In history, the Western powers used warships and opium to colonize China. Now the opposite has happened. We will use our open policy, seize the economic crisis in the West as a historical moment, and use effective measures to turn them into Socialist China’s economic and cultural colonies…. Our colonization of these countries is the historical process of communism’s triumph over rotten capitalism. We Chinese communists must shoulder the great historical mission, and use socialism to defeat capitalism, eventually liberating the entire humanity with Communism.
Hu Jintao, 2008 [i]
…as long as we resolve the United States problem at one blow, our domestic problems will all be readily solved. Therefore, our military battle preparation appears to aim at Taiwan but in fact is aimed at the United States, and the preparation is far beyond the scope of attacking aircraft carriers or satellites.
General Chi Haotian, secret speech [ii]
And now comes a strange report out of China. Someone has leaked 56 minutes from a May 14 Provincial CCP meeting in Guangdong. Senior officials from local military and government structures gathered to discuss the Central Committee’s “normal to war transition instructions.” They say that a decision for war has been made. They are calling it “the final war.”[iii] They even speak of a battle for the Taiwan Straits and for the unification of the “motherland.”
But that is not all. Provincial officials are tasked with retrofitting sixty-four 10,000-ton ro-ro ships for carrying military vehicles. We also learn of 953 “ships of various types” being massed in the province’s ports, supported by 588 railroad cars tasked to forward military equipment. Yet, a simple paper and pencil calculation suggests that these transport assets can carry more vehicles and men than would be needed to attack Taiwan. And Guangdong is only one province, not even in under the military theater command that would be tasked with invading Taiwan.
And then there is another curiosity. Participants are concerned for the defense of “targets” within Guangdong province. One general refers to sabotage attacks from “lurking spies.” But his concerns are brushed aside by others who fear social chaos and rioting in the cities. There is a slight dust-up in which the provincial governor refuses to commit himself. Yet, one commander – perhaps the district commander – finally talks about nuclear rescue teams. The target list they speak of reads like a list of nuclear targets; that is, the Southern Theater Military Commander Center, the province’s largest cities, the power grid, the province’s four nuclear power plants, etc. Furtively, Political Commissar Wang Shou-Xin suggested they should focus popular rage on the expected U.S. counter-attacks.
One cannot help wondering what kind of American counter-attacks would break down social order in the province. Are these Chinese officials furtively discussing a nuclear war?
There is another curiosity, as well. New recruits for the army are not only being medically examined. They are to be politically examined. Wherever they are being sent, it seems, their political reliability must be assured. Commissar Wang is especially interested in this. No shortcuts, comrades. We must assure the reliability of our soldiers!
Meanwhile, the official responsible for retrofitting the ro-ro ships offers a timid complaint, “The task given by the war zone [Southern Theater Command] is to complete the retrofitting of 365 ro-ro ships, etc., all kinds of ships, within 45 days. In addition, we are responsible for 64 national resource ships in our jurisdiction and 8 other ships.” But then he indicates he does not have access to the province’s “high-quality shipbuilding and retrofitting resources … concentrated in Guangzhou, Yangjiang, Dongguan….” He admits that his resources are “weak.”
There is something beneath the surface here. The participants are not being told everything. The generals and political leaders of the province proclaim their loyalty and agreement with the Central Committee’s “normal to war transition,” and none suggests that victory is unlikely. After all, this is being called “the final war.” But even though Taiwan is named as the target, everyone is afraid that America is going to hit them.
It is imperative, says the leader of the meeting, “to maintain the stability of the rear, pull together the overall strength of the party, government, military, police and civilians as a whole, to help guard 61 important military objectives and 276 civilian targets, maintain social order, cohesion and morale of the people, and continue to push the war forward.”
Push the war forward to where?
China is such a vast country, with 1.4 billion people. We cannot imagine the complexity of transitioning such a country “from normal to war.” We are told that China’s lockdowns are related to COVID. The ongoing port closures and work stoppages, however, may not have anything to do with COVID at all. From the way these Chinese officials are talking, they are not preparing for a small war. There is even reference to China being cut off from certain resources during the war. This raises a rather disturbing question: How could China win decisively if it merely invades Taiwan? Surely, the world will embargo China indefinitely once this has happened. How does China get access to overseas markets if it fails to take full control of the Pacific Ocean?
It seems rather obvious that China is mobilizing for a war against the United States. Several Chinese sources have, during the past two years, told me that China is preparing for a war against America. The evidence is now more than sufficient to conclude that war is coming in the short term. I am told it will start before November 1, 2022.
CHINA’S COLONIZATION OF THE WORLD
Reflecting on Party General Secretary Hu Jintao’s comments (quoted above), we need to admit that China has been working to colonize Africa, North America, South America, and Australia. So far, nobody has effectively blocked China’s moves. It is well known that China operates ports around the world, including the ports of entry on either side of the Panama Canal.[iv] We ought to ask why communist China has been so successful at solidifying its hold on so many ports and countries. One answer has to do with American businessmen wanting to exploit cheap Chinese labor. This has led to the industrialization of China. It has also led to extensive trade with China. Many “experts” thought this would serve the cause of peace. “Surely,” they said, “the Chinese communists want to make money. In that case, if we make them rich, they will not start a war with America or their neighbors.”
Such ideas may sound correct, but now it appears that this way of thinking is wrong. First, we misunderstood the nature of the Chinese communist regime; second, we have sinned against our own values by going into business with people who forcibly harvest organs from political prisoners; third, our own business class – our ruling class – is subject to financial blackmail by their Chinese partners. Furthermore, since business is connected to politics, and politics controls defense policy, we have seriously compromised our own national defense, and our economic independence.
How did we get in this position?
The history of America’s misguided China policy is a long one. Back in the 1940s, after World War II, the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong fooled U.S. Army General George C. Marshall at the outset of the Chinese Civil War. Mao lied to Marshall about everything under the sun, and Marshall believed him. Through General Marshall’s mission to China, the United States effectively empowered the communists while tying the hands of General Chiang Kai-shek. Through Marshall we made it possible for the communists to take over China while General Chiang retreated to Taiwan. Because of Marshall, President Truman trusted Mao. He also trusted Stalin in the agreement that followed. In the end, Stalin and Mao violated all their solemn promises. It was said, at the time, that President Truman and General Marshall lost China.
