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Ukraine says mission at Mariupol steel mill is complete
By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN
today
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... b58b04734c

Sweden joins Finland in signaling imminent NATO bid, ending 200 years of non-alignment
PETER WEBER
MAY 16, 2022
https://theweek.com/nato/1013564/sweden ... -alignment

Russian Lawmaker Says Poland Next In Line for ‘De-Nazification’
By Tom Ozimek May 14, 2022 Updated: May 14, 2022
https://www.theepochtimes.com/russian-l ... =ZeroHedge

NATO Prepares to Add Finland and Sweden to Its Northern Defenses
Kati Pohjanpalo and Niclas Rolander - Sunday
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/top-st ... ar-AAXjrJA

Hungary's new President Katalin Novak at her inauguration ceremony on Saturday condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supported Ukraine's accession to the EU.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polyti ... to-eu.html

‘The stakes here are now massive’: Turkey is threatening to block NATO membership for Sweden and Finland
PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 17 20225:24 AM EDTUPDATED 4 MIN AGO
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/17/will-tu ... nland.html

** 17-May-2022 World View: Great Leap Forward and One Child Policy

Cool Breeze wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 8:56 pm > Where would the One Child policy fit into this? A breathtakingly
> stupid policy for a nation that supposedly has everything planned
> out.

The One Child policy was certainly stupid, but it was a different kind
of policy than Mao's Great Leap Forward.

The Great Leap Forward was engineered by one fanatical dictator who
executed or jailed anyone who dared to tell him that it was failing.
The policy killed tens of millions of innocent Chinese, through
starvation and execution, and the policy had to be reversed within a
couple of years.

The One Child policy was quite different. It was not engineered by
one crazy dictator. It was a consensus policy of the entire Chinese
Communist government, based on fear of overpopulation. The policy
lasted a lot more than two years -- more like 35 years.

Interestingly enough, the Great Leap Forward and the One Child Policy
had in common a shared objective. China's history is filled with
famines and rebellions, and both policies sought to make sure that
there was enough food for everyone.

The Great Leap Forward was a disaster of historic proportions,
possibly the greatest disaster of any country in the history of the
world.

But the One Child Policy was arguably successful, since it kept the
population down, and thus prevented overpopulation and famine.
However now, 40 years later, it's proven to be a demographic disaster.

We know from our previous discussions about the Chi Haotian's 2003
speech, the concerns about overpopulation and famine are still front
and center.

*** The Secret Speech of General Chi Haotian - 2003
viewtopic.php?p=63225#p63225

Haotian's plan is to defaeat the United States, then use biological
weapons to "clean" the American land by killing everyone, so that the
Chinese people can expand into that land. That plan is completely
delusional, but so was the Great Leap Forward. If Haotian's plan is
attempted, it will be another example of something engineered by a
fanatical dictator, Xi Jinping, and will be completely disastrous not
just for China, but for the entire world.

** 17-May-2022 World View: Putin taking charge of Donbas forces

• Putin with the commander of the Russian armed forces, Gen Valery Gerasimov, in December 2021.

This news is relevant to my previous post about dictators making stupid
decisions because no one can contradict them.

> "Putin involved in war ‘at level of colonel or
> brigadier’, say western sources

> President helping determine movement of Russian soldiers, say
> sources, as head of UK armed forces says Ukraine is winning

> Vladimir Putin has become so personally involved in the Ukraine
> war that he is making operational and tactical decisions “at the
> level of a colonel or brigadier”, according to western military
> sources.

> The Russian president is helping determine the movement of forces
> in the Donbas, they added, where last week the invaders suffered a
> bloody defeat as they tried on multiple occasions to cross a
> strategic river in the east of Ukraine.

> The sources added that Putin is still working closely with Gen
> Valery Gerasimov, the commander of the Russian armed forces, in
> contrast to claims made by Ukraine last week that the military
> chief had been sidelined.

> “We think Putin and Gerasimov are involved in tactical decision
> making at a level we would normally expect to be taken by a
> colonel or a brigadier,” the military source said, referring to
> the ongoing battle in the east of Ukraine.

> Moscow’s armies have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough in
> the Donbas, where they have been mounting an offensive for a month
> that has failed several times to encircle the smaller Ukrainian
> forces. ..."

> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... rn-sources

BORDERING ON WAR Russia ‘deploys nuke missiles’ to border with Finland in chilling threat over country’s NATO bid
Olivia Burke
8:38, 16 May 2022Updated: 13:54, 16 May 2022
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18581179/ ... eden-nato/

Ukraine has retaken Kharkiv. Here’s why that’s such a big deal.
May 17, 2022, 12:54 PM EDT
By Yuliya Talmazan
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/europe/ukr ... -rcna28992

Putin taking control of his army reminds me of the Czar's actions in the First World War. After disasters on the Eastern front, he took personal command, meaning that he ended up receiving the blame for many of their subsequent disasters, adding pressure to the revolution. He's got to know that should anything go badly, he'll be lucky to escape with his life, let alone his position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcWxX68y19E
It looks like the new BA2 version of Omnicron COVID will wreak havoc North Korea, but the good doctor doesn’t think KJU back down or the people will depose him. All preventable and sad.

John wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 11:47 am ** 17-May-2022 World View: Great Leap Forward and One Child Policy

Cool Breeze wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 8:56 pm > Where would the One Child policy fit into this? A breathtakingly
> stupid policy for a nation that supposedly has everything planned
> out.

The One Child policy was certainly stupid, but it was a different kind
of policy than Mao's Great Leap Forward.

Thanks for the insight.

The Turkish play here and logic is going to be quite effective, in the short term, because it makes sense and puts the West and NATO in a bit of a quandary.

RUSSIA Published May 18, 2022 8:59am EDT
Ukraine war: Russian soldier pleads guilty to killing unarmed civilian, in first war crimes trial
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-w ... imes-trial

Don't forget that China is even more an adversary of the West than Russia:

China Warns US a ‘Dangerous Situation’ Forming Over Taiwan
Bloomberg News - Wednesday
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ch ... ar-AAXrE1A