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[deepthinker]

An autumn chill is descending on every European country, though in each country in different ways.

Gas-dependent Germany and Italy are desperate for Russian gas. It is not just homes, but whole factories which face imminent closure in energy-intensive industries. The result of that will be mass unemployment. By ‘mass’, I mean 20% and more.

In France there is popular rejection of President Macron who has told his people that they (i.e. not him) must suffer so that the Ukraine can ‘win’. September is the first month of the annual strike-season in France. French people do not like being cold. Expect some headlines.

In Latvia the Russian minority are fearful for their future, but so is everyone else. Heating will not be an option this winter. With a pension of just over 100 euros a month, many pensioners are simply going to die of the cold.

From Slovakia we have received the following:

‘Thanks for your email. Just to give you some idea of the current manufacturing costs here in Slovakia and to be brutally honest throughout the upside down world, We paid last year 85,000 euros for electricity, this year it’s going to be around 500,000 euros. As of 1 Jan2023 it’s going to be 1.2 million euros at best.

So that’s just the electricity, never mind the gas, the increase in raw materials, salaries and all other manufacturing costs, This is a hard way of saying it’s impossible to reduce and every customer of ours has to accept it or not. Surprisingly we have never ever been as busy! You cutting margins down low is of course difficult, but at least you have margins. We simply do not have anything to reduce’.

In Moldova the crisis is profound. As in Latvia and Lithuania up to half the population have fled their countries after they were pillaged by the EU (even though officially Moldova does not even belong to the EU!). Previously medicine came from the Ukraine. Now that is unobtainable, they have to use medicine from Germany. Only that costs ten times more. Quite simply, if you are very ill and you don’t have the money, this year you will die.

In Romania, which has lost a quarter of its population to emigration after the great EU pillage, and where a salary of 600 euros per month is considered very good, food prices are the same as in Western Europe, where average salaries are four to five times more, and diesel costs even more than elsewhere.

In Ireland restaurants are closing because they cannot afford their energy bills, which have increased by 1,000% (yes, one thousand per cent).

In London, the capital of the Brutish (sic) Empire, the Gauleiter Johnson finally admitted that, ‘British households will have to endure soaring energy bills as part of efforts to defeat Vladimir Putin….economic sanctions imposed on Russia have contributed to soaring global gas prices which have driven up household bills’. Analysts expect the UK’s energy price cap per household to rise from an already extremely high £1,971 today to £3,554 a year this October and to a completely unaffordable £6,089 in April 2023. A bill boycott is gathering momentum. Expect rioting and the looting of supermarkets by the hungry

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http://thesaker.is/unicorns-are-real/

If even half is true, then Europe is in deep doodo.

[LoriPrecisely]

The worst part of all this, and one I don't quite understand is, all the thousands of people that are complicit in the evil, grand masters' plans. Imagine if the evil Grand Master's told their minions, "This is what you are going to do to destroy your planet." And the minions all said, "Hell, NOOOOOOO. We will NOT do your bidding!!!!"

That is all it would take....is for everyone to have some wisdom and courage to say NO.

It seems this is the case in all the sectors where evil is occurring right now, ie., the FBI arresting people who are speaking out against voter fraud, (just saw this in the latest documentary, "[S]election"), the people ballot-harvesting for a few bucks (saw this is in "2000 Mules", the doctors willing to comply with the covid/vax lies, the school officials pushing the weird agendas, all the politicians and the private corporations willing to comply with/promote the corruption, climate change agenda, geoengineering, etc., etc., etc.

I am sure the reasons people comply are varied...fear, money, power, etc..
But, do they not realize they are destroying their own planet?
Or, maybe they are from off-planet.....and that is their goal!!

[Yodean]

That is all it would take....is for everyone to have some wisdom and courage to say NO.

Throughout most of history, this just doesn't happen. And on the rare occasions when it seems to happen, it's because the PTBs allow it to happen.

Like throwing a morsel of food to a starving dog.

This time won't be any different. The masses will continue to be perished. I don't see Jesus coming, either. Maybe the Adversary will make an appearance.

Buy healthy popcorn.