Did we learn from these blunders? No. What followed, in time, was the blundering of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger who opened relations with the mass murderers in Beijing. When Nixon shook hands with Chairman Mao, he was shaking hands with someone who killed more innocent people than Adolf Hitler. Imagine, then, if Nixon had made an “opening” with Nazi Germany after the Holocaust. Nobody would have congratulated Nixon in that event. At the time, however, nearly everyone was ecstatic about Nixon’s “China policy.”
As egregious as Nixon’s misstep was, America’s blundering had only just begun. Seven successive presidents facilitated massive Western investments that made China into an industrial and military superpower. There is nothing in history to compare with this enabling of a mortal enemy. How did all these geniuses of foreign policy talk themselves into it? First, they believed that China would join us against the Soviet Union. They called this, “Playing the China card.” Even worse, they flattered themselves that this strategy actually worked after the Soviet Union “collapsed.” Compounding one error with another, they mistakenly believed they had won the Cold War and that China would become a capitalist country. Deceived by the leaders of Russia and China, America’s business community formed a partnership with the Chinese Communist Party. And now these Chinese communists are preparing a “final war” against America.
How can we explain this American blundering? I believe we will need a whole new political philosophy to understand it; for a failure on this scale signifies the collapse of our political premises. Because we have valued the wrong things, and because we have no real interest in the truth, we have sacrificed our future to make money off cheap Chinese labor. For this to have happened, it also seems that we have no real leaders. In fact, our political system attracts and promotes the wrong kind of people. Therefore, our strategic incapacity is foreordained. None of our leaders possess the qualities of a Duke of Wellington or a George Washington. We have, instead, the inarticulate Joe Biden, the bumptious Boris Johnson, and the superficial Justin Trudeau. These are the Anglosphere leaders of today (with a tip of the hat to French Canada).
Is the East, then, destined to win the wars that are now being planned? Does Moscow or Beijing have formidable leaders? Undoubtedly these leaders have succeeded in swindling their Western counterparts. But how does that translate into something positive for the Russians or Chinese? A formidable liar makes for a defective regime. For example, Russia suffers under the furtive Bolshevism of Vladimir Putin and his fellow gangsters. They have poisoned many defectors, dissidents and journalists. At the same time, they are so busy stealing from the Russian people they have shortchanged their own soldiers. Meanwhile, China labors under the sanguinary discipline of the Communist Party. Here is a regime of forced organ donations, labor re-education camps, summary executions for “political crimes,” and social credit scores. Under the Communist Party the Chinese are not a people. They are chattel. They are treated as chattel. And they will fight as chattel.
Creative Destruction?
Aside from their moral nihilism, the thing that ultimately damns all communists is their aversion to the free market. It is ironic that self-declared materialists should be so opposed to a true reckoning of material values. When they say “property is theft,” they are confessing. When they finally bomb and invade their suppliers, investors and customers, they are killing the Golden Goose. Thieving and killing is a dead end. Once the process begins, their unraveling will only be a matter of time. Furthermore, totalitarian socialists have this lust for destruction that normal people just cannot relate to. One might call it “destruction for the sake of destruction.” All their compromises with the market have been for the sake of organizing an even greater orgy of destruction at some future date. Therefore, their final war of mass destruction will be self-attenuating. In the sense that it really is final, they will not be able to walk it back for another go-round.
It is very difficult to generalize what this means for mankind. The cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt wrote that war establishes new conditions of life “which may be very durable.”[v] Wars not only establish nations, noted Burckhardt. Wars teach us to admire real heroes.[vi] Burckhardt added, “A people actually feels its full strength as a people only in war….”[vii] He suggested that nations only exist, as such, during wars. In recent years we have heard the lament that America is no longer a country. Watch, then, what would happen if the country came under attack. Remember what happened in the wake of 9/11. Heraclitus said, “War is the father of all things.” Please note: America’s founding occurred through the war of 1775-1783 (The American Revolutionary War). America’s re-founding occurred during the war of 1861-1865 (The American Civil War). “Not without cause do the Indians worship Shiva, the god of destruction” noted Burckhardt. “The warrior … is filled with the joy of destruction, wars clear the air like a thunderstorm, they steel the nerves and restore the heroic virtues, upon which states were originally founded, in place of indolence, double-dealing and cowardice.”[viii] Clarifying his position further, Burckhardt wrote:
Lasting peace not only leads to enervation; it permits the rise of a mass of precarious, fear-ridden, distressful lives which would not have survived without it and which nevertheless clamor for their ‘rights,’ cling somehow to existence, bar the way to genuine ability, thicken the air and as a whole degrade the nation’s blood. War restores real ability to honor. As for these wretched lives, war may at least reduce them to silence. [ix]
Burckhardt added a qualifier. To impart these benefits, a war must be “a just and honorable war – perhaps a war of defense such as the Persian War, which developed the powers of the Hellenes gloriously in all ways….”[x] But modern war, noted Burckhardt, has been degenerating into something purely destructive. He wrote that “the wars of today are certainly aspects of a great general crisis….”[xi] Civilian life, he said, was in a rut. Our political formulas and ideologies were inwardly deadening. Violence undertaken for a “higher world plan” was “cold comfort” and wars waged under such slogans were “a scandal.” To use violence in the name of false ideals, or false creeds was nihilistic. “And so,” he wrote, “peoples may be destroyed, and not even survive as component elements of other races.”[xii]
In one of his last mad books Friedrich Nietzsche predicted the approach of “a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed.”[xiii] Nietzsche further predicted that this “crisis” would cause “upheavals, a convulsion of earthquakes, a moving of mountains and valleys, the like of which has never been dreamed of.” He said, “The concept of politics will have merged entirely with a war of spirits; all power structures of the old society will have been exploded – all of them are based on lies: there will be wars the like of which have never yet been seen on earth.”[xiv] Elsewhere he warned,
Socialism – as the logical conclusion of the tyranny of the least and the dumbest, i.e., those who are superficial, envious, and three-quarters actors – is indeed entailed by ‘modern ideas’ and their latent anarchism; but in the tepid air of democratic well-being the capacity to reach conclusions … weakens. One follows – but one no longer sees what follows. [xv]
In other words, the whole world has gradually been succumbing to socialism. And why not? Modern ideas do indeed entail socialism. Our intellectuals have been turning more and more to socialism for the last hundred years. What does this portend? The revolutionary Paris commune of 1871, wrote Nietzsche, “was perhaps no more than a minor indigestion compared to what is coming. But there will always be too many … who are of one mind on one article of faith: ‘One must possess something to be something.’”[xvi] Life is appropriation, after all. But consider, in the year 2022, who the ultimate appropriators will be. Harking back to Party General Secretary Hu Jintao’s statement about China’s campaign of world socialist colonization (quoted above), we are talking about a world owned and dominated by China.
