Ukraine - Americans started it but blame the Russians

WASHINGTON: Russia's war in Ukraine is to blame for exacerbating "already dire" world food insecurity, with price and supply shocks adding to global inflationary pressures, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday (Apr 19).

Even before the war, over 800 million people - or 10 per cent of the global population - were suffering from chronic food insecurity, Yellen said, and estimates showed higher food prices alone could push at least 10 million more people into poverty.

Yellen told a high-level panel countries should avoid export bans that could further boost prices, while stepping up support for vulnerable populations and smallholder farmers, a message underscored by German Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

"I want to be clear: Russia’s actions are responsible for this," Yellen said, adding that the United States was working urgently with partners and allies to "help mitigate the effects of Russia’s reckless war on the world’s most vulnerable".

Russia calls its Feb 24 invasion a "special military operation" to "denazify" Ukraine.

Lindner, speaking on behalf of Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies, said targeted and coordinated action was needed, but called on all countries to "keep agricultural markets open, not stockpile and not withhold stocks, and not impose unjustified export restrictions on agricultural products or nutrients".


Of course, it is very easy to put each and every blame upon the Russians. They simply are not able to bite back.

But, the facts are that whatever blames that they have levied upon the victims of this Ukrainian War, imposed by the Americans and the Little Britain, are pure lies and deceptions, nothing else.

These are pure, simple and nasty lies!

Anonymous

Ukraine - More US aid, more profit for the military Industrial Complex

“U.S. has sent $2.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion, with DoD weapons reaching the battlefield within 48 to 72 hours: senior U.S. defense official”

What’s interesting about that is, the U.S. spent 3 billion on funding the Taliban in the 80’s, over the course of an entire decade.

So this was the “longest and most expensive” CIA operation in history, and ended up at $3 billion in 10 years. But the Ukraine has already gotten $3 billion in a single month. Imagine how much they’re going to pump into it by the end of this year? This goes to show what I’ve said before that this is likely now the single costliest program of this sort in history. And that’s only counting the U.S. aid, NATO/EU are pouring in billions more.

Lastly, like I said in the beginning, I don’t believe we’re seeing the full onset of Phase 2 yet. It appears to still be the opening probing stage as the full available forces have yet to be committed. But we’ll see if this week confirms this view or not.'

Meanwhile:

And on that note, there’s reports like this one:

“❗️Poland is secretly preparing a “liberation campaign” against Ukraine. For this purpose, a set of measures is being carried out – the supply of weapons, equipment and mercenaries across the Polish-Ukrainian border. Several formations of the Polish Army – the 18th motorized rifle division and the 6th airborne brigade – are preparing for a “peacekeeping mission”

The Polish Army stepped up measures to the maximum extent possible to complete the units to wartime states. The recruitment of “volunteers” is carried out through the websites of the Ministry of Defense of Poland.”

Unconfirmed of course, and dubious but it’s something to think about, and something many of us have already expected for a long time.'

Dumb becomes dumber...

http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-12/

Anonymous

Ukraine - Indians have pride

 Every Indian is furious at the way the Americans were trying to coerce India to go against the Russians. The Americans thought they have the Indians in their pocket, after stroking their ego and recruiting the Indians into the Quad by fanning the Indian animosity towards China. The Indians with aspiration to become a big power would not be made to toe the line by the Americans. The Americans have sent emissary after emissary to call on Modi and his foreign minister to be on the side of the Americans, but the answer is a big NO. 

India will act on its national interest, and Russia is a great friend, sharing their military hardware that the Americans would not.  Modi also knew how important is India to the American's game plan for world domination. Modi knew very well that the Americans need India to counter the rise of China. India is a big chip in the chess board. India thus would not be foolish enough to simply take the orders from the Americans. Why would India need to do so when the Americans need India more than India needs the Americans. The Americans thus got their balls squeezed by the Indians and could not do anything else than to bear out the pain.

And Modi would still be welcomed in the White House, more so than before, not because he has become an American running dog, but an indispensable player in countering China. The Indians are playing their game very well and would squeeze every ounce of blood from the Americans whenever possible, not the other way, to be squeezed by the Americans.

The Indians are not the same as the Red Indians. They are not easy to deal with. Only the Indians, with their pride as a big power to be, could deal with the slimy and scheming Americans and get away with it. The Americans have been threatening to sanction India for its defiance but would not dare to do so.

Well done India, for standing up to the Americans and not wavering. For doing so, India is having the best of both worlds, with both the Russians and the Americans trying to appease the Indians. If India would be silly enough to do as told by the Americans, it would incur the wrath of the Russians and would end up the loser, and also losing respect from the international community, as an American stooge.

Ukraine - Ruble is Global Best Performing Currency in March

Russia's Ruble is Global Best Performing Currency in March; 1st Qtr Current Account Surplus Soars to Record High

Russian President Vladimir Putin said defiantly on Monday that Western sanctions have proved to be “ineffective” in meeting their objective. In his words, “They (US and EU) expected these sanctions to rapidly produce a devastating effect on Russia’s finances and economy, sow panic in the markets, bring about a collapse in the banking system and create major shortages of goods in shops.”

“However, we can already say in all confidence that this policy has failed in Russia. The strategy of unleashing an economic blitzkrieg has been ineffective. Moreover, the sanctions affected those who initiated them. I am referring to higher inflation and unemployment and the worsening economic outlook for the United States and European countries, as well as the declining living standards of Europeans and the depreciation of their savings.”

