High cost of living reveals how stupid politicians can be

Buttigieg suggested that people who are currently struggling to pay over $5 per gallon of gas could offset their “pain” by purchasing an EV instead, the average price of which is over $65,000 according to automotive research company Kelly Blue Book. RT

This Buttigieg was a candidate for the Presidency but lost to Biden. Not sure Biden is more stupid or this Buttigieg.  In his statement he said he said anyone struggling to pay over $5 per gallon of gas should go buy a EV to save cost. Who cares about paying $5 per gallon for gas if he could splurge on a $65k EV? Was Buttigieg thinking, was he logical?

The Americans are so lucky that he is not their elected president. Well, it does not make much difference with Biden in charge. The Americans are scrapping the bottom of the barrel when the best man or woman available were Buttigieg, Trump, Biden, Kamala or maybe Pelosi. The Brits can sing, God Save the Queen, what can the Americans sing? God, please have mercy on the Americans.

And at the national level they are threatening China when China is providing them with cheap and good products to stretch their dollars, especially the American poor, oops, I mean middle class.  China is not only writing the paycheck for the Americans, but also helping them to lower the cost of living. And they got the stupidity to be quarreling with China, raising tariffs and tension with China?

The same applies to the political leaders in Europe. Russia may not be their paymaster, but Russia is their main supplier of cheap oil and gas and also many other essential goods and products. How could they be so stupid to want to start a war with Russia, to threaten Russia and ended up paying more for everything?

These politicians cannot be stupid. They must be insane. Need to send them to the shrinks.

Oh, they are pinning all hopes on Zelensky to defeat Russia when Napoleon and Hitler could not do it with bigger and better trained soldiers and weapons.

Pelosi flirting with Taiwan and war with China

... visiting Taiwan is definitely a red line that Pelosi must never cross. China is resolute in defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and has the right to take forceful measures against "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces and extraterritorial forces at any time in accordance with changes in the situation, including against the trip and Pelosi herself. China has asked the US side not to arrange Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, and stressed that "the US must be fully responsible for all consequences caused by this.  Global Times

The above comments in Global Times cannot be more clear of what China would do if Pelosi dares to visit Taiwan in her trip to Asia. This is the most serious provocation coming from the Americans as they keep ratcheting up their aggressive behaviour against China.

The Americans must be reminded that in 1950, China was a very poor nation, just recovered from a civil war with the KMT, without an industrial base to support any war effort against a foreign enemy like the USA, the most powerful military power of the day. But China bit the bullet and went in to defend North Korea in a war that no one believed it had a chance with its peasant soldiers with no modern weapons against the mighty Americans. The peasant soldiers kicked the asses of the Americans and sent them fleeing.

If China was willing to risk fighting the US for North Korea, Taiwan is a non issue when coming to its defence and reunification. A Pelosi visit to Taiwan would be crossing the Red line and everything would be on the table. How about an interception of her aircraft and bringing it down to a Chinese airfield, or risked being shot down? It is war for sure. And in this case, China would have no choice but to go for it. Xi Jinping too would have to act firmly against the Americans. This would be a big straw that broke the camel's back.

The Americans have no chance against China in a war in the western Pacific Ocean. There is no hinterland to support the logistics and supply chain for the Americans in such a war. China has full control of the sea and airspace in the western Pacific for sure. No one would dare to fight on the side of the Americans against China. Japan would not risk being bombed to the Stone Age. China is waiting for a reason to flatten Japan. Just give China one reason to do it. Australia, the silly little country is as good as useless to think of supporting the USA with its toy weapons of war.

The Americans would have to fight China alone. NATO is too far away and trying to stay in one piece against Russia. This warmongering evil Empire must have wars to support its war industry and to control the world by destabilising the world. They are fighting so many wars at this moment, threatening so many nations, poking their dirty fingers in the domestic affairs of so many countries and spreading the lie that China is the threat, is the aggressive state when China is not doing any of the darn and hostile acts of the Americans.

The world must wake up to this hostile, aggressive and warmongering evil American Empire. This is the real devil, the threat to the rest of the world. Having turned Ukraine into a war zone is not enough, now wanting to turn Taiwan into another war zone. Taiwanese, please wake up and throw out the pro Japan and pro American traitors and stop this provocation. It is you that would be killed.

To hell with the white savages.

Ukraine - The unnecessary war that would bring an end to European powers

 The war in Ukraine would be long lasting. The USA wants it badly, as their Military Establishment needed that, though Zelensky wants it more. And as more weapons are sent in, Ukraine is suspected of selling them and claimed they have been destroyed by Russia. Who knows? As they openly admitted, they are said to have no record of tracking those weapon's whereabouts the moment they are moved into Ukraine. Many are guessing where those weapons really ended up, with some even suspecting they are being sold elsewhere. Again, who knows?