Ask yourself what a chinafied world would look like? The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives the following definition to the word chinafy: “to reduce (a country) to a state of passivity and helplessness.”[xvii] This not only fits China, but also socialism. Here is what China’s “final war” against America signifies. “In the doctrine of socialism,” wrote Nietzsche, “there is hidden … a ‘will to negate life’; the human beings or races that think up such a doctrine must be bungled. Indeed, I should wish that a few great experiments might prove that in a socialist society life negates itself, cuts off its own roots.”[xviii]
Socialism, noted Nietzsche, might end up serving as a demonstratio ad adsurdum. Even as “a restless mole under the soil of a society that wallows in stupidity, socialism will … be something useful and therapeutic: it delays ‘peace on earth’ … it forces the Europeans to retain spirit, namely cunning and cautious care, not to abjure manly and warlike virtues altogether….” This, Nietzsche speculates, might preserve Europe from the advent of a withering feminism.[xix]
It is too late, of course, to forestall the effects of “withering feminism” on Europe. We have become, as Julius Evola predicted, “beings who, in the deepest recesses of their souls, are neither men nor women, or who are masculine women and feminine men, and who claim to have reached full sexual emancipation while truly having regressed….”[xx] The disgusting liberal paradise celebrated by Francis Fukuyama in his book, The End of History and the Last Man, was meant to be a rebuttal of Nietzsche. In the end, it was merely an affirmation of decadence. The liberal democratic paradise of Fukuyama, like the socialist paradise, was always an illusion. About this, Juan Donoso Cortés wrote,
Those who made people believe that the earth can be a paradise, have made them more easily believe it can be a paradise without blood. The evil is not in the illusion; it is in the fact that, precisely on the moment and hour the illusion would be believed by all, blood would flow even from the hard rocks, and earth would be transformed into hell. In this obscure and lowly valley man cannot aspire to an impossible happiness without incurring the misfortune of losing the little he has. [xxi]
The West still believes it won the Cold War and achieved “the end of history.” This is why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been such a shock. History was supposed to be over. War was supposed to be a thing of the past. The result is exactly as Juan Donoso Cortés has stated. They believed the liberal paradise had arrived. But now blood flows “even from the hard rocks,” and the earth will be transformed into hell.
The Chinese, of course, have yet to make their move. Imagining Russia has been defeated in Ukraine, the West has assumed its preponderance by virtue of cash power. But now we see that cash itself is at the end of its tether. The West, deluded by false values and false sense of history as progress, has smugly said to itself that nobody would be crazy enough to start a nuclear world war. There is no money in such a war.
Can you hear the communists laughing? If China wins “the final war,” the criminals in Beijing are going to own the world. It does not matter if a few million square miles are turned to desert or irradiated. It does not matter if a billion people disappear. China and Russia will own the world and everything can be made right in that world by cracking a whip over the surviving slaves.
nOTES AND lINKS
[i] Jia, Howard. “China’s Secret Plan to Take Taiwan,” Chinascope, January-February 2010, p. 13.
[ii] https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/
[iii] 【Top Secret Recording】 War Mobilization Meeting of the Southern War Zone of the PLA: Guangdong Province in The State of War — Jennifer’s World (jenniferzengblog.com).
[iv] Losing strategic control of the Panama Canal to the People’s Republic of China – Washington Times.
[v] Jacob Burckhardt, Reflections on History (Indianapolis: LibertyClassics, 1979), p. 301.
[vi] Ibid, p. 302.
[vii] Ibid, pp. 216-17.
[viii] Ibid, p. 217.
[ix] Ibid, p. 217-18.
[x] Ibid, p. 218.
[xi] Ibid, p. 219.
[xii] Ibid.
[xiii] Friedrich Nietzsche translation by Walter Kaufmann, Ecce Homo, “Why I am a Destiny,” 1.
[xiv] Ibid.
[xv] Friedrich Nietzsche, translation by Kaufmann and Hollingdale, The Will to Power (New York: Vintage Books, 1968), p. 77.
[xvi] Ibid.
[xvii] Chinafy Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster.
[xviii] Nietzsche, p. 77.
[xix] Ibid.
[xx] Julius Evola translation by Guido Stucco, Revolt Against the Modern World (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1995), p. 165.
[xxi] Juan Donoso Cortés, Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism (Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 1879), p. 304.
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254 responses to “Russian [or Chinese] Nihilism and the Coming Order, Part II”
Excuse the sloppiness of posting two messages in a row, but I think you should know this.
With regard to Chinese colonization in South America, I am going to speak for my own country, Argentina: they have sold us industrial products at very low prices, to the detriment of the North Americans; especially in the field of electronics, where they have allowed us to access goods that would have been impossible for us to acquire.
I’ll give you an example: when I was a child, I watched many American movies, beyond entertainment and emotions, those films functioned as windows to the First World, we could see what those children were enjoying.
Well, those products reached us between 3, 5 or 10 years later… and we felt at a profound disadvantage… that, for better or for worse, China changed it.
Therefore, that colonization was not accepted but tolerated…
Would you say Argentina is under China’s thumb?
What I don’t get is how the Chinese would deal with Japan, South Korea and India. I doubt these three nations would do nothing in case the US is nuked. Attacking the US first is a very dangerous move, if they loose some battles and are somehow weakened, they would have a flanck on the Indian frontier or on the Japanese side. Maybe they intend to nuke the USA while they deal with neighboring nations. Anyway, seems China and Russia would basically need to nuke the whole world in order to succeed.
If the U.S. nuclear deterrent were eliminated in a first strike, how could Japan or India possibly survive? Japan has no nuclear arsenal and India’s nuclear weapons would be wiped out in less than an hour. Japan already surrendered in one world war because they had no nuclear weapons to respond with. Countries with large nuclear arsenals possess war-winning advantages that non-nuclear or low-yield nuclear countries do not have.
I think I understand your point, but both Japan and India are now able to increase their stock of nuclear weapons in a relatively short time. I believe Japan can produce many warheads in six months, considering they have stored plutonium to do so. I don´t see how China can really nuke and invade the USA and at the same time not deal with these two neighbors.
