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[Ruvesna] The US political system is teetering on the brink of a tailspin.
Democrats hold on to a consensus with Republicans who oversee defense, security, foreign policy, and street influence.
The priority of Biden's policy is two questions: strategic stability and elections-2022. Strategic stability in Biden's understanding - when he talks about the Russian threat at every corner, moves troops, carries out provocations, imposes sanctions, and Russia does not respond.
Then the information background contributes to the consolidation of society, an increase in spending on defense, security and foreign policy, but does not lead to critical consequences.
Biden understands that any meaningful response from the Kremlin to a provocation is the collapse of the existing system.
The Kremlin also knows that the basis of a bipartisan consensus is not ideology, fear of China and Russia, but corruption. If the Kremlin "detonates a corruption bomb," the street will be radicalized and out of control.
The Black Swan will fly not only to polling stations, the Senate and Congress, but also to the stock exchange.
Corruption did not appear in the United States yesterday. Everyone knows about Dick Cheney's billions earned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not everyone, no.
But corruption at the top affects the mood of the majority only when the standard of living drops to a critical level or the "information bomb" explodes.
Biden is not capable of stopping the mass impoverishment, and the "information bomb" is in the hands of Putin. So he gets nervous, announcing the Kremlin's interference in the elections in a year and a half.
The champions in corruption: the Pentagon, the military-industrial complex, and the State Department.
If we estimate it according to Russian legislation, then we are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.
How many of them "stick to their hands" in black, "convert into golden toilets" and go offshore? It is unknown because more than 80% of corruption deals are legalized through lobbying, financing of parties and near-party structures.
Many numbers are in the public domain. It takes ten days to figure it out, and given the capabilities of the Kremlin, Ukrainian and Polish talkativeness, it is possible to count to a cent and link to specific persons involved in kickbacks.
I recommend Arsen Avakov as a thread to the "tangle of corruption" between Ukraine and the United States. Avakov is a war criminal, but he has formed as a "Kharkov kid" and knows that a rollback of more than 40% is lawlessness.
When Petya went into lawlessness, Avakov traveled to Washington, revealed Petya's schemes and replaced Poroshenko with Zelensky. This was Avakov's fatal mistake.
The year had fun - Trump had no time for Ukraine, but with the arrival of Biden, the Americans took into account valuable information from Avakov and switched all profitable schemes to their own. Kent is a friend, but it turned out that he came to designate his own, where Avakov is superfluous.
Nothing but business.
As a clue to the American "tangle of corruption", I recommend studying the publicly available prices for food included in the food ration of an American and Russian soldier, clothing items included in the equipment of a US and Russian special forces soldier, industrial goods, computers and household appliances.
You will see that the prices for food, clothing, industrial goods, and household appliances in the United States in 2020 are higher than Russian prices by no more than 15%, and the prices for dry rations, special forces equipment, planes, helicopters, and tanks are comparable in quality and combat effectiveness, is twice as high.
Listen for a couple of days to Ukrainian “soros” and you will understand that the price for them is “a penny on a market day,” and in the budget of the State Department - tens of millions. Does at least 15% reach Ukraine?
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Corruption did not appear in the United States yesterday.
Yeah, and the Chinese threw gas on the fire. Similar to the drug lords and Mexican politicians except the for the drug lords, it's all been for domestic excitement not bringing down foreign governments.
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Leftest corruption had almost taken over the country and they got arrogant. The bulk of the country noticed and voted Trump to fix things because GOP wouldn't.
Left pulled out out all stops legal/illegal/viral to get rid of Trump. They exposed themselves further and more Americans noticed.
I think 2022 will be a red-wave of insane proportions. Far, far beyond the margin of theft. And the clean election efforts will also limit the margin of theft.
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Add to that, if Trump is re-elected in 2024 (I think he will) he'll get cooperation from this new crop of GOP unlike the last time. Also Trump would be elected with a VP (deSantes probably) ready to take over after a single term creating a 3 term run like Reagan Bush that would really help this country get our sh1t together again.
[HotAir] - This seems unusual for a country that has bragged about its vaccines and effectiveness in corralling COVID-19. The Associated Press reports that the Delta variant has now created outbreaks in half of China’s provinces and in 35 cities. As a result, Beijing has once again imposed shutdowns and mandatory testing regimes:
China suspended flights and trains, canceled professional basketball league games and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan on Tuesday as widening outbreaks of the delta variant reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.
While the total number of cases is still in the hundreds, they are far more widespread than anything China has dealt with since the initial outbreak that devastated Wuhan in early 2020 and over time spread to the rest of the country and the world.
...How seriously should we take China’s reported-cases claims? If all they’re seeing is a caseload in the hundreds, they shouldn’t need this kind of wide and economically damaging response. Their totalitarian surveillance state should make contact tracing relatively easy, and containment of a few hundred cases across such a wide field shouldn’t be impossible without these kinds of broad actions.
...China has insisted that it has succeeded in vaccinating wide swaths of the country. As of yesterday, China’s national health commission claimed it had administered almost 1.7 billion doses to its populace, enough to fully vaccinate nearly 900 million people in a population of 1.4 billion, which amounts to 64.3% — nearly enough to achieve herd immunity.
