Covid19 - Vaccine Imperialism

  “In a war—which this situation is, though we fight against an invisible enemy—you need to do whatever you can to make it stop,” Zeman told me in an email. “I frankly don’t think that receiving vaccines means losing independence, or any similar repercussions. It’s a business deal, for God’s sake.” Czech's President Milos Zeman

Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, he said that fears of Moscow and Beijing leveraging their influence over receiving countries are overblown. “We grossly exaggerate the payoff you get from trying to play geopolitics with humanitarian crises,” McFaul said. Plus, “it doesn’t do any good to say that China or Russia are using their vaccines to undermine our interests if you don’t have something else to offer.”

 

The above are two quotes from The Atlantic to emphasise what vaccines are all about, the saving of lives, not fighting a war of influence. But this has turned out to be a war as far as the Americans and the 5 eyes countries are concerned. It is another case of you are with us or against us. If a country is with the Americans, they must not use Russian or Chinese vaccines or they would be treated as against the Americans.  Some countries that have bought Chinese and Russian vaccines have stopped using them even after receiving the vaccines and paying for them for fear of offending the Empire.

This is the new American Imperialist War. The Americans would not allow its allies, in particular the EU countries and its cronies spread across the world to use Russian and Chinese vaccines. EU is facing the biggest brunt, with insufficient supply of the American vaccines but unable to accept the use of Russian and Chinese vaccines.  The simple tool to prevent them from doing so is approval.  Vaccines that were not approved by the American or EU authorities cannot be used in their respective countries. Germany and France and a few other EU countries have mooted to bring in Russian and Chinese vaccines but have backed off due to American opposition. A few eastern EU countries defied the ban and went ahead to have Russian and Chinese vaccines for their people.

The Americans are using the control and use of the vaccines to define their Empire and to control members of the Empire. In a way this is like playing God, who can have the vaccines and live and who cannot have the vaccines and die. The world is now divided into two camps, the American Empire and the rest of the world. China and Russian combined have distributed their vaccines to more than 100 countries outside the influence of the Empire, some getting the vaccines free, some at minimal cost.

The American Empire would want to do the same but unfortunately they were not able to produce even enough for themselves. And with the Americans first policy, more than 95% of American produced vaccines are kept for domestic use, leaving a trickle for their neighbours and allies. This pathetic situation risking the lives of hundreds of millions of American allies did not deter the Americans to be more magnanimous in a world crisis to loosen their grips and allow their allies to use Russian or Chinese vaccines.  They die their own business. There is a saying that it is easier to buy American weapons than buying vaccines from the Americans.

In the meantime, having cornered the vaccine market, the Americans are blowing their horns that they would share their vaccines with their allies and cronies, caveat, after they have vaccinated all the Americans. They are ramping up production but at the rate it is going, it would take at least another year before they could vaccinate all Americans. The rest of the Empire have to wait for their turns, if the day comes.

With the efficacy and immuned life of the vaccines at only 6 months or so, all Americans would have to go for another round of vaccinations before even all the Americans are vaccinated.  This is looking like the proverbial dog chasing its tail, an unending story of manufacturing the vaccines to meet and unstoppable demand. When then would the American allies have a chance to have their people vaccinated to the level of herd immunity with just the American vaccines? The Americans could only provide for 20% of the needs of their allies and cronies at best. This is American Imperialism at its best.

The rest of the world would likely have their full share of the vaccines from China and Russian. India was trying to fill the gap for the Empire with licence to manufacture AstraZeneca. This too is facing huge problems in the home front, rising infection rate and insufficient supply to feed the domestic demands. India has since stopped exporting its limited supply of the vaccines. What could make matter worse is that AstraZeneca is facing a credibility crisis. Many countries have stopped using AstraZeneca or posed stringent limits on its use.

American Vaccine Imperialism is here to stay and the allies and cronies are likely to pay a heavy price in the lives of their people. Not using Russian and Chinese vaccines can be deadly.  Even when the Americans are able to manufacture enough vaccines for export, maybe in 3 or 5 years, the cost could also be prohibitive to many of their allies and crony countries, not counting the difficulties in storing the -70C vaccines.

The rest of the world can do without this neo evil American Vaccine Imperialism. And they have China and Russian to thank for.

CNA being accused of complicity in Myanmar

 

 I am quite shock to see this video accusing CNA reporter May Wong of complicity in America's evil agenda in Myanmar. This is a very serious accusation against a Singapore reporter of CNA to be part of an American conspiracy. True or false is one thing, but Singapore govt must now stand up to defend this accusation as it is very damaging to Singapore's reputation as an independent nation state with a mind of its own and not to be seen as working for the Americans. 

Let's hope the govt will take a tough stand as a matter of principle to prove that this is not the case. No Singaporeans would want to see Singapore playing such a role for the Americans and the accusation must be challenged and the video producer be sued until his pants drop. Agree?

US agrees to withdraw from Iraq or to continue to stay?

 

The US has agreed to withdraw its remaining combat forces from Iraq, at a date to be determined in talks with Baghdad, and remain in the country solely in an advisory and support role against terrorists.

“US forces are in Iraq at the invitation of Iraqi Government to support the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in their fight against ISIS,” said a joint statement following the “strategic dialogue” between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein on Wednesday.

“Based on the increasing capacity of the ISF, the parties confirmed that the mission of U.S. and Coalition forces has now transitioned to one focused on training and advisory tasks, thereby allowing for the redeployment of any remaining combat forces from Iraq, with the timing to be established in upcoming technical talks,” the statement added.