But I agree with you that once China eliminates american nuclear deterrance, they will be in a good position to conquer Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, just for the start. If America manages somehow to defent itself, it will not be able to liberate those countries for any foreseable time.
Japan has no nuclear weapons and can be forced out of any war by threat of blockade. India’s nuclear arsenal can be eliminated in minutes by an attacker.
6 minutes or 6 months? A nation needs nukes beforehand. And ABMs. Japan is toast already and they know it.
Oh wait, give me six months to build my nuclear deterrent.
I think you overestimate the willingness of those nations to interfere if they are not the ones getting directly attacked.
Japan cannot feed itself or fuel itself. Nuclear rocket warfare makes Japan a highly dense fly pile.
Bannon seems to think we will be able to see the war coming, that it will slowly unfold with Taiwan, that it will be this back and forth. Why would they do that?
Their best chance is one surprise, overwhelming, missile strike on all of our strategic centers. All at once and as many as they can send. Jeff has said our policy is to absorb the first strike. They know this. So their best chance is to send literally everything all at once. One killer blow.
Bannon seems way too overconfident, even the way he smirkingly asked Jeff about the Chinese “landing in California”. He then still thought it was all for Taiwan by saying it was for transporting half the island back to China. He also talked about how they can’t do “complex amphibious operations”. Maybe so, but it doesn’t matter if they have missile superiority. The naval aspect would be the cleanup part. Slightly disappointing, but thank you for raising the alarm Jeff.
If China cannot do complex amphibious operations then they cannot possibly invade Taiwan. So why are they gathering so many ships that are non-landing ships, with the plan of loading them with military supplies? Merchants ships cannot be used for “beach landings.” They are made to dock in ports. We should ask ourselves which ports are undefended, which are operated by Chinese companies, and where are Chinese ships continually offloading material right now? Any guesses? Pick any continent you like. And for all that, a ro-ro-ship cannot land on a beach in Taiwan. Even if you captured one port you could not possiblly
accomodate that many loaded ships at once. You’d use fewer ships with more return trips. After all, the distance between Taiwan and China is not far. If the Chinese do invade Taiwan they will be strategic mistake — stupid on so many levels. Are the Chinese leaders stupid? Forgive my skepticism. I see a lot of stupidity in Washington. Decades of stupidity.
Where does the obsession with Taiwan come from? Even among “China hawks,” you’ll hear them rattle off all sorts of scary red flags re China, all pointing toward serious risk and vulnerability, and then they hit their conclusion: “so the fear is they will invade Taiwan.” It’s such a disconnect!
Seems to betray the ubiquity of a Wall Street-capitalist lens. Even as these “China Hawk” analysts describe war-like aggression, and even call it that, they only compute things, really, in macro economic terms. E.g., Bannon pivoted to how attacking Taiwan would cripple the US economically – totally blowing past what you just laid out about the REALITY that their military mobilizations make no sense re attacking Taiwan! Later on, I did see flickers of understanding, when he first mentioned the Guns of August re mobilization.
Fanell seemed like he was reasoning backward – starting with the premise that Tawain is the target, and reading data points through that premise. Its’ frustrating, because he’s clearing trying to sound an alarm but unwilling to question the core assumption. When he said what we should do now – all about Taiwan and conflict at sea. No civil defense, nothing about hardening our own targets.
Bannon’s a former Wall Street guy. Wall Street analytical mode is his default. I think he’s smart and trains up quick. I also think he deliberately hangs back from more “out there” positions and w/o guessing why he does that – one “tell” that he’s catching on is he brings on smart guests to make the case, often with ribbing but also serious engagement. Bannon let you talk more, w/o interruption, than he does most guests. I listened to him a lot in the first year of Covid. On the whole, I think he sees who are serious people. He also respects people with real military knowledge. I think it’s a very good development that invited you and gave you so much time (by his standards).
Last thing – as a practical matter, I think Bannon’s right it would be hard to get the typical American on board for a big mobilization to protect Taiwan. Most people don’t see why we should inject ourselves in regional disputes. But getting the American people mobilized to protect our own country – THAT you could do, but people have to understand we NEED to. In that regard, how convenient that the right is split between Russia hawks and China hawks but each frame the threat as essentially regional – focused on Ukraine/Europe and Taiwan/East Asia – and none articulate more than an attenuated national interest (let alone an actual physical national security threat). In that way, the US China Hawks obsessed with Taiwan play the same role – as far as obscuring the threat to our homeland – as the America-firsters who think Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is justified nationalism that need not concern us.
Mr. Nyquist – everything you lay out is crystal clear. FWIW I think the further you get from the beltway and pop culture, the more it lands, when people actually listen. Even my uber-liberal sister is now dialed in. We all owe a debt to your tenacity.
Very astute comments (from visitor) on Bannon. My fear is that the USA will send too many weapons to Taiwan and the weapons will be lost when the island is blockaded and surrenders. It is a good idea to defend, but it should be a balanced defense. Not all the eggs in a forward basket.
And also, what resources does Taiwan have that China does not already control?
Bannon is fixated on economic warfare. He thinks that is primary CCP weapon, aided by other forms of unconventional warfare (e.g. biowarfare). He’s been fixated on Taiwan for several years.
I think it’s actually a big deal he invited Nyquist on the show, and let him speak (usually he talks over new guests).
Jeff pointed out that he doesn’t think China will DIRECTLY attack Taiwan in the interview with Steve Bannon. But Bannon keeps pressing and asking the other guest about a “potential” attack. Bannon misses the communist goal is for domination of America, and not Taiwan.
Taiwan is already Chinese.
Having lived in Taiwan, I do not think the Chinese will attack Taiwan. There is a strong cultural, ethnic, and a lot of business ties between the “mainland” and Taiwan. Taiwan was invaded by the Chinese starting with Chiang Kai-shek and he native population were killed off. The natives are not Chinese origin. It’s the West that sees them as China and Taiwan as TWO.
I was invited to dinner in some of their homes in Taiwan and in public, they say they are independent from China, but privately they have ethnic loyalty, a strong bond, and brotherly fidelity with China.
I think the Taiwan “invasion” narrative is being used as a bait and distraction for a surprise attack on America. Maybe to cause fear in the likes of Steve Bannon, Mike Adams, and ignorant Americans after all Americans have a very upside down and romanticized view of Chinese people and culture. Another communist subversion at play?