[SOL]

The worst part of all this, and one I don't quite understand is, all the thousands of people that are complicit in the evil, grand masters' plans. Imagine if the evil Grand Master's told their minions, "This is what you are going to do to destroy your planet." And the minions all said, "Hell, NOOOOOOO. We will NOT do your bidding!!!!"

That is all it would take....is for everyone to have some wisdom and courage to say NO.

It seems this is the case in all the sectors where evil is occurring right now, ie., the FBI arresting people who are speaking out against voter fraud, (just saw this in the latest documentary, "[S]election"), the people ballot-harvesting for a few bucks (saw this is in "2000 Mules", the doctors willing to comply with the covid/vax lies, the school officials pushing the weird agendas, all the politicians and the private corporations willing to comply with/promote the corruption, climate change agenda, geoengineering, etc., etc., etc.

I am sure the reasons people comply are varied...fear, money, power, etc..
But, do they not realize they are destroying their own planet?
Or, maybe they are from off-planet.....and that is their goal!!

Imagine what must have been going through Pluto's mind when he came up with the allegory of the cave. One could argue that there were more critical thinkers then there are now, but nothing has changed. I think the top players understand this disease very well and use it to their advantage. I also mentioned in a previous post that if a logical being from another planet were to randomly examine 100 years worth of history from any point, the conclusion they would draw would be the same; the masses somehow seem to have a secret death wish. So the real victory might be to spot the signs before the drama unfolds and move out of the way.

Change of story, and I will cover it in an interim update and then in more detail in a full update.

Powell pretended or made it look like there would be no massive rate hikes. He could have just come out and said that things weren't looking good to back off immediately so they would continue with their original game plan, but if things improved, they would slow down the pace. Instead, he delivered a brutal speech to purposely shock the markets. Yes, it has delayed the rebound (thrust stage), which means that the rally phase could last until October. However, more on that later, the point I am trying to make is if you look closely at what is happening, it seems in every sector, segment, etc, the goal is to create shock waves. So why are they doing this? Well, the short answer is to see how far they can push the masses, and it appears that the masses can be pushed even further. There has been no critical reaction from COVID lockdowns, COVID vaccine programs, Higher energy costs, higher food costs, etc. Sure there has been some reaction, but it has not reached a critical point.

One of the reasons for taking this hard stance regarding interest rates (the BS drama Powell created) is to create a buffer zone for the dollar to be the strongest currency in the developed world, for the currency wars are going to get downright ugly. When the dollar tops in 2023, the fact the US will have much more room to lower rates will save it against the rest of the developed world, and that is really all the US needs to do to maintain its position at the expense of its friends. This will, in turn, lead to a monstrous rally. more on this later on

[Tobeornot]

The West’s false narrative about Russia and China


The world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe in no small part because of the failure of Western political leaders to be forthright about the causes of the escalating global conflicts. The relentless Western narrative that the West is noble while Russia and China are evil is simple-minded and extraordinarily dangerous. It is an attempt to manipulate public opinion, not to deal with very real and pressing diplomacy.

The essential narrative of the West is built into US national security strategy. The core US idea is that China and Russia are implacable foes that are “attempting to erode American security and prosperity.” These countries are, according to the US, “determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence.”

The irony is that since 1980 the US has been in at least 15 overseas wars of choice (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Serbia, Syria and Yemen to name just a few), while China has been in none, and Russia only in one (Syria) beyond the former Soviet Union. The US has military bases in 85 countries, China in three, and Russia in one (Syria) beyond the former Soviet Union.

President Joe Biden has promoted this narrative, declaring that the greatest challenge of our time is the competition with the autocracies, which “seek to advance their own power, export and expand their influence around the world, and justify their repressive policies and practices as a more efficient way to address today’s challenges.” US security strategy is not the work of any single US president but of the US security establishment, which is largely autonomous, and operates behind a wall of secrecy.

The overwrought fear of China and Russia is sold to a Western public through manipulation of the facts. A generation earlier George W. Bush, Jr sold the public on the idea that America’s greatest threat was Islamic fundamentalism, without mentioning that it was the CIA, with Saudi Arabia and other countries, that had created, funded and deployed the jihadists in Afghanistan, Syria and elsewhere to fight America’s wars.

