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[Overbom]

As horrible as it would be for the Mexicans, it would be to China’s benefit to have the US mired in Mexico with Mexicans armed and trained by NOC PLA specops. Bonus points if Mexican forces are able tk launch rocket attacks on Dallas and have the war spillover i tk California which rightfully belongs to Mexico anyhow.

The Sydney Morning Herald which once championed the white Australia policy doubles down on sending Australia to war against China

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(Make sure you read it from the archive site and not the website, why give these racists your clicks?)

Seriously , these ghouls want a draft of Australians to throw at PLA bullets so they can get a pat on the head and a choice role at American arms companies. Unbelievable.

I mean the Australia military is already gearing for a US/Australia-China war. The only difference is that this government is a bit more quiet about it than the last one.

Check procurement, base expansions/modernisations, enhanced US military presence in their country. Australia is imperial territory and it is preparing for a war with China as per the centre's orders

 

[luminary]

Damn, looks like the Philippines got the wrong Marcos to run their country. The picture makes it look like Bongbong got slapped LOL.

Marcos vs Marcos in sibling spat over US-China policy​

President’s shift toward US is hotly criticized by his influential senator sister who warns against riling China



Aside from progressive groups, governors of frontier provinces and staunch supporters of ex-president Duterte who have opposed military cooperation with Washington, no less than presidential sister and Senator Maria Imelda “Imee” Marcos has

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at her brother’s latest geopolitical move.

The influential senator accused the Philippine government of needlessly provoking China and, by granting American troops access to northernmost bases, potentially dragging the Philippines into a major conflict in the future. Thanks to her staunch opposition, the Philippine military has been forced to rethink the location and nature of major exercises with the US.

Imee Marcos

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which expressly rejected alignment with the US against China in favor of a “rational approach.” She also backed plans to “re-examine,” the Philippines-US Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), while expressing the need to “open the door to broad engagement with China.”

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As the head of the senate foreign affairs committee, Imee Marcos has

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for a regional solution, namely under the auspices Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to the South China Sea disputes rather than relying on external powers such as the US. Imee Marcos warned that the EDCA largely serves America’s interests since it’s “addressing the escalation of tensions [with China] in the Taiwan straits, [but] not the Philippine interests in the [South China Sea].”

"China never invaded us, never conquered us. We have no problem with them. Actually they are very helpful. I never sought their help during disasters but China came in and the federation of Chinese Chamber sent rice.. During our disaster, they are our neighbors. Please, do not let us tell them that they are our enemies because of the United States of America. Let them have their own war but we can never be an enemy to our neighbor," Cagayan Governor Manuel Mamba said last month, openly opposing plans to grant US access to bases in the northern province.

“We have good ties with China, right? Why would we tarnish that? They haven’t done anything to us, have they?” the governor of the other northernmost Philippine province, Isabela Governor Rodolfo Albano III, added.

 

[ansy1968]

Damn, looks like the Philippines got the wrong Marcos to run their country. The picture makes it look like Bongbong got slapped LOL.

Marcos vs Marcos in sibling spat over US-China policy​

President’s shift toward US is hotly criticized by his influential senator sister who warns against riling China

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Aside from progressive groups, governors of frontier provinces and staunch supporters of ex-president Duterte who have opposed military cooperation with Washington, no less than presidential sister and Senator Maria Imelda “Imee” Marcos has

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at her brother’s latest geopolitical move.

The influential senator accused the Philippine government of needlessly provoking China and, by granting American troops access to northernmost bases, potentially dragging the Philippines into a major conflict in the future. Thanks to her staunch opposition, the Philippine military has been forced to rethink the location and nature of major exercises with the US.

Imee Marcos

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which expressly rejected alignment with the US against China in favor of a “rational approach.” She also backed plans to “re-examine,” the Philippines-US Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), while expressing the need to “open the door to broad engagement with China.”

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As the head of the senate foreign affairs committee, Imee Marcos has

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for a regional solution, namely under the auspices Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to the South China Sea disputes rather than relying on external powers such as the US. Imee Marcos warned that the EDCA largely serves America’s interests since it’s “addressing the escalation of tensions [with China] in the Taiwan straits, [but] not the Philippine interests in the [South China Sea].”

"China never invaded us, never conquered us. We have no problem with them. Actually they are very helpful. I never sought their help during disasters but China came in and the federation of Chinese Chamber sent rice.. During our disaster, they are our neighbors. Please, do not let us tell them that they are our enemies because of the United States of America. Let them have their own war but we can never be an enemy to our neighbor," Cagayan Governor Manuel Mamba said last month, openly opposing plans to grant US access to bases in the northern province.

“We have good ties with China, right? Why would we tarnish that? They haven’t done anything to us, have they?” the governor of the other northernmost Philippine province, Isabela Governor Rodolfo Albano III, added.

Told you so, not all Filipinos are piety to America, Imee had experience humiliation under the Cory and her son regime, so she never forget while BBM want to be love and welcome back by the oligarchs were he thinks he belong, a REAL TRAPO.

Imee share the silent majority feeling and is willing to lashed out because she knows the oligarch will never accept her, while BBM is being influence by her wife whose family are the original oligarch of old the Araneta's.

 

[Temstar]

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China announced the contribution of 200,000 euros to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for its technical assistance to Ukraine, in support of the IAEA's efforts to address the issue of safety and security of nuclear power plants or other peaceful nuclear facilities in Ukraine.

This was announced by Li Song, Permanent Representative of China to UN and other International Organizations in Vienna, at the Board of Governors meeting of IAEA on Monday.

See China supports Ukraine! Why are you saying ZNPP is not part of Ukraine?

