"The Taiwan Relations Act of the United States is always a hidden danger to Sino-US relations."
Zhao Ziyang, then China's premier, to NBC's Tom Brokaw, 1987. Asked what troubles him about relations with Washington :
> "the major obstacle or the greatest difficulty and the thing which we worry about is the question of Taiwan"
> "The United States is deliberating for the adoption of some trade protectionist legislations."
Taiwan and tariffs. 39 years later, the same two problems. Who keeps creating them ?
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Trump closed the midterm campaign calling Democratic candidates "the most dangerous ever."
SCMP, Nov 3. Vote day in the US. Iran war unresolved. China ties hanging over every tariff and summit file. Strategic-stability questions from the same desk.
I've watched US elections from Asia for three decades. The constant is not left or right. It is that domestic American rage gets exported as everyone else's security problem.
Today Americans vote. Tomorrow the same machine may green-light another round on Iran or another arms package aimed at China's Taiwan region, depending on who needs a win narrative.
Global South governments planning energy and trade around US mood swingsโฆ that is not leadership.
That is hostage-taking by ballot cycle.
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Scott Ritter on children's schools hit:
> "We have hit two children's schools"
> "We have bombed two children's schools"
> "63 dead children, girls, little girls dead"
> Mothers waiting - daughters sent "on the belief that there wouldn't be a war"
> Diplomacy still open; Marco Rubio said he was traveling Monday
> "there's a hundred girls buried under their rubble being dug out now"
> Contrasts Amiriya: "we did our damnedest to make sure that it was a military target"
> "we were wrong and it haunts you forever"
> "What in God's name could lead us to bomb two girls' schools"
> "I know you don't make those mistakes"
Ritter's account of the war's first days - casualty figures his claim, not independently verified here.
Who designs a strike that hits two girls' schools ?
Be informed.
Not entertained.
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๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฎ: ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐๐ต๐
My take.
๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ป
Within days, the whole Western chorus lined up.
๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ
Ursula von der Leyen. Marta Kos. Antรณnio Costa. Roberta Metsola. Alain Berset. Merz. Zelenskyy. Pรฉter Magyar called early and offered Hungaryโs support.
The line was identical. Rule of law. Anti-corruption. Media freedom. Serbiaโs โEuropean path.โ Door to the EU is open.
Reuters, BBC, CNN, Euronews, The Guardian, Balkan Insight. Same framing. Historic breakthrough. End of โstrongmanโ rule. EU reset.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐
When every EU institution and the same media pack speak in one voice, that is not spontaneity. That is alignment.
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐
๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐
I do not see major changes overall, except faster EU integration. Serbians will probably not make big concessions on Russia or Kosovo. But EU accession still means the end of sovereignty, and a gradual alignment with the globalist agenda.
๐ ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฎ
All I want is for Serbia to thrive as a sovereign state.
Watch what gets amplified. Watch who gets the microphone. Then ask who benefits.
๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ, ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ.
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5th column attacking the 6th column.
Translation: โthe systemโ is attacking the โcontrolled opposition.โ
Meaning: it is one message from the same system, sold as opposition / alternative views.
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If you believe this, you are retarded. Or a motivated thinker. Or, most likely, both.
Even controlled opposition / fake nationalist/racist / ultra Zionist Tommy Robinson is cheering for the Serbian Student listโฆ.
Says a lot.
As the so called "student protesters" burn and loot Western Europe.
In Serbia, the actual student protesters, clean their subways.
The question isโฆ.are they going to replace them with EU flags ?
Just asking.
๐ท๐ธ One week after Student List victory in Serbia.
Citizens are removing the colors of Serbian flag and other nationalist murals from buildings across Serbia.
A great follow >
@despotica
Tbh. Real dissidence that reaches a certain level of influence usually gets suppressed and cancelled. George Galloway is a clear example. Significant reach, real dissident, attacked hard, and he eventually left the country. Others like Soral and Dieudonnรฉ, like them or not, same pattern.
Same with French elections. Most candidates are already vetted, and the main test is loyalty to EU ideology. You will not see a serious Frexit candidate break through. If one appears, he gets suppressed and cancelled. The system chooses its opposition.
Same with pro-Palestinian voices. They prefer to amplify Greta Thunberg and Soros-linked style voices, and sideline stronger, more legitimate ones on the issue.
