the Chinese unwashed masses against Japan which led to loads of provocations against the Japanese and eventually the Japanese invasion in 1937.

Seriously, what is the source of the above?

The Chinese have faced a Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931:
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/invasion-manchuria
https://www.britannica.com/place/Empire-of-Japan/The-Manchurian-Incident

Plus an earlier war from 1894-1895 when Japan seized Korea, and lost Taiwan.
https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Sino-Japanese-War-1894-1895

Surely, given the aggressions of the Imperial Japanese, the Chinese at that time surely had cause for it. Is this another attempt to whitewash the Japanese, just because China is now the bete du jour?