American terrorists playing 'Follow the leader' game...BRICS countries are following the leader

 Russia is the first country to diligently follow what the Americans are doing in the 'Follow the leader' game. The Americans are telling the Russians, we can expand to Russia's border, place military weapons, including long range missiles along Russia's border. In Ukraine, Russia said no and stepped into stop the American terrorists from endangering the security and sovereignty of Russians and Russia.

In Venezuela, the Russians are doing exactly as what the Americans are doing in Ukraine, placing missiles and military weapons near the American homeland. And the Americans have no reason to say no like in the Cuban Crisis of the 60s. Actually, many did not know that the Americans then were also playing the same dirty game, by placing nuclear weapons in Turkey before the Russians responded by placing same weapons in Cuba. Finally both took a step back and withdrew the nuclear weapons in Turkey and Cuba to avoid an open war.

A slight difference today in Venezuela is that the Russian weapons were defensive in nature, to defend the sky and territorial integrity of Venezuela. But the message is the same. Follow the leader, what the Americans can do, Russians will follow.

In the latest Climate Change Summit in Brazil, COP30, Trump refused to attend, calling Climate Change a con job, a hoax. China, Russia and India followed the leader and their heads of govt too did not attend. Instead they sent lower level ministerial delegation to the Summit. The Americans boycotted the Summit totally.

The Americans are taking the lead in many provocative and hostile behaviours like regime change, allowing the Central Insurgency Agency, CIA operatives to conduct espionage and hostile activities against nation states, funding NGOs to destabilise countries and inciting street demonstration and violence. The American terrorists are telling the world, they can fly their warplanes anywhere they want, sail their warships anywhere they want, to provoke nation states, conduct hostile wargames in the coastal seas or borders of countries they called threat or enemies.

Increasingly, China and Russia, including North Korea and Iran will do the same, following the examples of the American terrorists. China has conducted several freedom of navigation exercises around Japan, off the coast of Alaska, off Guam, and also around the island of Australia. The American terrorists are setting a good example for others to follow and when others did the same, the American terrorists have nothing to say or object. They started the 'Follow the leader' game. Only silly Australia protested when China sailed its warships around Australia for the first time, while Mickey Mouse Australia have been sailing their warships, submarines and warplanes near Chinese border, through the Straits of Taiwan, around and over Chinese islands in the South China Sea. The Aussies can expect China and Russia to do the same more often around Australia going forward. Another flotilla of Chinese warships is on the way to Australia, on freedom of navigation exercise.

The American terrorists' aggressive and belligerent behaviours will only be precedents for other countries to follow, and more military presence will be in Latin America to let the Americans know that they have learnt all the tricks from the American terrorists. The Americans have been deploying their military bases and weapons around China and Russia, and also selling weapons to Taiwan. China, Russia and Iran are also deploying and selling weapons to Latin American states. The Americans are too embarrassed to protest. China, Russia and Iran and also North Korea, are just following the leader.

The American terrorists are setting good examples, good teachers, to teach the world how to behave like American terrorists.

Foreign gold, assets and money are fleeing America and Europe/Switzerland

Most often than not, propaganda is just propaganda and does not reflect reality, and people must not be taken in blindly. As an example, how many countries under sanctions by the USA have collapsed? Has Cuba collapsed? Did North Korea collapse? These are poor countries with no natural resources, yet they managed to survive. So, Russia, a country with immense resources, is going to survive to the chagrin of the USA and the Europeans, no matter what the USA and the Europeans are prepared to throw at them.

As a matter of fact, the Europeans are scrapping the bottom of the barrel for more aid for Ukraine, having to eye greedily at the US$300 billion seized from Russia to fund their commitment. It is not going to work. Russia holds, as collateral, almost US$1 trillion according to estimates, of Western assets still stuck in Russia. When a push comes to a shove, Russia can nationalize those assets and Western owners of those assets in Russia will lose everything.

If the USA and the Europeans do illegally seize those Russian assets instead of keeping them hostage, that will be detrimental to their desire to attract any further foreign investments. It will be cutting the nose to spite the face.


Anonymous

China and Russia collapsing or America collapsing?

Every day we hear about China collapsing, as if the twenty years of collapsing is not enough. China has gone through centuries of turmoil, civil wars, foreign occupation and still intact and growing stronger. This must be a big disappointment for Gordon Chang and other charlatans, hoping to see their prophecy come true. China will still be around, far longer than Gordon Chang can ever hope to stay alive. He will collapse first.

