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[Tom Mazanec]

This is so important I am going to quote it:

They Do Not Want Peace, And So You Need To Prepare For A Horrific Global War
February 24, 2023
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I knew exactly what would happen when China unveiled their peace plan for the conflict in Ukraine. The night before, I told my wife that western leaders would immediately dismiss it. Sadly, that is precisely what happened. Of course any peace plan proposed by China was not going to be perfect. But for the good of humanity our leaders should be willing to at least sit down and talk with the Russians. Because if we stay on the path that we are currently on, eventually somebody will use nuclear weapons. And once things go nuclear, we could be facing a nightmare scenario in which hundreds of millions of people die.

This is not a game.

At some point, peace talks may become impossible. So if we have an opportunity to talk now, we should grab it.

But instead, our leaders made it abundantly clear that they aren’t even interested in considering China’s peace plan…

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, speaking on CNN, brushed off the Chinese proposal, saying it should have ended after the first bullet point, which calls for “respecting the sovereignty of all countries.”

“This war could end tomorrow, if Russia stopped attacking Ukraine and withdrew its forces,” he said.

Asked about the proposal, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, “China doesn’t have much credibility” in light of its failure to condemn Putin’s war.

And Volodymyr Zelensky is completely rejecting the idea of ever negotiating with Vladimir Putin…

The Ukrainian president has repeatedly rejected the idea of negotiating a peace deal that would see Ukraine lose any of its territory. Speaking on Friday, he said he would not negotiate with Putin – even though he was prepared to speak to him before the war started.

“It is not the same man. There is nobody to talk to there,” he said.

I think that Zelensky would see things quite differently if he was one of the men that was being forced into the meat grinder in eastern Ukraine.

According to a former U.S. Marine that is fighting there, the “average life expectancy of a front-line soldier in eastern Ukraine is just four hours”…

The average life expectancy of a front-line soldier in eastern Ukraine is just four hours, a former US Marine fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the Donbas told ABC News.

“It’s been pretty bad on the ground. A lot of casualties. The life expectancy is around four hours on the front line,” American Troy Offenbecker said.

It is a really, really horrible war.

But those that are far from the front lines can afford to talk about how glorious the war is…

Just one day before the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion, the official Twitter account for the NATO military alliance has come under criticism for a post that said Ukraine is “hosting one of the great epics of this century” and compared the war to Hollywood movies.

The post, which quoted a Ukrainian soldier named Pavlo, said: “We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos.”

The idea of comparing the war, which has claimed thousands of lives, seen widespread destruction, and destabalised the world’s food and energy supplies, to fictional characters was quickly deried by many on the social media platform.

I would like to see leaders from both sides be forced to serve on the front lines.

If that ever happened, this war would end really quick.

Sadly, a conflict with Russia is apparently not enough, and so the Biden administration is now relentlessly provoking the Chinese.

This week, a new round of sanctions that were announced by the Biden administration actually included entities located inside China…

The White House has announced yet another package of sweeping sanctions targeting Russia on the one-year anniversary of its brutal invasion of Ukraine – with new efforts to target third countries including China for sanctions evasion.

And it is being reported that the U.S. will soon “quadruple” that number of U.S. troops in Taiwan…

The US is expected to quadruple the number of forces deployed to Taiwan in the coming months as tensions with Beijing continue to simmer.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the Pentagon plans to deploy between 100 and 200 troops to the self-ruled island, up from around 30 a year ago.

Service members from the Marines and the special forces have been sent to Taiwan in the past and the number has fluctuated over the years.

The Chinese consider Taiwan to be their sovereign territory.

This is something that they believe with a passion.

And so the fact that the Biden administration will be sending more U.S. troops to the island has really pissed them off…

A commentator for the Global Times, a media project of the Chinese Communist Party, issued a threat to the United States on Thursday night, intimating that China would not hesitate to engage U.S. forces stationed in Taiwan if the Chinese launched an invasion of the island nation.

Hu Xijin, formerly the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, reacted to a Wall Street Journal report about U.S. troops traveling to Taiwan by calling it “illegal” and suggesting that the Chinese would treat them as enemy combatants.

“It’s illegal for these US soldiers to go to Taiwan and Chinese mainland won’t take any responsibility for their safety,” tweeted Hu. “If we take military action when necessary, they’ll be wiped out together with the resisting Taiwan troops. They can also be eliminated first as the invading army.”

But most Americans don’t understand any of this.

Most Americans have absolutely no idea that we are literally on the verge of a war with China.

Unfortunately, such a conflict is getting a little bit closer with each passing day. In fact, we just witnessed a very alarming incident over the South China Sea…

A voice, saying it’s coming from a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) airport, crackles over the radio of the US Navy P-8 Poseidon as a CNN crew, given rare access aboard the US flight, listens in.

“American aircraft. Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles. Not approaching any more or you bear all responsibility,” it says.

