Miscellaneous News

Wow:

Pilots Advised Of Large White High-Altitude Balloon East Of Hawaii: Reports​

The balloon was supposedly called-out by the FAA as being roughly 600 miles east of Hawaii at between 40,000 and 50,000 feet.

Phead128 said:

I think the Ukraine war will end in Korean-style stalemate for long time, neither side will agree on ceasefire or peace treaty or unequal treaty...

but China offering a peace proposal and independent intermediary is a huge propaganda victory. Slaps the face of US who has been pushing to sideline and isolate China... the Europe would see China as an intermediary to Russia and diplomatic counterweight to US.

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China is focus and not much talking while the bully always talk and blame everybody else but themselves

The short story is that China's trade with Saudi Arabia, surpass the Kingdom's trade with the United States and European Union combined.

That is combined. Who knew?

Then with the recent deals, this growth is going into overdrive.

"We are accusing Chyna of doing the same thing which we are doing, but, Chyna baaaaadddddd!!!" Take #57438650

jwnz said:

One risk for China doing that is that the US might actually allow peace to happen and take the opportunity to cut loss and refocus on China.

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That risk is like 1 in a trillion. The US and NATO agreeing to a Chinese led peace agreement would be a huge blow to their global standing and unipolar order.

Bellum_Romanum said:

Do you have any links or books I can read on what you referred to i.e. Sydney AI and the theme of the posts you made above.

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They were talking about it on a morning news roundtable show. It was a New York Times guy so I think he writes about it in an article.

I think this is it.

taxiya said:

Well, all these listed goals are exact definition anti any country.

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The critical difference is that today, the west is no longer seeking to destroy Russia as a country to eliminate a potential challenger and rival, as it was against the USSR.

It is anti Russia because Russia is working against its (perceived) interests, but is not in principle against detente and even co-operation if Russia can be brought ‘on side’. There were a not insignificant amount of Russians, many of which are very powerful and influential, who felt the same way.

In essence, Russia was the China of the Cold War, and very much ‘flippable’ by America as it did China during the Cold War. All up to the Ukraine war and the western sanctions that followed.

This is the core reason why the Ukraine gambit was such a needless and stupid move by the west.

In its arrogance, it tried to conquer instead of cooperate with Russia, and in doing so made a potential ally an enemy.

"And? Like I give a f***!" - China

plawolf said:

The critical difference is that today, the west is no longer seeking to destroy Russia as a country to eliminate a potential challenger and rival, as it was against the USSR.

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They are. See all the recent "decolonize the Russian empire" talk. Russia is a federation of about 20 republics, and the west seeks to break the federation up into little standalone countries that they can then dominate through their typical means.