An interesting piece, but a lot of the evidence is circumstantial, held up with a goodly dose of anti-Chinese rhetoric - which reminds me of something.
I stopped reading when they referred to the Belt and Road Initiative as proof of Chinese Hegemonic intentions.
That's not how that works. The point of extending trade routes over land via MagLev rail is not hegemony, but ingenuity. What happens is that new economies spring up along the Newly erected Silk routes, and both China and the client-states benefit. The classic Win-win. This sort of planning is arguably to defeat a centuries-old grip on nautical trade-routes, which the USA and UK actively patrolled with their vast ships and cannons. Anyone remember the Opium Wars? No? Well the Chinese kinda do. Also, as an afterthought - why would the USA be worried that China is opening new markets? Oh and then there are those naughty pipelines, divertin' energy to economies who partake in those ventures. Yikes - one can't have plebs getting hold of energy.
The nautical trade-routes made it so that landlocked Central-Asian countries ended up impoverished after centuries of neglect: to them, the new Chinese MagLev is a life-line. I mean think of it: Develop trade-routes to raise whole countries of people living in dirt-huts, to become active members of the global economy. What a great place to start making and selling stuff. But that is not hegemony, not even by a long stalk.
In any case - to address the central tenet - that Biden and co. are under Xi's thumb - It seems that this hypothesis comes into question because Blinken purposefully went to China to tell them to stop Russia being so mean. So it appears as if Blinken had the idea that the USA could tell China what to do. This kind of defeats the idea that USA is within Chinese control. The lack of respect they showed him only marks the event as one of Stop Yapping, thou Chihuahua, 'taint proper. But that does not mean they control anything, just that they are showing disdain. And to be honest, I was cheering on Blinken's crest-fallen face.
The enlightened form of warfare in China is to sit and wait it out, while doing business: No yanking of leashes was necessary, because USA has no financial dominance, besides posturing that is, and the whole world can see their ignominy. So the Chinese dealt a symbolic blow. And fair go - USA has been making a mess of things lately.
And here is the graph to prove it.
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But, half the graph is subjective. Like it is made up. Nevertheless they pretend they have the inside sooper-dooper knowledge and make Biden's line extra detailed, with an extra bend. I mean, they know, right?
It is the Grand-Arrow-Offensive policies that are at fault.
Two-digit IQ peeps are elected based on their looks, and the amount of money they spend on election-rigging. They generally know nothing of management theory, let alone Public Management theory, and proceed to try and influence the systems they now think they control, with some type of ideologically driven giant reform, or worse, in accordance with some 'inside' knowledge from the WEF - which tries to pass itself off as research.
So, to elucidate what I am talking about: Systems Thinking - systems are complex, organically grown out of necessity. A muncipality or State is such an example. Systems react to grand-arrow offensives by healing over the wound - the bureaucracy reacts by basically shrugging the 'new policy' off via non-compliance. The results can be nothing-ness if there is a universal denial-of-service, but there is also Malicious compliance - a FAFO mindset that indicates a worsening problem. Chaos is introduced through bad change-management and each individual does their own thing, which includes corruption BTW.
Small changes, however, can have huge results, the issue is how to convince these Room-temperature IQ twats who think they can change the world, that such trivial changes, as designed by someone who knows what they are doing, will make a difference.
Soros is a universally recognized scumbag.
Neither side likes him, but the whole point of such two-faced exploitation is that it creates confusion - people are all busy debating the finer poinits, and faced with a binary this-or-that decision. In reality, life is far more complex, but by labelling the sides as the 'good' guys and the 'bad' guys - whichever side that is, society splits. Such divide-and-conquer tactics can be exploited. It is not a coincidence that sowing chaos is part of their Machievellian plan.
So, traditionally society is neatly artificially cleaved via LEft vs. RiGht, or before that, Fascist vs. Communist (and yes, there were decent folk who were communists, as well as Germany-supporters, in Britain, before the war -some historians point out that Churchill was the warmonger, for example).
More recently we had an antivax - vs. I-am-vaccinated profile pic war - and that doozie superimposed itself on the previous ideologies. USA political parties are now cleaved via progressive and DINO, or MAGA and RINO. OF course we are aware of the Uniparty, but really that is part of the general confusion.
