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[MortyandRick]

Pretty easy to understand why right. It’s a simple pressure tactic from China.

-America wants to talk peace, but advance its strategy of containment simultaneously.

-China says talk is cheap. Remove the sanctions first and talk as equals.

-America says you wish.

-China conducts “aggressive” maneuvers near U.S. navy and spy planes.

-America says omg they refusing to sit down, and our planes almost collided. Yea, let’s remove the sanctions, treat China as an equal partner, and have a good heart to heart.
Bet 5 bucks that’s what happens.

Pretty sure you got it backwards unless you're being sarcastic. You think America is the passive defendant? Lmao.

America wants china to submit to American demands

China has no way

America - then we will sanction you and provoke you

China - then there's no reason to talk to you then.

America - talk to me or we will escalate provocations

China - we spoke to you into the past and your still escalated. Your words are meaningless

America - yes that how we roll. Unless we get what we want we will constantly provoke you.

China - dont B***H then when we meet you head on.

Pretty sure that's the true list of events.

That's the true

 

[supercat]

Guns, murders, drug overdoses, covid, obese, broken health care. Social security and medicare probably need to revive their estimate soon as American life expectancy is actually decreasing.

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This is in stark contrast to China:

In 2022, the maternal mortality rate decreased to 15.7 per 100,000 puerperae, the infant mortality rate decreased to 4.9 per 1,000 live births, and the mortality rate for children under 5 decreased to 6.8 per 1,000 children, all reaching the lowest levels in history in China

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Blinken's hypocrisy, lies and double standards are off the charts.

Yup, America's hypocrisy is beyond the pale.

Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests​

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New study finds U.S. responsible for nearly 300 million deaths—and counting​

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1664315188353417216

Thoughts?

Some intelligence officials = unnamed sources, nuff said. BTW, let me guess: Sen Dan Sullivan is in the pocket of some arms contractors, and represents the interest of the MIC.

Does this think tankie unironically believes the Philippines is an equivalent of India?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1664998018171670529

What happened to India? Why did it MIA from the QUAD?

Today's fine example of Western values:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1664755840958492674

 

[FriedButter]

Once again. The pro-western users in the Ukrainian thread is running around like headless chickens trying to insist those vehicles were planted by Russians. Now they are gonna have a hard time explaining how freedom Russian nazis were equipped with NATO military if they weren’t part of the Ukrainian army.

Use of NATO arms for attack in Russia raises doubts about Kyiv’s controls​

Fighters with an armored vehicle during a meeting near the Ukraine-Russia border May 24. (Sergey Kozlov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

The Russian fighters aligned against Moscow who launched a cross-border raid from Ukraine into the Belgorod region of Russia last week used at least four tactical vehicles originally given to Ukraine by the United States and Poland, U.S. officials said, raising questions about the unintended use of NATO-provided equipment and Kyiv’s commitments to secure materiel supplied by its supporters.

Three of the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, also known as MRAPs, taken into Russia by the fighters were provided by the United States and the fourth was from Poland, according to people familiar with the U.S. intelligence finding, which has not previously been reported. Those people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.

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[sheogorath]

much more deaths apparently

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Just saw a few videos of the body recovery efforts. I've seen meat handled with more care and respect in a supermarket than what they are doing to the bodies

 

[Dolcevita]

Just saw a few videos of the body recovery efforts. I've seen meat handled with more care and respect in a supermarket than what they are doing to the bodies

Wasn't Modi just there to provide solace and oversee operations?

 

[Reclaimer]

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"Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday sent separate messages of condolences to Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a deadly train derailment and collision accident in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

Xi said he was shocked to learn of the accident which caused heavy casualties. On behalf of the Chinese government and people, he expressed deep condolences over the victims, offered sincere sympathies to the bereaved families and the injured, and wished the injured a speedy recovery.

On the same day, Chinese Premier Li Qiang also sent a message of condolences to Modi."

 

[Chevalier]

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Germany's far-right AfD sees poll numbers surging​

Polls see Germany's center-left coalition government in free fall while the far-right populist AfD is reaping the benefits. It currently polls on par with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats.




Combined with this news a few months ago

Most Germans want compulsory military service return — poll​

03/09/2023March 9, 2023
Compulsory military service was suspended in 2011. A recent survey suggests 61% of Germans want it reintroduced, with over a third saying it should apply to women as well as men.

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I'm not saying that the AfD is anything like the Nazis, but looking at economic recession in Germany/Europe + mass rearmament & conscription, there is a good chance the upcoming world war will start in Europe instead of East Asia

After what happened with Meloni passionately screaming at the Italian parliament for not sending enough weapons to Ukraine and tearing up BRI, what difference does a more nationalistic German party make? They’ll just be a right wing version of the Greens; Anglo America will ensure that Teutonic slaves will do as the Atlanticists want.

re German conscription, it now explains why the German reichstag is mooting the idea of allowing foreigners to get green cards and live and work in Germany.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1665167146085933056

For all their talk of rule of law, the Anglo Americans are anything but. They rule according to their capricious insecure neuroticisms, they want Asians to not do science because it makes them and their white brethren feel inferior and inadequate. The entirety of humanity is being held back not by the low IQ of certain races but by the insecurities of neurotic violent western Anglo American oligarchs.

 

[coolgod]

The US is the king of awkward photo ops these days.

 

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Excerpts of the speech by minister of defense Li Shangfu at the 2023 Shangri-La Dialogue

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1665156733680128000

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1665155503335305216

In the following Q&A, Li Shangfu says US Taiwan strait transits are not "innocent passage" under UNCLOS (which the US is not a party of).

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1665166773493309440

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[Temstar]

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Hohoho it's really happening

Some interesting comments coming out of the US in light of this news:

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“It defies reason that Iran, the number one cause of regional instability, claims it wants to form a naval security alliance to protect the very waters it threatens,” US 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces spokesperson Cmdr. Tim Hawkins said. He said that in the past two years alone, Iran has attacked or seized 15 internationally flagged merchant vessels.

“You can’t withdraw from something that has no official membership. CMF is all on a voluntary basis. You can suspend participation, you can show up and contribute few or no maritime assets, …none of this is mandatory. It’s not like this is a standing task force,” Bilal Saab, Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense and Security Program at the Middle East Institute said of UAE’s announcement.