Every sector of American economy is declining except chips. But the Washington clowns are killing the chip industry

 Next on the chopping block will be South Korea. Every one of them will be forced to buy more Boeing planes and agricultural products to save the USA agricultural sector now in deep trouble. Agriculture is as much a National Security Issue for the USA, because if more farmers go out of business, the USA will face a food crisis. It is so ironic that the USA, once the food bowl of the world, is now producing food that the world does not want.

Brazil, Argentina and Russia are hitching a ride on the food bonanza wagon, with China the market that they had been looking forward to selling to and is now becoming a reality. As farming grows in these three countries, we are seeing a corresponding decline in the USA agricultural sector. How the world has changed!

India and Japan are now being forced to buy rice from the USA, which is just like carrying coal to Newcastle in the old days. Newcastle produces so much coal itself and is an exercise in futility. India is the second biggest rice producer in the world, with Indian farmers surviving on that staple alone. Indians take to their own variety of rice, and I wonder how those USA rice will figure in their diet. Taking away their livelihood is going to create a massive problem for Indian farmers going forward with imported USA rice. But Trump does not care so long as it the USA's interests that he wants to take care of first.

Talking about Japan, I would not know how they are going to use USA rice to make Japanese sushi. I never like Japanese sushi, so I am not one to comment. Should be possible, but will the Japanese take to it.

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Thai Cambodian border clash. Who is the provocateur? Who is the beneficiary?

 ASEAN has enjoyed more than 50 years of peace after the French and Americans fled from Vietnam. This peace is not easy to maintain with the white savages trying to start another war to destabilise the region. Mickey Marcos has been in the forefront aiding the Americans to start a war in the South China Sea. China has to exercise great restraint and endured the silly provocation of this Mickey Mouse to avoid an open conflict. But China's patience is wearing thin as the provocations get more serious with the Mickey Mouse allowing the American terrorists to deployed nuclear missiles in their islands to target China.

Now the unexpected has happened. The temple dispute between Thailand and Cambodia was settled in  1962 when the UN passed judgement that it belonged to Cambodia. Since then the Thais had been unhappy about this and occasionally raised the issue with small skirmishes between the border police. This time it blew up into open conflict with deaths on both sides. Now artillery and fighter bombers are being used and the conflict is escalating into an open war.

Who is the real culprit behind this escalation? The Thais or the Cambodians? A better way to understand the real troublemaker is to ask, who is the beneficiary of this conflict or who would want to see the Thais and Cambodians fighting in an open war, and destroying the peace in SE Asia?

Some Asean people are easily bribed by provocateurs to want to go to war for personal benefits instead of the interests of the nation and people. The Thai and Cambodian people must not be misled and easily aroused to go against each other and create another Ukraine in the region. War is only good for the warmongering tribes, the savages. Asean people should be sensible and remain calm in the face of such provocation and not become pawns of foreign powers.

In such a war, the people that died would be Thais and Cambodians. Their economy and lives would be adversedly affected while the mastermind would be laughing from afar and would come in to offer arms for sale to profit from the war.

Stop being silly and go back to the negotiating table and talk. ASEAN now has something to be busy about, something to meddle with other than the internal affairs of Myanmar. This is a matter that ASEAN must take an active role to avoid a war between its members.

The rise and rise of Muslim states

 Shakespeare wrote, some were born great, some achieved greatness, some have greatness thrusted upon them. For centuries, after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the last Muslim Empire, the Muslim states were totally under the control of the western powers. They were divided up and ruled, manipulated to distrust each other and to fight each other endlessly. Their cultural and religious differences were exploited to the full by the western powers to sow enmity and suspicion among the Muslim and Arab states. QED. Some Middle Eastern Arab and Muslim states may be rich with oil, but they were never independent, never allowed to be independent, to be free. They were captive states of the western powers, made to do the bidding of the West, made to support the western powers to fight their brothers and sisters. No Arab and Muslim state could call itself a regional power. They just exist under the grace and mercy of the western powers.

The Americans and the western powers destroyed the Arab and Muslim states in many wars. Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Iran etc etc were attacked and weakened periodically, never the rich and powerful states they once were. No more Egyptian Empire, no more Persian Empire, no more Ottoman Empire. The Muslim world was no better than the African states.

Pakistan, the only Muslim nuclear power was temporarily tolerated and could be taken out anytime, by the Americans, the Israelis and India. No Muslim state must be allowed to become a nuclear power. This is the white men's world order. Then came Operation Sindoor. India thought it was now the military superpower in South Asia with the acquisition of Europe's best fighter aircraft, the Rafales. India believed that the Rafales could take down all Chinese aircraft. The Chinese aircraft were simply no match to the best European aircraft, the Rafales according to western narratives.

The first mission was to take down Pakistan, now considered a much weaker country militarily with not the best Chinese aircraft. Taking down Pakistan was a piece of cake. And the Americans and Israelis were all behind India, to get rid of Pakistan's nuclear capability, the Muslim nuclear threat. A false flag incident was cooked with a so called terrorist attack in Kashmir. India insisted that it was Pakistan behind it and would not listen to any explanation, and launched an attack they thought would be a sure win, and with the Americans and Israelis fully behind India, providing military and logistic support, plus GPS.

Pakistan did not think it could win a war with the Indians. It was a much smaller country and smaller in everything else. Pakistan did not want this war. It was not ready for it. It was India, the Americans and Israel that wanted this war. The war was thrusted upon an unwilling Pakistan and all factors pointing to a Pakistan defeat. Never would the Indians, Americans and Israelis believe that the weapon systems provided by China were actually more superior and effective than anything the Indians have. The rest is history.

