I pretty much agree with migueljose. I'm 77 years old, US native-born citizen and life-long resident. The main problem in the US is the intense interracial animosity of all against all, and the deliberate race baiting by our ruling class. Race relations were better in the 50's despite segregation (worse in the North). The second problem is the collapse of our educational system K-post doc, and the resulting incompetence of our Ruling Class. The attempt to actually destroy important Russian and Chinese companies and institutions, like Huawei, is an actual act of war. When that game was run against Japan in the late 30's, we got the Pacific War. Our current policies will give us a war with Russia-China. After the Biden interview and Alaska meeting fiascos, it is clear Russia and China are now coordinating their future actions. One fears the worst. Posted by: bob sykes | Mar 23 2021 19:23 utc | 6
I do not want to sound alarming. But… Jeeze Louise…
After this last week with [1] the events of the Alaskan meeting between the United States and China, and [2] the “write ups” leading to it are quite horrifying.
I wonder what the Hell is going on in the minds of the folks back in Washington DC, for they have obviously have a mixture of numerous mental illnesses. Not a singular one. A mixture.
The Alaskan meeting was stunning in it’s insanity.
For starters, America demands that China (and the rest of the world) STOP working with the United Nations. Instead they order all other nations, and their leaders to “follow the United States” as it leads.
Yes.
You read that correctly.
Well, for one thing, the Americans demand a “Rules based obedience“. Not one that follows the United Nations. I know that it sounds so nice, and so orderly. “Rules”. ‘Why would anyone not want to follow “rules”?’ says the American sheeple. And yes, it does play well in the “red states” back inside of America, but it is dangerous.
It is very, very dangerous.
Because this “rules based obedience” means…
- There is not any kind of national sovereignty, only American sovereignty.
- Nations exist at the pleasure and allowance of the United States.
- The United States makes the rules at will.
- The United States changes the rules at will.
- All other nations are subservient to the United States.
- The United Nations has no say what so ever in International affairs.
- The United Nations is a convenience that America uses when it wants to, and ignores when it decides to.
This is a very authoritarian and demanding posture.
It is unyielding and fixed.
It’s almost as if the leaders in America are Megalomaniacs. To believe and allow such an insane level of insanity.
Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem. Historically it was used as a name for narcissistic personality disorder prior to the latter's first use by Heinz Kohut in 1968, and is used today as a non-clinical equivalent.
But it’s not just that.
It’s many other things.
Such as the litany of demands that America placed on China.
Such as…
- China’s actions and behavior regarding 台湾.
- China’s actions and behavior regarding 西藏.
- China’s actions and behavior regarding 香港.
- China’s actions and behavior regarding 快乐的脚.
All of which might not look familiar to the American readers in the audience.
As all of the items (that America demanded on China) are de facto Chinese land, cities, areas and territories.
These are regions as specified within the United Nations and identified as Chinese domains.
Such as Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan.
So it really is insulting that these jackasses from Washington DC have the fucking nerve to tell the Chinese what to do in 香港.
Which is like China demanding that America do thing about Baltimore, the killings in Chicago, and the maritime operations in the Gulf of Mexico and Boston harbor.
This illness, where you cannot understand the personal barriers of others is known as Cognitive Dysfunction.
Cognitive disorders, also known as neurocognitive disorders, are a category of mental health disorders that primarily affect cognitive abilities including learning, memory, perception, and problem solving. Neurocognitive disorders include delirium and mild and major neurocognitive disorder. They are defined by deficits in cognitive ability that are acquired, typically represent decline, and may have an underlying brain pathology. The DSM-5 defines six key domains of cognitive function: executive function, learning and memory, perceptual-motor function, language, complex attention, and social cognition.
Why were the American delegation so rude, demanding, and ill behaved during the Alaskan meeting? Could it be that they ACTUALLY BELIEVED that they were that powerful, and that they indeed represented the United States within that capacity?
How and why would they hold this amazingly dangerous position? It’s not patriotism. It’s pure evil.
It is exactly what Hitler demanded of Austria, West Prussia, Poland, the Netherlands, and France in the late 1930’s.
It’s pure evil.
The hatred towards China inside America is just ripe for war
The last four years of spewed hate has been horrible. Here’s the “news” from today…
- Asian man punched by stranger with brass knuckles in NYC attack
- Straphanger urinates on Asian woman inside NYC subway car
- Family of Asian woman shot to death in California call for hate crime probe
- Suspect bashed Asian woman with pipe during NYC attack
- Asian woman assaulted in Midtown in possible hate crime
- Asian man whose wife died in Atlanta spa was handcuffed, ‘treated like a suspect’
The Mike Pompeo Speech is codified into policy
In April 2020, immediately after China stopped the COVID-19B virus, Mike Pompeo laid out a speech decrying China. In his speech he stated that all efforts to contain it has failed and that new aggressive measures must be taken.
I guess Pompeo and trump were surprised that China could completely stop a major bio-weapons attack with an R0=20; the very dangerous “B strain” when China was must vulnerable; CNY.
In comparison, the American "safe strain", has a much smaller R0=0.01, and a much small lethality footprint. Which is why it is called the "herd inoculation strain".
This speech was bemoaned by the entire global community as unrealistic, a throwback to World War II, and entirely antagonistic as well as a violation of the UN charter.
- Mike Pompeo Accuses China of Posing a Worldwide Threat …
- Pompeo’s fact-twisting China speech versus the truth …
- Another Course Correction Needed: Towards a Better …
Well, guess what?
Yup. It’s now official American policy.
The Longer Telegram
Don’t believe me? Here we look at an American “policy paper” known as “The Longer Telegram“.
It’s called a “telegraph” as it is used as a “fair warning” that the United States considers China as a hostile enemy that must be destroyed. Thus the message is “telegraphed” to all people involved.
It is a reissue, and rewording of a post World War II document on how to be Master of the World. And it is being followed with religious fervor in the United States by the Biden administration. Following this outdated, outmoded, and insane cartoon-image of what the world is today is hastening the demise of the United States.