Or consider the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1980, which was painted in the Western media as an act of unprovoked perfidy. Years later, we learned that the Soviet invasion was actually preceded by a CIA operation designed to provoke the Soviet invasion! The same misinformation occurred vis-a-vis Syria. The Western press is filled with recriminations against Vladimir Putin’s military assistance to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad beginning in 2015, without mentioning that the US supported the overthrow of al-Assad beginning in 2011, with the CIA funding a major operation (Timber Sycamore) to overthrow Assad years before Russia arrived.

Or more recently, when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recklessly flew to Taiwan despite China’s warnings, no G7 foreign minister criticized Pelosi’s provocation, yet the G7 ministers together harshly criticized China’s “overreaction” to Pelosi’s trip.

The Western narrative about the Ukraine war is that it is an unprovoked attack by Putin in the quest to recreate the Russian empire. Yet the real history starts with the Western promise to late Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not enlarge to the East, followed by four waves of NATO aggrandizement: in 1999, incorporating three Central European countries; in 2004, incorporating seven more, including in the Black Sea and Baltic states; in 2008, committing to enlarge to Ukraine and Georgia; and in 2022, inviting four Asia-Pacific leaders to NATO to take aim at China.

Nor do the Western media mention the US role in the 2014 overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych; the failure of the governments of France and Germany, guarantors of the Minsk II agreement, to press Ukraine to carry out its commitments; the vast US armaments sent to Ukraine during the Trump and Biden administrations in the lead-up to war; nor the refusal of the US to negotiate with Putin over NATO enlargement to Ukraine.

Of course, NATO says that is purely defensive, so that Putin should have nothing to fear. In other words, Putin should take no notice of the CIA operations in Afghanistan and Syria, the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, the NATO overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the NATO occupation of Afghanistan for 15 years, nor Biden’s “gaffe” calling for Putin’s ouster (which of course was no gaffe at all), nor US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stating that the US war aim in Ukraine is the weakening of Russia.

At the core of all of this is the US attempt to remain the world’s hegemonic power, by augmenting military alliances around the world to contain or defeat China and Russia. It’s a dangerous, delusional and outmoded idea. The US has a mere 4.2% of the world population, and now a mere 16% of world GDP (measured at international prices). In fact, the combined GDP of the G7 is now less than that of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), while the G7 population is just 6 percent of the world compared with 41 percent in the BRICS.

There is only one country whose self-declared fantasy is to be the world’s dominant power: the US. It’s past time that the US recognized the true sources of security: internal social cohesion and responsible cooperation with the rest of the world, rather than the illusion of hegemony. With such a revised foreign policy, the US and its allies would avoid war with China and Russia, and enable the world to face its myriad environment, energy, food and social crises.

Above all, at this time of extreme danger, European leaders should pursue the true source of European security: not US hegemony, but European security arrangements that respect the legitimate security interests of all European nations, certainly including Ukraine, but also including Russia, which continues to resist NATO enlargements into the Black Sea. Europe should reflect on the fact that the non-enlargement of NATO and the implementation of the Minsk II agreements would have averted this awful war in Ukraine. At this stage, diplomacy, not military escalation, is the true path to European and global security.

https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1192224/

[Do-or-Die]

The war in Ukraine has proven that the age of industrial warfare is still here. The massive consumption of equipment, vehicles and ammunition requires a large-scale industrial base for resupply – quantity still has a quality of its own. The mass scale combat has pitted 250,000 Ukrainian soldiers, together with 450,000 recently mobilised citizen soldiers against about 200,000 Russian and separatist troops. The effort to arm, feed and supply these armies is a monumental task. Ammunition resupply is particularly onerous. For Ukraine, compounding this task are Russian deep fires capabilities, which target Ukrainian military industry and transportation networks throughout the depth of the country. The Russian army has also suffered from Ukrainian cross-border attacks and acts of sabotage, but at a smaller scale. The rate of ammunition and equipment consumption in Ukraine can only be sustained by a large-scale industrial base.