Putin, of course, already knew this is going to be a long haul, which is the Russian way of fighting wars. Never mind, since this is almost home ground to him, so all he has to do is just dig in and let the enemy get mired in the mud and unable to extricate itself, even if they want to. Hitler and Napoleon found that out the hard way, mired in deep snow, and met their Waterloo.

Never mind too the Western Media having a field day speculating recently about Putin's ill health, which, as someone commented, is just wishful thinking of trying to create chaos. Russia has capable people to take over from Putin, even more hardcore leaders in waiting, unlike the USA scrapping the bottom of the barrel, with Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi, two female clowns vying for power. Looks like the two dinosaurs. Trump and Biden, are not going against each other again. One destroyed by the court over the January riots and the other progressively more mentally unsound and deranged.

Right now, who is really suffering the most? UK and Europe are now cooked by high temperatures. Oil and gas prices are still high and amid the high temperatures, air conditioning is said to be rationed in some European countries. Why do they choose all this when they could easily have continued with good relations with Russia and get cheap oil and gas. They dug their own graves without thinking of the consequences.

We have not seen Putin's nuclear option yet, as Winter is closing in and heating becomes the next big problem for Europe. Putin is making sure they have little avenue to stockpile oil and gas, by keeping Nord Stream 1 in hibernation, and Germany choosing to strangle itself by stopping Nord Stream 2's operation under orders from the USA.

How bad it is in Europe, just do not believe what their Government and MSM is trying to say, by arrogantly claiming they are capable of being able to cope with Russia's total cut off of energy by year end. Russia is not going to wait until year end! Putin is one step ahead of those European morons in his strategic planning. Ursula von de Leyen should stop trying to engage Putin in Russian roulette. Putin is treating their actions as child's play.

We should know perfectly well by now that Governments wants their own people to know only what they want them to know, and not what people really wants to know. Same with the MSM news. All are selectively propagandising, not necessarily lying per se.

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Derivatives would cause US banking collapse

Before they can deal with inflation successfully, they have to resort to very serious measures like reining in money supply with the Fed increasing interest rates more aggressively, which they are contemplating. I would say that that is more likely a high certainty and with it a big recession is on the way globally. Oil and gas is just one factor contributing to the high inflation around most of the Western economies. There are much more to tackle than just starting to speculate that inflation would ease by 2023.

We are just having a glimpse of the tip of the economic problems plaguing the world. There is the larger problem of the Western Banking System's preoccupation with derivatives over the last few decades, and Big Banks are now in deep shit over the derivatives issue that has yet to be seen in perspective.

How much more money is generated with those derivatives is beyond imagination, and it looks a doomsday time bomb waiting to explode. Nothing about that is touched yet, because they think that by not discussing it, the problem is not there. It is there and how it will unwind is waiting to be seen. That will come when the US$ hegemony comes to an end. Then the shit will hit the fan in all it's glory. Lehman Brother's and Freddie Mae's collapse will feel like a Sunday walk in the park.

Anonymous 

World War 3 already started, very clinical

The Ukraine conflict is in fact already a world war, given that the West is fighting Russia via its proxies in Kiev, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told local media on Wednesday.

“We should understand that amid the world war – because all the talks that it is a regional or a local war must be dropped – the entire Western world is fighting against Russia via Ukrainians. It is a global conflict,” he said in an interview with Pink TV.  RT

In a way it is true. Serbian President Vucic said the Ukraine War is a world war. Depending on the definition, the whole of western world, US and Europe, is now at war with Russia. It is not just Ukraine at war with Russia.

In a way this is the best way for fighting WW3. Ukraine is the chess board and the combatants just dumped their weapons there, using mercenaries, ie Ukrainian neo Nazis and western contractors and soldiers of fortune to fight on one side, and Russian soldiers on the other side. And the battle zone must be kept within Ukraine with both sides agreeing and abiding to this unwritten rule.

If WW3 can be fought this way, leaving the rest of the world out of the conflict, this is great. Just keep on fighting, keep on pouring more weapons into Ukraine. The rest of the world can watch and enjoy the fight from afar. No country needs to be involved unless their silly govts volunteered for it or being volunteered by the US to be in it, with us or against us.

With the destructive nature of nuclear weapons in a world war unlimited, the Ukraine War should be the recommended way to slug it out by willing combatants. Just leave the rest of the world alone. They happy, the rest of the world happy. Nice. The Americans and their military industrial complex would be very happy, can squeeze more money from Congress to fund the war and buy their weapons. Zelensky and his Nazis would be happy collecting more money from the Americans and the West. Russia would be happy to just lob bombs into Ukraine in areas outside of its control. No need to send too many Russian soldiers into battle fields and with tacit support from the rest of the world.

What more can the world ask for? Just keep the world war in Ukraine, like playing chess. The rest of the world can go on life as normal. But beware, the Americans are all out to start a war with China.