As well as forcing the hands of the Chinese, Iranians and Russians towards nuclear war.
It’s authored by “anonymous“, but we can see clearly that the contributors are the entire neocon establishment on “K street”. That’s John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and the rest of the neocon cabal.
What is this “telegram”?
It’s a strategy and orders towards “reclaiming American greatness” by the destruction of the largest threats “to the American way of life” in the world. In it, it describes a very militaristic policy of total annihilation of the enemies of the United States.
Not cooperation.
Not negotiation, and trade.
Not Geo-political alignments, and posturing.
No.
It’s about total annihilation of all the threats the the United States global leadership, and how to go about making sure that it is successful.
- Primarily the destruction of China.
- Isolation of China from Russian support and alliances.
- Isolation of China geographically.
- Isolation of China internationally, culturally and socially.
- Isolation of China in technology, skills, knowledge and science.
It’s a long-worded tome.
Obviously it was written by one or more “think tanks” in the military-industrial complex. Obviously a number of committees wrote various parts, spliced them together, and achieved “buy in” as a group.
As Strategic Culture writes…
The Atlantic Council has emitted The Longer Telegram: Toward A New American China Strategy written by Anonymous. Clearly it is supposed to echo Mr X’s (George Kennan’s) Long Telegram. But some differences: this is longer – much longer, grinding on for seven times the length of Kennan’s essay.
And what is it about…
It’s about China…
It’s about Russia too.
The document describes a China that exists only in their furtive imaginations; An “authoritarian” country whose communist rulers are divorced from the people they rule, in which President Xi is described as more or less a warlord surrounded by “cronies,” enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else, and who have visions of ruling the world. This fantasy is in fact a mirror-image of the United States.
Indeed.
It has absolutely no resemblance with China, as it is today, in any way, shape or form.
Facts do not matter to the ideologically obsessed.
The Strategic Culture Foundation says it quite clearly…
But, enough of Anonymous’ fancies – they have no base in reality: The USA out-sourced its manufacturing to China long ago and won’t be getting it back. Wokeism is killing its education system. America's politics are broken. America's military is losing everywhere and doesn’t realize it. A tsunami of debt has built up. Most absurd of all, after years of needless hostility to Russia, Washington has no hope of separating Moscow from Beijing. And Xi Jinping is not some rogue who seized control... ...he is the top of a robust pyramid. The only significance of this paltry effort is that it gives us another – and depressingly influential – example of the curious American obsession with personalities – everything in Chinese-U.S. relations was going along swimmingly until Xi. But actually, as anyone capable of seeing reality knows, China is much, much more than one man. China/Russia/Iran/Iraq/insert-name-of-country was happy to accept its place in the Rules-Based International Order... ... until that nasty Xi/Putin/Ayatollah/Saddam/insert-name changed everything; get rid of him and it will all fix itself. Sure... When are they going to understand that it’s a whole country, not just one guy?
How about the details…
But what is this thing… this “Longer Telegram”…
In an extraordinarily provocative move, the U.S. foreign policy establishment has warned China that it is pushing for a more aggressive strategy... ... all the way up to instigating war. In a tome-like article published by the Washington-based Atlantic Council, there are foreboding demands for numerous “red lines” to confront China over. Entitled ‘The Longer Telegram’ the article is a strange throwback to Cold War thinking. It is ostentatiously mimicking the famous document authored by George Kennan in 1946 who as a U.S. diplomat based in the Moscow wrote ‘The Long Telegram’ prescribing a hostile strategy of containment against the Soviet Union. Thus the Atlantic Council is billing the recent article as a seminal historical contribution to formulating U.S. policy towards China, and one that is more bellicose and “comprehensive”.
Here’s a reprint of a very informative article…
The Longer Telegram: To Contain China or the USA?
Christopher Black
March 14, 2021
The paper repeats the mistake inherent in all American thinking about the world, of [1] inventing a rival that does not exist, and then [2] positing strategies to deal with this fiction.
Washington, Beijing and European capitals have been firing off barrages of commentary in the past weeks on an anonymously authored paper on China published on January 28 by the U.S.-NATO think tank, the Atlantic Council, entitled “The Longer Telegram: Toward A New American China Strategy.”
It is modeled on another policy paper written by George Kennan in 1946.
That policy paper was called the Long Telegram. In it Kennan set out a strategy for “containing” the Soviet Union.
Which is a nice euphemism that means “destroying it”.
Kennan’s advice was adopted and became U.S. strategy. The Longer Telegram purports to set out a strategy for undermining China and its socialist system.
Which is really fucked up as the Chinese system is far, far, FAR superior to the American system of oligarchy-run military-empire that pretends to be a democracy.
The Longer Telegram has met with approval by some U.S. and allied strategists and governments but alarm by others. China has denounced it for what it is, a plan for aggression against China and its socialist system.
The paper repeats the mistake inherent in all American thinking about the world, of inventing a rival that does not exist, and then positing strategies to deal with this fiction.
This delusory thinking has led the United States into one defeat after another and caused the world untold troubles as it tried to throw its weight around to secure markets and resources for its industries and capital.
- Yemen
- Panama
- Libera
- Afghanistan
- Syria
- etc, etc…
The destruction of one country after another to achieve that objective, the deaths of millions, the immiseration of entire regions of the world are nothing to American capital so long as it can make money.
All their rhetoric about “human rights” “democracy” and other such platitudes is just a cover for maintaining their economic hegemony and keeping everyone else down.
They even sometimes admit this.
In the National Defence Strategy issued in 2018, the real reason for the slanders against China, the constant provocations in Hong Kong, and the South China Sea is stated clearly…
“Failure to meet our defense objectives will result in decreasing U.S. global influence... ...eroding cohesion among allies and partners... ...and reduced access to markets... ...that will contribute to a decline in our prosperity and standard of living.”