All indications are that the contingency planning that Russia had worked out to pull through a severe sanctions regime is paying off. The ruble’s recovery has been absolutely astounding. The US President Biden had boastfully redacted that he’d turn ruble into “rubble” but the exact opposite happened. In the immediate aftermath of sanctions, the Russian currency plunged to 121.5 ruble per dollar and things looked dire enough. But it has since surged all the way back to where it was before Russia’s special operation in Ukraine began — around 80 ruble per USD in mid-April. Ironically, ruble turned out to be the best performing currency in March!

Putin noted that consumer prices have “grown considerably in Russia over the past six weeks, by 9.4 percent,” and people have “felt the impact on their family incomes.” He announced a decision “to adjust all social benefits, pensions and wages in the public sector, in accordance with inflation.” Russia can afford it, as in the first quarter of this year, “we are witnessing a record level of budget surplus.”

In comparison, it is a dismal scene in the US with inflation touching a 40-year high — 8.54% for March — that is going to get only worse if the conflict in Ukraine continues. Worse still, this scenario may upset Biden’s green energy plan. As for Germany, the largest EU economy, this year’s inflation is expected to touch double figures.

Interestingly, Russia is enjoying a “robust trade surplus” and in the first quarter of the year, current account surplus exceeded $58 billion, “setting a historical high. Foreign cash is returning to the banking sector and household deposits are growing.” Indeed, the factors behind the ruble roaring back are self-evident.

It seems the EU has sensed that Russia is putting back together amazingly well the pieces of life in an environment of extreme isolation from the West. The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has admitted publicly that “With regard to financial sanctions, of course, you can always go further, but we have already reached the limits of what we can do. We did everything we could.”

Anonymous 

PS.  The shallowness of the Americans daft thinkers is showing. Instead of destroying Russia with this war, Russia is having a bonanza while Europe is going to have a runaway inflation and the US not far behind.  This is like picking a real big piece of rock to drop on one's own feet.

Well done silly Americans. Everything they do will turn and bite them.

Ukraine - Brexit real agenda exposed!

 For a long while, many analysts must be wondering what on earth would Britain chose to exit the EU to become little Britain, all alone, and hoping to exist in a world that have been carved up into blocs by trade pacts. Little Britain on its own would be like a little fish in an ocean of sharks and whales and would not be able to survive on its own. Every little country for existential reasons must join trade pacts, be part of a bigger trading bloc to be protected and to thrive as a group.

For little Britain to go it alone, acting as if it is still the British Empire and can call the shot, dominating over countries of the world, is pure madness. Little Britain must sink to the bottom of the ocean bed without being a member of EU. China is going to ignore little Britain for good reasons. The rest of the world would have nothing to do with little Britain as they are all members of trading blocs. The USA would also have no place for little Britain unless little Britain wants to be another state of the USA.

Apparently this is what it turns out to be. The Brits and the AngloSaxon countries have struck a secretive pact to rule the world again. Europe would be subservient to this AngloSaxon pact, and to be sacrificed if needed to. The war in Ukraine has exposed the evil plot of the AngloSaxon tribe. Europe would do the bidding of the AngloSaxon tribe, and be part of the neo AngloSaxon Empire. Not a single European country can opt out. They would be opted in by the AngloSaxon tribe or be destroyed.

In the Ukraine war it is obvious who is calling the shot and dictating the war and who are the soldiers or pawns in this war. If the AngloSaxon tribe can win this war, with Europe as their gambling chips, and destroy Russia and China in the process, the rest of the world would simply acquiesce and become colonies of the neo AngloSaxon Empire, without any resistance. And little Britain's position would be safely entrenched, no need to be part of EU, no need to fear being left out in the cold by China or other trade pacts. Little Britain would just sit on the shoulder of the Americans and be a member of the neo AngloSaxon Empire, to rule the world for another thousand years or more.

Little Britain does not need the EU to survive. It needs only to be a member of the neo AngloSaxon Empire in a New World Order. All the European resources are now conscripted by the Americans to fight their war against Russia and China while the Americans and the Brits sit safely across the Atlantic Ocean and English Channel, watching the massacre  and destruction of the Europeans and Europe.

Long live the neo AngloSaxon Empire. It has all been worked out and going as planned.

Ukraine - Fumbling and bungling Americans

 

BTW, it's America who is ill prepared to confront either China or Russia:

“For the same reason, the war in Ukraine is a sobering preview of the problems the U.S. itself would face in a conflict against Russia or China. If forced to go to war in Eastern Europe or the Western Pacific, Washington would spend down its stockpiles of missiles, precision-guided munitions and other critical capabilities in days or weeks. It would probably suffer severe losses of tanks, planes, ships and other assets that are sophisticated, costly and hard to replace.”

Interesting! So it was actually the U.S. all along that had no stocks for war, not Russia.

In fact the Pentagon and MSM lied all along. Russia is by far the largest producer of armaments, shells, ammunition on earth, more than all NATO countries combined. The lie we were fed about Russia running out of fuel, ammo, food, etc., was laughable and seen through by any analyst with a brain from the beginning.

But more shocking revelations abound:

“In the world wars of the last century, America’s unmatched manufacturing base ultimately powered it to victory. But today, replenishing the free world’s arsenal might not be so easy.

American economic leadership is no longer based primarily on manufacturing. Shortages of machine tools, skilled labor and spare production capacity could slow a wartime rearmament effort. The U.S. can’t quickly scale up production of Stinger missiles for Ukraine, for example, because the workforce needed to do so no longer exists.” 

 

 Anonymous

Solomon Islands - Wonderful News

Chinese FM confirmed that China and the Solomon Islands have formally signed the security cooperation framework agreement

Much to the chagrin of Australia and the United States, the Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed that China and the Solomon Islands have formally signed the security cooperation framework agreement.

