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2022-07-31 China-Japan-Koreas
Hundreds of "retired" special forces soldiers from China have arrived in Eastern Ukraine for Russia
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Posted by 3dc 2022-07-31 01:27|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1 
Posted by badanov 2022-07-31 02:00||   2022-07-31 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 
Hundreds of opium smokers [cough cough]
that have seen the horrors of peace,
are here to help the 'operation'. Or,
because no one calls them to Greece!

Master strategists though,
they've tactically beaten monks,
and schoolteachers and drunks,
and once also spread this disease.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-31 03:11||   2022-07-31 03:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Strong bonds developing between Russia and China. I got your back. Support for China's efforts to be reciprocated. EU and America cannot be trusted. The world is far bigger than these two. Pelosi pokes the butt of the Dragon in her bluff. China will never be bluffed. EU and America in recession. One crisis after another.Shortly covid back with all its powers of containment and media restrictions.
Posted by Dale 2022-07-31 06:49||   2022-07-31 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Nancy Pelosi's Asia visit itinerary leaves out mention of possible stop in Taiwan
Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-31 06:54||   2022-07-31 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Following in the footsteps of Mao's 'volunteers' in Korea circa 1950. China's got to be creative about this stuff. It's one thing to play with Washington, its another thing playing with the American public. Maybe they're aware that one wrong move and those ships will be stacked off of California all the way back to China when the public goes full boycott of anything made in China. Beijing has never yet experienced a economic melt down of massive proportions and they're already dealing with the economic consequences of uncontrolled speculation.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-31 07:17||   2022-07-31 07:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I suspect sanctions against China would work much like sanctions against Russia. Both countries make things we not only want but need. Raw materials in Russias case and finished goods from China. Not just “Dollar Store” items but pharmaceuticals, etc.
Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2022-07-31 07:34||   2022-07-31 07:34|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect sanctions against China would work much like sanctions against Russia.

read up on something not from the trolls.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-31 07:49||   2022-07-31 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Evidently they won't be needed for the upcoming invasion of Taiwan.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-31 08:05||   2022-07-31 08:05|| Front Page Top

#9 China is a major manufacturer of just about anything. Russia is a major manufacturer of many things military. Self sufficient whereas the USA has lost most of its manufacturing and so imports nearly everything. So should tanker flows stop who will suffer the empty shelves first. Having a contrary opinion is not new to myself. The war on the unvaxed is just one of many attempts to ignore the truth. Soon electronic currency, movements monitored all to be controlled by Biden and his mandate signage. I forget where I saw it but falls inline with world order efforts of control.
Posted by Dale 2022-07-31 08:46||   2022-07-31 08:46|| Front Page Top

#10 You would be amazed how fast American industry can recover capacity if you get the government's boot off its neck.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-31 08:51||   2022-07-31 08:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Better yet, watch Americans discover many of the things advertisers pressure them to buy are not "essential," or even desirable.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-31 08:54||   2022-07-31 08:54|| Front Page Top

#12 /\ YES! Wants vs Needs. A struggle wrestled to the ground.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-31 08:58||   2022-07-31 08:58|| Front Page Top

#13 The problem in a nutshell: I don't want - or need - a sex change, abortion or cheap foreign labor for my business, but gummint says I should pay for all of them anyway.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-31 09:01||   2022-07-31 09:01|| Front Page Top

#14 So they have drivers, on the wrong side of the road.
And cooks, for rice and fish not biscuits and beans.
And mechanics, that can't read the repair manuals.
Warehouse workers, familiar with a different labeling scheme.
What will these folks do?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-31 09:24||   2022-07-31 09:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Dale needs to find a different hobby.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-31 09:29||   2022-07-31 09:29|| Front Page Top

#16 
Posted by Xyz 2022-07-31 09:35||   2022-07-31 09:35|| Front Page Top

#17 China sending tanks, troops to Russia ahead of war games
Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-31 09:35||   2022-07-31 09:35|| Front Page Top

#18 Please everyone, calm down. It is too early for blog conflict. After 1130, it will be too late.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-31 09:38||   2022-07-31 09:38|| Front Page Top

#19 Weak
Posted by Xyz 2022-07-31 10:04||   2022-07-31 10:04|| Front Page Top

#20 I'm reminded of some dumbass Briton king inviting the Saxons in to help him out in a "special operation".
Posted by Mercutio 2022-07-31 10:11||   2022-07-31 10:11|| Front Page Top

#21 ^ # Events will play out as they will. This is far and above my pay grade. I just wish our administration would do something right for a change. That wish seems unlikely to occur.
Posted by Dale 2022-07-31 10:58||   2022-07-31 10:58|| Front Page Top

#22 Your administration? Putin? Yeah, unlikely to do anything right. Not that I'm a Biden fan. (Spit)
Posted by Nero 2022-07-31 11:02||   2022-07-31 11:02|| Front Page Top

#23 ^If I'm not mistaken, Dale has been on Rantburg for quite some time. He is unlikely to be a Russian troll.
Posted by Secret Master  2022-07-31 12:12||   2022-07-31 12:12|| Front Page Top

#24 I'm pretty sure there are probably long-term Russian and Chinese trolls here, and it's possible that he's one, but he seems uniquely American in his vicious quiet retarded treason, rather like a lot of the other American trolls I've seen on both the left and right.

