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Deadly balancing act for region with US hell bent on China war

Alex Lo
South China Morning Post
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 13:00 UTC
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In one respect, Antony Blinken's latest claim about Taiwan is right. The US secretary of state said any cross-strait crisis is "a matter of concern to quite literally the entire world". That's true because Washington has made it so by deliberately escalating what are already high tensions into a powder keg.

When arsonists like Blinken are threatening to torch a house, which is Taiwan, to save it, it's no wonder the whole neighbourhood is alarmed. It doesn't help when top US military men just keep on predicting a war with China, any time now, and up to 2027 at the latest.

It also doesn't help when the United States keeps selling more weapons to the island, and is now increasing its military presence with actual boots on Taiwanese ground. If that's not provocation, I don't know what is.

There is an easier and sensible way to ease tensions with China, and that's by trying to reach an understanding with Beijing over the island, as both the US and the mainland have managed to do in the past 40 years, until now.

But then the US decides it must openly confront and contain a rising China. And what's more convenient than playing the Taiwan card, Asia's peace and security be damned? After all, if the whole region goes up in smoke, that's someone else's neighbourhood, not America's. It's déjà vu. How many times have we seen this film before? Why talk when you can just pull out a gun?

That's America's style. It's apparently even written into its constitution.
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Deep State Absolutely Wants to Kill You

Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
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Award-winning journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular books "Deep State" and "Crimes of the Educators," predicted at the beginning is this year that the Deep State demons will have one crisis after another to keep people confused and afraid. The latest crisis is the economic and ecological disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. Newman says expect many more disasters and explains,
"All across the country we are seeing very bizarre things happen. Factories and chemical plants going up in flames, food processing facilities blowing up, airplanes crashing in mysterious ways, and I think we are heading into an era of really serious crisis. Last summer, I was putting together the wave of crises that the Deep State was preparing for us, and one of the terms I used was 'polycrisis.' Then, right before the World Economic Forum meeting this year, they actually put on their website is 2023 the year of the polycrisis? Of course, it will be the year of the polycrisis. I think we are prepared and being groomed for cyber-attacks, currency crisis, economic crisis and, of course, Russia/Ukraine and China/Taiwan. I think all of this is going to be used for a series of never-ending crises until we are ready to give up our freedoms, give up our national sovereignty and self-government, and move towards this crazy totalitarian, technocratic system they want."

Comment: Newman's got it wrong about Putin here and has not been paying enough attention to Putin's strong criticisms of the WEF, or figure the WEF/NATO agenda, vis-à-vis Ukraine, into his calculus; Russia has been fighting tooth and nail against the literal and existential threat that the WEF/NATO's egregious aggression poses against her - and that's all just a ruse because Russia is really part of the globalist agenda? We think not.

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The most important consequence of Russia's withdrawal from the START-3 treaty


Stalkerzone
Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00 UTC
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For some reason, everyone focuses primarily on two points:

A) The US will no longer be able to inspect our launchers, warehouses, carriers, etc. That is, they will not be able to find out the details related to nuclear weapons. Especially with the latest models.

B) Now it will be necessary to include France and Britain in the treaty, that is, either increase the number of nuclear warheads in our country, or lower them in the United States.

Yes, both points are undoubtedly important and relevant. But there is another point that stems from the START-3 treaty that can have the maximum impact on the United States.

This is paragraph 11 of article 4 of this treaty. Here's what it prescribes:

11. Strategic offensive weapons falling within the scope of this Treaty are not based outside the national territory of each of the Parties.

In other words, we can say this: Russia can now deploy nuclear weapons OUTSIDE of Russia. That is, anywhere. Even in Cuba, even in Nicaragua, even in Venezuela.
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Ron DeSantis: Why I stood up to Disney

Ron DeSantis
The Wall Street Journal
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:27 UTC
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© Ted Shaffrey/Associated PressMagic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., April 18, 2022.
Old-fashioned corporate Republicanism won't do in a world where the left has hijacked big business.

On Monday, I signed the law ending the Walt Disney Co.'s self-governing status over 43 square miles in central Florida, an area almost as big as Miami. Disney no longer has its own government. It has to live under the same laws as Universal Studios, SeaWorld and every other company in our state and is still on the hook for the old district's municipal debt.

Disney's special arrangement, which dates to 1967, was an indefensible example of corporate welfare. It provided the company with favorable tax treatment, including the ability to assess its own property valuations and to enjoy the benefits of regional infrastructure improvements without paying taxes toward the projects. It exempted Disney from Florida's building and fire-prevention codes. It even allowed Disney to build a nuclear power plant and to use eminent domain to seize private property outside the district's boundaries. While special districts are common in Florida, Disney's deal was conspicuous in the massive benefits it conferred. Disney's self-governing status endured because the company's unrivaled political power in Florida made its arrangement virtually untouchable.

Comment: See also:

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Neighbor of Russia assesses mutual ties


RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:40 UTC
Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi
© RIA Novosti; Ramil SitdikovForeign Minister of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi
Kazakh Foreign Minister says his country does not feel or see any threats from Moscow.

Kazakhstan sees no risks or threats coming from Russia, the Foreign Minister of the Republic Mukhtar Tileuberdi proclaimed during a joint press conference with US secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday.
"At the moment, we do not see and do not feel any threats from the Russian Federation," Tileuberdi said, responding to a question from an American journalist.
The minister noted that his country is a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), regional groups that unite several former Soviet states. He said that Kazakhstan considers relations with Russia as "an alliance that functions within the framework of these multilateral structures."

