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2022-04-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
‘Only one winner in this war, and that is CHINA. The US foolishly got bogged down... it should ally with Russia and India against China’ - John Mearsheimer,13 April
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Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-04-15 04:02|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top
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#1 CIA director calls China's Xi Jinping 'a silent partner' to Putin's warmongering in Ukraine: Reveals how agency has changed tactics in sharing intel on Russia with Kyiv
Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-15 06:24||   2022-04-15 06:24|| Front Page Top

#2 I agree with alignment of USA, India and Russia but I also added Israel. Now we have a NATO of Asia forming and we are the odd man out. Canada, Latin America, Arab areas, Africa, and even Australia are poor friends at this time. I should think South Korea, Vietnam and particularly Japan must be very concerned. I see Israel will drift towards Russia as India is now doing. Russia offers balance whereas China represents absorption. Frankly Europe is a no show. A bureaucratic nightmare of self absorbed elites.
Posted by Dale 2022-04-15 06:34||   2022-04-15 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Ridiculous crazy talk. China is a trusted trading partner. [sarc off]

I suspect we'll see Director Burns retiring soon.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-15 06:41||   2022-04-15 06:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Most sites video didn't play for me but does play here;
Posted by Dale 2022-04-15 06:43||   2022-04-15 06:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Burns is a career diplomat, American diplomat and career ambassador. That says it all to me. Wine parties and dinner socials. Highly paid body doing nothing.
Posted by Dale 2022-04-15 06:49||   2022-04-15 06:49|| Front Page Top

#6 China is the enemy of all that exist about it. Russia will work with China at arms length. History of their relationships over time shows Russia has a healthy well deserved distrust of China.
Posted by Dale 2022-04-15 06:54||   2022-04-15 06:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems lies all along even covid,"The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out “intelligence” about Russia’s plans in Ukraine that is “low-confidence” or “based more on analysis than hard evidence”, or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin."Direct war on America thru media from our own government. .
Posted by Dale 2022-04-15 07:45||   2022-04-15 07:45|| Front Page Top

#8 I suspect we'll see Director Burns retiring soon.

What's the Chinese equivalent of dacha?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-15 08:15||   2022-04-15 08:15|| Front Page Top

#9 China is taking a big hit from the Russia invasion of Ukraine

- price of oil is way way up and China imports over 10 million barrels per day

- price and availability of other products including for example, wheat, copper and electrical equipment are also major problems
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-04-15 09:03||   2022-04-15 09:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Mearsheimer predicted this war would result from America's foolish encouragement of Ukraine to seek to join NATO and create "a western bulwark" within striking distance of Moscow.

An intelligent approach according to Mearsheimer would be to ensure Ukrainian neutrality and distance from the US. Ukraine should have been nuclear-armed and independent.

Instead of this sensible solution we have the worst of all possible worlds: a perpetual proxy war which neither Russia nor the US can afford to be seen to lose. It is a recipe for escalation into a nuclear war.

Instead of the US, Russia and India aligned against China, now the Russians, Chinese and Indians -- along with the OPEC nations and nearly all of the global South - are united against the foolish, self-destructive US sanctions.
Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-04-15 09:24||   2022-04-15 09:24|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ So obviously Putin will not demand that the sanctions be lifted as part of any negotiated resolution with Ukraine.
Posted by Matt 2022-04-15 09:38||   2022-04-15 09:38|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ What are you talking about? Sanctions hurt people everywhere around the world, including the American public. The only people benefiting from sanctions are private traders and corrupt American politicians such as the president and his family.

The biggest losers from the sanctions are two groups: the half a billion desperately poor people in Asia, the Middke East and Africa who depend on Russian wheat and other exports for survival, and millions of Americans who are now becoming poor. Of course the sanctions must be lifted as part of any settlement. They are a foolish and counterproductive, blunt instrument that never should have been wielded in the first place.
Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-04-15 10:01||   2022-04-15 10:01|| Front Page Top

#13 So the sanctions are hurting Putin?
Posted by Matt 2022-04-15 10:08||   2022-04-15 10:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Putin has entered your head. You are so obsessed with him that you cannot even see what is before your eyes. Again: sanctions are hurting the American public and will cause at least 10 million people to starve across the global South.

The world outside of America and Europe doesn't care about Putin or Zelensky. They care intensely about evading or breaking the foolish US sanctions. For scores of governments and billions of people, overcoming these sanctions is a matter of survival.
Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-04-15 10:19||   2022-04-15 10:19|| Front Page Top

#15 Call me crazy but I don't like/trust allies that invade neighbors and threaten everyone with nukes.

We should build stronger trade connections with India and weaker with China and let the Europeans figure out Russia.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-04-15 10:22||   2022-04-15 10:22|| Front Page Top

#16 #14 You didn't answer my question, but never mind. What about the sanctions is preventing Russia from selling wheat and fertilizer to China and from there to points south?
Posted by Matt 2022-04-15 10:31||   2022-04-15 10:31|| Front Page Top

#17 @Slineling: Don't feed the troll.
Posted by Jaimble Bluetooth4081 2022-04-15 10:42||   2022-04-15 10:42|| Front Page Top

#18 Don't feed the troll.

