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"Exporting that malicious poison to Asia would be akin to Asia welcoming the plague on itself."
"Of all the people on the international stage the supreme fool among them is Jens Stoltenberg... Stoltenberg conducts himself as an American agent more than he performs as a leader and spokesperson for European security.”
Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating talking about expanding NATO to Asia (2023)
The EU imposes impossible rules so it can punish tech firms that refuse to silently censor free speech. We saw the same in France: a baseless “criminal investigation”, then intelligence services offering to help with it if @telegram quietly censored speech in Romania and Moldova.
Pavel Durov, founder of vk.com and Telegram. Elon Musk reposted this saying: Yup, that’s how it goes
The great analgesic, and thus the fatal flaw, of the biomass is Denialism - the refusal to learn from one’s own errors, and thus, to rectify them - or at least to avoid repetition.
I might assert that THE great blunder of Washington and its client states in the 21st Century was to reverse three hundred years of European diplomatic practice – from Richelieu to Von Bismarck - all based upon one simple principal: divide and conquer.
Having made Russia turn from an aspirant to an adversary, thus forging the No-Limits Alliance with China, was an own-goal for the Centuries – we are seeing the dire consequences every day.
To date, the response of the West has been unedifying – first, an embarrassingly failed attempt to pressure China and India into breaking with Russia, then an equally unsuccessful trade war with China -for which a truce has suddenly been declared given the unexpected resilience of the adverary, finally, the fracturing of NATO as the EU refuses to acknowledge the failure of Project Ukraine.
In a rational world there would be serious discussion of these serial diplomatic blunders – akin to the “Who lost China debate” in America of the 50s.
But here? Nary a chance
Eric Krause
Ukraine had no stockpile of nuclear weapons. The nuclear missiles on Ukrainian territory were under the control of the Soviet armed forces.
Russia, as the successor state of the Soviet Union, maintained control throughout.
It would be like saying that, because there are nuclear weapons on their territory of Belgium and Italy and Turkey, they possess nuclear weapons. They do not; they are the possession of the United States.
I might assert that THE great blunder of Washington and its client states in the 21st Century was to reverse three hundred years of European diplomatic practice – from Richelieu to Von Bismarck - all based upon one simple principal: divide and conquer.
Having made Russia turn from an aspirant to an adversary, thus forging the No-Limits Alliance with China, was an own-goal for the Centuries – we are seeing the dire consequences every day.
To date, the response of the West has been unedifying – first, an embarrassingly failed attempt to pressure China and India into breaking with Russia, then an equally unsuccessful trade war with China -for which a truce has suddenly been declared given the unexpected resilience of the adverary, finally, the fracturing of NATO as the EU refuses to acknowledge the failure of Project Ukraine.
In a rational world there would be serious discussion of these serial diplomatic blunders – akin to the “Who lost China debate” in America of the 50s.
But here? Nary a chance
Eric Krause
Ukraine had no stockpile of nuclear weapons. The nuclear missiles on Ukrainian territory were under the control of the Soviet armed forces.
Russia, as the successor state of the Soviet Union, maintained control throughout.
It would be like saying that, because there are nuclear weapons on their territory of Belgium and Italy and Turkey, they possess nuclear weapons. They do not; they are the possession of the United States.
Dr George Szamuely PhD, who wrote Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia (2014).
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