The DOD has been compromised and infiltrated by communists whether they be Vietnamese, Koreans, or Chinese from the soldiers level to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Why else would DOD mandated the “vaccination” whilst Chinese and Russian military were not mandated when the fact was publicly available that the genetic sequencing of all the “vaccines” came from China?
Why put something in your body that was made in China, a communist country with the probability it could be a bioweapon unless you trust or have a friendship with China and don’t see communists as an enemy?
If they can put agents into the office of the presidency, surely all branches of the mil and Int are throughly infiltrated. Robert Hansen, Walker family, Aldrich Ames, Bill, Hillary, Obama, Biden, Sir Roger Hollis (head of MI5).
That’s our problem.
Winifred’s comment on how Taiwan’s ethnic loyalties to mainland China may trump any concern over being conquered by the CCP is interesting. I believe Jeff mentioned how many institutions in Taiwan are infiltrated by the CCP already. (Of course, many people made the same arguments about Ukraine essentially being ‘Little Russia’ and look how that turned out.)
On the flipside of Bannon and Co’s focus on China and the Pacific theatre, there is the almost complete dismissal of Europe and NATO. Reading between the lines, because NATO doesn’t pay enough for defense it’s almost a blessing in disguise if Europe capitulates to Russia. Somehow America’s security will not be impacted if that happens. Bannon made some comments about how Hong Kong and Taiwan are America’s hill to die on (because they’re capitalist and HK is Christian) but not a European country like Ukraine. Because if the CCP controls the whole South China Sea that’s bad for America and its allies, but not so if Russia controls the Black Sea and can possess more oil/gas and threaten tens of millions of people around the world with starvation.
Given America’s current state it may be impossible to fight a 2 or 3 front war if the NA continent is invaded, but it’s still jarring how experts blithely dismiss the possible loss of half the Western world. That attitude comes from 1) not realizing that Russia and China are working together to destroy the West, and 2) the logical outcome of nearly two decades of contempt on the part of American conservatives for Western Europe, because Europe’s leaders and people are seen as too woke and Leftist. The contempt is understandable, but right now it’s part of what is blinding many conservatives from realizing the magnitude of the threat we are up against.
Laura: Very interesting comment. Yes. We cannot tell how effective CCP subversion is on Taiwan when it comes to war. Ukraine was an excellent test case showing how things can backfire. Subversion has its limits when the majority will fight to keep their independence. The problem with Taiwan is its proximity to China and being an island. Defending it under present circumstances is militarily difficult. We can do it, provided we do not suffer a surprise missile attack. China would be stupid to start a war without using nuclear weapons in a surprise attack against the U.S. homeland and fleet. American analysts simply cannot see this.
I forgot to mentioned the native population of Taiwan look Polynesian, not Chinese. Their pictures are seen in the museums in Taiwan, which reminds me when I lived in Hawaii where Japanese and Koreans have taken over the politics and local economy from Polynesians…
I am not sure why Americans are willfully blind and I am told by many Americans that Americans distrust intelligent people and this is why they follow crass Rogan and Trump…This doesn’t make any sense to me at all because it’s as though Americans WANT to be killed off by Chinese and have communist leaders.
Why do they prefer stupidity and hedonism, but apparently many Whites in America are mixed with Hispanics (a hyper-sexualized culture). Brits don’t believe in PDA. Does today’s demographic effect the decline of America?
Many members of my church are enamored with the Chinese. They claim to be anti-communist and Republicans. Such contradictions.
The Khmer people who survived the genocide from Chinese funded Pol Pot has spoken and written about Chinese deception and brainwashing of youths. The Chinese communists targets of the intellectual class as the first one to kill off.
What intellectual class has America left when the average American is “anti-intellectual” and “anti-moral” or it could mean that the ENTIRE “intellectual class” has been infiltrated/compromised by the Chinese as Jeff pointed about the commies in America’s higher education schools?
There is a definite anti-intellectual tendency in America. Obviously, the intellectuals as a class have not used their intelligence wisely. Distrust is therefore understandable. But why the lack of curiosity, the unwillingness to study? Hedonism may be the answer. Whichever ideas flatter or tickle the individual seem to succeed. And that is what we find. Meanwhile, the pathologically motivated student gravitates to variants on the themes of Marx. Oh well.
Actually there seems to be an anti-intellectual mood that fills all of “intelligentsia” world-wide. In many fields, people want immediate fame and fortune, and deep study often requires slogging study out of the limelight for years, even decades, before one gets any recognition. So people go for shortcuts, reading what other “experts” say instead of doing the original study that can give deeper insights.
One area of which I’m familiar enough to give examples is theology and Biblical Hebrew language. How many professors of Biblical Hebrew language have read the Old Testament in Hebrew, cover to cover, even once? Five times? Ten times? Over twenty times until one can read and understand the text without translating and has a feel for the language that’s hard to explain? That sort of effort takes decades. I don’t know of a single professor who has done that. Instead, they can quote theories made by other professors. Worse are those philosophers who make pronouncements on the Hebrew Biblical text without being Hebrew language scholars themselves.
I avoid getting into theological discussions on this blog because so much of what is said is based on what people have read from “experts” instead of the intellectual deep study of the Bible itself. That is anti-intellectual.
Jeff Nyquist has done the deep study of communism that few, if any, of us can match. So when the question of communism comes up, instead of boasting of my knowledge, I point people to this blog.
While living in Germany I learned enough about fascism to realize that the fascists were also followers of Karl Marx, in competition with the Leninists and Stalinists for leadership in the socialist movement. They could claim to reject Marxism, because they disagreed with Marx on some points. But I am not an expert on fascism. I learned enough to know why they so hated Christians and Christianity.
Real intellectual study often takes decades. It’s very rare today.
There is another problem besides knowing something well. It is intellectual integrity. This is connected to structures of knowledge in the human heart; that we know we exist, and that we have choices, and that we can play false with ourselves.
Jeff Nyquist is clearly a much brighter intelectual than any of those who were on Bannon’s show. Bannon himself seems to be very wise, but I do not believe he has studied half of what Jeff knows.
The mistake he makes is the same mistake many make when confronted with Communist rhetoric and actions: they take them at face value. Whereas anyone who really, intently reads and studies Communist history and tactics learns quite quickly to NEVER take a single thing at face value, to ALWAYS assume an ulterior motive, to ALWAYS assume the Communist’s first statement is a lie.