Oh, Russia was also supposed to collapse at the start of the Ukraine War in 2022, but three years into the war, Russia is still able to fire scores of missiles and hundreds of drones into Ukraine, every other day. Does that indicate that Russia has collapsed? And what about the gloating that Russia has no friends and isolated. Just look at the countries taking part in the Victory Day military parade in Russia months ago. Isolated my foot! The USA and the Europeans are fooling themselves that sanctions are doing its job.

Russia has been cut off from SWIFT, yet its economy is still functioning, doing even better than the sanctioning countries, having migrated its settlement system in trade with friendly states like China, away from SWIFT and away from using the US$. That shows to the world that there are alternatives to SWIFT and countries are learning. BRICS especially is showing the way. The usage of US$ by countries and keeping it as a reserve currency is declining faster than usual. Sure, it will be slow, but steady, rather than fast and destructive for the rest of the Global South countries. China does what it always do, looking at the longer-term benefits. Russia is also not to be underestimated by its slow demolition method of dealing with adversaries. Hitler and Napolean are examples of the Russian (or Soviet Union) grinding machine, destroying its enemies' using attrition.


Anonymous

Virgo's December Morning Bread

Beg to differ. It's because the new generation successors have no foresight and just auto piloted rested on their laurels that good times same economy is forever.

Years back should have started massive industrialisation and leaned towards those countries that could invest and transferred their businesses and technologies to our peoples.

Instead of just getting immigrants in building BTOs flats for profits.

Should have industrialised thru China which they the brainwashed ang moh said are wary off and dead adamant like the Whites thought that they are unscrupulous peoples.

Die Die must leaned and joined their camps to curb and contain China!

LKY's foresight that Chinese Singaporeans mastered or at least complement enough to take the initiative to cooperate with China and at least have some of their technologies and know how to our youngsters.

Instead still lay back with colonial Whites mentalities that we are more superior than the PRCs just because we spoke better English.

Haha now PRCs spoke better English than we singlish English

Old Die hards talked to in conversations still thought that once China in 1978 came here to learn from us!

What's a joke! They came just to look see look see your state of so-called development.

Yes, they came to see how we construct our pigeon holes and most Sinkies still thought ai say man we taught them this constructions and they learnt from us.

Never know that the Chinamen told my HDB construction brigades friend that your methods are indeed slow and your so-called engineers and architects still needed so many calculations aids whereas they could just calculated by their mental trainings

That's was only in 1978 and they were still called peasants by the Whites and Overseas Chinkees.

Also the government when they have the first MRT line up should have cajoled and persuaded the young at that time to undergone internships and trainings to have now brigades of highly skilled and competent MRT construction engineers etc able to construct our own and also could even earned foreign revenue by constructing for others.

Instead die Die same obsolete economy of the seaport, the airport, the tourism and all these ad hoc Half naked Exhibition Concerts and MICE summits and Exhibitions. F1 race once a year.

The citizens studied for one quarter their lives and do all these useless platform ad hoc jobs that those countries really have no economy does.

So LKY what's to do already handed down the baton and already no more strength OK lah the Casinos and what's you intended to do!

No eyes see liao, if not M.O.T. also kaput,

So this is the state we are in inland the only way is to have the ten millions in to have an internal economy that gave the revenue to the State.

But without gainfully and real economic employments to generate revenue from abroad from the masses if they still held menial workers jobs you think the country can survive ah?

Anyway no eyes see our time is approaching towards our end and poh chong!


Virgo49

Taiwan - When you know you are Chinese 台湾 - 当你认识你是中国人

 Taiwan is in a confused mess. It is not a country but want to be a country, want to be independent but unable to be independent. It is a breakaway part of China after a civil war. Even their biggest supporter, the world's number one superpower, betrayed them to recognise China as the legitimate China and Taiwan is a part of China. This still did not wake up the Taiwanese to think that the US is still dependable and a trusted friend...when the US betrayed them in the UN, kicked them out of the UN.

The US is using Taiwan as a pawn, a bargaining chip against China in its geopolitical contest for world dominance. The Taiwanese know this, but die, die want to be the pawn and to be exploited by the Americans, cheated by the Americans, blackmailed by the Americans, extorted by the Americans, to live a pariah existence as a non state, a non entity in the community of nation states.