 

[Chevalier]

The effect of the US losing China as their biggest buyer of US debt has knock on effects first in the US

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and then in US aligned countries who have to tether themselves to US policies

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US having to raise interest rates since China and other nations like the arabs refusing to purchase more U.S. debt means more borrowing pressure on US consumers, Canadian and Australian mortgagees and all of which will lead to greater unrest even revolution. Understand now why the anglos are pushing for war? It’s either that or Revolution where Anglo elites will have to give up wealth and power, and they’d much rather send the proletariat to their deaths than work towards a more equitable world.

 

[getready]

WTF a Chinese men's soccer team winning a game? @siegecrossbow

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Under 20s no? The youth team show flashes of brilliance before. Its once they get to adult stage that’s problematic and the progress stalls unfortunately

 

[pmc]

Finally, the War in Ukraine shows that civilian infrastructure is difficult to destroy. Both sides have found it challenging to destroy simple bridges; Russia hasn't managed to fully turn of the electricity in Ukraine after months.

It is not difficult to destroy it. They either not want to hit it or just want hit enough that it can be repaired. Ukraine gas pipelines are still functioning transporting energy to Europa. It will not be surprising there is global south fighting inside wagner as that group was created for global south. Mideast leaders are enjoying that so many Europeans leaders visit them.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633169955205029888

 

[eprash]

Damn, looks like the Philippines got the wrong Marcos to run their country. The picture makes it look like Bongbong got slapped LOL.

Marcos vs Marcos in sibling spat over US-China policy​

President’s shift toward US is hotly criticized by his influential senator sister who warns against riling China

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Aside from progressive groups, governors of frontier provinces and staunch supporters of ex-president Duterte who have opposed military cooperation with Washington, no less than presidential sister and Senator Maria Imelda “Imee” Marcos has

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at her brother’s latest geopolitical move.

The influential senator accused the Philippine government of needlessly provoking China and, by granting American troops access to northernmost bases, potentially dragging the Philippines into a major conflict in the future. Thanks to her staunch opposition, the Philippine military has been forced to rethink the location and nature of major exercises with the US.

Imee Marcos

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which expressly rejected alignment with the US against China in favor of a “rational approach.” She also backed plans to “re-examine,” the Philippines-US Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), while expressing the need to “open the door to broad engagement with China.”

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As the head of the senate foreign affairs committee, Imee Marcos has

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for a regional solution, namely under the auspices Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to the South China Sea disputes rather than relying on external powers such as the US. Imee Marcos warned that the EDCA largely serves America’s interests since it’s “addressing the escalation of tensions [with China] in the Taiwan straits, [but] not the Philippine interests in the [South China Sea].”

"China never invaded us, never conquered us. We have no problem with them. Actually they are very helpful. I never sought their help during disasters but China came in and the federation of Chinese Chamber sent rice.. During our disaster, they are our neighbors. Please, do not let us tell them that they are our enemies because of the United States of America. Let them have their own war but we can never be an enemy to our neighbor," Cagayan Governor Manuel Mamba said last month, openly opposing plans to grant US access to bases in the northern province.

“We have good ties with China, right? Why would we tarnish that? They haven’t done anything to us, have they?” the governor of the other northernmost Philippine province, Isabela Governor Rodolfo Albano III, added.

Good cop bad cop routine end of the day politicians are the same everywhere, Interested in enriching themselves if both China and US is willing to pay why deny good fortune

 

[plawolf]

So, the US is now trying to throw Ukraine under the bus.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633145672177205253

Entire "masterpiece" of NYT archived:

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Probably way too imaginative for the current lot running the show in the west, but this does potentially offer the US a hilariously effective outside the box solution to their Ukraine problem, which is how to stop the Russians from grinding Ukraine and the west’s collective weapons and munitions stocks to rubble eventually without directly fighting the Russians on the battlefield themselves.

The US can accuse Ukraine of blowing up Nord Stream, declare article 5 and ‘invade’ Ukraine from the west.

They could facilitate that by buying off all of Zelensky’s top generals beforehand and making it clear they won’t be affected. Those generals orders the Ukraine military to stand down and surrender to the incoming NATO forces while resisting the Russians as hard as they can in the east. Within a few days NATO armies are in eastern Ukraine taking the surrender of the last Ukrainians holding the line against the Russians and the Ukraine war is over with a new East-West Ukraine situation very similar to how Germany was after WWII.

They can blame it all on Zelensky personally, maybe the western MSM suddenly copy paste all the Russian claims about Zelensky being a coke addict and now it’s all down to one drug addict having lost his marbles after one too many hits.

 

[baykalov]

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Germany's "Tagesschau" is now also blaming the Ukraine for the Nord Stream pipeline bombing. Combined with The NY Times piece earlier, this is clearly a coordinated misinformation campaign. Was this why Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden recently met?!

Why all of a sudden, one month after the Seymour Hersh, everybody seems to "have known from the start" of the other narrative?

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The Times: Western intelligence services have long known about the Ukrainian trace of sabotage on the "Nord Streams" Information did not become public, as this would lead to an aggravation of relations between Ukraine and Germany. The publication also says that European intelligence knows the name of the "private sponsor" of sabotage. His identity is not disclosed by the special services, but we are talking about a wealthy Ukrainian who is allegedly not related to President Vladimir Zelensky.

"Sooner or later his name will definitely be announced, especially considering that he seems to have left his unusual "business card".

Ukraine's relations with its allies will remain in a better state if this person himself comes forward with a confession," the newspaper notes, without specifying what kind of evidence indicating the identity of the "influential figure" may be in question.

According to the authors of the material, NATO sought to prevent this information from becoming public, as this would lead to an aggravation of relations between Ukraine and Germany.