This reality should be a concrete warning to Western countries, who have scaled down military industrial capacity and sacrificed scale and effectiveness for efficiency. This strategy relies on flawed assumptions about the future of war, and has been influenced by both the bureaucratic culture in Western governments and the legacy of low-intensity conflicts. Currently, the West may not have the industrial capacity to fight a large-scale war. If the US government is planning to once again become the arsenal of democracy, then the existing capabilities of the US military-industrial base and the core assumptions that have driven its development need to be re-examined.

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-resear ... al-warfare
This is the work of Lt Col (Retd) Alex Vershinin, a US citizen. He spells out in detail the challenge the United States and its NATO allies face if they dare to engage Russia in a tit-for-tat battle:

Presently, the US is decreasing its artillery ammunition stockpiles. In 2020, artillery ammunition purchases decreased by 36% to $425 million. In 2022, the plan is to reduce expenditure on 155mm artillery rounds to $174 million. This is equivalent to 75,357 M795 basic ‘dumb’ rounds for regular artillery, 1,400 XM1113 rounds for the M777, and 1,046 XM1113 rounds for Extended Round Artillery Cannons. Finally, there are $75 million dedicated for Excalibur precision-guided munitions that costs $176K per round, thus totaling 426 rounds. In short, US annual artillery production would at best only last for 10 days to two weeks of combat in Ukraine. If the initial estimate of Russian shells fired is over by 50%, it would only extend the artillery supplied for three weeks.

The US is not the only country facing this challenge. In a recent war game involving US, UK and French forces, UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days.

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-resear ... al-warfare

[Budge]

The war in Ukraine has proven that the age of industrial warfare is still here. The massive consumption of equipment, vehicles and ammunition requires a large-scale industrial base for resupply – quantity still has a quality of its own. The mass scale combat has pitted 250,000 Ukrainian soldiers, together with 450,000 recently mobilised citizen soldiers against about 200,000 Russian and separatist troops. The effort to arm, feed and supply these armies is a monumental task. Ammunition resupply is particularly onerous. For Ukraine, compounding this task are Russian deep fires capabilities, which target Ukrainian military industry and transportation networks throughout the depth of the country. The Russian army has also suffered from Ukrainian cross-border attacks and acts of sabotage, but at a smaller scale. The rate of ammunition and equipment consumption in Ukraine can only be sustained by a large-scale industrial base.

This reality should be a concrete warning to Western countries, who have scaled down military industrial capacity and sacrificed scale and effectiveness for efficiency. This strategy relies on flawed assumptions about the future of war, and has been influenced by both the bureaucratic culture in Western governments and the legacy of low-intensity conflicts. Currently, the West may not have the industrial capacity to fight a large-scale war. If the US government is planning to once again become the arsenal of democracy, then the existing capabilities of the US military-industrial base and the core assumptions that have driven its development need to be re-examined.

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-resear ... al-warfare
This is the work of Lt Col (Retd) Alex Vershinin, a US citizen. He spells out in detail the challenge the United States and its NATO allies face if they dare to engage Russia in a tit-for-tat battle:

Presently, the US is decreasing its artillery ammunition stockpiles. In 2020, artillery ammunition purchases decreased by 36% to $425 million. In 2022, the plan is to reduce expenditure on 155mm artillery rounds to $174 million. This is equivalent to 75,357 M795 basic ‘dumb’ rounds for regular artillery, 1,400 XM1113 rounds for the M777, and 1,046 XM1113 rounds for Extended Round Artillery Cannons. Finally, there are $75 million dedicated for Excalibur precision-guided munitions that costs $176K per round, thus totaling 426 rounds. In short, US annual artillery production would at best only last for 10 days to two weeks of combat in Ukraine. If the initial estimate of Russian shells fired is over by 50%, it would only extend the artillery supplied for three weeks.

The US is not the only country facing this challenge. In a recent war game involving US, UK and French forces, UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days.

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-resear ... al-warfare

NATO relying on JIT and as they're waiting:



...and - they're gone!