The Taiwanese even choose to be the doggies of the Japanese, the people that massacred and colonised Taiwan for 50 years, treating the Taiwanese as second or third class citizens, forcing them to become Japanese, NOT Chinese, NOT Taiwanese. And they are grudgingly trying to live with such a pathetic existence, with no pride and no dignity.

And to put up a farcical existence, they bribed a few little islands in the Pacific Ocean just to pretend they have friends. These island states happily squeezed whatever free money they could get from a hapless and desperate Taiwan, the money that Taiwan needs not waste, that they can use for their own people and country.

China's term for reunification is simple. Just acknowledge that Taiwan is a part of China, and everything can be discussed under the sky, including self rule, or nothing changes other than in name. But the separatists would not budge, insisted to want to be independent from the Motherland, an option that cannot be realised, especially when China is getting more powerful and prosperous by the day, and when reunification is a forgone conclusion, only how, by force or peacefully.

For now, the Taiwanese can only live in fear, in anxiety, uncertainties, with limited access to the world, limited opportunities and like frogs in a well.

The new KMT leader, Zheng Liwen, 郑丽文， has bravely defied all critics and threats and called herself a Chinese，我是中国人， and wanted to pursue talks with China on reunification.

When the Taiwanese recognised that they are Chinese, called themselves Chinese, the door is flung wide open, and a bright future lies ahead. They do not need to be seek protection and solace in a country that betrayed them, the USA, no need to be extorted and robbed of all their national reserves, no need to send their only treasure, the TSMC, to America. They need not bow and be treated with disgust by the Americans, like beggars or hapless orphans.

When the Taiwanese called themselves Chinese, they do not have to become running dogs of the Japanese, do not have to become traitors to their Motherland, do not have to disown their ancestors. Do not have to be held at ransom by the Americans, the Japanese and the little Pacific Islanders, laughing at how silly they are and parting with their money when demanded.

When the Taiwanese called themselves Chinese, all the contradictions, problems and distrust, obstacles, would disappear immediately. Reunification with China is returning home, a glorious thing to be proud of. Returning to the Motherland will ensure a bright, prosperous and secure future, no more uncertainties, no more fear of war. The young people can move freely in a bigger China to develop their fullest potential, businesses would flourish with no restraint. The Taiwanese can proudly call themselves as Chinese, the people from a proud and prosperous China, a superpower, and a rich tradition and Civilisation of several thousand years. They can walk and travel freely around the world with respect and dignity. The future of being Chinese is full of hope and aspirations, bright and clear. The world is an oyster with unlimited opportunities.

To be a Chinese is a glorious and envious thing. Many people would want to be a Chinese. No one would want to be a Taiwanese, be traitors to their Motherland and a shame to their ancestors.

当台湾人认同自己是中国人，并称自己为中国人时，大门就会大开，光明的未来就在前方。他们不需要在背叛自己的国家——美国——寻找保护和安慰，不需要被勒索并夺走所有国家储备，不需要把他们唯一的宝贝——台积电——送到美国。他们也不需要像乞丐或可怜的孤儿一样向美国人卑躬屈膝，被厌恶地对待。

当台湾人称自己为中国人时，他们不必成为日本的走狗，不必成为祖国的叛徒，不必否认祖先。不必被美国人、日本人以及太平洋的小岛国家进行人质式的操控，被嘲笑愚蠢，被迫交出金钱。

当台湾人称自己为中国人时，所有的矛盾和不信任、障碍都会立即消失。与中国的统一就是回家，是值得骄傲的光荣事情。回到祖国将确保一个光明、繁荣和安全的未来，不再有不确定性，不再恐惧战争。年轻人可以在更大的中国自由发展，充分发挥他们的潜力，商业将无限繁荣。台湾人可以自豪地称自己为中国人，来自一个自豪和繁荣的中国，一个超级大国，拥有数千年的丰富传统和文明。他们可以自信而有尊严地在世界各地行走和旅行。作为中国人的未来充满希望和理想，光明而清晰。世界是一个充满无限机会的舞台。

成为中国人是一件光荣和值得羡慕的事情。许多人都想成为中国人。没有人会想成为台湾人，成为祖国的叛徒，成为祖先的耻辱。