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"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James MadisonEmpire's proxy war on Russia is rapidly coming to a head in Ukraine and the imperial guard might urgently need a new war. Their next target is China and once more we witness a relentless escalation of provocations and hostility. In his Wall Street Journal column this week, former National Security Advisor John Bolton laid out his "grand strategy" to confront Russia and China. His genius idea is to give Taiwan "much more military aid" from western nations and "embed Taipei into collective-defense structures."
"Why have we achieved the level of success we've achieved in Ukraine? ... because after Russian aggression in 2014 and 2015, we earnestly got after preparing for future conflict: training for the Ukrainians, pre-positioning of supplies, identification of sites from which we could operate support, sustain operations. We call that setting the theatre. And we are setting the theatre in Japan, in the Philippines, in other locations."In other words, the US is creating the same conditions to draw China into a war over Taiwan in order to replicate the success they've had in Ukraine. Truly, whom gods would destroy, they first make them mad.
This is an enemy with whom you can't negotiate, since he has only one goal: total annihilation.Unfortunately, this seems to be the conclusion that Russia and its allies have come to. To preserve themselves and the vision they have for humanity, it is necessary to neuter the rabid West, not through physical annihilation, but by economic and 'soft' military means. Both are being accomplished through the formation of new, independent trade blocs that dispense with the need for the dollar, and the catastrophic drawdown of the West's military inventory through Russian attrition tactics in Ukraine. Brian Berletic's New Atlas channel details the latter in meticulous detail.
We were waiting for the end of the worldWe cannot even begin to fathom the non-stop ripple effects deriving from the 2023 geopolitical earthquake that shook the world: Putin and Xi, in Moscow, de facto signaling the beginning of the end of Pax Americana.
Waiting for the end of the world, waiting for the end of the world
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope You're coming
'Cause You really started something
- Elvis Costello, Waiting for the End of the World, 1977
"We are fueling a proxy war in Ukraine in order to defend freedom, such as the freedom to censor dissenting views on our proxy war in Ukraine" โ Aaron MatรฉHow long do we have to wait before Volodymyr Zelensky opens a disco in Boca Raton? That's one of the questions raised by the secret CIA documents leaked last week, supposedly by a 21-year-old National Guard airman in Massachusetts named Jack Teixeira. Since that's about the lowliest rank in the whole US military, you have to wonder how Jack got his mitts on all that embarrassing info, and what it says about the Pentagon's command structure and its relations with the Intel "Community."
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