Of course even this is a lie since American capital does not care at all about the standard of living of the American people, only about the prosperity and standard of living of the big capitalists.
The world can see what conditions are in the United States.
The [1] failure to protect their people from the Covid pandemic, [2] the almost daily extrajudicial killings of blacks and poor people, [3] the hollow promise of Biden to institute a higher minimum wage, [4] the collapse of the power grid in Texas are[5] eloquent expressions of the contempt and disregard big capital has for the common people.
The document describes a China that exists only in their furtive imaginations;
…an “authoritarian” country whose communist rulers are divorced from the people they rule, in which President Xi is described as more or less a warlord surrounded by “cronies,” enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else, and who have visions of ruling the world.
This fantasy is in fact a mirror image of the United States.
The anonymous author(s) sees China as he has been conditioned to see America, and then projects that outward to any nation that attempts to develop its economy and improve the conditions of its people.
And just as the forces of capital in the United States manipulate elections and the political system to guarantee their power in order to feather their own nests, the author of the Longer Telegram accuses the President of China of doing the same in China, of using his position for his own benefit.
It then offers recommendations on how to try to split the Chinese leadership from the people, and even on how to split the Communist Party from its membership and the people, using false claims as propaganda to undermine social cohesion.
China did well to kick out the BBC last week and to arrest the U.S. and British agents in Hong Kong.
The document adopts the Henry Kissinger strategy urging a soft approach to Russia to try to lure it away from its alliance with China.
This would require a complete reversal of American strategy of surrounding Russia with bases, ships and missile systems, of attempting to ruin the Russian economy with all the illegal trade and financial embargoes.
It is not going to happen.
But the suggestion shows the confusion in the American leadership on how to stop its economic decline that precedes its decline as the world hegemon.
For decades the Americans have claimed to support nations trying to raise themselves from the poverty created by European and American colonialism, to achieve economic prosperity and a better life for their peoples.
But when a country achieves those goals it suddenly becomes an enemy.
America want no rivals.
China is declared an enemy simply because the Communist Party has, over its long struggle from the Long March to today, raised a billion and more people out of poverty, has created a social and economic system no western nation can equal.
- China is as big as the United States.
- China has more factories than the United States.
- China has a peer capable military.
- China is a threat on all levels of (former) United States dominance.
And most importantly…
Their example shows the world what can be achieved by nations finally freed from colonialism, and shows the strength and vitality of socialism.
But now America faces renewed threats from the aspiring colonial powers.
Defeated in 1949, the colonial powers have never abandoned their ambitions to again reduce China to a colony.
They are, once again, actively engaged in trying to undermine China as a sovereign nation.
To slander it.
To sabotage its economy.
To threaten it with armed force.
And to break it into smaller, manageable pieces, as they want to do with Russia.
The method of attack is wide.
The Canadians, on U.S. orders, have essentially kidnapped and still hold hostage, Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of the technology company, Huawei.
At the same time, the U.S. used the arrest as a warning to others trading with Iran.
They have increased their military provocations off the Chinese coast.
With the U.S. and its vassal states sending naval ships, time and again, through the Taiwan Strait, claiming to be enforcing “freedom of navigation” …
…but in reality declaring that Taiwan, a province of China, is an American protectorate.
The complete response to the Longer Telegram is found in China’s national defence white paper which states, “Though a country may become strong, bellicosity will lead to its ruin.
The Chinese nation has always loved peace.
Since the beginning of modern times, the Chinese people have suffered from aggressions and wars, and have learned the value of peace and the pressing need for development.
Therefore, China will never inflict such sufferings on any other country.
Since its founding 70 years ago, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has never started any war or conflict.
You just cannot say this about America; the biggest military empire in history.
- Timeline of American Involvement in Wars
- Major Military Operations Since World War II
- America: Drastic Changes 70 Years After World War II
- DEATH TOLL FROM MODERN AMERICAN WARS
Since the introduction of reform and opening-up, China has been committed to promoting world peace, and has voluntarily downsized the PLA by over 4 million troops.
China has grown from a poor and weak country to be the world’s second largest economy neither by receiving handouts from others nor by engaging in military expansion or colonial plunder.
Instead, it has developed through its people’s hard work and its efforts to maintain peace.
China has made every effort to create favorable conditions for its development through maintaining world peace, and has equally endeavored to promote world peace through its own development.
China sincerely hopes that all countries will choose the path of peaceful development and jointly prevent conflicts and wars.”
All those who want peace in the world, can support that statement.
The Longer Telegram is not just a policy paper, it is also propaganda.
Dangerous anti-UN propaganda
Propaganda which must be rejected as a call for the violation of all the principles set out in the Charter of the United Nations.
A charter that guarantee every nation [1] the right to peaceful development, [2] to its sovereignty and [3] to non-interference from other nations; [4] to be treated with respect.
All of which were missing in the 19MAR21 Alaskan meeting between the USA and America.
Instead of contemplating strategies on how to contain China…
….the world must instead contemplate strategies for containing the United States of America.”
It’s all pretty damning. But why does MM believe that America has chosen to engage in a hot war?
Americans are ripe and “chomping at the bit” for a war.
There is unrestrained budget constraints and the debt is at twenty trillion dollars with no signs of any kind of fiscal responsibility. Either the American governance is counting on a financial and fiscal collapse, or…
…or…
…they plan on looting a large, plump and ripe nation to compensate for their fiscal irresponsibility.
And they are eyeing China.
History tells us that when nations have depleted their coffers, and their citizenry have taken to “torches and pitchforks” the only way out…
…socially, economically, and as a way to control the situation…
…is a war.
If they win, and conquer the opposing targeted nation, they can loot it, and fill their empty coffers. They can unite an upset and disturbingly angry citizenry with an enemy, and they can postpone the demise of their government that caused the fiscal irresponsibility in the first place.