[outof thebox]

I am a Taiwanese citizen and I watched your program all the time. It's scary to see what's unfolding in front of us with the new Taiwan Policy Act and Pelosi visiting my beloved country. Now that the war in Ukraine is winding down, the war at Taiwan strait is brewing. Pompeo also visited Taiwan few months ago and received presidential type of treatment. So all this has been planned for a while. WWIII will likely start from Taiwan, the only way to stop it is to bring down president Tsai Ing Weng because everything happening now is related to her.
So let me explain it. Back in 2019, during the presidential election in Taiwan. it was revealed that her PhD thesis can't be found at LSE. she claims she received her PhD from LSE, London School of Econmics now part of university of London, in 1983. To make long story short, here are some of the key information revealed in her biography and public speech and others
1. She received 1.5 PhD in 2 years from LSE while it takes other people up to 7 years. She did attend the PhD program at LSE.
2. Her so called advisor is the late Micheal Elliot who only has BS degree. She never met Michael again after LSE, even when Michael visited Taiwan in early 2000s.
3. There is no record of her PhD at LSE, there is no record of her thesis at the three libraries that she need to deposit her thesis to. She claims all of them made mistakes and lost her thesis and record
4. She has produced 4 different degree certificates over the years and all of them had been proven erroneous.
5. She also produced draft of her thesis which contains more than 500 spelling errors and American English, a big taboo. The so called thesis is really a collection of papers translated from Chinese to English that she published in Taiwan in the1980s and 1990s after her so called PhD. She can't produce the real thesis and the reason is that she lost it.

6. she has also produced her student record and few fake letters with no signature on them which create even more questions than answers. The student record shows that she withdrew from the course in late 1982
7. After she came back to Taiwan, she had been teaching at the national university and worked at the government using her fake PhD credential. This is important, since using fake credential to obtain government position is a criminal offense in Taiwan and automatic jail time. it will also invalidate her presidency since she lied about her credentials during election.

8. She has since sealed off all her records at the university for 30 years to protect her privacy.
9. she has sued three professors in Taiwan and US for defamation just to silence any critics and investigation.
10. There is a law suit in London against LSE to force it to disclose more detail about Tsai PhD, committee members and her defense, viva. LSE has been fighting to the death not to reveal any information and even produce false evidence.
11. It was found Tsai and her posse visited LSE and met with Anthony Giddon trying to broker or buy a PhD degree in 2011. There were traces of activities since 2011, like trying to deposit her so called thesis into the libraries and got rejected. Her posse are now all high ranking government officials, including representative, ambassador, to US and Germany.
12. This whole mess is called thesis gate in Taiwan and there is another one boiling in Taiwan right now. It involves top ruling party, DPP, cabinet member who is head of a post graduate institute at National Taiwan University giving out practically free Master degrees to prominent DPP politicians. Their thesis are over 95% identical in content. LIKE MOTHER LIKE SON. This has caused Tsai most beloved candidate to drop out of the election because of fake thesis. To retaliate the ruling party then turns around and attack opposition party candidates degree and thesis.
13. The thesis gate is a key factor in the election. The ruling party attack many key opposition candidates regarding their degree and thesis, while most people in Taiwan know Tsai does not have a PhD degree. The backlash of this greatly affect the young people who are one of the strong base of the ruling party.
14. Another key factor of the election is TSMC, TSMC is moving their advanced process factory to US. Tsai is giving away the crown jewel of Taiwanese economy to US while Korean government is fighting to their death to resist. This causes the crash of TSMC and all stocks in Taiwan.
15. Tsai is a dictator who rules Taiwan because the constitution gives her almost unlimited power. She hand pick all candidates and bypass the in party preliminary election which have been used for decades. She pick key candidates from her own faction in the party and causes resentment within her own party.