If you truly study Communists, you learn that deception is not an ancillary or augmenting strategy; it is their primary one.
Your leaders are stewpid people. Just look at the videos of the recent two leaders who are even illegal to be up there and, therefore, 535 Congressmen are betraying this nation. There needs to be mass hangings up here or billions may die because of their treason and betrayal.
I don’t care if they proclaim ignorance they need to be HANGED!
Who are your leaders?
Just listened to your interview with Mike Adams and Dr. Yan Li-Meng. What do you make of it that Dr. Yan Li-Meng interprets the audio as consistent with a military focus on Taiwan, at least first, and unconventional warfare (economic, biological) toward the U.S.? (If you have time – I know you’re swamped!)
Where do we get the the audio clip? I trust Nyquist, but where is the leaked clip?
Here’s a link to the translation. I think the imbedded video has the audio but I didn’t click it.
https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2022/5/16/top-secret-recording-war-mobilization-meeting-of-the-southern-war-zone-of-the-pla-guangdong-province-is-in-a-state-of-war
Gateway Pundit posted it.
I don’t trust Jennifer Zeng Blog. It’s posted on Youtube. Youtube deletes any thinking and speech contradicting its narrative. What do the communists WANT from releasing this video as to make it appear that it was “leaked”? They wouldn’t release/leaked anything on Youtube intentionally unless they want it to be use as part of their plan.
Youtube is owned by the communists be it Vietnamese, Thai, Koreans, Taiwanese, Chinese, et Mongolian extracts.
Why does the American stock market exchange allow communists to invest in American companies? So the Chinese can have economic power and the ability to economically crash and financially infiltrate or destroy America? (Greed over principle, reason, and self preservation.)
I am trying to understand how the communists will make their next move and the timing involve. Will the communists attack when people start dying off from the clot shots, the market collapse, gun restrictions, and another bioweapon “virus” unleashed?
It appears they will attack America when Americans will be weakened the most, so there’s little to no resistance and/or the DOD has completely been compromised.
Dr. Li-Meng is going by the overt statements handed down from CCP leadership. I am applying a bit of strategic analysis and bringing in other facts that everybody ought to know about defector testimony on this issue, plus the Chi Haotian speech and more.
Thanks, that makes sense.
I wonder if Mr. Trump had been reelected, what he might have done vis-a-vis the China and Taiwan situation. I would not have put it past him to deploy at least a brigade of U.S. ground forces to the island, along with supporting naval elements and nuclear-armed USAF aircraft. But what he critically would have lacked are the erstwhile Pershing II missiles that so irked the Soviets back in the 1980s. Cruise missiles might have been also deployed as a substitute, but I am not quite sure how many of the land-based ones are still available, And the Chinese would very possibly have an easier time of dealing with those, anyway, vs. the Pershings. I think they were also dismantled by the INF treaty. Actually the most critical item the U.S. lacks now is a medium-range medium fast bomber, a sort of vastly updated version of the old B-58, dual-capable and able to go in high or very low, but with great speed, and whatever stealth capability that could be included, without outlandish costs. Well-dispersed and ready to go virtually on a moment’s notice. And packed with ECM. Deployed accordingly in Europe and Asia, they would have given the Russians and Chinese conniption fits. But they would have had to be produced and deployed in sufficient numbers. And they likely would have required re-activation of new U.S. nuclear warhead production to boot.
Trump had no strategic military vision. He appointed 3 Supreme Court Justices that decided against him in the illegal election process. He’s picked to many wrong people. Wrong man for the time.
After listening to Jeff’s interview with Mike Adam’s and Dr. Yan Li-Meng, I had two thoughts. One we should monitor marinetraffic.com on a frequent basis as it displays the ships’ location in live time. It’s a free app that tells quite a bit. Red ships are oil tankers, green are cargo ships, etc. If you pay for the app, it provides a lot more information. We can see if the ships move, if they become more or less bottle-necked.
My second thought is a question. Couldn’t our military use satellite photography to see what activities the Chinese are doing in the ship yards? Wouldn’t we be able to confirm that they are converting commercial vessels to a military purpose? That would be another way to confirm this transcript is authentic. Loading tanks on a ro ro should be obvious.
I have full confidence that our military would be aware. I wonder if this was not already signaled, when Biden, for the third time, announced that the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack, shortly after this audio was released.
There is a push underway to monitor all this.
They see. But the military is just as blind and corrupted as the rest of the institutions of the West Don’t do, can’t do. I think there might be hope for
“Furtively, Political Commissar Wang Shou-Xin suggested they should focus popular rage on the expected U.S. counter-attacks.
One cannot help wondering what kind of American counter-attacks would break down social order in the province. Are these Chinese officials furtively discussing a nuclear war?”
Is this anti-American rage caused by the U.S. counter-attacks? Or is this attempts to steer any rage so that it is anti-American and not anti-CCP?
After all, the CCP is hated by the majority of Chinese people, but who have largely resigned themselves to CCP rule because the people lack the wherewithal to revolt. But if the invasion force in the U.S. suffers major defeats, will the Chinese people see this as an opportunity to throw off the CCP yoke? In other words, in spite of CCP attempts to steer the rage to being anti-American, that more than they can contain will be anti-CCP?
“He (Lunev) then said that the post-Cold War Russian military could not manage an invasion of the lower 48 states after 1991. The whole project was handed over to the Chinese. Only China had the necessary manpower for such a task.”
Take this in context of the following.
“There is another curiosity, as well. New recruits for the army are not only being medically examined. They are to be politically examined. Wherever they are being sent, it seems, their political reliability must be assured. Commissar Wang is especially interested in this. No shortcuts, comrades. We must assure the reliability of our soldiers!”
From what I hear, the PLA is more of a political organization than a fighting force. One of the first requirements to join the PLA is to be a member of the CCP. So given the requirements—political purity as well as physical fitness—how many people within China meet both requirements? Add to that the requirement that a certain percentage of the PLA will need to stay behind in China to pacify the civilian population and sufficient forces to face off against India, how many troops will they be free to land in the U.S.? Will that be enough? Even if the CCP slackens off a bit on their two requirements, will they be able to land enough troops to face off against the surviving tens of millions of veterans and hunters, not counting others who merely own and shoot guns?