Let’s look at this article, shall we…
Washington Telegrams China of Red Lines and Aggression
For a start (the policy paper) denigrates China’s President Xi Jinping in the most pejorative terms unbecoming of diplomatic norms. It proposes that “U.S. strategy must remain laser-focused on Xi, [and] his inner circle.”
The document states:
“At home, Xi has returned China to classical Marxism-Leninism and fostered a quasi-Maoist personality cult, pursuing the systematic elimination of his political opponents… Xi is no longer just a problem for U.S. primacy. He now presents a serious problem for the whole of the democratic world.”
What the Washington policy elite are explicitly calling for is “regime change” in Beijing by aiming to destabilize the senior government.
This marks an unprecedented notice of increased hostility towards the Chinese leadership. This is taking things way past U.S. aggression under Obama and Trump and brings it to a whole new level.
What’s even more alarming is the Atlantic Council article sets out numerous “red lines” which could trigger military confrontation.
These red lines include [1] “major hostile action” by China in the South China Sea, or [2] an attack on Taiwan, or [3] cyberattacks against the United States.
This is alarming because these actions are being exacerbated by the U.S. itself.
[1] A“major hostile action” by China in the South China Sea
Since Biden took office last month, his administration has sent two navy carrier strike groups to conduct exercises in the South China Sea, which Beijing has condemned.
[2] Taiwan
A U.S. warship also recently passed through the Strait of Taiwan.
[3] And cyberattacks against the United States.
As for cyberattacks, they can be easily fabricated and falsely attributed by U.S. intelligence agencies. As clearly specified in the Vault 7 release by Wikileaks.
At one point the Atlantic Council article notes:
“U.S. strategy must understand that China remains for the time being highly anxious about military conflict with the United States, but that this attitude will change as the military balance shifts over the next decade. If military conflict were to erupt between China and the United States, and China failed to win decisively, then – given the party’s domestic propaganda offensive over many years proclaiming China’s inevitable rise – Xi would probably fall and the regime’s overall political legitimacy would collapse.”
This last paragraph is a clear sign that Washington planners are actually considering a preemptive war against China in which the latter “failed to win decisively” thereby precipitating the fall of President Xi.
The reaction from China has been surprisingly reserved.
Beijing condemned the American Cold War mentality but seemed to avoid condemning what are clearly U.S. threats of war.
One analyst for Global Times speculated that the Atlantic Council article was a “remnant from the Trump administration”.
Such thinking is dangerously complacent.
America wants China destroyed
For the evidence points to the article being an expression of policy formulation by the Biden administration.
It is notable in a recent interview with CBS, President Biden sounded remarkably disrespectful towards his Chinese counterpart.
Biden said he hadn’t yet spoken directly with Xi since the U.S. presidential inauguration ceremony nearly three weeks ago.
Such an absence of communication seems to be a calculated snub from Biden and his policy planners in Washington which is in total keeping with the proposed strategy outlined in the Atlantic Council article to “laser-focus” on denigrating Xi and his leadership.
Here’s another notable oddity.
While Biden has yet to contact Xi, the American leader held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin the day after his inauguration.
In the Atlantic Council article, the author proposes:
“Dividing Russia from China… is critical.” It calls for “stabilizing relations with Russia” and the United States.
In the 1970s, it was the other way around.
U.S. policy then, first under Richard Nixon and later successors, was all about drawing China away from the Soviet Union because Moscow was perceived as the main threat to American hegemony.
Now, as the Biden administration and other Washington planners assert over and over, it is Beijing that is perceived as the principal challenger to the waning U.S. global empire.
But the same tactic of divide and rule is at play.
Officially, the Biden White House says it has yet to formulate definitive policies on relations with China or Russia.
But the vibe and tone of the Atlantic Council article has Team Biden’s fingerprints all over it – indicating that it is preparing to take a reckless aggressive course toward China. The Trump administration – which was brazenly antagonistic to China – is criticized for lacking “comprehensive strategy”.
That’s Orwellian euphemism for the Biden administration telegramming the threat of much more confrontational policy.
It may all just be reckless rhetoric by Washington’s imperial planners.
Nevertheless, the mere playing with war rhetoric is reprehensible and speaks of American desperation to salvage its diminishing global power.
It’s a time to be very careful and guarded.
Do not be under the impression that Russia and China are all unaware of all this.
No wonder, China has been hurriedly mass-producing nuclear warheads, MIRV ICBM missiles, and state of the art weapons technology at a hectic pace.
They are not fools.
Do not be under the illusion that China is a far away land and that American military can engage China…
…on Chinese territory…
… in a superior manner…
…where American lays out the terms of conflict…
…and Americans can watch on their television sets eating popcorn as the war and conflict rages in far, far away China.
Nope.
It’s not going to be like that.
As the Saker has pointed out…
And crucially, “keep the barbarians from coming together” applied to Russia, China and Iran. That was Pax Americana in a nutshell. And that’s what’s totally unraveling now.
Hence the Kill Bill logic. It goes back a long way. Less than two months after the collapse of the USSR, the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance preached total global dominance and, following Dr Zbig, the absolute imperative of preventing the emergence of any future peer competitor.
Especially Russia, defined as “the only power in the world with the capacity of destroying the United States.”
Then, in 2002, at the start of the “axis of evil” era, came the full spectrum dominance doctrine as the bedrock of the US National Security Strategy. Domination, domination everywhere: terrestrial, aerial, maritime, subterranean, cosmic, psychological, biological, cyber-technological.
And, not by accident, the Indo-Pacific strategy – which guides the Quad – is all about “how to maintain US strategic primacy.”
This mindset is what enables US Think Tankland to formulate risible “analyses” in which the only “win” for the US imperatively requires a failed Chinese “regime.”
After all, Leviathan is congenitally incapable of accepting a “win-win”; it only runs on “zero-sum,” based on divide and rule.
And that’s what’s leading the Russia-China strategic partnership to progressively establish a wide-ranging, comprehensive security environment, spanning everything from high-tech weaponry to banking and finance, energy supplies and the flow of information.
