Ukraine targeting Putin and Russian leaders

Russian President Vladimir Putin is on Ukraine’s kill list, the deputy chief of the country’s intelligence agency has revealed. Vadim Skibitsky added that his subordinates are also hunting down top Russian military commanders.

Speaking to Germany’s Die Welt media outlet on Wednesday, Skibitsky was asked whether his service is trying to assassinate the Russian head of state. The Ukrainian official replied by saying that President Putin “notices that we’re getting ever closer to him.”

According to Skibitsky, the Ukrainian intelligence service has failed to kill Putin because he “stays holed up,” but added that the Russian commander-in-chief “is now beginning to stick his head out.”

When he does appear publicly, however, the intelligence agency is “not sure whether it’s really him,” Skibitsky insisted.

He added that his subordinates were “trying to kill” Yevgeny Prighozhin, the head of the Wagner private military company.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov have also been marked for elimination by the Ukrainian intelligence service, its deputy chief claimed. RT

Ukraine is publicly admitting and announcing that they are trying to kill Putin and several Russian leaders. On the other hand Putin had spoken to the media and on record that he would not target Zelensky. Now that the Ukrainian position is out in the open, would Putin change his mind and do what the Ukrainians are doing, wanting to kill him and other Russian leaders?

It would be stupid for Putin to tie his own hands when his enemies are trying all means and opportunities to want him dead, to want his peers dead. When the devil strikes, why should decent men act silly and allow the devil to kill him and he did not want to kill the devil?

What do you think? Would it be better to kill a few Ukrainian leaders to let them know Putin could do the same and the Ukrainians better stop their foolishness? Putin needs to act to protect himself and other Russian leaders by decisive actions. Not doing anything is inviting himself and Russian leaders to be killed at will by the Ukrainians and the West, with the latter passing the buck to the Ukrainians.

PS. Russia has targeted the headquarters of the Ukrainian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) in Kiev, President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday.

“We’ve been talking about the possibility of striking the ‘decision-making centers.’ Naturally, Ukraine’s military intelligence headquarters falls into such a category, and it was hit two or three days ago,” Putin stated.  RT

America's biggest export is going down the sewers

 The decline of the American Empire is never more vivid than what is happening to its once huge economy. It was the biggest manufacturers of cars but wiped out by the Japanese. Now almost all the obsolete cars of Ford, GM and Chrysler are Made In China, and about to close and move out with sales disappearing, made irrelevant by China's EVs. The semiconductor industries were exported and only chip designing left standing. The Americans have a 5 year lead just recently but within 2 years, China has caught up and now running ahead with photonic and quantum chip technology leading the Americans. What is so great about 3nm, 1nm chips?

What else is left of America's great export and big income earners? Boeing is crippled and nursing its wound after the failure of Super Max, the killer machine. Who would dare to buy Boeing as a passenger airliner? China, America's biggest buyer of commercial aircraft is buying French Airbus and also making its own. The days of Boeing is also coming to an end. 

Oh, there is still the sports shoes like Nike and iPhones. How long would they last? Nike is no longer Made In America, anywhere except America. And the iPhones days are limited when the industry is hitting saturation point in everything, mobile phone tech, sales, etc all reaching diminishing return. Further, Chinese mobile phones are getting better and cheaper and gaining market share. The iPhones would soon join the Motorolas and Nokias, abandoned and forgotten.

And yes, there is the great war industry for the country that makes war its main business. The more wars the Americans created, the more wars fester, the better the war business. But the world is getting wiser. Who wants to go to war except for the bloodthirsty savages and the deranged mobsters? Ukraine could be the last war on earth though the Americans are working very hard to set up another war in Taiwan. Would the Chinese allow this to happen, to die fighting all because of the American's provocation? Africa, the Middle East, Asia, SE Asia and Latin America and the rest of the world are as peaceful as you can get for once. Except for Sudan and Algeria, the African continent has never enjoy so much peace. So is the Middle East with the exception of the pogrom in Gaza in the Palestine and the American invaders in Syria.

When there is world peace, the American war industry will go out of business. They are fortunate to have the Europeans so willing to fight and die in Ukraine, wasting their valuable resources and funds, and diverting attention from their economies. Good for the American war industry to have one last go at manufacturing more weapons to blow up in Ukraine.  The world should wish the Ukrainians and Europeans well on this last war. Keep it going, just keep it in Europe.

But there is still one big export item that is still alive, but not for long. The biggest export item that is supporting the American economy, other than the war industry, is the sale of the greenback. The Americans have been the biggest exporter of this monopoly money for 6 decades, selling pieces of paper for real money. They could have continue to enjoy exporting these toilet papers for many more years to come if not because of their own stupidity. No matter who or what China and Russia could not, they could not change the special position the American dollar has in the world economy. There is no way to discredit the dollar and bring it down, except...

Only with the help and assistance of stupid and traitorous Americans can the dollar be destroyed. Yes, the jokers in Washington and the White House did it. They have destroyed the credibility and reliability of the dollar completely. Thank goodness, this is a path of no return. And an alternative has been found and will be launched in a few months to drive the final nail into the coffin of the American dollar for good.

