Israel will be completely wipe out if Iran unload all it got into Israel

 The strike in retaliation by Iran against the Israeli attack on its embassy in Damascus was a warning that Iran can take down the 'Iron Dome' defense system. The Israelis have considered that scenario in its retaliation, after that Iranian strike, not to cross the line.

The Israeli retaliation also had the same motive - to test the Iranian defense capabilities and Israeli drones were successfully shot down, with little damage being reported. From another angle it was a token move by Israel to regain some of its lost prestige over the Iranian strike, where its airfields were successfully targeted by Iran. Netanyahu had to put on a show to satisfy critics that were pushing him to retaliate.

I think Israel has lost its bearings, is condemned and more isolated, even by countries that were previously sympathetic to its cause. According to Chas Freeman, the former US defense department diplomat in an interview with Nima R. Alkhorshid on the site 'Dialogue Works', Freeman holds the view that Iran's attack on Israel has destroyed all of Israel's calculations.

Elsewhere in interviews, he was also of the view that the USA also lost the last of its influence in the Middle East, after some Muslim allies categorically refused to allow the USA to attempt to use facilities in their territories to station logistics to counter any Iranian counterstrike should Israel cross the Iranian 'Red Line. This was possibly the reason why Israel and the USA did not go on to escalate the conflict with Iran. They knew that their planes need tankers for refueling flying all the way to Iran and back.

Now Israel is back to commit its genocides in Gaza. Even if Israel could take over the Gaza strip and build Israeli settlements there, will it enjoy any peace going forward, with Hezbollah at its doorstep and the remnants of Hamas advocating revenge?

Geopolitics in the Middle East is changing and changing drastically with more violence on the cards.

Anonymous

Reckless behaviour of American terrorists

 When they start to believe in their own propaganda, that is an indication that their thinking is gone bonkers. Their behavior becomes irrational and desperate.

Blinken is going to Beijing for what? This is at the same time that the USA is trying to ban TikTok, BYD, imposing further sanctions on China on chips, after Huawei came out with a new phone, conducting military drills every day with Japan and Philippines and provoking China and North Korea.

The USA is using the same tactic taken from their dusty playbook and trying to show the Anglo-Saxon doggies that it is still in a position of strength before any meeting with China. Blinken has not learnt his lesson in Anchorage, Alaska. The message by Yang Jiechi then was clear and unambiguous regarding China's stand on issues.

Blinken is going to talk to China about helping Russia. Any reason China should not help Russia, while the whole Anglo-Saxon Imperialist clique is pouring resources and military equipment into Ukraine? The USA can forget about trying to split the Russia/China alliance. Borth are the backbone and the foundation of BRICS undertaking the de-dollarization move that they are aiming for decades.

For Russia, there is no turning back. The US$300 billion asset in the West is the last link that Russia will have anything to do with the US$. China is making the Yuan more visible in global trade. Those Yuan swaps with countries in the Middle East and South America are strategic moves. So is the BRI and the AIIB.

As decoupling gets more intense, China will be just like Russia, and has to move in a different direction away from the USA and the West, especially the EU. CEOs of European countries are seeing the whole picture and are expanding their footprints in China to move away while they can.

This is an even worst time to talk about wanting to keep the peace when the USA is going all out to provoke China in every dimension. Why should China believe in what he is going to say, or even follow what he has to say? When your neighbor keeps making trouble for you, would you want to talk to him to make peace when you know it is all hypocrisy? Ridiculous!.

Anonymous

Xunpu traditional dresses on the streets of Quanzhou, China

Many of the ladies visiting Quanzhou would venture to don on the colourful dresses and flower head gears you are seeing below. This traditional dressing style actually came from a fishing village, Xunpu, about 3 or 4 kilometers away from West Street. In the village, even grannies put on the head gear, though of a smaller scale. 

In West Street, Quanzhou, many shops have set up to provide this service, renting out head gears, dresses and makeup services to transform he visitors into a fantasy like existence, like living in another world and time. The whole package could include a photographer accompanied. The beautiful ladies were mostly from other parts of China.

All the pics were taken in the compound of Kai Yuan Temple, West Street and lanes nearby.

 

The truth behind the propaganda war between Iran and Israel on the recent Iranian attack in Israel

 

Scott Ritter: Biden Sent An Ultimatum PROHIBITING Israel From Attacking Iran To SAVE The US Economy

Cancerous USA makes worst by the clowns in Washington

 The USA is now like a cancerous country, rotting from within, unaware of the cancer spreading internally from administration to administration. And this kind of cancer is even harder or impossible to cure, as it is the contagious type, spreading from one leader to another. Cancer is only known to spread inside a person itself, and not from one person to another.

The biggest hurdle preventing a person who has cancer getting cured early is denial, until the cancer gets to the terminal stage and then there is no cure. The USA is going fast and furious in that direction.

The policy failures of the USA policy makers are so apparent, with even ordinary people talking about it, but the leaders just seem to turn a deaf ear and continue to make the same mistake over and over. The USA and the West assumed that sanctions would work on countries of all shapes and sizes and they were wrong. Russia is a perfect example today. Decades of sanctions against North Korea, Cuba and Iran produced little effect as well. Now the biggest mistake is about to be realized and uncovered but already too late to remedy.

Chinese chipmakers have been pushed to the wall by Joe Biden with his Chip's Alliance and sanctions against China, by forcing global chipmakers to keep China away from high-end chips. This is backfiring on the USA and those that swallowed the poisonous potion administered by Biden, claiming that such a move would be better for their fortunes if they take down China in this sector. Now they are finding out the truth, but is it too late? Once China rises in the sector to compete, it is sounding the death knell for all other chipmakers.

China, vis a vis Huawei, SMIC and others are romping ahead in matured and high-end chips, both in research and innovation, at such speed, that it is even now exporting chips, 6 billion pieces to compete with the likes of Intel, Nvidia and others in the global market. This would not have happened if the USA had not tried to force China to be self-reliant and let the USA, Japanese and South Korean chipmakers to continue making those high-end chips and selling them to China and the rest of the world. Now China is evidently self-sufficient in many areas, to the extent that it is able to export chips to the rest of the world. Did the USA, Japanese and South Koreans chipmakers expect that? They must be shell-shocked.

Napolean, more than a century ago made this prediction - 'China is a sleeping giant, let him sleep, for if he awakes, he will shake the world'. The giant has been forced to wake up and is now shaking the world.

Anonymous