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The MoA Week In Review – (Not Ukraine) OT 2023-91
Last week's post on Moon of Alabama:
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Other issues:
Iran:
China:
Fake Peng Shuai 'scandal':
> Now, after a 16-month-long stalemate, the WTA has blinked. Steve Simon, its chief executive, said he expected to hold eight tournaments in China this year. He said that the WTA would take a “different approach” because it did not feel that its inquiry was making progress under the current strategy. <
Previous Peng Shuai debunking:
Use as open (not Ukraine related) thread …
@ Roger | Apr 16 2023 18:58 utc | 28
Nice article that you shared. Your historical synopsis is quite accurate.
In one place, you kind of pose a question I would like to try to answer, where you say, “From a purely realist perspective many of the US foreign policy actions would seem not to make sense, for example the aggressive march of NATO toward Russia’s borders, as they needlessly increased the risks of conflict between nuclear-armed adversaries.”
Indeed, the failure of the US to ally with Russia at the fall of the Soviet Union seems really odd, as it seemed Russia was there for the picking at that time and throughout the 1990s. While it is true that the various anti-Russian East European lobbies were rife, those lobbies had nothing they could offer comparable in value to Russia and so could have been easily shoved aside by the US power elite. And indeed Yeltsin repeatedly tried to gain admission to NATO and Putin did so as well early in his presidency, in 2000. Yet they were rebuffed. Why could that be, especially as they were ostensibly willing to join the neoliberal international order, making their economy coordinate with capitalism. Furthermore, theoretically, the Russians could have cut an economic deal, based on their size, that would have gotten them treated more like Japan after 1952 rather than like Greece, Lebanon, Libya, Argentina, or so many others. Thus, despite the looting and Ponzi schemes in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet collapse, Russia surely could have worked at a deal that would have left it better off than many or most others in the neoliberal order.
In my mind, this failure of the US to court Russia is a little bit of a mystery, and the solution is one thing: Russia’s parity in nuclear weapons. Every day in the USA, every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, with the possibility that on any day total annihilation may rain down from the sky and nothing could be done to stop it. It is true that, living with this possibility for all of one’s long life without it actually happening, the threat kind of fades into nothingness in the active consciousness, but it is still there. Also, this threat constitutes a complete, 100% negation of all the vain pretensions of the US leadership. Instead of full-spectrum dominance, we have full-spectrum nothingness. So how could hubris-filled neocons stand that?
Those neocons try to posture with denial, especially in public, but in the back of their minds, like it or not, they know the reality. So why oh why did they not campaign to get rid of Russia’s nuclear arsenal in 1992? After all, the collapse of the Soviet Union caused general immiseration for the population of the ex-Soviet republics, including Russia. Furthermore, the US did work to try to get the nuclear weapons out of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and place all the ex-Soviet nukes exclusively in the hands of Russia. The Soviet conventional forces were largely demilitarized. So it should have been easy to get rid of the Russian nukes, right?
Yet, the US, despite all their interventions in Russia, never even breathed a hint, much less made any open suggestion, that Russia should disarm from its nukes. All for one simple reason: The Russians, even the pliable Yeltsin, would have replied, “Oh, yes, good idea, we would love to do that, just as soon as you do too.” The US establishment were afraid that merely airing the subject would create mass pressure on the US likewise to disarm. So they didn’t.
But also, they couldn’t ally with Russia either, because, owing to Russia’s nuclear parity with the US, that would mean a partnership, not a dominance. They didn’t then and still don’t now know what to do with Russia, but they weren’t about to share their own vaunted power with foreigners, let alone their recent ex-adversaries whom they were crowing about having beaten. So MAD, the nuclear balance of terror, remained intact and today remains at least as threatening as at any point in the Cold War.
Posted by: Cabe | Apr 17 2023 1:42 utc | 48
THE YELLOW PERIL
Josep Borrell,
“Europe is a garden”
. “We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build – the three things together.”
“The rest of the world is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden.”
– EU ambassadors, as “gardeners,” had to “go to the jungle” and impose on it the ideological, political, and economic agendas of the globalised West.
The “garden” could not sit by idly and do nothing, “A nice small garden surrounded by high walls in order to prevent the jungle from coming in is not going to be a solution. Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden,”
“Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world otherwise the rest of the world will invade us by different ways and means,”
‘Engaged‘, .!!
Like so…..?
Kaiser Wilhelm, speaking to German troops on their way to China – called for carnage.
” No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Just as a thousand years ago the Huns (…) made a name for themselves
Walter Lippmann on Defense of the Atlantic World.
America must stand with the “Western world” against the barbarous hordes of the East.
Churchill
I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.
Russell
Population [must be] stationary or nearly so…. The White population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the Negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without the help of war and pestilence…. Until that happens…the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific….”
In 1951 he warned about the kinds of dangers he saw in the near future — apparently the renowned Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were not having the kind of result he was hoping for. In The Impact of Science on Society, he wrote: “At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars…. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect…but perhaps a bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors would be free to Procreate freely without making the world too full.” Russell went on, “this state of affairs may be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.”
[In garden lingo, asiatic is code word for chinaman, every time you heard ‘asian brutally attacked in hate crimes‘ means another chinaman had bitten the dust.]
Jack London
There were two Chinese for every white-skinned human in the world… There was talk of all countries putting bounties on children to Increase the birth rate, but it was laughed to scorn by the arithmeticians, who pointed out that China was too far in the lead in that direction.
The Western nations set aside their differences and mobilized. The mission was for containment. Biological warfare did the dirty work—a pretty grim end.
After Western nations repopulated the desolate land that was China…
Australian microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet
We must develop bio-weapons for use against the ‘overpopulated countries of South-East Asia.’
Prince Philips
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed… We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.”
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” ?
[hint]
No prize for guessing who’r the target.
The Wasp’s distaste for chinaman are open secret,
the royals never hide their disdain for those ‘slitty eyed coolies]
BARBARA MARX HUBBARD,
“Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend …. One-fourth is destructive [and] they are defective seeds. In the past they were permitted to die a ‘natural death.’ … Now as we approach the quantum shift from the creature-human to the co-creative human — the human who is an inheritor of god-like powers — the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body …. Fortunately, you are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.”
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Tip of an iceberg
The garden consensus…
The jungle needs to be culled…especially those damned asiatic, aka chinaman.
Wars aint effective,
Germ warfare might do the trick .
Most garden ‘elites’ are satanists, note the constant reference to the four horsemen and Apocalypse.
gawd forbid,
When Hubbard said 1/4 of humans are defective and need to be culled, was she thinking of chinaman ???
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/richard-poe/how-the-british-invented-color-revolutions/
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/textversion-columns/no-8-july-august-2019
Posted by: denk | Apr 17 2023 3:24 utc | 50
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