JEFF. We have spoken about this potential issue before and you still regarded as such but I will bring up on here again for the rest of analyze what you say that you have stated you believe the first shot by Russia against the US and NATO will be to attack and the sinking or U.S. aircraft carrier, as you have Russia has been wanting to do this for a long while.
Right now apparently the Pentagon is keeping the USS Harry S.Truman in the western part of the Mediterranean in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is between Italy, Sicily, and Corsica and Sardinia; when it was much closer before at the start of the Ukraine war The Pentagon is stating that the aircraft carrier is involved drills with our allies and also training exercises that are unilateral, but that at start of the war in Ukraine it was in the eastern Mediterranean, as far as the northern Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.
I believe they’ve become afraid here recently that Russia may be prepared in the near future to do something due to this is fact that Russia has four MIG 31s, each armed with 1 Kinzhal hypersonic missile,
which has a warhead with 500 kilogram (1100 pounds) of explosives, but due to their maximum speed of Mach 12 (9,120 Miles Per Hour); the kinetic force of the missile when it hits its target, would be the equivalent of 4100 kilograms (9,038 pounds) of explosives.
Because they’re being on the MIG 31, the range is reduced to 1200 nautical miles because it cannot be fully fueled because MIG 31 would not be able to takeoff due to being too heavy; however one Russian Tupolev 223 bomber can carry four Kinzhal missiles, and launch all four each that are fully fueled to its maximum load, increases the range of missiles to 1990 nautical miles (around 2000 miles).
The length of the entire Mediterranean from the eastern coast line to the Rock of Gibraltar exit is 2200 miles, so basically 95% of the Mediterranean Sea is in striking range, and would not need to have to leave the Syrian airspace and would most likely the bomber flying low enough over Western Syria and not get detected on radar; whiles as the Kinzhal missiles Mach 12 speed, would heat up and ionize the air surrounding the missiles, creating a ‘plasma shielding’ around each missile, making them ultimately undetectable to any radar. Flying over Western Syria and still have nearly all of Mediterranean Sea room in range to hit the carrier, and let’s say the USS HARRY S. TRUMAN is 1800 miles away from the bomber, at the maximum speed of the Kinzhals, it would take just a flight time of 15 minutes to reach the aircraft carrier positions
JEFF, my question is if the Russians do this in the coming days and take out the USS Harry S. Truman, which carries up to 2000 tons of weapons ordinance, up to 3,000,000 gallons of jet fuel, and two nuclear reactors, and has a crew around 6000 personnel, if a strike sinks the carrier and all of the crew is lost of life, due to would likely probably be lost in the cascade of explosions in the ship, possibly be destroyed in less than a minute; JEFF what do you think your response would be by the US and NATO? What would you think would be the actual response of what you would likely actually how Biden would respond? And last but not least if you were President of the United States, or at a minimum a national security adviser to the president, what would you do if you were president, or what would you recommend if you were adviser to the president?
I believe the Russians and Chinese are hunting more than one aircraft carrier.
Taking out a carrier with a Kinshal would be accomplished only by sheer luck.
Protocols for China haters. Tapes like this can be easily faked with modern technology.
A disarmed population, especially on the left coast is very beneficial to China’s eventual invasion. In fact the left coast will welcome them with open arms as saviours of the left from the insane anti abortion lgbtqwerty homo hating
fundamentalist christian gun loving right.
And Stevens doesn’t seem to understand that a natural right can’t be taken away. Speaking to repeal something that is not up for repeal is stupid.
However I suspect every effort will be made by the left to get whatever gun grabbing traction they can.
Repeal of the second amendment invites revolution, is that the plan all along?
Civil war or revolution begins, becomes horrific, then enter the dragon.
So dangerous these times are for America, I fear for her survival
Bill Freeman
Only proves the lgbtqwerty degenerates are self hating idiots. They would be the first ones to be sent into mental hospitals or labour camps to be reeducated. Filth like this has no place in socialist society. The America they hate is the only promoter of this filth, together with some vassals, waving rainbow flags on embassies world wide, ambassadors participating “prides”.
In a socialist society, the “leadership” is filth. So, choose your filth. To be a socialist means being a self hating idiot as it requires you to hate everyone that has anything you want, but don’t have.
Yep, the left is being idioticly useful only to find out how disposable they are once the aims of their owners are reached.
Nevertheless, they’ve gained a lot of ground in the last few years, too much ground. The more they gain the bolder they become.
Pushing us peaceful people into civil war is very much biting off your nose to spite your face.
The left is deluded if they think the Chinese will allow them to turn this place into a lefty pedo playground of degeneracy , which is what the left really wants.
They abhorr Christian, or well, any morals foisted on them. They define their morals and their morals are as fluid as their gender. Circumstantial morality to the extreme
Nothing good will come of this course. Degeneracy has no future, only a pitiful and agonizing existence.
I hope people see this and the left implodes before any Chinese incursions.
Wishful thinking while watching your country just skippity do dah day off the cliff and into the abyss.
What a tragic shame, sincerely.
It is tragic.
Why does the official program of the communist party USA embrace LBGTQ people?
The official CPUSA embraces LBGTQ+ “rights” for two reasons: 1) they are moral degenerates themselves, having, like their bosses in Moscow and Beijing, rejected moral absolutes based on a higher authority, and 2) wrecking the morals of an enemy is one way to destroying their enemy, namely us.
The reason is because Christianity must be broken, and it is a way of targeting and destroying it.
The left wing, no matter how delusional, will not welcome soldiers with guns from another country. There are limits even to Communist brainwashing.
I think that depends on how compromised the country is in totality.
No, I don’t expect Pelosi to be standing on a dock with champagne and flowers.
What I do see is clandestine aiding and abetting. See the lefty foot soldiers have a grudge against the christian right, they feel they hold them back from discovering their full degeneracy, so that will be cause enough.
Vancouver canada is a spynest with Chinese clandestine command and control already in place. Seattle is the twin Almost all of silicon valley is under their influence.
Mexico down to central america is awash with Chinese.
It’s a big problem. And solving their people problem by making more people isn’t helping.
But if the country suffers a major catastrophic civil war, then yes I can see it happening. Like the Russians were welcomed into Syria.
The Chinese are playing a hard economic game against us. The mobilization is happening in tandem. Our institutions will be tested.