The Kazakh senior diplomat added that Astana continues to pursue a multi-vector foreign policy for mutually beneficial cooperation with countries from all across the world.

Comment: See also:

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Hungary backs calls for UN investigation into Nord Stream pipeline terrorist attack


Helsinki Times
Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:39 UTC
Nord Stream attack
© LEHTIKUVADamaged Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
Hungary is calling for a UN investigation into the "scandalous" attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that journalist Seymour Hersh has asserted were destroyed by the United States. The pipelines, which connected Russia to Germany, were sabotaged last September, leading to a state of dependence on US energy and prompting European countries to support the escalation of the war in Ukraine.
According to Hersh's sources, the explosives were planted in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise, and were detonated three months later with a remote signal sent by a sonar buoy. One source told Hersh that the plotters knew the covert operation was an "act of war," with some in the CIA and State Department warning, "Don't do this. It's stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out."

Comment: See also:

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Putin accuses West of using 'extremists' against Russia


RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC
Vladimir Putin
© Sputnik / Alexei DruzhininRussian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Board in Moscow.
The West never shied away from using extremists against Russia and is doing so again during the conflict in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has said. He claimed that western intelligence agencies are aiming to restore terrorist cells inside Russia.

Countering this terrorist threat remains "an urgent" task for the country, Putin said while chairing a board meeting of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow on Tuesday.

"Over the past year, the number of such crimes has increased, which is obviously connected to the attempts of the Kiev regime to employ terrorist methods. We are well aware of that. They have been using them in Donbass for a long time," he said.

The West, which is backing Kiev in the conflict against Moscow, has "never shied away from using both radicals and extremists in their interests, despite all their loud statements about fighting international terrorism," the president said.

"They always use whatever's at hand against us. They use everything that's possible. It was always like this and it remains so," he said.
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Turkish FM Cavusoglu speaks out on sanctioning Russia over Ukraine


RT
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:56 UTC
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© AFP / Russian Foreign MinistryRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) meets with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in New Dehli on March 1, 2023 .
Türkiye will not be joining unilateral sanctions imposed on Russia by the West over the conflict in Ukraine, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

Cavusoglu was asked how long Ankara would be able to resist pressure from the US and its allies to put restrictions on Moscow ahead of talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in India's capital New Delhi.

"We don't need to resist anyone, we make our own decisions as a sovereign state. We don't join any unilateral sanctions. We support only those [restrictions that are] introduced with the backing of the UN," the foreign minister replied, as cited by the media.

Comment: See tweet above. The number of countries who care what the EU thinks is dwindling rapidly.

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'This cover-up needs to end': Former White House doctor slams Joe Biden's health report


WION
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:49 UTC
Joe Biden
© Getty Images / Alex WongU.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the National Association of Counties legislative conference
A former White House physician slammed the latest health report of the United States President Joe Biden and asked to end the "cover-up". US Representative Ronny Jackson, who served the Trump and Obama administrations, called the recent health report of Biden "alarming" and alleged that it doesn't mention the "declining" mental health of the US president.

The 80-year-old was declared "fit for duty" by his doctor earlier this week. It was the final annual medical check-up before he is expected to declare he's running for re-election in 2024.

Biden's physician, Kevin O'Connor, said in a letter published by the White House, "President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those of as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief."


Comment: "Vigorous."


But Jackson told US-based Fox News that the report was nothing but a "cover-up". As per the report, Biden remains "fit for duty" and can fully execute all of his responsibilities without any "exemptions or accommodations".

As quoted Jackson said, "The majority of Americans can see that Biden's mental health is in total decline, yet there is no transparency from the White House on what's going on, if anything, to address this issue and his inability to do his job."

Comment: Old age, and the accompanying decline in mental faculties, is one of the "ponerogenic factors" in government that Lobaczewski writes about. The fact that Biden is allowed to remain in office is bad enough - the blatant lying is just icing on the cake of incompetence. These people are either ignorant of the danger this poses for a nation, or simply don't care. They're more concerned with projecting a fake image to prop up a moribund political system. It won't turn out well.

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Scott Ritter: Reimagining arms control after Ukraine

Scott Ritter
Consortium News
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Wayne Hsieh/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0Rise and fall of nuclear warheads • Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
South Dakota, USA • 2017
U.S.-Russian arms control is in a state of extreme distress.

The U.S. withdrawal from the foundational Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty in 2002 undid the functional and theoretical premise of mutually assured destruction (MAD) that provided logical equilibrium to the fundamentals of nuclear deterrence theory.

Similarly, the Trump administration's precipitous termination of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in 2019 attacked both elements of the "trust but verify" maxim that governed issues of compliance verification that made arms control viable in the first place.

The last remaining arms control agreement that places limits on the strategic nuclear arsenals of both the U.S. and Russia is the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

Signed in 2010, and extended for five years in 2021, the treaty will expire in 2026. It places restrictions on the number of deployed nuclear warheads each side is permitted to have (1,550), as well as vehicles (missiles, bombers, submarines) to deliver these warheads (700).

Equally important to the numerical caps is the compliance verification regime mandated by the treaty, which includes the right of each side to conduct up to 18 on-site inspections per year. Up to 10 of these inspections can be done at operational bases where nuclear delivery systems are based. Inspectors there can visually confirm the presence of nuclear warheads by randomly selecting missiles for inspection.
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