Pakistan gave India a big thrashing without losing an aircraft or a pilot. The defeat of the Indian Air Force was humiliating. The delusion that India was then the most powerful air force in the region, air superiority, with world best fighters to control the sky, went up in smokes. Pakistan announced a 6-0 victory over the Indian Air Force. Some sources said it was 9-0. In a short 4 day war, Pakistan is now recognised as a formidable regional power, capable of taming the IAF without sweating the small stuff. Pakistan is a Muslim state that could defeat a non Muslim power, the superpower of the future, India.

This victory was followed by Iran's destruction of Israel with super accurate hypersonic missiles, rockets and drones. This is unbelieveable. No one think it was possible. Israel is the invincible super regional power in the Middle East, ruling and bullying all the Arab and Muslim states. The name Israel sends fears to all the Arab and Muslim leaders. Israel only talked about attacking this or that Arab or Muslim state knowing that none would dare to hit back. Israel only assassinates and kills Arab and Muslim leaders and none would fight back. Iran not only hit back, but with deadly force, destroying many Israeli cities and their military facilities. How bad was the damage, only the Israelis know, and they called for an immediate ceasefire. Only losers called for ceasefire. 

The whole world saw the collapse of the Israeli myth of invincibility. The whole world saw what Iran is capable off, fighting Israel and the Americans and still standing. The Americans and Israelis must be planning and rethinking how to attack Iran again. But they know it is not that easy. China and Russia would not allow Iran to fall. Period.

Then there are the little but mighty Houthis taking on the world's number one terrorist state, the USA, attacking their carrier strike group and keeping them away from the Middle East, unable to transit the Strait of Bab el Mandeb. A group of slipper wearing freedom fighters could take control over a strait and the Americans could not do anything about it. This is really David against Goliath. The Houthis or Yemenis have risen as a regional power, a formidable Muslim force to take on the Americans.

Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are bidding their time quietly on the sideline, stocking up all the necessary weapons needed for a war against the Israelis and the western powers, a war that will come, sooner or later. The Americans and the West did not see this coming, that the Arab and Muslim states are now not pushovers and can fight back. The Arab and Muslim states would only grow stronger by the day, and with China and Russia fully behind them, to provide them with real weapons, superior weapons they need to fight and win a war against the Americans and Israelis. 

No longer would they be forced to buy substandard or downgraded weapons from the Americans and the West to fight a losing war against the Americans and Israel. They will have the best weapons, real weapons, to fight and win. The Arab and Muslim leaders are not stupid to want to continue to be bullied and duped by the Americans and the West into buying weapons that are inferior, and aircraft that can be switched off in midair. No more humiliating 6 Day War, Yom Kippur etc etc. The next Arab and Muslim war against the Americans and Israelis would be fought fairly with real weapons and not toy guns that the Americans sold to them.

Pakistan, Iran and the Houthis have proven that they can win wars against the Americans, Israelis and the West. They are not to be taken for granted.

Trump is merciless against India and Japan

India folds under tariff negotiations with the USA, no matter how Trump wants to sell his snake oil and Modi wants to rub those snake oil on his body. Now India has to buy more Boeing planes and rice from the USA. India is already the world's second biggest grower of rice and is exporting rice itself. What is in it for Indian rice farmers? Waiting for death is the probable consequence.

The USA agricultural sector is dying right before our eyes and Trump is using those tariff negotiations to force other countries to buy more of USA beef, wheat, rice, soya beans and corn. These are all genetically modified food crops that the EU tried to avoid and is now being dumped into countries like India and Japan.

Japan too folded as expected, as Japan has to depend on the USA market for its motor vehicle exports, with tariffs set at 15% on Japanese vehicles entering the USA market. Japan now has to open up its rice market to the USA, to help the USA agricultural sector now entering a death spiral. Even though PM Shigeru Ishiba claims no quarters have been given, but that must be a joke with 15% tariffs on its cars and being forced to open up its rice market, Japan is in deep trouble.

Now, look at Bong Bong getting a 19% tariff deal from an earlier 20% and thinks he has done the Philippine proud. That wimp has no cards to play going to Washington, just merely to wag his tail. Should have asked Trump whether he can get his hands on his father's ill-gotten wealth now, LOL. More tail wagging might do the trick.

In other words, being allies of the USA carries no advantage when it comes to getting the wrong end of the stick.


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Philippines becoming more like India, bragging about everything but unable to do anything

So many countries are now talking about their rare earth resources and how it will change the global landscape. The Philippines is currently the talk of the town with its discovery of rare earth resources inside the country. China must be rattled, right? Truth be told, rare earth raw materials are plentiful, not at all rare. What is really rare is the processing logistics needed to make them into useful elements. And who has the world's largest processing logistics for all rare earth elements? China of course and no escaping from it.

It is fruitless to talk of how much rare earth raw materials a country has under its feet when there has to be a need to build up the mining and processing logistics that will take decades to come to fruition. Even the USA needs China to do the refining for its rare earth raw materials, so what is the hullaballoo all about? All that talk about mining rare earth under the sea, on the moon and on Mars are just delusional science fiction. With rare earth in abundance in Australia, Vietnam, Mongolia among others, why go to such extreme to mine them and at what costs? Who in the end is going to refine them, which against points to China. Let us not be delusional and swallow all the propaganda that solves nothing. It all boils down to doing it from start to finish to be effective, which no country has the logistical capacity to undertake. Keep the rare earth dream going.


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