Australia and the US had frantically exerted unprecedented pressure on the Solomon Islands to thwart the security cooperation deal between China and the island nation and drive a wedge between the two countries.

"We have asked the Solomon Islands respectfully to consider not signing the agreement," said Zed Seselja, Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, according to a statement after Seselja met with the island nation's prime minister Manasseh , according to Reuters on Wednesday. Sogavare find it "insulting" as the Australian minister took a condescending attitude and disrespected the Pacific island country's sovereignty. 

 

 Anonymous

Covid19 - Should Dr Peter McCullough be pofma?

panyusg:
April 18, 2022 at 12:32 am (Quote)


The Australian Senate has concluded a special enquiry into Australia’s handling of Covid.

Here is a top US medical expert, Dr. Peter McCullough testifying and it is worthwhile to listen to him
https://rumble.com/vyb162-covid-under-question-dr-peter-mccullough.html

The rest of the video recordings…
https://drtrozzi.org/2022/04/17/australia-covid-under-question-inquiry-complete-video-collection/

Summary:
- Vaccines do not work
- Vaccines cause harm
- No need for lock-downs
- No need for masks

I urge MOH to debate this issue with Dr. Peter McCullough. It is about the future and the fate of Singapore.

 

The above was posted as a comment in TRE.  Not sure how valid this is as social media postings are mostly unreliable compare to main media postings that are well researched and most reliable to be true.

The findings of Dr McCullough are very serious. He discussed several issues including fraud by Pfizer on not disclosing the 1,233 deaths within 90 days of the use of the vaccines. According to him, any drug that caused 50 deaths in 90 days must be withdrawn from the market. There were a lot of negligence on the part of FDA to monitor closely all the data available from Pfizer. Pfizer is facing many lawsuits and likely to be in deep shit, with criminal charges as well.

McCullough's view, the vaccine must be withdrawn immediately and there should be no more booster shots. The vaccines is harmful and not preventing transmission at all. I say again, it does not prevent transmission. He is against any country mandating the use of the vaccines. Countries mandating the use of this vaccines are exposing their people to high risk of death.

This is a bombshell. The court ruling to release all the data from Pfizer is going to blow up sky high. Pfizer, FFA and many people would be prosecuted for their parts in approving this vaccine for public use. This is another big American lie.

The Australians are asking why they fell into this insanity of following the Americans blindly to vaccinate the masses, some with compulsion and the use of the law. The Australians are feeling so screwed and angry by this American lie for vaccinating their population with this dangerous vaccine.

 

One absurb point brought up by McCullough is that the vaccine was supposed to prevent Covid and it is so absurb to vaccinate someone already infected by the virus. Once infected, what is the point of vaccination? The vaccine is like a raincoat, to prevent one getting wet. What is the point of putting on a raincoat after getting wet?

Wait for the shock wave across the world when Pfizer is brought before the American court. Many Americans are waiting to tear down Pfizer and demand compensation for death and injury and future harm.

What do you think? If this Dr McCullough is lying or spreading disinformation, he should be pofma and charge in court and put behind bars.

 

PS. It is highly recommended to view the video discussion in rumble.com above. The moral of the story, if something is too good to be true, beware. In this pandemic, if something is looking crazy, run for your life.

This professor has been 'cancelled' by the American democratic system that professed freedom of expression. All his rights as an individual, as a respected professional and professor has been withdrawn, cancelled. But they dare not sue him or charge him.

Ukraine - American lunacy must be encouraged

US Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware), a politician described by media outlets as President Joe Biden’s closest Senate ally, has raised the idea of deploying American troops to fight Russians in Ukraine, saying he fears the former Soviet republic will “become the Syria of Eastern Europe.”

“The American people cannot turn away from this tragedy in Ukraine,” Coons said on Sunday in a CBS News interview. “I think the history of the 21st century turns on how fiercely we defend freedom in Ukraine and that Putin will only stop when we stop him.” RT

The warmongering American savages continue with their lies and rhetoric that they are for peace and fighting and starting wars to preserve peace and to eliminate threats to American security. The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and everywhere else were all about protecting America when none of these countries could ever be a threat to America. But the Americans would designate any country as a threat as an excuse to invade and destroy them. 

They were in Iraq and Syria to defend freedom and to prevent a tragedy like what is happening in Ukraine. So, after starting this war in Ukraine, forcing the Russians to invade Ukraine to protect Russian security, they are blaming the Russians as the aggressor. And the violence in Ukraine, the same violence in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria, must be stopped by the good American soldiers. 

I say well, believe in your American fabricated narrative that the Russians are the bad guys and the Americans are the good guys. Go, send in the good American soldiers to kill the bad Russian soldiers. This is a good mission, a mission of good versus bad. The Americans believe they are on the good side and fighting and killing for a good cause, a righteous cause, to save the Ukrainians.

What are you Americans waiting for? Send in the American boys and girls to execute the Russians with the best weapons you have. If the boys and girls got themselves killed, honour them as heroes, give them a hero burial. Nice. And don't forget the medals of bravery etc etc.

The world would love more good American boys and girls fighting in Ukraine. Believe me, the world is hoping and praying that the Americans would not shy away from this mission of good. the world needs the good Americans to fight this war, make it bigger, go nuclear would be the best.

Come on, killing is an honour in the American culture, the culture of savages. Historically there were so many American heroes, honoured for killing Red Indian savages. This time there will be many more American heroes for killing Russian savages that are killing the Ukrainians.

Just do it America. Your lunacy is impossible to ignore.