Yup. Russia and China are coming together to defend against the American monster…
Do not be under the misguided impression that America can conduct a far-away war with China or Russia independently. They are working together.
It will not happen that way.
Neither China, or Russia will allow that to occur.
Doing so, would result in American cities blasted out of existence. It’s real.
Consider the “dead hand” for instance…
Dead Hand Dead Hand, also known as Perimeter, is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control system that was used by the Soviet Union. General speculation from insiders alleges that the system remains in use in the post-Soviet Russian Federation as well. An example of fail-deadly and mutual assured destruction deterrence, it can automatically trigger the launch of the Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles by sending a pre-entered highest-authority order from the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Strategic Missile Force Management to command posts and individual silos if a nuclear strike is detected by seismic, light, radioactivity, and pressure sensors even with the commanding elements fully destroyed. By most accounts, it is normally switched off and is supposed to be activated during times of crisis; however, it is said to remain fully functional and able to serve its purpose whenever it may be needed. -Wikipedia
Yup. Read about it…
- ‘Dead Hand’: Russia’s Nuclear Weapon System
- Russia’s “Dead Hand” Nuclear Doomsday Weapon is Back
- Dead Hand: Russia’s Scary Plan to Counter Attack
- ‘Dead Hand,’ Russia’s Terrifying Doomsday Device
- Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine | WIRED
- The Soviets Made A Real Doomsday Device In The ’80s
- The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race
But, America need not worry, right? A few strategically placed bombs here and there, a capture of an island or two and some “boot on the ground” will force China to obey America. Right?
Russia upgrading its ‘Dead Hand’
29 Mar 2018 in 10:20
It’s active and alive. As this three year old article points out…
Russia is upgrading its nuclear final defence system which automatically launches it entire arsenal in a doomsday-like barrage, one of the US leading authorities on nuclear disarmament Bruce Blair said.
Russia’s defence chiefs are working to improve the so-called “Dead Hand” weapons system – also known as Perimeter. It has been referred to as a “Doomsday device” by analysts and was first developed during the paranoia of the Cold War.
Blair, who is the former US Air Force nuclear launch officer, said he believes the system is still operational and is even being “upgraded,” Daily Star Online reported.
Dead Hand is described as a “fully automatic” system which is turned on amid times of crisis by Russia. It is operated by three crew members whose sole job is just to make sure the system is operational with “no judgement” involvement.
Despite the terrifying concept, Dr Blair, co-founder of disarmament campaign group Global Zero, said the existence of such a weapon actually helps reduce the risk of nuclear war.
However, he questioned the system’s “vulnerability to cyber attack” as a cause for concern to global security. Dead Hand’s operation means the West will always have to think twice if there is a temptation for a nuclear strike.
“[Dead Hand] is fully automatic except that it has to be turned on by the general staff during a crisis, and there is a small crew that would perform a small number of functions before it would operate,” Blair said. “It is not a risk unless it could hacked and trigger an unauthorized launch,” he added
But don’t worry. China is isolated from Russia. And can be beaten easily by the superior American military…
Right?
Are you willing to bet your life, and your families lives on it?
So you really trust this man with your future…
Or
Or, his “official” replacement in the Biden Administration.
So
So, do you really think that things are just going to be a lot of “hot air” and posturing?
And that nothing will come of all this, that somehow it will all go away…?
China will not be provoked
America will try and push and push China into an action. If China fails “to take the bait”, then America will make up and excuse a “false flag” event that will justify a war.
Now, let it be understood that America is not allowed to go to war without Congressional approval.
But that is meaningless.
America is currently fighting eight simultaneous wars all over the world directly and another twenty or so surreptitiously. None of which were specifically authorized by Congress.
So do not expect that the normal war declaration process will be followed. It will not.
Just expect a “false flag” event as an excuse to go to war within the next couple of years, if not months.
A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on a second party. The term is popular amongst conspiracy theory promoters in referring to covert operations of various governments and cabals. -Wikipedia
Keep in mind that war is unpredictable
Please keep in mind that war is madness.
.
Yes it is crazy.
On one hand, don’t be so sure that China will be able to stop America, and this “road map towards destruction”. They might not be able to. And the United States might, and could very well, roll right over China. Destroy it, and carve it up into much smaller vassal states to service the American wealthy. Indeed, China might easily crumble after a concerted attack by skilled military forces working in unison.
After all, America is a well trained battle empire. It has over 75 years of non-stop military excursions, the top line and highest quality weaponry, and lots and lots of nuclear missiles.
It also has it’s cronies like the UK, Australia Korea, Japan and India who will participate in a conflict with China. Combined, it seems that China doesn’t have a chance, and while China can train and train, they do not have active hostile fighting experience like the American military has. The United States could plausibly rip right through China like a hot knife though butter.
And of course, please don’t be so sure that Russia will sit everything out. They might. They might just allow America and China to duke it out while they watch from the side-lines. Yes. That could happen, but don’t count on it. Russia and China see America as a very unpredictable enemy.
But war is about betrayals.
You will think that one nation and people are on your side, and then they could flip at a moments notice. Sort of how Italy was aligned with the Nazi Germans and then flipped and allied with the American during World War II.
Expect betrayals, and sabotage.
Expect messy things, and terrible reporting of the “news“. Like how the Trump Armada flotilla fared in the South China Sea in 2020.
Don’t be so sure that America will win a war against Asia. I know that this will come to a shock to those that watch the Rush Limbaugh show and watch FOX news. For in their minds, America is invincible!
There is no such thing as invincibility. There is only layers and degrees of damage, and ones varying ability to contain and repair the damage.
Don’t be so sure that any destroyed American cities will be able to be rebuilt either. America does have that ability any longer. Sure there are handymen, and construction companies. Sure there is the potential. But the real, active and genuine skills required to rebuild a devastated nation, it’s not really there.