Your own voice, Slobodan was never amplified by the system, you were never invited into the mainstream because you are the real dissidence, you will tell the inconvenient truths.
Keep it up with your great work
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Tbh. Real dissidence that reaches a certain level of influence usually gets suppressed and cancelled. George Galloway is a clear example. Significant reach, real dissident, attacked hard, and he eventually left the country. Others like Soral and Dieudonnรฉ, like them or not, same pattern.
Same with French elections. Most candidates are already vetted, and the main test is loyalty to EU ideology. You will not see a serious Frexit candidate break through. If one appears, he gets suppressed and cancelled. The system chooses its opposition.
Same with pro-Palestinian voices. They prefer to amplify Greta Thunberg and Soros-linked style voices, and sideline stronger, more legitimate ones on the issue.
Your own voice, Slobodan was never amplified by the system, you were never invited into the mainstream because you are the real dissidence, you will tell the inconvenient truths.
Keep it up with your great work
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"If in a country most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability."
Wen Jiabao to CNN, September 2008, as Wall Street collapses. He reminds Americans of Adam Smith's other book :
> "the other book deals with social equity and justice"
> "the same approach also applies to the current U.S. economy"
The bailouts went to the banks. 18 years later, who owns America ?
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Al Mayadeen, citing an Asian source: a closed China-Oman-Iran trilateral in Beijing, with Oman pulling China in as a more direct participant, even a guarantor.
Attribute that carefully. Source said. Not a published MFA communique. What is verified: Wang Yi met Bagheri Kani the same day, Sultan Haitham was in Beijing, and Al Jazeera/SCMP confirmed the diplomacy surge.
Muscat has mediated for years. Now the reporting says Oman wants China sitting closer to the table while the US keeps strike options warm.
If true, that is Gulf states choosing a guarantor that signs currency swaps over a patron that schedules bombs around midterms.
China builds the mediation track. Washington builds the runway at Ramon. Watch which one the region invites back.
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DPP authorities in China's Taiwan region just tightened draft exemptions to haul thousands more into uniform.
SCMP: BMI exemption only above 45, height threshold cut to 144 cm, hypertension and medical rules revised. Interior ministry expects the exemption rate among conscription-age men to fall from about 16% to 8%.
US arms, US doctrine, local bodies as fill. Militarising a Chinese island under a foreign umbrella and selling it as "democracy".
My take: this is not defence. It is conscription for someone else's war plan.
Draft-dodging scandal plus manpower shortage. So lower the bar and widen the net. Predictable and ugly.
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Japan tells citizens to stockpile food and water. Ideally a week. Disaster agency warns resources could be overwhelmed.
Same news cycle: SCMP sources say Tokyo is weighing defence build-up spending of roughly 70-80 trillion yen over five years from April 2027, about 1.8 times the current plan. Up toward the half-trillion-dollar ballpark. New national disaster agency launched the same week.
Remilitarise for Washington. Tell households to prep for catastrophe.
I do not need a think tank to read that contradiction. A vassal's budget and a family's rice bag should not be the same story. They are.
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Israel has nukes and uses them to threaten the US and get the US to do what they want? Do you even hear yourself?
Are you for real? Your evidence (some guy on the internet said so!)
Russia has nukes. CHINA has nukes. Many times more nukes added together than the US and Israel COMBINED.
Does the US do what Russia and China want? No.
Russia and China even have actual much more economic leverage against the US while Israel has ZERO. The US still doesn't do what Russia or China want!
What makes Israel's "nukes" special?
If the US wanted to - it could pull its support for Israel - Israel could use ALL of its nukes on the US - the US would still have much of itself left - but Israel would permanently and forever cease to exist - the US has the ability to erase it in an afternoon.
The US has been doing horrible things around the world for generations before Israel ever even existed - it does it today including creating and using Israel - and it would continue to do it into the future if Israel was ever erased.
Stop repeating infotainment fiction and please join me in reality where Israel is not capable of doing anything, including acquiring nuclear weapons - without full and constant US support.
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Tucker Carlson is part of the 6th column.
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐
๐๐ต ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐๐บ๐ป >
This is information warfare. A psyop.