Hong Kong - Lunacy unchecked

 The western media and Channel News America are fond of advertising how bad the situation is in Hong Kong that Hongkongers find it unbearable and many are giving up everything, good jobs, job security, familiarity, relationships built over decades and social safety and security, to flee to the West and to their darling country, little Britain. To the Hongkongers, little Britain is still Great Britain and they would like to live like before in old Hong Kong, worshipping the old lady in Buckingham Palace and singing God save the Queen. That is their idea way of life, never mind if they are second class citizens to the Brits.

The Hongkongers are still living in the past, with a mindset cooked in the times of colonialism and white men superiority and everything white is good. They did not know or refused to recognise that the Hong Kong/China they are living in is a different world today. Hong Kong and China mainland are the growth engines and growth centres of the world where they could comfortably find jobs of their likings, commensurate with their education and expertise, without any colonial glass ceilings. In Hong Kong they could aspire to whatever they want, to the highest office in Hong Kong and even in China if they are up to it. And China is the new morality of justice, equality and fair play and human decency.

Many young Hongkongers are cutting their roots and giving up good jobs and good life to go West. What are they expecting to find at the end of their imaginary and out of phase rainbow? In the 19th Century and early 20th Century, many poor Chinese peasants had to flee China to look for a simple job just to fill their empty stomachs. There were barely any jobs available in a broken and bankrupt China semi colonised by the foreign invaders. Fleeing China looking for a job is not exactly what that attracted them. It was the push factor and all they were looking for was a bowl of rice, a meal, not a job to talk about. When they had nothing, and nothing to look forward to, anything would be good enough and worth the risk. Those were dire times and poverty was the norm to the majority of Chinese and anything was better than nothing.

The Hongkongers today are going West with a fictitious idealism that the West, fake democracy and fake freedom were what they want. But jobs in the West would not be waiting for them. Many would not be able to find a job in the West, or if they were lucky, a job that would be several rungs below what they were doing in Hong Kong. The social safety and security net and the safe environment they took for granted in Hong Kong would not be there. Their lives could be in danger just simply walking in the streets of racist white men's land. The jobs that they could get would come with all kinds of false ceilings and barriers, not the kind of freedom and democracy they believed to be there. Democracy and freedom in the West are not for Hongkongers but for the white men. Why would Hongkongers that have everything in Hong Kong, risk going to the West and may end up with nothing, even losing their lives? Has the stupidity has no cure disease spread to the Hongkongers?

They would painfully pay for their lunacy and naivity to think that the grass is greener over the fence. They did not know what they would be in for. If they could not find a decent job, definitely not what they could get in Hong Kong, and when their savings are depleted, they would wish they had not been so foolish and rash to run away from their motherland where everyday is getting better and tomorrow is something to look forward to. Going to the West is not only heading towards sunset, the West is not what they believe in their deluded imagination or dreams. Or they still think Asians or Chinese are incompetent and they preferred to be ruled by evil white men?

How many of the Hongkongers that have uprooted from the comfort of home would be able to find life better than they were in Hong Kong 10 or 20 years down the road is best described as wishful thinking. The realities still have not sunk into the minds of the Hongkongers and only when they hit the end of the road would they know how good it is to be in the motherland. But by then it would be too late. They may not even be welcomed back home. They made their choice under whatever assumptions and make beliefs, they would have to face the music for their own decisions.

A warning to the evil Americans: Stop creating trouble in the Taiwan Straits or face self-destruction.

      The evil Americans have been interfering in Chinese internal affairs since the 1930s. This American interference has caused grievous suffering  to China and the Chinese people. 

This American interference in China's internal affairs need to be stopped. Let we Chinese people especially our Chinese brothers and sisters across the Taiwan Straits both in China and Taiwan tell the evil warmongering US and its Western rogue allies that we Chinese do not need their wars. We like to warn them not to instigate and foment wars among the Chinese in the Taiwan Straits. Keep your wars in Europe, in Ukraine. 

We would like to warn the American government, the American rogue politicians and the American people in no uncertain terms that we Chinese do not need your fake democracy, your fake human rights and your overbearing horrendous dictatorship hidden under the guise of promoting democracy and human rights. 

If the Anglo-Saxon Americans and the obnoxious Westerners love war so much make sure you keep the war or wars in Europe and America. Let the brave Americans go and fight in Europe, in Ukraine. We warn you evil United States and Western warmongers not to bring your wars to the Chinese people in the Taiwan Straits. We noble civilize Chinese people do not need your evil wars. We only want peace among we Chinese brothers and sisters and we cherish peace. So do not try to foment wars among we Chinese by instigating the Taiwanese Chinese traitors to secede from the Motherland. 

We like to warn you odious and obnoxious Americans and Westerners that Taiwan is a sacred part of China and it brooks no interference from you satanic white warmongers under any circumstance or under any false excuses and fake reasons. And if you persist on creating troubles and war in the Taiwan Straits we brave and dignified heroic Chinese will fight  with one soul and one mind to bury you American and Western military armed forces in the depth of the Pacific Ocean.

Lets hope you evil white Anglo-Saxon American and Western warmongers will not push your luck too  far or else we Chinese will destroy you and  bury you deep in the dark pages of history .

Long live the Chinese Civilization. 

Southernglory1

Monday, 18th April, 2022.

Debt trap - The white men's lie about Sri Lankan

However, loans from China accounted for only about 10 per cent of Sri Lanka’s total foreign debt in 2020. The largest portion – about 30 per cent – can be attributed to international sovereign bonds. Japan actually accounts for a higher proportion of their foreign debt, at 11 per cent.

Defaults over China’s infrastructure-related loans to Sri Lanka, especially the financing of the Hambantota port, are being cited as factors contributing to the crisis.