For some reason, the U.S. Navy aircraft was carrying a CNN crew, and the Chinese fighter jet got so close to them that they “could make out the red star on the tail fins and the missiles it was armed with”…

In a few minutes, a Chinese fighter jet armed with air-to-air missiles intercepts the US plane, nestling in just 500 feet off its port side.

The Chinese fighter jet was so close, the CNN crew could see the pilots turning their heads to look at them – and could make out the red star on the tail fins and the missiles it was armed with.

Why does the Biden administration see the need to endlessly provoke China at a moment like this?

It is madness.

We could easily find ourselves involved in conflicts with both Russia and China at the same time, and I have been precisely warning of such a scenario for a very long time.

Unfortunately, we have a hothead in the White House that is in an advanced stage of mental decline.

And he is surrounded by irrational warmongers such as Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken and Victoria Nuland.

They do not want peace.

So global war is coming, and I would strongly encourage you to get prepared for such an outcome.

http://themostimportantnews.com/archive ... global-war

[Tom Mazanec]

Another quote:

February 25, 2023
Biden Denies the Russians a Choice
By James Soriano
It is said that President John F. Kennedy gave the most important speech of his presidency before the graduating class at the American University in Washington, D.C., in June 1963. The occasion was five months before his death and eight months after he had confronted Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev over the deployment of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis would later be seen as a defining moment in U.S.-Russian relations. It was the closest approach of the two Cold War antagonists to a nuclear confrontation.

After the crisis subsided, Kennedy thought deeply about how to avoid a situation like that again and how the two great nuclear powers could find a way to live together. He wanted to say something about it publicly. In his speech, Kennedy signaled U.S. readiness to join with Russia in banning the future tests of nuclear weapons and he opened the prospect for peaceful coexistence. The speech is admired for Kennedy’s eloquence and for the initiative he took in conceiving it, but there is a passage in it that is relevant today as we look at the war unfolding in Ukraine.

Nuclear powers, Kennedy said, “must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy -- or of a collective death-wish for the world.”

Kennedy was 47 years old when he passed along that wise counsel to those who would manage America’s future relations with other nuclear powers. Today it is not taken as a maxim for guiding current American policy towards Russia. President Biden refutes Kennedy. His foreign policy team would hold that Kennedy raised a false dichotomy, and that it is not the case that the only alternatives in an American confrontation with another nuclear-armed power is either a “humiliating retreat” or nuclear war. Rather, they would say, it is possible to calibrate a vigorous response within a range of policy options short of approaching a nuclear show down. This is the great game the United States and its NATO allies are now playing with Russia. It is a game where the bid is being continually raised.

“Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. Never,” President Biden said in Poland on February 21. The words are confrontational and far removed from the spirit in Kennedy’s speech. They are part of a long record of American words and deeds showing that Washington is willing to risk a direct military confrontation with Russia. Today’s policy hawks would have to admit that Kennedy got the part about avoiding humiliating another nuclear power wrong. They are not shy about talking about humiliating Russia. Humiliation is seen as an aspect of policy. That stems partly from the West’s sense of maddened outrage over Russia’s behavior and partly from deliberate calculation. Humiliating Russia is built into the logic NATO’s military response on the battlefield.


NATO wants to keep the Ukrainian army up and fighting. Its escalatory moves are aimed at raising the costs Russia must pay while denying it tangible gains. The fight in Ukraine goes on but neither the United States nor its allies have made an explicit announcement about their war aims. In fact, there are no concrete war aims, apart from the abstract notion of victory itself, which is presumably defined as a battlefield check on Russian military advance, brought about by a combination of NATO weaponry and Ukrainian manpower. Victory is the war aim, and not something else. When it’s achieved, it would be evident to all parties; we would know it when we see it. It might be accompanied by a Russian change of heart, an acknowledgment of war guilt, and offers to make amends. Swapping out a whole new set of leaders in Moscow, which has long been a policy hawk dream, would be in the cards. Sum up these things and the logic of NATO’s battlefield gambits amounts to a “humiliating retreat” for Russia.

French president Emmanuel Macron sometimes says things that put him at odds with the more hawkish voices in Europe. Apparently wanting to have it both ways, he said a few days ago that Russia must be “defeated” in Ukraine, but not “crushed.” That may sound like a distinction without a difference, but Macron was signaling his opposition to allowing the desire to humiliate Russia from commandeering the course of NATO war policy. He has also ruled out “regime change” in Russia.

Kennedy’s caution against humiliating another nuclear-armed power in a dispute does not exactly equate to the U.S. and its allies finding an “off-ramp” for Russia. The expression “off-ramp” pops up in talk about Ukraine. Typically, the speaker means that Russia is in over its head, it’s looking for a way out, and the collective West ought to respond with an accommodative gesture. Kennedy’s intent was different. From the context of the speech, he puts the burden on American behavior before a crisis arises, and not merely on creatively helping our opponent find a way out during the heat of a crisis. Kennedy meant that restraint should be the proscriptive guide to policy-making, and not merely an expedient for defusing tension. From this it would follow that the United States should never follow a course where temporary and imperfect solutions are removed from the table, leaving behind the residual choice of humiliation or nuclear war. The U.S. has done exactly that in Ukraine. Looking at the chain of events in the run-up to the war, it is hard to see how restraint shaped America’s whole-hearted support for NATO’s bold expansion right up to Russia’s fence; nor is it evident how restraint plays in the gambler’s game of war by proxy.