I think there are some among the left who *would* welcome Chinese invaders, if it came to that. There are those among the left – the usual suspects among the communist movements, who idolize Mao.
I have heard of very successful leftists, who own property, fancying a Chinese invasion. Better than Trump, they said.
People do have instincts that come not play at some point.,
I agree that for most people who identify with the left, instinct will kick in if/when an attack is recognized.
The leadership level of the left (and a lot of the right) is lost however. Think about Biden literally abandoning Americans in Afghanistan, exposing lists of our local assets/agents, and handing our airbase to China and Russia. All while delirious and belligerent. Who knows what his mindset is.
The Governors of CA, OR, and WA have kept emergency powers for more than 2 years, with no intention to give them back. This power extends through administrative agencies. They can bypass normal constraints and procedures. They can do whatever the hell they want. Forget state laws – these agencies govern by “best practices” and protocols and directives from on high, and just imagine where that comes from. We know these states, and their universities, agencies, and investment programs, are particularly intertwined with the Chinese government. These governors are idiot functionaries looking to enrich themselves. Even if they don’t literally “welcome the ships,” no doubt the ground could be laid within the governing apparatuses for workable conditions and reactions to be in place. We’ve seen some of this dynamic with how quickly hospitals, schools, and local government fell in step with nonsensical Covid polices. Tip of the ice burg. Sadly, I live on the Western side of one of these states.
It has been disappointing to watch what was done these last two years.
There are dangerous combinations here — and clear paths toward exploitation.
I missed the last discussion so please forgive this, but the interview with David was interesting. I’m curious in all this, why solar nova didn’t come up.
After all that”s what Suspicious Observers and Diehold Foundation”s end game.
A second coming ? Possibly,? Ben Davidson and Doug Vogt are both Jewish and I only bring this up because 2000+- years ago in Jerusalem there were many Apocalyptic Jews espousing the end of the world was near
Does history rhyme?
Also a more relevant Plato quote comes from the Statesman I believe.
It speaks how the universe is held in balance by God and that he lets go
and this reverse action is extremely harmful to the biosphere It also tells that it’s cyclical and new species will be created
Solar nova would also jibe with Revelation.
sun black yep ultraviolet without dust shell
moon melted red
stars, well parts of our star fall from the sky.
volcanoes earthquakes. Thunderous noise in the heavens…Om maybe.
Is that the reverberation in. the atmosphere when the shell arrives
These ancient stories are world wide. intense heat and fire, flooding, meteors falling, the sun not rising or not setting for a day, The sun rising from the opposite direction, etc
Well whatever happens, happens.
Sorry to plop this here.
bill freeman
History does rhyme. Pre-history stutters.
Hello, m-r Nyquist. Today I talked with my father who is captain of a cargo ship. Once he met Chinese sailors who told him that while traveling with a river ship in China they saw only military ships for 6 hours! Only military ships! It is more than clear that the Chinese navy is that large for a future invasions throughout the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. And as a matter of fact, it is coordinated with Russia and Iran. Russia, China and Iran want to take over all maritime routes around the world in order to choke off the Western economies, to manipulate the global shipping and Russia is interested in manipulating the oil prices too which is done by its puppet ISIS, Al Qaeda and other smaller jihadist groups. Manipulating the whole global shipping and the oil prices is an old Soviet tactic used by the KGB/FSB and now China and Iran serve Russia’s interest to dominate the all maritime routes around the globe. The Chekists in Russia with the help of the communists in China and the Islamists try to manipulate the world economy!
The left right division is meaningless outside the framework of bourgeoise parties. American far left is not communist, even CPUSA are radical liberals. There is nothing progressive on the so called “progressives” who embrace globalism, while some on the so called far right, who are isolationists, can be considered a progressive force, they oppose imperialism even if indirectly.
The hippie new left is a CIA psy-op
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTVrI6zkj5o
Such good stories you tell.
Sure left right is an illusion. The people who make up the left on the streets are people who can’t make it in society and want the rules changed to accommodate their warped ego, their hurt feelings, their inability to take any responsibility. They’re the adult toddlers of society. Unfortunately when they throw tantrums, the dysfunctional government gives them what they want to maintain control and stuff their pockets The down side is that they want to eliminate everyone in their way and truly believe their own vomit.
And what’s been bred recently is a generation of self absorbed narcissists that could probably care less about anything outside their own protective bubble.
The division we actually have isn’t left and right. It’s very basically moral and immoral . Our early laws and constitution only work for a moral people
A people who truly believe that this world is only a place to test ones character
and that you will be held accountable for all immoral actions.
So as America was founded by mostly Christians there was a level of morality
That’s practically gone now.
People have a do what you want attitude and zero responsibility, it’s always someone else’s fault
A far far cry from the the days of the revolution and a further cry from the survival spirit of the pioneering days. We are a different people, a very different people. A divided people. And soon to be a suffering people if we don’t get our act together.
Where do we go from here?
bill freeman
The corrective to our situation is built-in.
You aren’t a real communist unless you belong to the party.
Ah yes, the left-right division is meaningless. Instead we should ascribe great meaning to the two concepts you mentioned, “globalism” and “imperialism”. Yes, we shall do so immediately, Comrade.
I begin to doubt that he is a Marxist-Leninist.
To my understanding, in the USA “left vs right” used to mean “big government” vs “small government”.
In Europe it means “internationalist” vs “nationalist” and that`s how it was used inside the Comintern.
Communists themselves kept calling themselves “rightist” and “leftist”. I once read a book by Margarete Buber-Neumann about the history of the Comintern (she was there in person) and it was very confusing to keep track of who of the Commies was “left” and “right”, because it also kept changing.
And in the end we read the condemned Bukharin’s letters to Stalin saying that Stalin had been right all along. These modern “thinkers” have been nothing like Socrates waiting for his hemlock.
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Anyone follow Spengler at AsiaTimes? He frames himself as hyper concerned over China then says the solution is peace, trade, and scientific development. This article he says Russia is basically right and smart to destroy Ukraine. His reasoning is that we provoked Russia, we want to put nukes in Ukraine to hurt Russia, but simultaneously that we won’t put up significant resistance in Ukraine to beat Russia because we don’t really care and lose all the time. Then he puts it all in the words of Richelu. It especially bothers me when an editor of such learning writes like this.
https://asiatimes.com/2022/05/cardinal-richelieu-foresees-russias-victory-in-ukraine/
I have read him before. People like that have paymasters.