By now, hope you are convinced that Tsai did not receive PhD from LSE in 1983. Why does it matter to you and me, because if WWIII happens all of us will be dead. Let me explain the relaionship. In 2019, during the initial thesis gate, Tsai was having problem explaining this. Then suddenly she received full endorsement from US and shut down all critics and oppositions, everyone knows that Tsai made a deal with the US government. Since then, Tsai has become US puppet and Taiwan become a vassal state under US control and protection. This is particularly evident in the law suit in London, there is no reason why LSE is willing to risk its academic credibility to protect a criminal who claim to receive fake PhD from LSE. What are the consequences then. Taiwan had since purchased over $20B of weapons and racket up its anti China rhetoric, creating tension across the Taiwan strait. US government officials, senators and congressmen past or present visiting Taiwan all the times and bringing the shopping list that Taiwan needs to fulfill. Taiwan even has to buy Lithuanian goods during the trade row between Lithuania and china. Taiwan just announced that it will purchse 20 Boing 787 which Taiwan does not need. The media in Taiwan calls it a price to pay for the Taiwan Policy Act since this deal is demanded by Lindsay Graham during his visit to Taiwan few months ago. The thesis gate is not only a national security issue for Taiwan but also a security threat to world peace. I am sure under US order, Tsai will start a conflict with China. The only way to stop this is to dethrone her, she is called queen in Taiwan since she has full control over Taiwan. She shutdown the most popular TV news channel in Taiwan without any major opposition, this is like Biden shut down FOX News. This really shows her control over the media and everything in Taiwan. there is no way to fight her in Taiwan. The best way is the court fight in London to get to the bottom of the truth and even more important is that we need prominent news coverage on this issue. Channels like The Duran has great influence in the West. I really hope that Alex and Alexander can look into this, since Alexander is in London. I believe this is the biggest political bombshell of the decade. I will be glad to provide more Information and contact with the people who are actively fighting this.

I wrote this few months ago, never feel the need or had the courage to post it. But I feel Taiwan is running out of time, the world is running out of time. I need to publish this and let the world know what is really going on in taiwan. The Taiwanese people have spoken with their votes, but the world need to know why. She is more vulnerable than ever and that makes her extremely dangerous to the world.

Found this on the internet. I forget the location. Any truth to it?

[Yodean]

Found this on the internet. I forget the location. Any truth to it?

Perhaps fellow subs Symbios and Xkosmox can chime in here.

As for my 2c, I was born in Taiwan, but left over 40 years ago. Native Taiwanese Pureblood.

Still, Taiwan has always been a glorified military base for the USA DeepState. Nothing more, nothing less. The details don't matter too much - to me, anyways.

DeepState wants to pick a fight with China - in the form of a kinetic conflict of some sort. The CCP knows the PLA (People's Liberation Army) is hopelessly outmatched.

Plus there's Japan, India, Australia, and South Korea in the area - USA DeepState can compel those vassal countries to also fight China, on multiple fronts, if need be.

So the CCP's been gently invading Taiwan through peaceful means, in the form of a constant, inexorable flow of migrant workers from China to Taiwan. Been occurring for over 10 - 15+ years, give or take.

Just like Ukrainians are being compelled to die in ever-increasing numbers on the battlefield by USA DeepState machinations in this proxy war against the Russian Federation, so too Uncle Sam will try to use Taiwan as a pawn against China.

The CCP's not dumb enough to engage in a kinetic conflict against the West at this point. Xi will use political means, as well as the green stuff ($$$), to fight back. One potential current example: with the "zero cv19 policy" lockdowns, Xi has shown the CCP can hurt the entire Western global economy by shutting down Chinese manufacturing.

Not all battles are fought with guns and missiles.

[symbios]

Found this on the internet. I forget the location. Any truth to it?

Taiwanese politicians regardless of which side stink with the stench of corruption and selfishness. Did their president fake her PHD? Why not. Almost all of them did. It’s not the first case being exposed anyway.

I watch Taiwanese news often. I visited that place twice and I like it. But it’s quite obvious that Taiwanese politicians and businessmen are becoming rich on the backs of the common people. They have really smart people there but all of them are engaged in the fight of 2 extremes. Bring down the party that has US support and replace it with another party that is supported by China. What’s the difference? The common people continue suffering. And yet they claim to have a democratic process. It’s like saying, “we voted for this devil over the other devil because the other devil is evil”. It truly made me lose faith in all types of government. Perhaps anarchy might be better..

[SOL]

Found this on the internet. I forget the location. Any truth to it?

Taiwanese politicians regardless of which side stink with the stench of corruption and selfishness. Did their president fake her PHD? Why not. Almost all of them did. It’s not the first case being exposed anyway.

