Ukraine - Evil US refuses peace but blames Russia for it

USA's chip war on China is going to backfire. Just wait. Toyota of Japan cut production of cars by 40% in Septemeber, and that just gives an idea what it will be like going forward. Cars do not need high end chips anyway, so what is the issue?

Chip war will affect many Asian countries like South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, themselves chip producers. But they have still to depend on raw materials for making chips from who? Mainly Russia and Eastern Ukraine, for Neon and Palladium. Being considered non-friendly countries by Russia, what do they expect. China will of course be able to get Russian raw materials, as they now have an agreement for chip co-operation with Russia. Will the USA help South Korea, Japan and Taiwan when the USA itself has to rely mainly on some raw materials from Russia and Ukraine as well? Sure, the USA can supply, but at what price?

Just as Europeans were banking on the USA to supply them oil and gas, it was a evil ploy and they were suckered into buying USA oil and gas, at four to five times the price they could have sourced from Russia. Now crying foul, but they deserve the treatment without having a plan as to how they can overcome the shortage.

Following the USA blindfolded is not the way, and proven costly, even if they are allies. The USA does not treat them as allies and their own interest is the only thing they care about, and so it is slaughtering the Europeans like enemies. Does that prove that Kissinger's warning that 'to be a friend of the USA is fatal'. Well, I do think so.

Now, Olaf Schulz is going to China and already they are howling and warning him not to act unilaterally in dealing with China. Schulz obviously has taken the advice of Angela Merkel and knows that Germany cannot decouple from China. It would be catastrophic. The fact that Schulz is going to China alone, shows that all is not well in the EU, as far as unity is concern. We have also seen that Hungary still honours it's good relations with Russia and ignoring the USA's and Nato's coercion.

Meanwhile the USA is said to be restoring defence talks with Russia, but as usual, start with antagonising Russia and saying Russia is not interested in talking about ending the war in Ukraine. Does that needed to be said? When Ukraine and Russia reached agreement to stop the war in March/April after negotiations, the USA and UK scuttled the agreement, with Boris Johnson the main instigator.

Now why would Russia want to talk about ending the war, when what the USA and UK did earlier, makes talking about ending the war an exercise in futility. The USA is trying to show their hypocritical stand of showing the world that they want peace in Ukraine, which is totally and diametrically opposed to their real intention of keeping the war going. There is really no sincerity in their approach of wanting peace, when they keep pouring weapons and aid to Ukraine.

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Shameless bullying and hypocrisy of the Americans over North Korea

Worldwide nuclear testing totals by country

Country Tests, Devices fired 

USA 1,032, 1,132 
USSR 727, 981 
UK 88,  88 
France 217,  217 
China  47,  48 
India 4,  6 
Pakistan  2,  6 
North Korea 6,  6 

The above statistics show the great discrepancies in the number of nuclear devices tested and fired by the respective countries. The Americans have tested and fired more than a thousand nuclear devices. On the other hand the North Koreans have tested and fired 6 miserable nuclear devices. But the Americans have been using the western media to demonise the North Koreans as the most dangerous nuclear threat 'to the world'. And many silly American stooges also repeated this as if it is real, that the North Koreans are going to fire nuclear weapons at them, for what?

North Korea would also have to think very seriously to even attempt to fire at the Americans as any such move would see North Korea being vaporised by the Americans. The handful of nuclear devices possessed by the North Koreans cannot be a threat to anyone but only as a deterrent against the Americans using nuclear weapons on them. It is a case of if the Americans fired at the North Koreans, the latter would say I would take some American cities with me, even one would be good enough, to tell the Americans it is not a free punch.

Given the disproportional number of nuclear devices, how many silly American stooges still believe the North Koreans are a threat to the world, to them?

The American propaganda machine may blast at full volume every time the North Koreans test fire a missile, but the reality, the odds against them are just too high that they would be inviting death to their whole population. It is a malicious American lie, a myth that the Americans are spreading to frighten the unthinking stooges and to coerce them to sing along, North Korea is a threat.

The Americans are the real threat to the North Koreans and to the rest of the world given their huge possession of nuclear weapons and the savage instinct to want to use it. Now they are exercising on the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine against the Russians. These primitive savages only believe in killings and destructions to protect their own interests. Killing others is second nature to savages.

Stop listening to the American lies and mischiefs.

Evil American Empire's undeclared economic war with China

Imagine that a superpower declared war on a great power and nobody noticed. Joe Biden this month launched a full-blown economic war on China — all but committing the US to stopping its rise — and for the most part, Americans did not react.

History is likely to record Biden’s move as the moment when US-China rivalry came out of the closet. America is now pledged to do everything short of fighting an actual war to stop China’s rise.

It is not clear that corporate America, or its foreign counterparts, have fully digested what is about to hit them. For decades, serious businesses have based their growth models on having a China strategy — whether it be by exporting to China, or producing there, or both. Unless a company’s product is, say, luxury goods or agricultural commodities, Biden’s technological decoupling will hit their bottom line. His escalation also marks a final break with decades of US foreign policy that assumed China’s global integration would tame its rise as a great power.

America’s conversion to China containment is bipartisan. It was one thing for Donald Trump to target Huawei and ZTE, the Chinese telecoms conglomerates, and aim for managed trade. It is another for Trump’s Democratic successor to isolate China’s entire high-tech sector. It is notable there are no prominent voices raised in either political party against US-China decoupling. Washington’s China politics is now about which party can get more to the right of the other.