I am sure that any destroyed city can be rebuilt. However we know from history that when Genghis Khan decimated Western Europe and the “Silk Road” cities, they remained empty and devoid of inhabitants for centuries afterwards. Indeed, many were never rebuilt.
America has lost the skills, and the ability to build, let alone rebuild. As well as the technical expertise in the most basic of constructions. While there are trillions of dollars in the value of American companies, most do not make anything. They either play with numbers or images in communication venues, or provide services. Both of which are not capable of rebuilding cities, infrastructure or societies.
Don’t be so sure that nuclear weapons will not be used. China does not play. They have repeatedly warned in words and deeds that they will respond in absolute terms with any American aggression. Do not think, for a minute, that they will risk allowing the United States to attack them unopposed.
This idea, this fantasy, that America can dictate terms to China, and bludgeon them into compliance as some kind of bargain-basement slave is very dangerous. China is like the nerd in High School that everyone picks on, makes fun of, and taunts without mercy….
….Meanwhile he’s also the kid who has built a death-ray in his basement.
Don’t expect anything.
But do not be under the misguided impression that the bullshit narrative the the “Long Telegram” is based upon has validity. It is a fantasy, and if the American leadership follows this “roadmap” for the “suppression” of China, it was end up turning out quite…
…ugly.
Conclusion
Yes, this is a profoundly sobering and disgusting article. I am sorry for it.
But everything points to a historical progression of events. One that can no longer be ignored. It’s not if there will be a hot war, but rather how it will develop and whether or not it can be contained.
Certainly the American leadership believes that China can be “suppressed” and a war could be fought on American terms, with American rules of engagement, and on American defined battle fields. They might be right.
But I have a completely different projection.
And the earth might not survive the resulting insanity that will manifest.
If I were to take bets, I would argue that both Russia and China are working on plans to preemptively annihilate and castrate the United States before it slaughters the entire world.
But what do I know?
Be safe you all.
This is the meeting that China had with Russia immediately after the Alaskan meeting with the United States. I wonder why China was in such a rush to chat with the Russians…?
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s Regular Press Conference on March 22, 2021
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You could say Trump is the origin of some of this, but he mostly liked to jaw-jaw about China without doing all that much to pose a threat to Beijing. He had some valid points about US workers getting the short end of the stick in many of the past international agreements the US signed, and his pronouncements played to that populist audience. The difference with the Biden administration is striking and frightening.
No one with any sense thinks the US military is going to win in a shooting war with China. Those of us here in America with our eyes open see firsthand the damage wokeness and various victimhood and Marxist agendas have wrought on the armed forces. On “paper” the US military is a superior force, but as the Chinese themselves have said, the US is increasingly a “paper” tiger. As I mentioned in another post, “trans” men in the military can now wear clear nail polish. If China is trembling at our military, it’s from laughter.
Military officials in China have given plenty of warnings about nuking US cities if America intervenes in Taiwan: Xiong Guangkai in 1995, Zhu Chenghu in 2005, a Communist Party news article in 2013. Xiong noted that Americans would presumably care more about Los Angeles than about Taipei. US hawks must be aware of this and of Chinese capabilities. But maybe they are irrational. I’d like to think it’s idiotic bluster.
In terms of somehow looting China’s economy and resources, forget it. The US national debt isn’t $20 trillion any more, but pushing $30 trillion with more debt on the way. Over the last few years a number of observers here with economic and banking backgrounds have said they fully expect the US government will simply seize retirement accounts (IRAs and 401(k)s in US–speak) to prop up the finances and pay most of the debt.
A top guy in Yahoo Finance, Andy Serwer, allegedly called for the government to use Americans’ retirement accounts as “collateral” to borrow for COVID-19 stimulus and relief. Glenn Beck mentioned this on his radio show, but the original story has been thoroughly wiped online. You can’t find Serwer’s comments anywhere.
Several countries in Europe and South America grabbed private retirement money. The best-case possibility might be a “haircut” of bank accounts, as famously happened in Cyprus to those with over €100,000 in 2013—not just retirement accounts. The Marxists running the economy in Washington would paint account confiscation or haircuts as simply making the rich pay their fair share. It would be easier and safer than risking nuking by targeting China…
I agree with and understand most of your analysis, until you suggest that China and Russia would not only plan a preemptive strike (this is possible) but actually go through with it (impossible). After Moscow and St. Petersburg are blown up, there is not much of Russia. With harsher weather Russia will have a harder time than U.S. rebuilding. Don’t get me wrong, they did it after Napoleon and WWII, but it took a long time even without nuclear fallout. Also, China would take over everything east of the Urals immediately.
The American and European mistake was not aligning with Russia. I believe Trump wanted to. I believe Hillary did too (see money Clinton Foundation received from Russians). Africans are pro-U.S. Using India’s 1.3B folks to replace China is in the works. Real flash point may be when China feels India is starting to dent China’s world manufacturing monopoly.
The reality is because of chronic corruution at every level of government India will probably never fully replace China the same way Japan replaced the U.S. in 1970’s and 1980’s for cheap stuff, then South Korea and Taiwan replaced Japan for cheap stuff in the 1990’s and 2000’s, and China replaced South Korea and Taiwan for cheap stuff since then.
I believe China and Russia only just need to sit and wait out the West’s implosion and the West’s PWB “Great Reset”. https://www.reginamag.com/abp-vigano-warns-trump-about-great-reset-plot/ sent to Trump from Cardinal Vigano, former Apostolic Nuncio (Ambassador) to the United States. This letter has almost been completed scrubbed. But anyone can learn of the “Great Reset” being pushed by the PWB (“Davos”) only by googling it. 2021 is “a crucial year to rebuild trust” is the theme, built around the “great reset” that World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab and Prince Charles launched last year.
Oh man!
The earth will survive. Definitely.