I watch Taiwanese news often. I visited that place twice and I like it. But it’s quite obvious that Taiwanese politicians and businessmen are becoming rich on the backs of the common people. They have really smart people there but all of them are engaged in the fight of 2 extremes. Bring down the party that has US support and replace it with another party that is supported by China. What’s the difference? The common people continue suffering. And yet they claim to have a democratic process. It’s like saying, “we voted for this devil over the other devil because the other devil is evil”. It truly made me lose faith in all types of government. Perhaps anarchy might be better..

Sadly this is happening all over the world. The new theme should be: governments elected by the people to screw the people. Ironically you are freer in so-called countries ruled by tyrants. Why? Well least you know what you are up against, and the rules are relatively simple. don't challenge the dude or dudette, and you will be fine. In so-called democratic countries, the rules keep changing on the fly, and now they have the shame-enforced rule strategy. You do something that is considered deviant, and you get shamed to death even though on the books it's legal.

I know people in Turkey, Belarus, Russia, several in China, Cambodia, etc (mostly associates) and they all state that if you don't rock the boat, you are fine. Is this true or just a figment of their imagination? I don't know but they seem to be fine and the trend supports their stance. The pendulum is swinging in different directions, in places where freedom was scarce, the pendulum is swinging towards a freer society and vice versa.

[Triplethought]

Found this on the internet. I forget the location. Any truth to it?

Perhaps fellow subs Symbios and Xkosmox can chime in here.

As for my 2c, I was born in Taiwan, but left over 40 years ago. Native Taiwanese Pureblood.

Still, Taiwan has always been a glorified military base for the USA DeepState. Nothing more, nothing less. The details don't matter too much - to me, anyways.

DeepState wants to pick a fight with China - in the form of a kinetic conflict of some sort. The CCP knows the PLA (People's Liberation Army) is hopelessly outmatched.

Plus there's Japan, India, Australia, and South Korea in the area - USA DeepState can compel those vassal countries to also fight China, on multiple fronts, if need be.

So the CCP's been gently invading Taiwan through peaceful means, in the form of a constant, inexorable flow of migrant workers from China to Taiwan. Been occurring for over 10 - 15+ years, give or take.

Just like Ukrainians are being compelled to die in ever-increasing numbers on the battlefield by USA DeepState machinations in this proxy war against the Russian Federation, so too Uncle Sam will try to use Taiwan as a pawn against China.

The CCP's not dumb enough to engage in a kinetic conflict against the West at this point. Xi will use political means, as well as the green stuff ($$$), to fight back. One potential current example: with the "zero cv19 policy" lockdowns, Xi has shown the CCP can hurt the entire Western global economy by shutting down Chinese manufacturing.

Not all battles are fought with guns and missiles.

No surprise but I disagree with almost everything you're saying here. If we get into a conflict it will be China, Not the US that drives the aggression. The US deep state (other than the military industrial complex) doesn't want war with China. I agree with the 'soft invasion" thru workers. The interesting thing is the extent to which one political party in Taiwan wouldn't mind CCP taking over. So like in Ukraine, China will have an excuse to invade to protect ethnic Chinese. Japan is alarmed at the China moves. So much so they're doubling their military spending after many years of pacifist policy. And, no the U.S. is NOT driving that change because Japan is alarmed all by itself.

At the next dip I think I will invest in military technology companies. One thing that you can predict with certainty is the world will continue to fight.

[Cinnamon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmusVtw2Px4

Besides sounding like a fool and behaving in a despicable manner, is she trying to be red riding hood, from the hood? she seems to wear red quite often

[Cinnamon]

Found this on the internet. I forget the location. Any truth to it?

Perhaps fellow subs Symbios and Xkosmox can chime in here.

As for my 2c, I was born in Taiwan, but left over 40 years ago. Native Taiwanese Pureblood.

Still, Taiwan has always been a glorified military base for the USA DeepState. Nothing more, nothing less. The details don't matter too much - to me, anyways.

DeepState wants to pick a fight with China - in the form of a kinetic conflict of some sort. The CCP knows the PLA (People's Liberation Army) is hopelessly outmatched.

Plus there's Japan, India, Australia, and South Korea in the area - USA DeepState can compel those vassal countries to also fight China, on multiple fronts, if need be.