:-)
It never ceases to astonish me how ignorant so many Americans - including US policymakers - are regarding how US sanctions backfire on America again and again.
Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-04-15 10:47||   2022-04-15 10:47|| Front Page Top

#19 ^. Can’t see the trees thru the forest.
Posted by Xyz 2022-04-15 10:53||   2022-04-15 10:53|| Front Page Top

#20 Ridiculous crazy talk. China is a trusted trading partner. [sarc off]

Everything we hear Biden accusing Putin of doing, Xi has done even more. But Xi is rich and powerful while Putin is poor and weak and Biden is chickenshit.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-04-15 11:49||   2022-04-15 11:49|| Front Page Top

#21 China is so awful they basically declared war on their own city, Shanghai, which will lead to extraordinary suffering.
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-04-15 12:13||   2022-04-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#22 The tectonic plates of the Old World Order (Post WWII Cold War) are drift, as the American bulwark has become suicidal internally, and dead broke as it consumes itself with lunatic cultural BS, delusional, profligate spending, and compromised, inept leadership. New and emergent foreign power centers are casting about for a new web of alliances that offer benefit and security. Astride all this the Middle Kingdom seems ascendant (if vulnerable to food, energy and foreign markets) and focused on massive expansion.

In contrast, Washington seems run by cloaked Marxist fools, the gay lobby, minority/union stakeholders and the Obama minions for whom every decision must be corrosive to Traditional America.

India, Brazil, and other historic non-aligned nations and perhaps the sane Middle Eastern players are considering realignment even as Iran and Pakistan collude, and Putin is driving Russian into fealty with China and isolation in his maniacal determination to finish somehow a massive mistake (witness the Stalinesque decapitation of the FSB and now his Army leadership) in Ukraine.

At this moment of turmoil and global leadership opportunity the US is economically crippled, invaded, culturally conflicted and led by the most inept, corrupt, cowardly concentration of clueless politicians in our modern history. I cannot see the horizon but there is a damn big set of icebergs out there and Jojo has the bridge...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-04-15 12:23||   2022-04-15 12:23|| Front Page Top

#23 US will leave NATO. Its death has been artificially postponed, and we all know how that ends.

USA needs: Prompt Global Strike, more Block (latest) Virginias, Columbias (more than 12) GBSD, LRSO and a shock collar program for the DoS kids and their think tank enablers. Tightly controlled borders (not just south) and repurpose USAID into an agency charged with paying down the US National Debt.

Thus endeth the Rantlet.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-15 12:45||   2022-04-15 12:45|| Front Page Top

#24 #21 Lord Garth, Xi's recent actions on Shanghai, most likely due to the ‘Shanghai Gang’ seeking Xi’s ouster rather than COVID, right? Anticipating/hopeful to see the Chinese people rise up against Xi, if the CCP army ever turns on Xi having family in Shanghai.
Watching very closely as it is hard to continue seeing these atrocities occur without any ramifications.
Posted by Jan 2022-04-15 14:04||   2022-04-15 14:04|| Front Page Top

#25 Never read any Mearshimer. The trolls' drooling infatuation insures I never will.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-15 14:44||   2022-04-15 14:44|| Front Page Top

#26 I’ve been arguing that China is about to crash into demographic and financial walls. Lawrence Person at Battleswarm Blog makes the argument better and with more data. Some of his many points:

  • They were going shrink in half by 2100. “Then they realized that they had been overcounting people for some time.” Then new data moved the date moved up to 2070. And now they’re saying it will be 2050. “For that to be true, the Chinese would have overcounted the population by 100 million.” And all of those missing people are of childbearing age.

  • Their population actually peaked 15 years ago.

  • “China isn’t getting rich, it’s getting old.” They’re facing demographic collapse within a decade.

  • “All of the economic growth we have seen in China since 2006 is because of debt.”

  • Corporate debt is 350% of GDP, “making China the most indebted country in human history in both absolute and relative terms.” Every country that’s come within half of this has collapsed under the debt load.

  • Russia is the world’s second largest oil exporter, and it can’t export more to China because the pipes that go east don’t interconnect with the ones that go west. “The rail lines are already beyond capacity.”

  • To get more oil to China: “You would have to build a fundamentally new infrastructure from the fields in northwest Siberia to Chinese population centers that is greater than the distance from Miami to Anchorage, most of which is through virgin territory that is very rugged. That’s a 10-year program minimum even with the Chinese building it.”
    • Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-15 14:52||   2022-04-15 14:52|| Front Page Top

    #27 Reality is never allowed to conflict with The Beautiful Story.
    Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-15 15:06||   2022-04-15 15:06|| Front Page Top

    #28 ^ Good post, tw. And another reason why our recent visitors' theory that "Russia doesn't need the West because it can just do business with China instead" is delusional misinformed.
    Posted by Matt 2022-04-15 15:12||   2022-04-15 15:12|| Front Page Top

    #29 Derp.
    Posted by Neville Unusong6965 2022-04-15 19:25||   2022-04-15 19:25|| Front Page Top

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