There are two big risks to Biden’s gamble. The first is that America is now close to making regime change in China its implicit goal. The new restrictions are not confined to the export of high-end US semiconductor chips. They extend to any advanced chips made with US equipment. This incorporates almost every non-Chinese high-end exporter, whether based in Taiwan, South Korea or the Netherlands. The ban also extends to “US persons”, which includes green card holders as well as US citizens. That presents a binary choice between America or China. Most will choose the US. But there are tens of thousands of Chinese green card holders who will now be inclined to believe Beijing’s claim that there can be no such thing as divided loyalty.

The hit to China’s economy will be far bigger than the word “semiconductor” implies. Biden’s move draws on the premise that any advanced chip can be used by China’s military, including for nuclear weapon and hypersonic missile development. It is also meant to undercut China’s goal of dominating global artificial intelligence by 2030. But all such chips are dual use, which means that the US is now committed to blocking China in all kinds of civilian technologies that make up a modern economy.

In Chinese eyes, it will look like the US wants to keep communist China permanently down. It is no great leap from that to regime change.

The more imminent risk is that Biden’s gamble could prompt Xi Jinping, China’s president, to accelerate his timetable for Taiwan reunification. The island state is by far the world’s largest maker of high-end chips. That Biden’s move took place shortly before China’s 20th party congress, which ends on Saturday with a likely third five-year term for Xi, is notable. Many China watchers think Xi wanted to put the party congress behind him before turning to his vow of fixing the Taiwan problem. Biden could have made a violent resolution to China’s Taiwan policy more likely. He could equally have given Xi pause for thought. We will find out.

What we do know is that national security is once again the lens through which Washington sees the world. Rest in peace “the world is flat” and the “end of history”. The US has endorsed a zero-sum metric in which China’s rise is seen as being at America’s expense. You could say that Biden is belatedly reacting to what China has been talking about for years — with increasing unsubtlety by Xi. But that is hardly reassuring. It means that the world’s hegemon and its only serious rival now see each other through the same lens. As is usually the case in history, nobody else gets much of a say.

 Anonymous 

Liz Truss resigned - Indian ministers leaving UK Parliament

 Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, Alok Sharma, Sajid Javid, these are names of Indian ministers and MPs in the UK cabinet. Some have resigned while some could still be in the British Parliament. They were doing very well and within a short span of a few months, in the last days of Boris Johnson and now Liz Truss, it seems that they were quite willing to quit their jobs as elected representative or ministers of the British Parliament.

These are the best of the British politicians available today and it would be a big waste. Ok, these I mean the Indian ministers and MPs, not Boris, not Liz Truss. Are they planning to make a come back or quit politics for the time being? These are top talents, would definitely be welcomed in Singapore as top foreign political talents. If they were to come to Singapore, and get elected, if they could get a pink IC, they would definitely give our Parliament a big boost in foreign talents.

Did they know that Singapore's door for top foreign talents is fully wide open? Singapore is pushing ahead to recruit real top talents, earning $30,000 pm minimum. Not sure if it includes political talents. Oh, not sure if they earn $30,000 pm to qualify.

They need not join the ruling party. They could join the opposition parties as there is a dearth of good and experienced political leaders in the many opposition parties.  Ooops, it is the ruling party that is welcoming foreign talents. Not sure if the opposition parties would also play by this mantra and welcome foreign talents. 

Indian political talents have an added advantage. They have been proven to be very good politicians locally. And Indians have been the choice candidates for top jobs here. Now these are not the normal Indians from India, but battle proven top Indian talents from the UK, our colonial masters. They have proven to be as good as our colonial masters in their home ground. Must be really good. Very impressive.

And in Rishi Sunak, there is a PM material, a potential PM.

What do you think?

PS. Maybe Singapore should lay out a red carpet to welcome them.

This is the best of Britain. And no one else is better than him, oops, no one else except Rishi Sunak, to be good enough to be the PM of Britain.

White savages considering using nukes (going M.A.D.)

'If you are a Russian military planner, you realize that M.A.D is no longer a reality. In the event that Russia believed it faced a genuine existential threat from the West from a nuclear strike, even a tactical hit, the Russian military could present President Putin with a viable plan that would destroy the U.S. nuclear response with limited (albeit horrific) damage to Russia. I am not suggesting that Russia would walk away unscathed. But Russia, with a field tested, integrated anti-ballistic missile defense system, would have a better than even chance of surviving a nuclear exchange with the United States.I will repeat–this is a last resort action and I am steadfastly opposed to it. But I think it should be part of the public discussion. Too many ignorant pundits and politicians in the West disparage Russia’s military capabilities as second rate at best.'

'United States realized that a very real technological gap growing, both in missile and anti-missile systems, which creates a rationale for the US to use a first strike as a preventive measure. It doesn't mean that the probability of these scenarios are high, but they are not trivial either. However the Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.) is pretty much a dying concept against new Russian technologies being rolled out and deployed in industrial quantities.'

'The S-500 is designed to destroy all existing and prospective means of aerospace attack of a potential enemy in the entire range of altitudes and speeds.'

Why? 'Cos the US "elite" (Ivy League) universities produce imbeciles. So do London "elite" education. E.G. why the U.K. is over:

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has now emerged as the Conservative Party's most popular potential replacement for the current head of government, Liz Truss, a new YouGov poll has shown. The survey, which was conducted on October 17-18, revealed that 32% of respondents would like Johnson to return as prime minister, despite a series of scandals and cabinet resignations that precipitated his eventual departure. “Those who voted for Truss to take over are particularly keen on a Boris Johnson return if she left: 44% put him top of their list of potential successors,” the pollsters noted.

Link to article: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/

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