But these facts don’t add up. The construction of the Hambantota port was financed by the Chinese Exim Bank. The port was running losses, so Sri Lanka leased out the port for 99 years to the Chinese Merchant’s Group, which paid Sri Lanka US$1.12 billion.

So the Hambantota port fiasco did not lead to a balance of payments crisis (where more money or exports are going out than coming in), it actually bolstered Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange reserves by US$1.12 billion.

So, what are the real reasons for the crisis?

 The above is from an article in CNA by  R Ramakumar is a Professor of Economics at Tata Institute of Social Sciences. 

 

From the few numbers given it clearly showed that the debt trap which Sri Lanka is suffering is not from loans from China. China's loan accounts for only 10% of the total debt of Sri Lankan. Japan's loan to Sri Lanka is more than China at 11%, why no one calls it a debt trap? Mischievous agenda from the Americans is the reason. They lied and spread disinformation to smear China without telling the real numbers. 

If debt to China is only 10%, Japan 11%, then the bulk of the debt, the real debt trap of 79% came from where? It is the IMF, the biggest creditor of Sri Lanka, the organisation that is causing all the woes of the Sri Lankans.  This is another perfect example of the treacherous Americans pointing fingers, making wild allegations when they are the real culprits. Sri Lanka's debt trap is caused by loans from the IMF.

What about the infamous lie of debt trap caused by the Hambantota Port? Yes, Sri Lanka took a big loan from China's Exim Bank and unable to pay back the loan. But Sri Lanka turned it into a revenue by leasing the port to China and was paid US$1.12 billion for it. Where is the debt, where is the debt trap when it is a plus for Sri Lanka? Why the evil Americans still spreading this lie of debt trap because of the port? Why don't the Americans admit that the debt trap came from the IMF, an American controlled organisation?

Leasing the port to China is a profitable business like Djibouti leasing its land to the Americans, and a few other nations as military bases. It is pure business, earning rents. What is wrong with that? Djibouti is still an independent country and proud of it, unlike the semi colonies of the American Empire, the Japanese, South Koreans, and the Europeans, that have all lost their independence and being controlled by the Americans and have to host American bases in their own countries, cannot say No to the Americans, and have to pay for the Americans' military presence in their homeland.

When would the American and western media stop their fake news about this debt trap? When would all the hostile media and so called journalists, reporters, anal-lysts stop smearing China with this fake debt trap lie? If there is a real debt trap issue, no one would be joining the BRI, the whole of Africa would not be taking loans from China. 

Fortunately the leaders of these nations are not stupid and would not be led by the nose by the evil Americans and the West with their disgusting lies and disinformation.

There is no debt trap from China, only white men's lies.

 

All Empires must fall, China will not

 All Empires did all they could not to fall. But all Empires fell without exception. The American Empire is falling and the Americans are trying all they could to hold on to it, but for whatever they are doing and have done, they are actually helping their Empire to fall faster. They are dismantling all their dominance and control over systems, technology, trust, etc etc discrediting themselves and undoing themselves, giving up their monopolies and strategic advantages in everything. 

In just a few weeks, they have committed the gravest of all sins by discrediting the American designed international financial system and confidence in the US dollar as an international currency.  These two are the final nails to the coffin of the American Empire. 

Only a few years back they started on a technology and economic war against China only to lose control of the mobile phone technology and AI industry. Huawei has developed its own operating system and Android's share is dwindling and would soon become a minor operator. So is their control of the chip industry. China is launching its own chips and would be in parity very soon and would overtake the Americans to be the dominant player. China is also running away with 5G and 6G technology while the Americans are desperately hugging on to their obsolete 4G tech and pretending to have 5G with 4G plus tech.

Space and space station would be history to the Americans in a couple of years. There will be only one space station in the sky and one, the ISS, floating and limping along with dead astronauts inside for overstaying its useful life and run out date. Because of the distrust and fear of American deceit and treachery, no American astronauts would even be allowed into the China Space Station for whatever reason. China has learnt that any cooperation with the Americans is their undoing as the slimy, untrustworthy and scheming Americans' intent is to undermine and destroy China in everyway they could.

The Americans silly trick of embedding a software in the Boeing fleets of aircraft and abusing it to cause the aircraft to crash at will have destroyed faith in the countries of the world to buy and operate Boeing aircraft. Like the international banking system, international currency, the world is looking for safer alternatives to replace operating American made aircraft, weapons systems, the banking system and the US dollar, and no more petrol dollar. 

The American can kiss their Empire goodbye. Its end is nearer than the Americans think or believe or want it to be.

Why China would not fall in the same way as the American Empire? The Chinese have spent many hours studying the rise and fall of Empires and have learnt many valuable lessons. They would not be stupid enough to want to face the same fate as a fallen Empire. The Chinese historically has never been an Empire like the West, invasion, colonisation and conquest. Now, armed with more knowledge and wisdom, the last thing that the Chinese want is to conquer the world by military force and to build an Empire.

China would be rich and powerful, but only wants to be respected as a big power, not to control the world as an Empire. There will be no Chinese Empire to talk about. Only the West are talking about empires, wanting to hold on to the evil American Empire but accusing China of empire building. China is building a new world order of common destiny and shared prosperity. Without becoming an Empire, there is no Chinese Empire to fall on the wayside like the last American Empire. The new reality is that no one would subscribe or succumb to be ruled or to want to be ruled by another Empire.

The Chinese are not stupid to want to build such an Empire to be the enemy of the world, to be hated, to be opposed, and to never live in peace. It would be too costly for the Chinese or any country to have an Empire Dream. It would be a nasty dream to start with and to end with.

The West is screwed - China won't drain food supplies to accomodate West

 Beijing is focused on securing sufficient food supply for China's 1.4 billion population. Some Western critics are accusing China of contributing to global inflation, food price hikes and regional shortages of foodstuffs as the nation keeps importing record levels of grain year after year.