The biggest and greatest American export, the greenback, is going to be flushed down the sewers and the end of the evil American Empire will be done with, without firing a shot. This is a war that the Americans have been blindsided, did not see it coming, did not think it will come. But it is coming.

Putin said: You want to play wargames? Lets play with real stuff

Ever wonder why the Chinese Defence Minister, Li Shangfu, refused to meet US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, on the sidelines of the annual defence forum in Singapore? Li knows it is a sheer waste of time, because the USA follows their own rules which others are not privy to be included. Moreover, what they may agree upon, is not certain to be followed when Austin turns around.
Just like USA/UK leaders and journalist prodding South African leaders, as a member of ICC, that it has an obligation to arrest Putin, when he attends the BRICS meeting in August in Cape Town. South African leaders questioned if the ICC or anyone had arrested George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Madelene Albright or Tony Blair over war crimes in Iraq, based on fabricated evidence and murdering millions of innocent women and children. Whenever faced with that question, they tried desperately to interrupt, wriggle away and talk about other issues. So, it was all double standards we are talking about, and the USA and the West thinks the world is dumb enough not to see through their devious ploy.

I believe Putin is now not interested in talks about Ukraine with the USA. He has the upper hand and is not going to be dictated to with false pretences, that were never meant to be followed. Moreover, Putin has warned that Russia, till now, has not yet started with and become serious with Ukraine. That is a strong warning.

And Russia is now playing hardball, by stationing nukes in Belarus and telling those who are with them, that Russia is free to provide them nukes as well. That is a game changer. Nukes in Cuba, Venzuela, Nicaragua and Syria will change the global geopolitical game. Iran may just go ahead with its nuclear program that had been hanging in the balance, without even Russian help.

On a seperate note, North Korea is sending up a 'spy satellite' to monitor USA naval movements around the region, and Japan is threatening to shoot it down, with missiles on the ready in Okinawa. You see how militant the Japanese are nowadays. Japan is trying to resurrect their collapse Empire dream by threatening China, Russia and North Korea, thinking that Satan is behind their back. Japan has not learnt its lesson, even with two nuclear strikes and is asking for more.

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China must not trust ASML - it is also anti China

China must not be distracted by the antics of ASML and maintain a steady path towards the development of its own high end EUV or other chip manufacturing process machines. ASML will crumble in its strategy the moment the USA exerts some pressure on it. Therefore, relying on ASML now, and pulling back on investments in EUV or other chip process developments in high end chips production is a fatal mistake. China must be self reliant, no two ways about it.
ASML had long looked down on China's ability to produce its own high end EUV machines, with the ASML CEO gloatingingly and sarcastically saying that even if ASML gives China the blueprints, China will never be able to do it. Well, China is not just trying to make EUV machines, but is exploring and developing other processes beside EUV to make high end chips eventually. And the Chinese Government is pouring huge resources to make sure it succeeds.

Lately, of course, he changed his tune and said that China's progress in chip machinery development is faster than he expected. When China succeeds in high end chip machinery development, the days of reckoning for ASML will be ugly. Orders for ASML EUV machines from TSMC, Samsung and others will fall, when the Chinese market is totally gone for them, when China manages to make its own high end chip machines to produce chips for its domestic market. Who needs to buy more EUV machines with a market for chips getting smaller without China?

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US won't tolerate China's ban on Micron?

DETROIT: The United States "won't tolerate" China's effective ban on purchases of Micron Technology memory chips and is working closely with allies to address such "economic coercion", US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Saturday (May 27).  CNA

The above are the words of a deranged American politician. And she is not alone. In fact you can count practically every one in Congress and the White House as well. They believe that they are the evil Empire that can bully everyone in the whole world with their economic coercion, sanctions and wars. No one can retaliate or do the same to the evil American Empire. 

They have used unfair and unscrupulous means to attack China and Chinese companies, especially the Chinese tech companies that they are losing out and cannot compete with. They used all kinds of underhand tactics and false logic to ban Chinese companies, even resorting to arrest Meng Wanzhou, Chinese senior executive from Huawei. Such baseless and criminal acts were fair games to the gangsters in Washington and the White House.

China has said enough is enough. There is no point wasting time and effort with crooks and scoundrels. The only language these gangsters understand is tit for tat. China would be pulling out more American companies and ban them from doing business in China. Period. No more need to explain or being courteous to rogues pretending to be national leaders.

There will be more to come. Both can play the same game. It would be better for China to totally decouple with the American and European economies and see who will survive the aftermath. Chinese products are cheap and good and welcome all over the world. The American products are expensive and nothing much better than Chinese goods and would not be competitive. Without China and Chinese consumers, who is going to buy American and European products?

China should tell them good riddance. The American businesses can only blame themselves for being hostile to China, wanting to earn Chinese money and wanting to play rough and behave like gangsters against China. A time must come when the decoupling would be complete. Only China friendly businesses would be allowed to operate in China. 

Then we will see how the rest of the silly and cocky American and European businesses go about selling their overpriced and not too good products to the global South. We shall see the results pretty fast.

Come on America, ban more Chinese companies and see how many more American companies would be banned. China too would not tolerate your bullying and nonsense. Time for China to kick asses.