Thursday, April 06, 2023
American Stryker Vehicles are in the hands of the Ukrainians...
I don't know if I recall correctly but I believe the Stryker was never intended for high intensity combat (weird how they designate stuff...any combat is high intensity if you're on the ground). The Bradley and the Abrams were meant for the big fights. Will be interesting to see how they perform in the mud and guck and other stuff over there.
#Ukraine: One of the first videos of US-donated Strykers already in Ukrainian hands- we see both a M1132 engineer squad vehicle with a light weight mine roller (LWMR) and a M1126 infantry carrier vehicle.
— πΊπ¦ Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 6, 2023
In total the US provided 90 Stryker AFVs- including 20 with mine rollers. pic.twitter.com/CMhU9auElx
"He had a chance." Zelensky said he would no longer take a call from Xi Jinping.
The arrogance is breathtaking!"He had a chance."
— Spriter (@Spriter99880) April 6, 2023
Zelensky said he would no longer take a call from Xi Jinping.
"French colleague Mr. Macron informed me that during his visit to Beijing he persuaded Xi Jinping to call me. Unfortunately, I have to upset him. The Chinese leader had a chance, he missed it. The… pic.twitter.com/VWKVesSsae
Whoever his handlers are need to take away the press clippings and show him economic reports and estimates of repairing his crippled infrastructure.
If he actually believe the free ride he's been getting from the US will continue forever then he's smoking crack.
Russia: New Cold War is Over, We Are Now in ‘Hot Conflict With the United States’
via Breitbart
The new Cold War is already over, a Kremlin spokesman has said, apparently looking past Russia’s own role in invading Ukraine and accusing the United States of “playing with fire” by pushing the world towards nuclear war that he insists Russians wish to avoid.
The comments come just hours after Russia announced it had deployed nuclear-capable missiles to the borders of NATO in Belarus, and refitted Belarussian jets with the equipment to carry and drop nuclear bombs. Moscow made a tacit accusation that the United States was to blame for this, saying Russia was doing no more than America already did, in stationing nuclear weapons in the territory of European allies.
Wow.
Looks like our "competitors" have picked up the torch of imminent warfare.
To be expected especially considering all the actions taken to thrill the mob and NOT THINK!
Regardless we're here now.
Question.
Can the US handle a major regional war with China, the continuing proxy war in Ukraine and a major regional war between Israel and Iran at the same time?
Watch what's happening in TN. Public Unrest as a political tool has to be stopped.
Are you watching the shit show in TN right now? I find it distasteful, but at the sametime necessary.
The left has fallen in love with public unrest to push their agenda and it needs to be stopped.
Many try and link peaceful civil rights protests of the past to the madness that is happening now but it couldn't be further from the truth.
During the civil rights movement the STATE acted in a hostile and violent manner. That is wrong. Not the protesters but the state.
That doesn't need to be relitigated because its widely accepted and isn't up for debate (except among the racists on this blog but fuck you).
What's different is that you have public unrest that isn't being checked today and is being encouraged by a political party.
That is a totally different kettle of fish.
So why have so many been so slow to act?
It easy.
Words. Former civil rights leaders have blessed this activity and called it equal to what happened in the past. If you note the wording of the disruptive protesters you'll always here "this is good trouble".
That's false and its wrong.
The TN action IS distasteful.
But it IS necessary.
The brakes need to be put on the madness that is sweeping the country.
China sends carrier group off Taiwan coast ahead of US meeting
via Reuters
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Wednesday a Chinese aircraft carrier group was in the waters off the island's southeast coast, the same day President Tsai Ing-wen was due to meet U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles.
China, which claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, has warned of unspecified retaliation if the meeting goes ahead.
China staged war games around Taiwan last August following the visit to Taipei of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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"In addition to posing a substantial threat to our national security, it also destroys the status quo of regional security and stability. Such actions are by no means the acts of a responsible modern country."
The ministry provided two pictures - one a grainy black and white image of the carrier taken from the air, and the other of a Taiwanese sailor looking at the Shandong and another unidentified ship in the distance.
China has yet to comment on the carrier group, whose appearance also coincided with the arrival in Beijing of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Two things.
1. Freedom of navigation exercises cut both way don't they? Peer vs Peer and super power "competition" is a bitch ain't it?
2. I thought the USMC and the rest of the services were all about "deterring" and "competing" and "grey zone activities". Talking the talk is one thing. Walking the walk is something else ain't it?
Wednesday, April 05, 2023
The MSM is finally understanding the issue with the dollar's destruction...
I had hoped we could avoid a war with China.The dedollarization is happening. pic.twitter.com/IM5s3jKaAU
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 6, 2023
This latest move by them all but ensures that war will be declared.
Many US elites will feel like we have no choice.
The dollar is dying, we have tremendous debt, our social fabric is fraying and a major recession is looming.
To many of the elite in the US, war is the answer.
Watch the military contracts and how hard they push industry to arm up but I'm guessing right after the US presidential election.
2025-2026 and both sides will probably be ready.
Which brings us to where. I always thought Africa because its resource rich.
Not anymore.
I think it won't be in the Pacific. Losing Taiwan won't hurt us. An old fashioned oil war will however.
I think Iran and Israel will finally tie up and China and the US will be fighting a proxy war.
I didn't talk about inflation but a big war in the Middle East will make oil spike to 150 a barrel or more and that will only deepen our recession but also cripple Europe, enrich Russia and set the stage for China to make a move on Taiwan unopposed in 2027 (right on schedule).
We are easily distracted and our leaders don't think.
We're fucked.
Top Saudi, Iranian Diplomats To Meet In China: "Era Of US Involvement In Region Is Over"
via Zero Hedge
A senior Iranian official also confirmed, "The top envoys agreed to meet on Apr. 6 in Beijing as the deal was facilitated by China." On the agenda is expected to be the mutual reopening of embassies and appointment of ambassadors.
The most important, and illustrative of the way the geopolitical winds are blowing, is the following:
"The era of the United States' involvement in this region is over... The regional countries are capable of preserving security and stability in the Middle East without Washington's interference," another Iranian official said.
On the issue of China, the powerful US rival, leading the way in brokering peace, Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awasat newspaper cited a source in Riyadh to say that choosing China as host country for the meeting "came as an extension of Beijing's positive role in reaching the agreement and facilitating communication between the two countries."
As for Tehran and Riyadh, not only has the regional rivalry, which intensified most during the decade of the proxy war in Syria which began in 2011, been set amid a centuries-long divide over correct interpretation of Islam (Shia Iran vs. Sunni Saudi Arabia), but it has also spilled over in places like Yemen, scene of another grinding proxy war which pit Shia rebels against a Saudi-backed government.
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