If the reader wants a take-away from this dismal state of affairs, then let him take some comfort in the thought that Divine Providence foreordained from all eternity that not one of the practitioners of American policy towards Russia today was in the White House cabinet room when John Kennedy drafted his responses to Nikita Khrushchev sixty-one years ago.

JAMES SORIANO is a retired foreign service officer. He has previously written for the American Thinker on the war in Ukraine.

https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... hoice.html

[FullMoon]

Thanks Tom for keeping up with the news. I'm guessing by the tenor that you have the distinct feeling something bad is just around the corner. I agree. BEverything we've speculated about happening is occurring before our eyes on the MSN. I hope you haven't been overly affected by the train disaster.

U.S. building up military presence in western Pacific
https://youtu.be/_zHoPDl1HE0

[Cool Breeze]

Yes, it is really sad that this could easily get out of hand. And these elitist warmongers actually desire it. Clowns like Blinken and Juland

[spottybrowncow]

I'm wondering about something John has touched on before: What are the limits of trust between China and Russia, as that issue appears to be gaining in importance. How much will each be willing to "let down their guard" to facilitate a strategic alliance? Russia must be worried that China will see an opportunity in the Ukrainian conflict (or what is to follow) to seize parts of Siberia, Vladivostok, etc. Will they each keep part of their militaries reserved to fight each other? I'd like to hear what John and the military experience guys think about this.

[FullMoon]

Yes, it is really sad that this could easily get out of hand. And these elitist warmongers actually desire it. Clowns like Blinken and Juland

What I think they lack is the generational perspective necessary to avoid unnecessary escalation. While we shouldn't back down and show weakness, a wiser approach could have been taken in many instances. They don't desire global annihilation, but they don't seem to realize how quickly and easily it could be achieved. They're reckless.

[Guest 2]

I'm wondering about something John has touched on before: What are the limits of trust between China and Russia, as that issue appears to be gaining in importance. How much will each be willing to "let down their guard" to facilitate a strategic alliance? Russia must be worried that China will see an opportunity in the Ukrainian conflict (or what is to follow) to seize parts of Siberia, Vladivostok, etc. Will they each keep part of their militaries reserved to fight each other? I'd like to hear what John and the military experience guys think about this.

After many years of population decline due to poor health, drugs and alcohol, Russia's population was starting to steady, until Putin decided to get rid of so many of his young men. Much of Russia's far east is populated by Chinese workers, brought in by Russian bosses as Russians don't work as hard, or as cheaply. Putin's war is very likely to turn Russia into a Chinese satellite, more so than it is already and what a prize it would be for China. Perhaps Russia will split, between the 80% of the country containing 20% of it's population (Siberia) - this will be Chinese territory. The remaining 20% of land with 80% (less now of course) of its population may become more European - if it survives.

[Tom Mazanec]

Ukraine Is the West’s War Now
By Yaroslav TrofimovFollow
Feb. 25, 2023 12:01 am ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-is ... malertNEWS

Russia already has the Skyfall: an unlimited range cruise missile
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2023/ ... e-missile/

Belarus President Lukashenko to visit China next week
25 Feb 2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/2 ... this-month

[Cool Breeze]

Yes, it is really sad that this could easily get out of hand. And these elitist warmongers actually desire it. Clowns like Blinken and Juland

What I think they lack is the generational perspective necessary to avoid unnecessary escalation. While we shouldn't back down and show weakness, a wiser approach could have been taken in many instances. They don't desire global annihilation, but they don't seem to realize how quickly and easily it could be achieved. They're reckless.

Do you think that 90% reduction in population is not annihilation? That's what the global elite have written about publicly for decades, and most of the 20th century. It's amazing that people are still mostly unaware of this fact. The Georgia Guidestones is yet another support for many other claims over the years, and all of the main agenda pieces for the world agencies/NGOs are for greater control with depopulation. Between the jab, more pandemic claims, lack of shipping/food supply, and the realities of the war, this is the plan - it's not happenstance - it is a real attempt at dystopia.

[Tom Mazanec]

World War III Alert: The Russians Are Making A Major Breakthrough And The Ukrainians Are Becoming Increasingly Desperate
February 26, 2023
http://themostimportantnews.com/archive ... -desperate

China Declares War On the United States
GONZALO LIRA • FEBRUARY 22, 2023 • 4,000 WORDS • 295 COMMENTS
https://www.unz.com/article/china-decla ... ed-states/

China considers sending Russia artillery shells, U.S. officials say
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ch ... r-AA17UfHB