Only the humans roaming the earth might probably not^^
Anerikkka just flew its warplanes within 20 miles of China coast today…
https://twitter.com/SCS_PI/status/1373886128177041410?s=20
War is only option, US doesnt have a choice its fake eCONomy is dead…
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1V
See above chart…..money velocity is essentially nil. This means the eCONomy is dead and they have hooked it up to life support. Low money velocity signifies contracting eCOnomies.
This is one of the reasons why there is no “hyperinflation” you actually need the currency to be moving through and being gotten rid of. It is very much a psychological event. This chart shows that currency is not moving whatsoever and therefore no hyperinflation.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_da … ent-charts
Next chart is unemployment which is placed currently at over 25%. The spike was from the first lockdowns putting unemployment at 35%.
If you factor in underemployment with unemployment you are looking at extremely deflationary pressures effecting the economy.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_da … ion-charts
Next chart is inflation….which is measured at under 6%….which seems more accurate than the 1.9% CPI bullshit.
Again, nothing insane. A lot of commodity prices will be skyrocketing due to shortages due to supply chain breakdowns.
The insanity is coming from the stock market casino that is totally removed from reality and being pumped by the FED, Wall Street criminals, and corporate executive criminals using stock buybacks, etc. This is all that the Cabal has, literally print up some fake currency and put it into the casino for their fellow criminal friends to pump and dump. All the while, the actual economy is dead.
What many don’t want to mention is that the Debt Overhang is extremely deflationary….you get people in the debt trap and then they are simply servicing the debt forever…..you won’t see inflation there. It is like a vampire sucking on a host draining its life.
Factor in the demographic collapse of Western Nations, Japan, etc. where you have a much larger elderly and older population who are now reliant on a much smaller younger population to try to keep the scams like social security going and you have an inverse pyramid built.
How is $1400 checks once every 6-9 months going to do anything? This is not going to cause hyperinflation.
Monetary policy is simply actions from the FED for Wall Street criminals and the stock market casino.
The whole thing is setting itself for a massive market crash.
I see this thing imploding before the explosion.
Welp… guess Im going to be in a US concentration camp gas chamber soon… going from making $100k+ and eating A5 Wagyu beef and taking luxury vacations to cyanide is gonna be one hell of a fall…….
I want to see China and Russia stand up to America. The attacks on Asians have been falsely blamed on White racists when none of them are and in fact African Americans are doing most of the attacks. I wondered if there was more of a case to make that the US is planning a “hot war” against China. They do seem to be poking Russia, with Biden threatening action against Russia for made-up nonsense. It is indeed worrying.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. War is not happening.
You have a unique readership, and the following two verses from Revelation are my personal 15 minutes of fame
[Rev 20:1-15 KJV] 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
We are 5 years into 1,000 years of peace.
China was very clear that issues regarding it’s internal domestic affairs were a “red line” that others dare not cross. While America made it clear that it considers Hong Kong, XinJiang, Tibet and Taiwan to be American protectorates. The overlap of these two ideologies will result in conflict.
One thing to remember about the allegations of attacks and racism against Asians (meaning East and Southeast Asians, not those from the Indian subcontinent):
These allegations are going to disappear down the memory hole in North America soon, except for occasional lip service. The reason: as far as the woke crowd and persons of color (POCs) are concerned, East Asian = white, just as Jew = white and most Hispanics = white. The Asians et al. are just another part of the privileged oppressor group. The woke allies in the media will soon bury the stories of prejudice against Asians.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offers uni scholarships, but whites and East Asians need not apply. Gates believes they’re all privileged. That’s not gonna change.
When you hear about prejudice against Chinese and other Asians in the US, understand that most whites are against that in any form, but many POCs don’t care or are part of it. I have always thought it was stupid to blame individual Asians in the US for COVID-19. You’d be surprised to see how many POCs do just that.
“Facts don’t matter”
Very true. The first casualty of war is Truth.
In the cyberspace battle for hearts and minds, cybertroopers of both sides (pro Western/USA Vs pro China) are slagging off each other mostly with “truth” as seen from their biased sources. Emotions run high as both side refused to even agree to disagree. These cheerleaders just want to win that cyber battle simply for bragging rights.
It’s as bad as the bad blood rivalry of the Packers Vs Bears (to borrow from your American football analogy) or if you’re into the EPL, like Manchester United Vs Liverpool. No love loss there.
As for the Quad, as MM said before, it’s to disrupt and control China’s sealines of communication. India to control Indian Ocean, Australia to control South China Sea.
But the US generally doesn’t understand that India likes to pay lip service only; promises you anything and expect everything for nothing. This observation is not only from those of us who knows the Indians but also mentioned by former senior DIA officer book ” … Indian military’s perception of the United States as a friend from whom one can get many things, but to whom nothing needs to be given in return.” https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/a-former-us-army-officer-examines-the-world-view-of-the-indian-military/
As for the Australians, well, after being abandoned by the Brits following their joining of EU (EEC back then), the Aussies went looking for another master, which turned out to be the US. Being one of two White countries surrounded by hordes of Asians, they felt threatened and in need of “protection” from a big brother.
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is not geared towards long rotational deployment like the USN. As it is, they’re stretched thin just patrolling Australian waters. Let’s not even talk about long deployment in the South China Sea. If anything, RAN is in as bad a shape as the British Royal Navy. In Dec 2020, BAE Systems Maritime Australia will build 9 new Hunter class (8,000 tons fully loaded) frigates over 30 years (yup, Thirty years). The Chinese can probably build nine 052D class (7,500 tons fully loaded) destroyers in less than 3 years!!
So don’t expect anything much from these 2 members of the Quad.
I was interviewed on CGTN television where I discussed this issue. You can watch the video and read the write up HERE. It just was released today.
Great interview.
What was that about Australia being a mechanised war? Is it using the Aust army as a mechanised battle group? Now THAT the Aussies can do. They somehow love to go to war for their masters (WW1, WW2, Malayan Emergency, Malaysia-Indonesia confrontation, Korean war, Vietnam war, Operation Desert Storm, 2nd Gulf War, Afghanistan & the war on terror). Other people’s war. Not really a peaceful country, ain’t it?