Joint statement on the U.S.-Iraq strategic dialogue. security section 3rd pic pic.twitter.com/4i0pGFD0XQ

— Laura Rozen (@lron)

The above is quoted from RT. Superficially the US said they agree to withdraw from Iraq after intense pressure from the Iraqi govt, a democratically elected govt, telling them they are not needed and to get out of Iraq.  The excuse of staying in Iraq, after lying about WMD and invaded Iraq, murdered its President Saddam Hussein, was that they were invited by the Iraqi govt to fight ISIS. 

The Iraqi govt has said it plain and clear, get out, they don't need the Americans. What did the agreement above said?

The Americans agreed to get out, when not decided, how many to get out not decided. What is cleared is that the Americans would continue to be in Iraq on an advisory and training role. So, how many Americans would still be in Iraq? 10,000, 50,000?

Are the Iraqis capable of fighting the ISIS? Why must they need the Americans to stay to fight the ISIS? Was this requested by the Iraqis, decided by the Iraqis, or by the Americans?

Poor Iraqis, the Americans once 'invited' themselves into the country would not go without a fight, without being chased out. They are treating Iraq as an American protectorate, a semi colony, and Iraq has to pay them for staying in Iraq.

When would the Arab and Muslim countries be freed from the oppression and control of the Americans? The agreement is as good as no agreement.  The Americans would do a show with a few announcements and pulling out a few soldiers but the bulk of the American soldiers would stay, forever if they could.  What can the Iraqi govt do about it? Nothing, just like Japan and South Korea, semi colonies have no say and have to pay for the American bases and soldiers, 'to protect them'.

What a joke. Another white lie.

Singapore's next PM...all planned and carefully thought out

 With Heng Swee Kiat calling it a day, not wanting to be the face of the country, not wanting to take the pressure that is building up in all corners, he must have seen them coming, I would agree that he made the right choice not to be in the way when the roof comes tumbling down.

4 names are now in the front page of the local media as the possible contenders to be PM. Chan Chun Sing, Ong Ye Kung, Lawrence Wong and Desmond Lee are the ones put up by the PAP to prepare the people to get use to them.

What would be the reactions of the people? The real feelings of the people on the choice put forward could not be missed. The heads are all shaking in disbelief but not a word would be spoken. The little noises in the social media were just meaningless noise that at best be forgotten. Without seeing anything, hearing anything, I could still feel the unhappiness, the grudging frustration from some quarters that this could not be, but withholding the words that wanted to throw out from their stomach...but had to swallow them back in silence. Better not to say anything.

The situation is so uncomfortable in the politically conscious quarters struggling to accept what is happening. The reality presented to them is just unbelieveable, more like fiction, more like a badly written script that is best not written.

This is looking like the calm before the storm. It is too peaceful and quiet to believe that all is well. No one will go against the plan, everything will be smooth flowing according to the script and the script writer. The sheep will be sheep, black sheep, white sheep, all will be sheep and will behave exactly like sheep, headless, leaderless, and the sheep dog would have his day.

Is that going to be the order of the day? Dunno about what others feel, I can feel the tension under this fake calm of inactivity.

Covid19 - Americans bragging about helping others but still helping themselves first...and still not helping anyone

 Tue, 6 April 2021

The United States will soon be able to ramp up vaccine assistance abroad and will not seek "favors in return," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, putting a veteran aid administrator in charge.

Blinken said the top US priority was to fight Covid-19 at home but that the goal would be achieved soon, pointing to President Joe Biden's promise that 90 percent of Americans will be near a vaccination site by April 19.

"We are exploring options to share more with other countries going forward. We believe that we'll be in a position to do much more on this front," Blinken said. Yahoo News

The Americans have yet to help any country other than helping themselves by hogging all the vaccines produced in their American first policy. But this does not stop them or shame them from bragging about helping others. They are using a megaphone and with the help of western media, literary blowing their horns about how they are going to help other selected countries, and with conditions, unlike the Chinese and Russians sharing their vaccines without conditions. And as usual, being accused of setting conditions that they did not but the hypocrites are the ones that are setting conditions, be our puppets, be our cronies, and we will help you.

This is how low the Americans have gone down, politicising even the use of vaccines that are meant to save lives but not before saving themselves first. Only after they have vaccinated all Americans would they think of sharing some with others. In the meantime, for almost a year, China and Russia have been sharing their vaccines with many countries around the world, especially those that could not afford to give an arm or a leg for western vaccines, ...and without conditions. Even some enemy countries of China were given the vaccines when they asked for it.

How many still believe in the American lies about Americans helping others? It is always Americans first and if they helped, it is all about leftovers and with conditions.

Has any country been helped by the Americans in this pandemic? The only things we heard of were Americans hijacking and stealing PPEs, masks, gloves etc meant for other countries and also for hoarding all the production of western vaccines for themselves first and still hoarding because they have yet to complete vaccinating Americans. They would only help others after they helped themselves.

In the mean time China has sent vaccines to more than 80 countries and could be more if the Americans have not coerced other countries from using Chinese vaccines.  Can you believe that, the Americans are not sharing the vaccines with other countries and forbidding them from using vaccines from China and Russia? This is how the Americans are helping themselves, preparing to sell their overpriced and questionable vaccines to the unwary and coerced countries.