I have no idea why they've picked Putin as their pet Barabbus just because Biden pretends to fight him (they seem to live in a universe infused with kayfabe) but in the process of their particular snarking on his behalf this week they're actually supporting the group who co-created and released the virus that's killed about a million Americans and a total of six and a half million people worldwide.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-07-31 13:16||   2022-07-31 13:16|| Front Page Top

#25 ^I've been chewed out by some of the best. Fondly I remember Spook who was quick on the trigger. The way people respond is unpredictable. I cast no aspersions only ideas that are perhaps UN-digestible to some. My sources are varied and many day to day contacts. Events such as they are will develop without my assistance. I am like a spectator yelling from the bleachers. So shall it be.
Posted by Dale 2022-07-31 14:37||   2022-07-31 14:37|| Front Page Top

#26 ^ Staying out of the echo chamber is always prudent.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-31 14:42||   2022-07-31 14:42|| Front Page Top

#27 
If a liberal won't cancel you
it's likely a neocon will.
No one wants real opinions,
just generic left/right swill.

If you don't serve the Biden,
you're a Pyootin troll!
Because down in the Pentagon,
they're all such patriots, LOL.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-31 14:53||   2022-07-31 14:53|| Front Page Top

#28 I was a Republican until they sold us out.
Then I was a conservative until the grifters co-opted that.
Now, I am an anti-totalitarian.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-31 14:56||   2022-07-31 14:56|| Front Page Top

#29 Me, I'm just passing time. Still hoping there's an actual King coming.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-31 15:20||   2022-07-31 15:20|| Front Page Top

#30 Ah'm a militant passivist.

The passivist character of the gospels is filtered into an illiterate world where the hero-story of Jesus becomes understood by the culture's own warrior-hero myths, and so evangelization and Christian mission become violent conquests of heathens by which these Christians attain to the glory and eternal life won by the victory of the Jesus-hero.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-31 15:24||   2022-07-31 15:24|| Front Page Top

#31 A militant passivist, Skidmark? You are feeling creative today.

Dale has been here for years, and sharing the results of his conversations with those he encounters along his way for almost as long. Sometimes we get music videos as a result.

You would be amazed how fast American industry can recover capacity

An increasing number of companies have been finding alternative manufacturing location outside China, a trend that started during the Trump presidency and has accelerated since the Covid shutdown demonstrated how important not allowing China a stranglehold is. But even for simple processes it takes two years or more to build a factory and get it running, so we should start seeing results over the next few years — both the acceleration of China’s financial bubble popping and an increased need for skilled and trainable workers at home. I can’t imagine President Xi and those dependent on his power are going to enjoy the experience, though I have to admit the unkindness of looking forward what the boiler room trolls and the usual pundits will feel forced to say about it all.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-31 16:04||   2022-07-31 16:04|| Front Page Top

#32 Re #24: OK, ya got me. I was and am a paid agent for the glorious Nauru of Oceania.
Posted by Mercutio 2022-07-31 17:26||   2022-07-31 17:26|| Front Page Top

#33 this isnt an echo chamber?
Posted by 746 2022-07-31 18:26||   2022-07-31 18:26|| Front Page Top

#34 https://bigleaguepolitics.com/imf-concedes-that-the-russian-economy-is-doing-better-than-expected-in-the-face-of-the-collective-wests-sanctions/
Posted by 746 2022-07-31 18:26||   2022-07-31 18:26|| Front Page Top

#35 Given how often people get spanked for crossing the line and the fact even the regulars here can politely disagree sometimes, no, it's not an echo chamber.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-07-31 18:47||   2022-07-31 18:47|| Front Page Top

#36 A slight diversion. Prior to attack China has a habit of broadcasting alarms of warfare by first saying, If we tolerate this what else are we to tolerate. Words to that effect but with Mandarin it gets fuzzy. Next the final words being Don't say we didn't warn you. These phases released before the Russian China border crisis. India Chinese border crisis and now with the Taiwan crisis. OH, yes and America Vietnam war. China's Global news as they see things.
Posted by Dale 2022-07-31 20:34||   2022-07-31 20:34|| Front Page Top

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