If I may, you might need to upgrade to a 1080p webcam and use a LAN line (instead of WiFi) for video conferencing. Your audio was slightly out of sync and the video white balance kept shifting (might be due to combination of software, lower quality webcam & slower WiFi internet connectivity)
Thank you for that. Australia, Korea, Japan and India makes great “remote battlefields” that American military forces can fight upon. The idea is that (like World War II) big wars are put in place but they never touch the American citizenry. So the first thing to establish is to identify these locations from which to wage war. The United States has identified the timing, the locations, and has picked out the methodology for the various techniques to destroy China with.
Of course, they are counting on China to fall into these prearranged venues.
I argue that, similar to the miscalculations on COVID, the eight other biological weapons, the naval flotilla, and the HK pro-democracy NGO sponsored riots… things will not go as planned. Indeed, they will go far worse than expected. That’s my point.
One of the points that I have been trying to underline is that this idea of isolation from the media, social media and communication of China from the rest of the world, makes it so that the USA (and it’s allies) can attack China, and the rest of the would would be ignorant of the details. For America would control the narrative. This is why Trump banned tictoc, Wechat, and laced all sorts of restrictions otherwise.
I have been getting some good feedback from most people on the interview.
Yes, next time I will use a hard wire. I did use wifi, but also take in mind that the video was post edited at CGTN, with about 20% of the total removed for brevity and other reasons. No problem. I think that they did a great job, and I feel that I spoke too quickly and too impassioned. I should have been more scholarly, reserved, and calmer. As well as the location. I should have conducted the interview elsewhere. The location sucked due to the lighting, so I relocated for better natural daylight.
Anyways, thanks for that. I do appreciate it.
Metallic Man Mystique has been broken. I am not disappointed or unhappy, only a bit uneasy with the gravity of the issue that would precipitate such an uncovering. I sincerely hope there are no malevolent vipers lurking in your corner of this vast stage.
I do appreciate your concern. As a long time MM reader, you know that I have numerous resources at my disposal to allay any concerns which might crop up. Both physical, non-physical and of course, I have a network of former “bad boys” who like myself have skills and abilities of a unique nature. The gravity of such an unmasking is that critical, and should not be discounted. It’s serious business.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Your presentation so accurate and succinct, a middle school student could understand. Well done, sir. That takes courage. Keep that extraordinary head of yours on a swivel!
Your kind words are much, much appreciated.
“…She (America) has breathed her last; her sun has gone done while it was yet day…” says the Lord. Jeremiah 15:9
Planet X/Nibiru flyby which creates an enormous electromagnetic windstorm/cloud at noon and this will give China & Russia a decisive advantage to destroy her in one hour. All of the missile interceptors will be rendered useless to intercept or to counter attack. It is time to seek the Lord, folks. For soon, darkness will cover the entire earth. https://ft111.com/chapter7.htm
What is it like to live after the defeat and under a new government in America? Here is the vision!
Visions of Famine Coming to America
December 1st, 2008
When the first vision came, I had just placed a bowl of beans into my microwave and pressed Start. Suddenly, it was as if a powerful wall of wind slammed into me and I no longer felt my body or knew anything about where I was. I was looking down into a big soup pot and could smell beans, but what was in the pot was almost all water. I could feel famine all around and that people were starving to death along with their children. I saw bare cupboards, nothing in them but one or two spices. I was standing up when this vision came and it was so powerful it almost knocked me to my knees. In the past, most of the visions I have had come during worship when I am already on my knees, but in the past year, I have begun having more and more open visions when I am standing just going about my daily routine.
December 2nd, 2008
I was just sitting on my couch when the next visions came. I saw people in the streets cooking over open fires in pots. What they were cooking smelled horrible and yet they were so excited just to have anything at all to eat. Their eyes were wild with hunger. I saw great, open sores on the children. I didn’t see any small children at all, these were all probably 11 years old or older, but they were covered in large, open sores. They all wore old, ragged clothing and the sky was gray. It seemed to be cold outside.
I looked into one woman’s eyes and saw a combination of desperation and madness. She was cooking in one of the pots and somehow I knew she was cooking the entrails of a dog. She was so happy to have something to eat, though the smell coming from that pot would not make you think it was anything you would eat at all. I saw no live animals in my vision and I sensed they had almost all died from starvation already or people had caught them and eaten them.
I saw people dropping in the street and just dying there from starvation. Others just walked past them, they were all kind of scuffling along like they were in shock. No vehicles were on the road, no one was driving. I could also sense that there was no “entertainment” (television, etc.) going on anywhere. Later, in retrospect, I wondered if this meant an EMP attack had happened, since an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) would stop almost all vehicles from working and would shut down airwave transmissions of all types (satellites, cell phone communications, etc.) as well as electrical systems. (Google Electromagnetic Pulse for more info)
There was terrible desperation in the eyes of those begging people. It was heartbreaking to look at. America, once so plentiful, was reduced to a third world country status. People starving and dying in the streets like what we hear happens in Africa. I felt helpless to save them.
Father, Why am I being shown such terrible things?
“Tell My People, Daughter. Warn My People this is coming so they can prepare and be ready! Tell them I said to get ready to help those who are unsaved for the end is very near now. Tell them to cling not to their own lives, but be willing to lay them down for a higher glory, for MY glory! Tell them to give all even when they themselves are in need for many will die and go to hell in that time and those left behind will experience a fate even worse than that. The Beast, the False Prophet – all that was foretold in Revelations is about to come true. Fear not their faces, for I will protect you. Tell them, My Child. Tell them though you know many will not listen. Many hard-hearted ones will perish in that time but others will listen. I will open the hearts of those who have ears to hear and those who are being interceded for. Tell My People I said to Pray diligently for those you love so they will not be lost in that time for many will want to take the Mark of the Beast and if they do there is no turning back for them. Tell them!”