China’s government is not planning to release the country’s massive reserves of grain to provide much-needed relief to Western nations that are bracing for historically high food prices, Chinese local media outlet Xinjiang Daily reported on Friday.

“Some foreign media have recently claimed that the build-up of Chinese grain reserves supposedly 'portended' the [Russian-Ukrainian] conflict by causing a rise in prices in the global grain markets, they even called on China to free up 20% of its grain stocks to save the European market.” the newspaper reported, adding that the demands are “absurd and inadequate.” 

 

 Anonymous  

 

PS. The evil white savages started this war in Ukraine thinking that they could destroy Russia and China and rule the world forever. Now they are writing the narratives and using western media and the media of their stooges to put the blame on China.

 

They started a fire and demanded China to put out the fire. They think they could still push China and the rest of the world to do their bidding. They are still living in their own delusion. The rest of the world have had enough of the bullying and oppression by the white savages and are standing together to take down the evil American Empire together with all the white savages in Europe.

Reckless and empty head Trump versus cool and intense Putin

 The pride of the USA was and still is Donald Trump, the reckless, unpredictable cowboy with nothing in between his ears but brawn and gore. This is why the Americans love him. He is the paragon of American virtues and pride. And he could behave so with all the nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction available to him. He does not care a dime about anything or rule of law. He just behave like a brute and would knock the daylight out of anyone in his American way.

The Americans have been behaving in this way, the international gangster way, to say it politely, or the world's number one terrorist way. To the Americans, might is always right. And they could get away with it when there is no one with the same might and backing to fight back. The Americans would slam their way into any country as and when they like, using their so called rule of law or breaking all rules of law, democratic way, respecting human rights, the right to live for the innocent women and children in the Middle East, in countries called Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan. All the rights of these people were respected and NEVER violated by the Americans...that is if you believe in their lies. Many unthinking believe so.

On the other corner of the ring is Putin, a cool cucumber, calculative and firm, very firm when he needs to be. Don't mess around with him. According to the western media and the gangsters in Washington and European capitals, Putin is a rogue, did not believe in human rights and violated all the rights of the innocent people of Ukraine when he invaded that country that was guilty of bombing and killing Russians in Donbass and Lugansk. Putin is guilty of war crimes when he held back from blasting and blowing up everything in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities, all because he did not want to harm the civilians in them. He could have done what the Americans and the Brits did in Iraq, in Syria and in Afghanistan. Sent in the bombs, neutralised and disarmed the cities before sending in the soldiers to clean up the cities after everyone has been killed, war collaterals. 

By not doing so, the Americans and western media are sneering at him, laughing at him, that his invasion is stalled, going on very slowly, and suffering huge casualties. If only he had blasted the Ukrainians to Stone Age like the Americans and the Brits did. If Putin had done so, the Ukrainians or their American and European allies would not even have the chance to cry out Daddy and the war would be over.

The Twains did not meet. I mean Trump and Putin has yet to meet. But this may not be long. Trump is making a strong comeback and seeing what Biden is doing, the red neck Americans are gritting in anger and would want to replace Biden with Trump tomorrow if they could do it.

The world may not have to wait for too long to see how terrorist Trump would measure up when he meets Putin sitting at the other corner of the ring. It would be a good fight when Trump throws everything at Putin and Putin throws everything back at him. 

And the whole world can sing, Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

USA facing unstoppable runaway inflations as sanctions and wars continue

 

Inflation in the USA has gone up to 8.5% in March, the highest in 40 years. And Biden is blaming Putin for all the ills of the USA. China will be next. They never blame themselves.

Inflation in USA was relatively low when Biden came into the White House. It started rising even before the Ukraine War started, so Republicans are not buying into Biden's take on the issue, by trying to push all the blame on inflation to Putin and the Ukraine War.

Earlier in his term, Biden had been talking about adding trillions to the USA debt to fund the fight against COVID and his Build Back Better plan, printing banana money by the trillions, which as anyone knows, will eventually cause massive inflation. This is the exact consequence if any other country does the same. But the USA thinks it is exceptional and can just export the surplus banana notes printed, and together with it, it's inflation, all over the world as they always did.

It works very well over the decades when demand for US$ around the world was instrumental in absorbing their inflation caused by their unrestrained printing of US$. But then the trade war came, and the USA cuts trade with China, so how much lesser US$ would the Chinese side be absorbing out of the surplus fiat money the USA have been printing? That is why now there appears to have been a roll back and more trade seems to have taken place between the USA and China. This also applies to other countries caught by Trump's trade war. Moreover, the higher tariffs imposed on Chinese goods are contributing to inflation as well. China is not paying for the tariffs, but USA consumers are paying for more expensive stuff from China.

On top of that there was the massive trade deals of hundreds of billions done between China, Iran and Russia among others, bypassing the use of the US$. What does all this mean? They are not inconsequential issues for the US$.

If all those US$ fiat money printed year after year, and the bulk remains in the USA, what do you think it will do? Whatever exceptionalism they have cannot defeat the inflation it will create. That is what is happening now. The Russian sanctions and the demand by the Russians to do oil in Rubles is adding one more nail in the US$ coffin by trimming world demand for US$ and boosting demand for Rubles instead. Inflation will get worse in the USA going forward.

In fact the unrestrained printing of more US$ has given the impression that there is only a small fall in the percentage share of the usage of the US$ in world trade. The reality is more severe. The last I know was the US$ had a 59% share of usage among all the major currencies, like the Euro and Yen in world trade.

