US economic colonization of Ukraine

Quite shocking details of Trump’s proposal. It’s not just the rare/critical minerals of Ukraine, but everything from oil, gas, agricultural land, ports and other infrastructure!

And all the agreements will be governed by US laws!

US will take 50% of all revenues received by Ukraine from extraction of resources and will have a right of first refusal for the purchase of exportable minerals.

As one official put it, US proposal means ‘pay us first, and then feed your children.’

The American deal for Ukraine is worse than the financial penalties imposed on Germany and Japan after their defeat in 1945!

Anonymous

Vance - Threat to Europe is not China or Russia, but within, ie the USA

 Trump is desperately trying to find avenues to save costs to fund his tax cuts for the super-rich like himself and Elon Musk. He is cutting Federal spending, dismantling foreign aid body spending, wants to cut USA military spending by half, raising tariffs on every Tom, Dick and Harry. All that gloating about cutting costs is just to fulfil his promised tax cuts for the rich.

The unsaid narrative is that it all comes at the expense of the country's National Security, the burden added to USA citizen's cost of living, the further isolation of the USA even among allies and cronies like India. Trump is really going to be the President to destroy the USA, something he was supposed to have done during his first term according to a prophecy. Is the prophecy coming true?

Did anybody read anything between the lines about J. D. Vance telling the Europeans that their threat is not from Russia or China, but from within? What is his real message and why has the narrative suddenly been changed? Isn't Russia the perennial threat touted by the USA for decades? This has some relevance to the touted cuts in miliary spending by the USA and Vance is just making a speech to fit the USA agenda.

Without all these funding cuts, how is Trump going to fund his tax cuts for the rich? China and Japan are no longer buying USA treasuries to help the USA to print more toilet papers. China in actuality should not be buying USA treasuries or USA assets to help the USA with the means to target China economically and militarily. Helping the enemy is an unproductive gesture, no matter how lucrative the returns may be.

Anonymous

Trump calls the shot

 Another stampede resulting in fatalities at a train station bringing Indians to the Hindu Festival just happened. Lessons are never learned in India and disasters happen all the time.

A bromance is blooming between Trump and Modi, or so we think. Trump is all about 'USA first' and he still wants to Make America Great Again, doing everything in that direction, even pushing long standing allies under the bus. Modi is looking at MIGA or Make India Great Again. They complement each other, each is going to make the other great again, or so they think.

Europe was the die-hard ally of the USA through thick and thin, even willing to commit economic suicide to help the USA. What did Europe get in return? Now the USA is not even sounding out the Europeans while conducting peace talks between Trump and Putin regarding Ukraine. The Europeans are mad and calling 'any quick fix is a dirty deal'. Imagine giving so much aid over the last two years and being described as 'irrelevant' by the NATO dictator.

Having said that, peace talks regarding Ukraine are sometime mind boggling. When Zelenskyy talks about holding peace talks, Russia is excluded. What kind of peace talks are they holding? Now Zelenskyy, being kept away from the peace talk between Trump and Putin, is throwing tantrums about being excluded. Of course, any peace talk without Zelenskyy is as mind boggling as any peace talks set up by Zelenskyy without Putin's participation. It works both ways.

Trump is clearly telling the Europeans it is the USA inside NATO that calls the shots in Europe and the Europeans are just proxies fighting on behalf of the USA in Ukraine. Fancy, after giving so much support to the USA in Ukraine and being told they are irrelevant must be a hard pill to swallow.

Now the Europeans leaders are calling an emergency summit of their own, knowing that they are being thrown under the bus. Too little too late. Now the EU is no longer in a position to strike a bargain with the USA, being economically destroyed and highly dependent of USA energy.

Anonymous

Trump is draining the swamp but risk assassination

 Be like Russia too. Further sanctions do not rattle Putin. Tariffs will not work against Russia that is exporting nothing to the USA, on the surface of course. Under the radar, we know that some very essential elements like enriched Uranium for nuclear power plants are still being imported from Russia. To openly admit that would be making allies ask big questions about all the fallacies of sanctioning Russia wholesale.

People no longer bite the propaganda regarding Putin's ill health. Putin was supposed to have passed away long ago, but he appears as healthy as before and probably is still a martial arts proponent and is not dying. He may outlive Biden and Trump; the latter looks terrible over the last couple of years.

If you are aware of the long-standing hype regarding 'The Collapse of China' as gloated by charlatan Gordon Chang, you will understand the purpose of such negative news, which all are being generated by a propaganda machine funded by the USA. Trump probably already knows the useless nature of such propaganda and that they are money wasting and doing nothing positive and is disbanding them piece by piece.

Trump is even going after the CIA and FBI, which begs the question of how long he is going to survive without being assassinated. These are very dangerous entities, with assassinations inside and outside the USA part of their dirty portfolios. The CIA was called the 'assassination arm' of the USA Government, or should I say the Deep State instead.

War mongers in the USA and Netanyahu are probably waiting for that to happen, given the justification to go after Iran to start another war. Trump is setting the time bomb for this to happen, having said that if he is assassinated, the USA should go after Iran as being responsible.

Anonymous

RedNote and Nezha 2 have shown that learning Chinese is easy

 The Americans are starting to want to learn Chinese. All the RedNote visitors are now familiar and can speak at least 3 Chinese words, Xiao Hong Shu, 小红书. Many have gone on to speak Chinese at best they could in RedNote. And many are very eloquent and good with an excellent command of Chinese vocabulary. Can you beat that?  The Americans are not complaining that it is difficult to learn Chinese, unlike the bananas.

Actually, Chinese is quite easy to learn as each word has one syllabus eg ni hao, Zhong Quo, not tongue twisters. It is short and sharp. When there is an interest in a language, and a desire to learn, it becomes very easy. There are so many westerners, Africans, Indians, Arabs, Russians, Ukrainians, all speaking very good Chinese, much better than me many times over. It is quite embarrassing for a Chinese to claim that Chinese is a very difficult language to learn. 1.4 billion Chinese are using the language in China and many more millions are using it in the diaspora. And the language has been passed down, alive and used actively for millennia.

It is now very cool to learn Chinese and to speak Chinese. RedNote has started the ball rolling, opening up the gate of curiosity. Nezha 2 has added an interesting cultural flavour to the Chinese language and culture. And the rise of China as a rich and peaceful country, with many attractions, great food at great prices, are powerful forces pulling the westerners and people of the world to want to know more about China. And the best place to start is learning the language. 

5,000 years of knowledge, philosophy, culture, history and mythologies are waiting to be explored. Both RedNote and Nezha 2 have shown the world a different dimension of China that is fascinating, very welcoming and very real that they have been missing, blocked out by western media biases and negative propaganda for so long.

The opening up of China with visa free visits is right timing for the people of the world to see what China really is, how the Chinese are living in China.