Now there is pro-Israel, because AMerica and IsreAl are friends (and therefore pro-Zionism), or STOP-the-Genocide (and therefore pro-HAMAS, according to MSM). Clearly there is a third position of peace - i.e. pro-human, but this group is grouped in with the terrorists, for being antisemitic.
Add to that, the extra layer of confusion of DNA, that proves that Palesitinians are the Semites, and ISraelis are Turkish Khazars. Who is antisemitic again?
It IS very confusing, because one might agree on most things with a person, but there will be that one galling thing. Imagine trying to date in such an environment.
“No, Mr Netanyahu, it is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that, in a little over six months, your extremist government has killed over 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 78,000,” Sanders said, stressing that 70% of these were women and children.
The senator further stated that it is “not antisemitic” to point out that Israeli bombing has completely destroyed more than 221,000 housing units in Gaza, leaving more than a million people homeless and obliterating Gaza’s civilian infrastructure.
Sanders added that Netanyahu’s government has unreasonably blocked humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza, causing “thousands of children [to] face malnutrition and famine.”
“Mr Netanyahu, antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to many millions of people,” Sanders said in the conclusion of his two-and-a-half-minute speech. “But please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal policies of your extremist and racist government… It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions.”
It isn't even about that anymore. But yeah, inquiring minds, and some big data analytical tools. LOL the reason was given at the time, that all the documents ( a container full) would need to be digitally archived.
Why did the WH not have a person doing this as a matter of course? Sort of standard office procedure to scan everything into a data base, daily. But then, if one has something to hide, there are umpteen ways to pull off a little obfuscation. What a shambles.
The redacted thingie was: that there were two pallets of boxes that were rerouted through Virginia [cough Langley] before arriving at MaL, that were peppered with classified documents. The boxes were duly locked up under guard, but hey presto - certain people knew exacte-mentally what they were looking for. Or, so it could be argued.
... not to mention the extant fact that they would not allow Trump's lawyer to witness the suspect process of finding the evidences.
Something, something planted evidence - oh and one of the employees in charge was an Quantico-expert in counterintelligence and espionage or sum-ting.
At this point I want to see more of these revelevatory redactions, so let the good times roll. Cannon gets another tick in my little black book.
Having taken part in college protests, when I believed that standing and yelling was going to change the world (I have grown up since LOL), I believe it when one talks of infiltration in these types of college activities. Back then, I noticed older kids there, who seemed out of place, but they had very articulated speeches to make, and conducted focus-groups where it seemed as if we were all participating. Coinkidentally, there were rumors circulating on campus that CIA was recruiting in the post-graduate IR classes - and silly me did not connect any dots back then. It was glamorized, even.
Without delving into the gender and original sex of this person: Some dogs do need to be put down, especially on a larger property where they can turn feral - and a bullet is up there in humane killing. Heck, I keep an loaded airpistol in reach, in case of vermin that my fat lazy cat sits and watches. Furthermore if one owns a gun, why take the dog to a vet for a lethal needle-shot? The poor thing will be freaking out in the car.
It is bizarre to talk about putting one's pets down in a book IMO. However, I think if it isn't comms, then it is a weird attempt to either make certain Republicans look like THE gun-weilding party or perhaps, it is to affirm the idea that women can also display a decisive character trait - gun-slinging and proud of it. Stronk Waamenz type thing.
But that is weird in itself. Shooting is one of the few sports that relies on stillness and poise, and really do not need gendered competition rules.
According to Russian Media, the hit on the refinery was part of a far bigger swarm, but most of it was shot down.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has suggested the strikes are meant to impress Kiev’s Western backers to compensate for a lack of progress on the frontline.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that US Vice President Kamala Harris met privately with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in February, telling him to refrain from targeting Russian oil refineries. President Joe Biden’s administration reportedly believes that such attacks could raise global energy prices and provoke a massive Russian retaliation.
https://www.rt.com/russia/596490-smolensk-oil-facilities-drones/
Many such stories:
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/uk-news/2022/10/22/63545731268e3e911a8b45b2.html
The wooden stake story was articulated in Bram Stoker's Dracula - a Gothic thriller/horror/swooning-ladies fantasy, based on the Vlad-stories that circulated in Romania, via folk-tales. This book is also the founding document for any Vampire stories that exist today.
Oh you nooticed.