So the CCP's been gently invading Taiwan through peaceful means, in the form of a constant, inexorable flow of migrant workers from China to Taiwan. Been occurring for over 10 - 15+ years, give or take.

Just like Ukrainians are being compelled to die in ever-increasing numbers on the battlefield by USA DeepState machinations in this proxy war against the Russian Federation, so too Uncle Sam will try to use Taiwan as a pawn against China.

The CCP's not dumb enough to engage in a kinetic conflict against the West at this point. Xi will use political means, as well as the green stuff ($$$), to fight back. One potential current example: with the "zero cv19 policy" lockdowns, Xi has shown the CCP can hurt the entire Western global economy by shutting down Chinese manufacturing.

Not all battles are fought with guns and missiles.

No surprise but I disagree with almost everything you're saying here. If we get into a conflict it will be China, Not the US that drives the aggression. The US deep state (other than the military industrial complex) doesn't want war with China. I agree with the 'soft invasion" thru workers. The interesting thing is the extent to which one political party in Taiwan wouldn't mind CCP taking over. So like in Ukraine, China will have an excuse to invade to protect ethnic Chinese. Japan is alarmed at the China moves. So much so they're doubling their military spending after many years of pacifist policy. And, no the U.S. is NOT driving that change because Japan is alarmed all by itself.

At the next dip I think I will invest in military technology companies. One thing that you can predict with certainty is the world will continue to fight.

I doubt the Chinese will drive the conflict, they are more interested in doing business than starting wars. The US has started the most wars over the past 50 years. Stormed into countries it was not supposed to, lied and killed people to get what it wanted. If the US were a person, the judge would deem it as an extremely violent person and deny bail.

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Perhaps fellow subs Symbios and Xkosmox can chime in here.

As for my 2c, I was born in Taiwan, but left over 40 years ago. Native Taiwanese Pureblood.

Still, Taiwan has always been a glorified military base for the USA DeepState. Nothing more, nothing less. The details don't matter too much - to me, anyways.

DeepState wants to pick a fight with China - in the form of a kinetic conflict of some sort. The CCP knows the PLA (People's Liberation Army) is hopelessly outmatched.

Plus there's Japan, India, Australia, and South Korea in the area - USA DeepState can compel those vassal countries to also fight China, on multiple fronts, if need be.

So the CCP's been gently invading Taiwan through peaceful means, in the form of a constant, inexorable flow of migrant workers from China to Taiwan. Been occurring for over 10 - 15+ years, give or take.

Just like Ukrainians are being compelled to die in ever-increasing numbers on the battlefield by USA DeepState machinations in this proxy war against the Russian Federation, so too Uncle Sam will try to use Taiwan as a pawn against China.

The CCP's not dumb enough to engage in a kinetic conflict against the West at this point. Xi will use political means, as well as the green stuff ($$$), to fight back. One potential current example: with the "zero cv19 policy" lockdowns, Xi has shown the CCP can hurt the entire Western global economy by shutting down Chinese manufacturing.

Not all battles are fought with guns and missiles.

No surprise but I disagree with almost everything you're saying here. If we get into a conflict it will be China, Not the US that drives the aggression. The US deep state (other than the military industrial complex) doesn't want war with China. I agree with the 'soft invasion" thru workers. The interesting thing is the extent to which one political party in Taiwan wouldn't mind CCP taking over. So like in Ukraine, China will have an excuse to invade to protect ethnic Chinese. Japan is alarmed at the China moves. So much so they're doubling their military spending after many years of pacifist policy. And, no the U.S. is NOT driving that change because Japan is alarmed all by itself.

At the next dip I think I will invest in military technology companies. One thing that you can predict with certainty is the world will continue to fight.

I doubt the Chinese will drive the conflict, they are more interested in doing business than starting wars. The US has started the most wars over the past 50 years. Stormed into countries it was not supposed to, lied and killed people to get what it wanted. If the US were a person, the judge would deem it as an extremely violent person and deny bail.

I agree Cinnamon. Chinese are more creatively strategic than brute force. USSA is by far the largest terrorist organization in the world. Looking at their record as you suggest.