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Chilled_k6

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“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warm-up,” said Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested [in] a long time.”

Just last year, China launched a hypersonic missile that was able to travel around the world and land back at home — taking the U.S. by surprise. The revelation had made clear that America was falling behind, raising questions “about how we are going to mitigate our assumed eventual failure,” Richard said.

He also said: “As I assess our level of deterrence against China, the ship is slowly sinking. It is sinking slowly, but it is sinking, as fundamentally they are putting capability in the field faster than we are. [It won’t] matter how good our commanders are or how good our horses are — we’re not going to have enough of them. And that is a very near-term problem."
Seems like a foregone conclusion in American military circles that there will be war with China (most likely in reference to Taiwan). This navy admiral also has a pessimistic outlook of the outcome for the US.
 

baykalov

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Putin's opposition is about to take over the Russian Federation from Poland (I miss the clown emoji):

Poland organizes “Congress of People’s Deputies of Russia”

Russian Revolutionaries Prepare for Post-Putin Future

Some 65 former Russian lawmakers are to convene for a congress on Friday to establish what organizers say will be the first legitimate alternative parliament to the Federal Assembly of Russia, which critics say is no more than a rubber stamp for President Vladimir Putin.

The First Congress of People's Deputies of Russia will begin on Friday in Jablonna, a suburb of the Polish capital of Warsaw. By Sunday, organizers hope, the new body will have agreed a draft constitution to guide Russia through a future transition to democracy and elected an executive committee to lobby for international support and recognition.

Moscow's war in Ukraine—now in its ninth month with no end in sight—has galvanized the Russian anti-Putin movement abroad. For some, the quagmire conflict signals the beginning of the end of what they see as Putin's neo-imperial kleptocratic regime. Now, various would-be successor movements are positioning themselves to take the reins.

Ilya Ponomarev—a member of the Russian parliament from 2007 to 2016 and the only deputy to vote against the annexation of Crimea in 2014—is one of the congress organizers. Now based in Ukraine, he told Newsweek the new body hopes to create a roadmap for Russia to follow after Putin's ouster.

The congress, he said, is intended as a big-tent event. "We have invited everyone," he said. "We will even pass a special resolution calling for all the different political groups to join forces and to send their representatives...It's an assembly of deputies, and the deputies decide where to go."

"It's not about personalities," he said. "Yes, I was one of the authors of the idea, but I don't intend this to be my private show...I will very much try to influence and present my position. But at the end of the day, it will be the decision of the majority."

Fellow organizer Mark Feygin—a former Russian lawmaker and a human rights lawyer who has represented high-profile defenders including the Pussy Riot punk band—told Newsweek that he, Ponomarev, and former Russian deputy Gennady Gudkov will likely join the congress's executive committee.

But even within that group, there will be divergence, he explained from France, where he now lives. "There is no single strategy for interacting with all the different centers of power," Feygin said of advocating for international support—primarily in Ukraine, the European Union, U.K., and U.S.—once the congress is formed.

Ponomarev said there are figures from Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and the European Parliament attending the congress to observe. "People will be watching and looking at how it goes. After we are done, then we'll start actual talks and negotiations."

Anna Fotyga, a Polish member of the European Parliament and a former foreign minister, is one of those foreign politicians who will be attending. Fotyga told Newsweek that widespread support for the war within Russia necessitates systemic political change.

"Putin and the Russian parliament have lost their legitimacy many years ago, not only with stolen elections, but also fake constitutional referendums," she said. "Those people and this system have no future.

"But it cannot be changed without an active role of Russians themselves. I am glad that finally there is a movement ready to take this responsibility. There is a long way to go, but it is good to be ready when the time comes."

The congress's international outreach will begin in earnest after this weekend's plenary. But convincing foreign governments to drop official recognition of Russia's Federal Assembly is an ambitious goal, even with the Kremlin's war on Ukraine.

Moscow would likely consider such a step a severe escalation of a conflict, which Western leaders are already wary of spiraling into a broader confrontation with Russia.

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bajingan

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Dude , don't twist his speech. Xi has openly warned about not using nuclear weapons. He is also advocating international community to oppose nuclear threath.

“The international community should … jointly oppose the use or threats to use nuclear weapons, advocate that nuclear weapons must not be used and nuclear wars must not be fought, in order to prevent a nuclear crisis in Eurasia,” Xi said.
Xi statement can also easily be directed towards the u.s which the case of their defeat in taiwan strait (increasingly likely) will be tempted to use nuclear weapons first
 

Overbom

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They are desperate to cling onto anything. Even lies and twisted nonsense in hopes that Russia and China will split apart.
Its actually incredibly hilarious and sad at the same time to see how desperate these people are.

It doesn't matter what Xi said, they would have found a way to twist his word anyway.
Xi could come out and say "The sky is blue"

And the CIA-media would then release a news report:
"Xi Jinping SLAMS Russia for covering Ukrainian skies with thick BLACK smoke with his senseless war! The Xi regime is thus calling for immediately ceasefire to let the now-ruined Ukrainian sky return to its beautiful former, blue-coloured, glory"
 
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sndef888

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Australia bought 24 C-130J. For 6.35 billion USD... 265 million per tactical transport aircraft...
Not having your own defense industry is a more precarious situation for a country than many people think.
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I wonder when China will have enough geopolitical influence to do the same thing, stealing billions from other countries' taxpayers and pretend it's helping them
 
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