Of course other countries are facing the same problem as they still need US$ for trade with the USA and is sharing the inflation trap exported by the USA.

Anonymous 

PS. Trillions to fight Covid, trillions to build infrastructure, trillions to fight wars, plus pay more for imports because of higher tariffs, higher oil prices, reduction in petrol dollar trades.....

Ukraine - World War 3 in a cock pit

 In a way the Americans have started WW3 but in a cock pit. That is the nature of this war, contained, limited, but involving many countries all over the world. And the gladiators, Ukraine soldiers versus Russian soldiers, while the rest of the world chip in with their contributions in kind. In a way it is quite fortunate that the fighting is contained in a specific and small area, provided it does not spread out across Europe, though it could happen if not properly handled. This is WW3 because the Americans are dragging and pressuring every country into this war, either or the side of the Americans or be enemies of the Americans. 

The most happy people are the Americans, fighting another war in far away Europe, with them in full control, how many men to put in, how many pieces of hardware to throw in and how long they want it to last.  Even the temperature or velocity of the war is managed by the Americans safely from far across the Atlantic and with the Europeans very willing to do the heavy lifting.  Very neat indeed.

And the biggest beneficiary, the American Military Industrial Complex, now in full production for all kinds of weapons needed by the Ukrainians. Any smaller pieces of weapons or accessories could be subcontracted to American allies and stooges to produce. And who is footing the bill? Ukraine would be paying for everything eventually. But in the meantime all the allies and stooges would have to cough out their shares for the war. European countries would bare the brunt of the initial cost. They have to supply whatever allocated to the Ukrainians. Other allies and stooges too would have to pay their shares. The MIC would be the producer and seller of all the main weapons and the merchant to profit from the sales.

The Americans and their allies would be the non participating contestants or cheering teams watching the gladiators slogging it out in the arena in Ukraine. Russia would have its own team of non participating contestants to provide the backups and supplies and cheering teams. They too would have to pay in some way according to their contributions.

It is a funny kind of world war when the real contestants, the eventual winner or loser, are not doing the real fighting but throwing in their bets or chips from the sideline. It can be called a war in many names, proxy war, protracted war, a war of endurance, a complex war involving a contest in economic prowess and manufacturing power, and control of resources to outlast the opponents. There is only one guaranteed loser, the Ukrainian men or soldiers.  But they would all be decorated as dead war heroes.

This war could only end when Ukraine uses up all its manpower, ie no more healthy men to continue the fighting, unless the Americans and Europeans are willing to chip in with more of their own men. It is not that they are not already in the arena, but the actual numbers are too small at the moment. The Ukrainians are doing all the work, fighting and dying.

Relatively the Russians would not have manpower problem as they easily outmatch the Ukrainians in numbers, probably 10 to 1. When all are the Ukrainian men are dead, there would still be many Russian men standing.

The rest of the world should be very glad that they are not participants in this world war, unless they volunteered to fight or the Americans volunteered them to join the battle. Other than the Ukrainians, there is high hope for the Europeans to become gladiators in the ring as well. After all they are just living next door and could easily be dragged into it with a few false flag incidents, or ordered by the Americans.

Let's hope that this WW3 would last for as long as it could, with the Americans and Europeans bogged down in Europe and don't have the time and resources to stir more conflicts elsewhere. It would be cheaper for the rest of the world in terms of destruction and lost of lives, just contribute happily to this war and don't get dragged in or sucked in for no good reason, not even on grounds of principles.

Let's all cheer the Americans and the Europeans on for their bravery and heroism and fighting skills. Let them show their manhood and their expertise in producing the best weapons of war. And Zelensky would likely be the hero, the richest Ukrainian to live out the war, as the Russians would not want to touch him. Zelensky is the luckiest Ukrainian man that would survive this war and ended with a big fortune fully paid by the Americans for his great role in supplying the Ukrainian gladiators for the war.

Thank you Americans for the creativity to invent such a world war that is limited in nature, in velocity and death and destruction. And also thank the Ukrainians, especially Zelensky, for his great contribution to this war, to make it possible without involving the rest of the world directly. Zelensky is undoubtedly the star actor of this show, the greatest show on earth.

Neither Russia nor the Americans would win, but never mind, that is not important. Let this be the unending WW3.

Ukraine - Frustrated USA unable to pressure India to do its bidding

Biden, Modi in 'candid' Ukraine war talks as Indian stance frustrates US

Biden has been pressuring world leaders to take a hard line against Moscow, although the administration official said there was no "concrete ask and concrete answer" on energy imports during the meeting.

"We've been very clear that we've been able to ban oil and (gas) and coal imports from Russia, but other countries have to make their own choices," she said.

"That said, we don't think India should accelerate or increase imports of Russian energy and the US is ready to support India, remain in a conversation with India, about its diversification of imports."

The above is reported in CNA.

Biden and his team have been pressuring all their allies and stooges to toe the line, to condemn Russia and sanction Russia. While Biden has been successful in influencing and coercing the EU countries and some stooges in East Asia, he is hapless against the up and coming super power India. India would not be cowed or pressured to do the bidding of the Americans.  India has a big reputation not to be pushed around by the Americans. There is a lot of Indian pride involved. How can India stoop so low to allow the Americans to push it around and to be told to sanction its top military partner, Russia? No way.

India's defiance has made many American stooges looking silly, especially the South Koreans and the Japanese. These are two of the strongest economies in East Asia and have a lot of nationalistic pride and would not bow to foreign pressure, But bowed they had do. Being semi colonies of the American Empire, they have to do as told by the Emperor of the American Empire.

