Geopolitical watchers are saying that the USA is
distinctly winding down its support for the war in Ukraine, knowing it
is a lost cause, and is giving full concentrated efforts to ignite a
confrontation with China in the East. That tiny military advantage that
the USA still holds theoretically, without knowing the reality, is
almost on its last hurrah.
The USA knows it, and that by giving
just a year or two for China to upgrade its military further, that
advantage it still holds will be even less instrumental going forward,
and taking down China militarily is a wet dream. Forget about what those
800 military bases, as China has enough hypersonic missiles to take
care of them. Moreover, China can still leverage on Russian and North
Korean support if their talks later this year touched on that
co-operation, which the USA is nervous, paranoid and fearful. Putin's
coming visit to North Korea, and to China in October is not to sample
moon cakes with Xi, complete with Chinese tea under the moon, or to play
with lanterns. You can bet on it.
That reality is compounded by
the fact that de-dollarisation is no longer an irritating mosquito bite,
but an oncoming tsunami that will wash aside the US$ hegemony. That
fall in usage of the US$ may have declined in small incremental steps so
far, but it will be a tsunami moment when it comes at full speed. They
can still continue to comfort themselves that it will take a long time
for de-dollarisation to come to a successful conclusion. Never bet
against what the Chinese can do, and at what warp speed they can achieve
whatever they put their heart and soul into confronting the odds.
The
main objective of Joe Biden's high end chips war and Chip Alliance was
declared to cripple China's ability to procure high end chips needed to
produce more hypersonic weapons, fighter planes, drones, submarines and
warships. The realisation now is that with the Chinese rapid progress in
high end chip development, the stranglehold is no longer effective.
Therefore there is a certain degree of urgency and anxiety in wanting to
start the war over Taiwan.
What Putin, Xi and Kim are planning
is putting the USA in a dilemma, not knowing what these three are up to,
and are just barking up the wrong tree, not knowing what is it up
there. All they are doing is spouting the same old hubris of creating
fabricated threats. Can't Putin, Xi and Kim even have the freedom of
talking to each other as old friends? What about the USA leaders going
around the world spreading poison and frightening those daft enough to
believe in what they are doing?
Anonymous
Zelenskyy is on his second wartime begging trip to Washington, perhaps with a better show in Congress, and more money will flow to Ukraine, with kickbacks to those Congressmen who voted to support his call. With more money for Ukraine, which is why Zelenskyy is there for, wonder what those fire victims in Maui will feel. Congressmen will care less for Maui victims, because after all, what is in it for their pockets.
ReplyDeleteWhile the rest of the world have been saying that Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe, the USA congressmen are not listening to all of this, as it is a win win situation for them to keep pushing taxpayer's money to Zelenskyy. FTX was the conduit for such ripping off before its fall from grace.
The most stupifying thing that just happened is Zelenskyy sacking six Defence Ministers for corruption, but would anyone honestly believe Zelenskyy himself is not corrupt? This action is probably under coercion by the USA and Nato, discreetly from behind, when they realised what is happening and people are asking. Of course Zelenskyy remains uncorruptible in the eyes of the USA and Nato because of his usefulness to them, that is why they keep pouring money into his black hole.
How many Defence Minister does a country like Ukraine really need? Why would Zelenskyy be stupid enough to share his ill gotten gains with more people, like sharing the spoils with so many Defence Ministers? It boggles the mind. The fact that all six are deemed corrupt shows the extent of how deeply rooted and serious the corruption environment is and where most of the US$ billions ended up.
And not just money into the black hole. The other more dangerous disclosure was that some weapons supposedly given to Ukraine to fight the Russians, ended up elsewhere eg Africa, and presumably some might also have ended up in the hands of terrorists, and crime syndicates. Little wonder that all the game changing weapons sent to Ukraine has not been translated into the game having been changed. The only change is probably the accumulated wealth of the biggest clown in the world.
And the fact that the USA and Nato does not have any idea where those weapons ended up once they enter Ukraine, tells us how help is used and how the war is being managed. It seems that all this matters little, since it is beneficial for the USA and Nato to clear out obsolete and rusty weapons meant for the scrapyard as fast as they can, but still touted as game changing arsenals.
Those weapons that went to black market will come back to bite US & the West in the arse.
ReplyDeleteThe day of reckoning for the White men is in the not too distant future.
Russia military drills in the Chukchi and Bering Sea next to Alaska, involving nuclear powered submarines and firing cruise missiles, raising alarm bells in the West. Russia is showing the West, besides being engaged in Europe, it is still a force to be reckoned with in the Eastern region.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of that? It is to show the USA and the Japanese that they are not the only capable alliance that can swagger around Taiwan with their parade of warships, the Russians can do it as well, insinuating how close the Russians can get to threaten them. After the summit between Xi and Putin in October, Russia together with China and North Korea may yet conduct their own military and naval drills near to USA and Japan.
Ironically, Russia no longer needs to resort to placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, as those nuclear submarines are enough to send a message to the USA. With their longer range and hypersonic, those missiles are going to be more threatening than those in the sixties that were stationed in Cuba. They now do not have to involve Cuba or Venezuela to strike at the USA when the need arises.
Russia is still no less capable than the USA in terms of missiles and nuclear firepower. China provides a good backup with its naval power, while North Korea provides the unknown factor that will keep the Japanese and South Koreans in their place should they try to get involve.