But immunity is the question. China’s using its own vaccines in this effort, at the same time that they’re exporting them to other countries in an effort to deploy "vaccine diplomacy."
...We already know from data in other countries — notably Chile, whose inoculation rate with China’s vaccines equals China’s own — that the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines are not effective. Whereas Western vaccines ARE effective. This gives the West an advantage - one that China attempts to mitigate through vaccine disinformation disseminated by paid agents and amplified by useful idiots.
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The German government specifies that a minimum of 10% of the art carvings of Oberammergau must be done by hand. Computerized art work sold as the work of skilled wood carvers.
Minor computer modifications of eligibility and unemployment benefits are skillfully carved to become reparations. Yet another harmless deception, no ?
[NATION.PK] Over the past two decades, Pakistain’s legal system has faced consistent criticism with regards to outdated criminal justice laws and the lack of convictions that result from our porous system of justice. This criticism, which also featured in the recent evaluation of Pakistain’s performance in the FATF, requires deliberate focus and reform by the State of Pakistain.
In particular, the debate concerning reform of criminal justice laws—and in particular anti-terrorism laws—stems from recognition of two specific issues relating to prosecution of terrorist suspects: 1) allegedly, the law enforcement agencies are unable to apprehend, detain and investigate terrorist suspects and 2) even when such terrorist suspects are brought before a court of law, no conviction takes place owing to lack of sufficient evidence, or due to improper investigation.
The first of these two issues—apprehension, detention and investigation of the suspects—is mostly operational in nature, dealing less with legislative provisions and more with the capacity and operational expertise of the law enforcement and intelligence agencies. And consequently, improvement of this issue requires a long-term strategy that encompasses training and capacity building of our law enforcement establishment. The second of the two issues—prosecution of suspects in a manner that results in meaningful convictions—squarely falls within the four corners of legislative reform, along with its interpretation and implementation.
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[Real Clear Defense] As of last week, the U.S. House's Appropriations Committee intends to cut funding for Guam's missile defenses, even as it approves a funding increase for the Missile Defense Agency. This demonstrates a deep degree of strategic confusion and threatens to undermine deterrence in an increasingly unstable Western Pacific. U.S. military ports, airfields, and logistics facilities are essential to America's existence as the dominant Pacific power. Their effective defense requires a far more advanced command and control system than currently exists. It demands more—not less—funding—and U.S. policymakers should understand why.
The U.S.' competition with China is primarily political-strategic, not an economic, diplomatic, or ideological contest. The CCP has employed every element of national power at its disposal to gain an advantage, joining major international organizations like the WHO and co-opting them to bully China's rivals, stealing technology to increase Chinese productivity at America's expense, using coercive economic inducements to expand its influence in Central Asia, the Near East, Africa, and Southeastern Europe, and wielding the Party-State's media complex to propagate anti-Western ideological narratives. But each of these actions is meant to bolster Chinese military power and facilitate the CCP’s strategic objectives.
China cannot simply await economic primacy. As of the 18th National Congress in 2012, during which Xi Jinping ascended to paramount leadership, the CCP's leaders have recognized the dangers of hoping to accrue economic power and "outbuild" the United States. The liberalization that sparked Chinese economic growth from the 1980s to the 2010s did create the foundation for contemporary Chinese power.
But it also created separate influence spheres, those "corrupt" Party officials and their friends throughout the Chinese economy that Xi Jinping has purged throughout his near-decade in power. State-directed development — and we must be clear, the Chinese "socialist market economy" is an oligarchic hybrid system with major elements of central planning — contains inherent inefficiencies. And it remains an open question as to whether it will be able to deliver the rising living standards that the Chinese people accepted in exchange for the post-Mao CCP’s continued rule. Xi clearly doubts its ability to do so. Hence his accelerating internal consolidation and international aggression, first prosecuting a genocide against Muslims in Xinjiang, then staging a de facto coup in Hong Kong, and increasingly preparing for an invasion of Taiwan.
The United States is the greatest impediment to China’s strategic ambitions. Subduing Taiwan, while the first step in Chinese military strategy, is not enough. The PLA must then pressure the U.S.' Pacific allies, most likely the Philippines, Japan, and, if possible, Australia, and ideally forcing a confrontation under cover of the PLA's ground-launched anti-ship missiles. If the CCP can fracture the U.S.' regional alliance system, the U.S. will be forced to conduct an extended blockade 9,000 miles from its coastline with few to no regional bases. By contrast, if U.S. power remains relevant in the Pacific, and if its formal allies commit to confronting China alongside it, the PLA faces a much less favorable balance of forces, even if it can neutralize Taiwan with negligible air and naval losses.
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Why not save the Taxpayers a bunch of $$$$, and leave Guam after 75+ years of Post WWII Re-occupation? or 1898, 1941-45 Japan, or 1945-> depending which occupation you use.
Let it be a Nation.
According to buddies who have been thru the area...
The locals residents aren't all that happy the US Military there. Despite about 2/3 of its $$$ revenue being from it.
BTW: The Chinese/Japanese are already about 34+% of the island population.
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