Generational Dynamics World View News

[Guest]

Does anyone think it's bizarre that Neil Young is supporting censorship and Bette Midler is propagating hate speech? I do realize they are both Trump hating democrats, but still a 180 turn from who they used to be.

I have come up with a few possibilities as to why:

They both have dementia, in sympathy and symphony with their beloved Dictator President.
They have been abducted by aliens and replaced with duplicates.
They were brainwashed by Chinese spies.
George Soros is paying them megabucks.
Neil Young is still mad at southern men and wants them to shut up. Bette Midler is mad that John Denver, who sold more music than her,
sang Country Roads about West Virginia and she didn't.
Hunter has another laptop and ooh la la.

What say ye?

[Guest]

And then again, maybe I just haven't paid attention to the horrible people they've become.

[Guest]

Neil never found his heart of gold.
Bette forgot that God is watching from a distance.

[Guest]

As I've said before, I think that a possible scenario is that Putin
won't attempt a full-scale invasion, which could go on for years, but
instead would take Biden's suggestion of a "limited incursion." In
2014, Russia invaded and occupied Donbas, and invaded and annexed
Crimea. In 2018, Russia completed a bridge over the Kerch Strait,
controlling access to the Sea of Azov. Today, a "limited incursion"
would be an invasion of the seaports Mariupol and Berdyansk, in order
to create a land bridge from Russia to Crimea.

I have seen another good option coming from UK reporting, that Putin intends to install his own puppet as the "true" Ukrainian president.

This would solve the problem of Russian "occupation" and just have ethnic Russians in the Ukraine run and police everything.

The Russians would recognize this puppet and their supporting regime, and provide them with the muscle they need to enforce their rule. This way Putin could even say that Ukraine was still an "independent" nation.

Given the rather long and somewhat successful (albeit not permanently successful) example of the post WW2 communist eastern European regimes (with which Putin has lots of experience, BTW) this is probably his ultimate strategy for the Ukraine.

This makes the most sense to me. Do you think Xi will do the same or similar in Taiwan?

[Guest in Asia]

As I've said before, I think that a possible scenario is that Putin
won't attempt a full-scale invasion, which could go on for years, but
instead would take Biden's suggestion of a "limited incursion." In
2014, Russia invaded and occupied Donbas, and invaded and annexed
Crimea. In 2018, Russia completed a bridge over the Kerch Strait,
controlling access to the Sea of Azov. Today, a "limited incursion"
would be an invasion of the seaports Mariupol and Berdyansk, in order
to create a land bridge from Russia to Crimea.

I have seen another good option coming from UK reporting, that Putin intends to install his own puppet as the "true" Ukrainian president.

This would solve the problem of Russian "occupation" and just have ethnic Russians in the Ukraine run and police everything.

The Russians would recognize this puppet and their supporting regime, and provide them with the muscle they need to enforce their rule. This way Putin could even say that Ukraine was still an "independent" nation.

Given the rather long and somewhat successful (albeit not permanently successful) example of the post WW2 communist eastern European regimes (with which Putin has lots of experience, BTW) this is probably his ultimate strategy for the Ukraine.

This makes the most sense to me. Do you think Xi will do the same or similar in Taiwan?

My family is Taiwanese. A puppet government would be unnecessary on an island of corpses. Mainland colonists would replace the native population, but only if America abandons Taiwan. Taiwan will extract a monstrously high price from the mainland population before we all die. Monstrously high.

Taiwan will not go quietly into the night.

[spottybrowncow]

It is my belief that if we (America) abandon Taiwan, China will be at our own doorsteps before we know what happened.
And we won't have as many friends to call on then as we do now.

[Navigator]

This makes the most sense to me. Do you think Xi will do the same or similar in Taiwan?

IF (and at this point it is still a pretty big if) the CCP were to take control of Taiwan, they would not just leave everyone that is Taiwan there. They would do things similar to what they have done in Tibet and now out in Xinjiang (the Uygher region).

As someone else pointed out, they would flood the island with loyal mainland Chinese, while moving as many people with Taiwanese roots off of the island and into areas where they can be marginallized (as a minority), or worse, as in re-education/concentration camps.

They would also do mass executions and that whole bit of people who are politicians, opposing military, educators and so on.

This would obviously be difficult to do, and take decades, but it would probably be the route they would go.

FORTUNATELY, while I think they may be able to take the island, and even hold it for a couple of years, they will ultimately fail, and China itself will end up being dismembered into smaller regional based countries.

[Navigator]

Putin is now going to have separate NON-NATO talks with the Germans and French (and Ukrainians). This is all part of his bid to split NATO, which could well happen at this point.

Ever since Belarus stopped being independent of Putin (which happened when Lukashenko needed Russian support to crush rigged election chaos), Ukraine's defense has been compromised. Since Russian troops are moving in mass into Belarus for "training exercises), Ukraine's defenses are mortally compromised. The Ukrainians do not have enough troops to cover the previous areas of Russian incursions, PLUS the border with Belarus. At this point, they are probably hoping that they can come up with ANY kind of deal that prevents Russian invasion and leaves them with some semblance of independence and self-determination. The last bit is really what the Russians want to quash.

[Guest]

Putin is now going to have separate NON-NATO talks with the Germans and French (and Ukrainians). This is all part of his bid to split NATO, which could well happen at this point.

Ever since Belarus stopped being independent of Putin (which happened when Lukashenko needed Russian support to crush rigged election chaos), Ukraine's defense has been compromised. Since Russian troops are moving in mass into Belarus for "training exercises), Ukraine's defenses are mortally compromised. The Ukrainians do not have enough troops to cover the previous areas of Russian incursions, PLUS the border with Belarus. At this point, they are probably hoping that they can come up with ANY kind of deal that prevents Russian invasion and leaves them with some semblance of independence and self-determination. The last bit is really what the Russians want to quash.

Drop kick France and Germany out. Send ALL of the migrants to Germany. They invited them in, they can keep them.

[Guest]

Conservative podcasters have been highlighting Biden's useless presidency for months. Anyone familiar with Biden's political record of plagiarism and nasty behaviour would have been able to predict he would be a president who would occupy the shallows. The real scandal is that during the election campaign the mainstream media and big tech. companies made a deliberate choice to censure the the New York Post's coverage of the contents on Hunter Biden's laptop, which clearly shows he was paid very large amounts of money by Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese businesses and persons for doing nothing. On Hunter's laptop there was further reference to the Big Man (Biden) always taking 10% of Hunter's payments, which was independently confirmed during the election by Tony Bobulenski, a business partner of Hunter's.