India's stand also gives confidence to the Asean states not to be bullied by the Americans and to stand firm in their neutrality in this fight between Russia and the Americans. If India wobbles and gives in to the American pressure, it would put the Asean stand to question. Hopefully Asean is strong enough to hold its ground and remain neutral and not be sucked into a conflict that has got nothing to do with Asean. 

If Asean would to cower in fear of American pressure and go against the Russians, then it would be inviting a rubbing and bashing from the Russians for sure as it would mean they have acted against the Russians. Being neutral does not give the Russians any reason to hit back.

But, would being neutral invite an attack from the Americans? Would the fork tongue Americans and their fake democracy and freedom to choose, allow Asean to choose to be neutral and thus leave Asean alone? Is it real that Asean and for that matter, countries of the world, have the freedom of choice, to choose whatever stance they want? Or would the Americans exposed their evil pretence, that no country can remain neutral or can have the freedom to choose to be neutral or to be on the side of the Russians?

Freedom of choice? Is the American freedom of choice just another American farce, another white men's lie?

Ukraine - English speaking readers misled by Russian propaganda?

No joke! People here have been misled by Russian misinformation. They were not misled by fabrication, lies and misinformation when Iraq was invaded. Is it just because the UN used their rubber stamp to legalise it? Now the world is seeing the UN as an entity without credibility and responsibility..

Now, who is the one country generating the biggest misinformation campaign in history? Does US$300 million a year gives everyone a clue? Make a guess! I think most people do not need to guess, and is a well known fact at their finger tips, however much the MSM narrative is trying to do damage control. Significantly, I think Russia does not, even if they want to, have that kind of spare cash to fund their misinformation campaign worldwide.

For trying to destroy the truth through preventing investigation and thorough verification of the facts regarding the Bucha case, they ride rough shod over attempts to ask the UN to conduct an investigation, which was blatantly blocked by the British. Even when the accused wants an investigation to prove their innocence, the accusers would not allow. Is that how the UN works? Obviously the UN has been hijacked to look after the interest of the West, nothing more nothing less.

How much misinformation can the Russians spread if you just consider that they totally do not have the Western MSM's support to do their disinformation work. Even on social media, like Youtube, Twitter etc, much of the uploads are one sided pro Western hubris demoonising Russia and China.

In fact, the smearing of China has been more vile and intense lately, a sign that the evil empire is now desperate to target China for standing behind Russia. Likewise, India is facing the same problem, with threats getting more serious by the day.

 Anonymous 

PS. How many English educated are able to read Russian news? How many Russian propaganda are in the English main media?

Ukraine: Misinformation, disinformation, distorted truth or truth, reading between the lines

1. SINGAPORE: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked intense public debate in Southeast Asia. Within the region, there are worries that segments of society have bought into the Kremlin’s online disinformation campaigns aimed at swaying sentiments on the war and justifying Russia’s invasion....

2. TWO PRO-RUSSIA NARRATIVES

The first narrative involves the Donbas region and the portrayal of Ukrainian authorities as neo-Nazis bent on subjecting Russian-speaking residents to constant military onslaught and genocide.

The second involves the assertion that the United States operates a network of biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. Both of these debunked narratives, utilised as justifications for the invasion, have been widely propagated by Russia’s official Twitter accounts....

3. Amongst the 1,961 tweets identified from Singapore- and Philippines-based Twitter accounts, 838 of them mentioned the terms "US", "USA", "America" or "American". A substantial majority of these tweets carried anti-American sentiments. Analysts have highlighted how Russia seems to have masterfully curated their narratives to tap on "existing anti-Western messages" that have appeal in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The goal here is to convert this reservoir of anti-Western sentiment into goodwill and support for Russia....

4. According to the 2022 State of Southeast Survey, a significant minority of Singaporeans and Filipinos - 21 per cent and 31 per cent respectively - expressed no or little confidence that the US would do the "right thing" to contribute to global peace, security and prosperity. ...

Darren Cheong is a research associate with the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This commentary first appeared on the Institute's blog, Fulcrum.

The above is quoted from CNA and reads, this is an authoritative and objective analysis of the Ukraine crisis and ... the Russians are trying to write the narrative which is generally false and disinformation. Agree? Or this is the officially approved version of the Ukraine crisis?

In para 1, it says that the region is worried about segments of society being misled by the Russians as believing in the Russian narrative is bad. True?  The region means what, Asean or just Singapore? The underlying statement is that the Russian narrative is false. Really?

Para 2, the two Russian narratives, one, Ukrainian authorities used neo Nazi elements to kill Russian speaking Ukrainians and two, Americans operate bioweapon labs in Ukraine, are untruths and have been debunked? Really? Debunked by who? Has the UN conducted any investigation or no investigation?

Para 3 said a 'substantial majority of these tweets carried anti-American sentiments' meaning a substantial number of Singaporeans and Filipinos are anti Americans. Meaning a substantial number of them don't support the Americans involvement in the Ukraine war. And the substantial numbers include those in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, all anti Americans. This is contrarian to the American's claim that the international community is against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Para 4, 21% and 31% of Singaporeans and Filipinos have little confidence in US doing the right thing to contribute to global peace, security and prosperity. Is the author implying that this is a minority and the majority have confidence in the Americans doing the right thing? Or maybe, the same percentages have confidence in the Americans while the balance 40-50% is not sure? By not saying how many percent believe in the Americans doing the right thing, is telling only half truth, half the picture. Why not tell the whole truth since the author must have the full statistic?

The article also implies that Singapore's stand against the Russian invasion has the support of Indonesia, the Philippines and Brunei, that in Asean, Singapore is not alone in opposing the invasion.

What do you think? What is the message of the article and what is the truth? Is it objective and impartial analysis or the author is telling his version of the anti Russian narrative?