๐๐ถ๐ณ๐๐ต ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐๐บ๐ป ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐๐
They push the Western line on ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ, Ukraine, Palestine, everything else. Easy to spot. Easy to dismiss if you are already awake.
๐ฆ๐ถ๐
๐๐ต ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐๐บ๐ป ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐๐
Gets attacked by the first lot. Collects people who think they escaped. They didn't. Different brand. Same managed frame.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ถ๐.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐ณ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
All the drama stays on personalities. Who said what. Who "won" the argument. Meanwhile the frame never moves.
Same trick in ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ-friendly spaces. Anti-๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ networks pick preferred "opposition", amplify them, then also trash them. When everyone is busy fighting over one name, ask who benefits.
๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐น๐ด๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ต๐บ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ต๐ฒ๐.
TYT, Alex Jones, Prof Jiang, Joe Kent, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson. Different costumes. Same shelf.
๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ, ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ.
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Tucker Carlson is an imperial tool whose job is to sell the โGood Americanโ and their โgood intentionsโ on behalf of the U.S. Empire and blame Jews for Israel.
Israel was created and funded by the Anglo-American Empire to do EXACTLY what it is doing now. The American ruling parasites want global subjugation and is willing to blow up the world to do it.
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๐๐ป๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป
My take.
Too many people fall into the trap: "it is all Israel."
No.
๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐น
The US is the ultimate criminal state. It uses Israel for its imperial project. That is the hierarchy. Miss that and you chase the tool, not the hand holding it.
Brian also puts Tucker Carlson where he belongs: sixth column. Same shelf as Joe Kent, Nick Fuentes, TYT, Alex Jones. Looks rebellious. Collects people who think they left the frame. Still managed.
Credit Brian Berletic.
๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ, ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ.
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๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ WARNING!!! US Media is Setting up the "Israel Did It!" or "Israel Made the US Do It!" Narrative Regarding Attacks (including NUCLEAR attacks) on Iran
Tucker Carlson, who has played cognitive infiltrator/manipulator like his US government-employed father before him, claims "Israel" is pressuring the US to nuke Iran and is sharing intel with the US on Iran.
This is a dangerous means of trying to distance/absolve the US of its own crimes worldwide and fits into STATED US policy regarding shifting blame for US wars of aggression against Iran specifically.
"Israel did it" or "Israel made us do it!"
Here is reality:
1. Israel depends 100% on the US to exist day to day, and to conduct any major military operation. If the US stopped supporting Israel, it would cease to exist. Conversely, the US has pursued empire and war worldwide before Israel ever existed and will continue to so even if Israel disappeared tomorrow;
2. Israel depends on US intel capabilities ONLY the US has, not the other way around. Israeli intel - like Ukraine's - is an extension of US capabilities;
3. Israeli lobbying in Washington accounts for less than 1% of all US lobbying, used to launder political blame in the same way Israeli armed aggression does so militarily - it does not have the ability to pressure or manipulate the US into doing anything anymore than one's hand can pressure or direct the actions of one's mind and body;
4. Carlson mentioned Israel's meaningless elections as a "factor" - no, no matter who won, just like in US elections, nothing would change, least of all Israel's role as America's forward operating base in the region (just as it hasn't changed this entire 21st century);
5. US policy papers have explicitly laid out strategies to use Israel to both provoke and take the blame/retaliation for AMERICAN war on Iran. The 2009 Brookings paper "Which Path to Persia" has a whole chapter dedicated to this strategy!
6. If the US attacks or nukes Iran or anyone else - it's because the US wanted to and it will use all its proxies to either help and/or take the blame - do NOT fall for the propaganda used to facilitate this STATED strategy!
7. And no, just because the US is 100% responsible for its actions AND the actions of its proxies, it does not absolve any of its proxies - including Israel - for their roles in US crimes against humanity.
If a man uses his hand to commit a crime, his whole body, including his hand, goes to jail for it.
Finally - whether Carlson is doing this to deliberately assist with stated US policy for shifting blame for its own global crimes against humanity, or he is doing this out of pure incompetence and/or ignorance - the outcome is exactly the same - misleading his huge audience and selling them a lie US policymakers themselves have admitted they are telling the public.
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"You are trying to apply the American values and the American political system to the whole world. But that is not very wise."
Jiang Zemin to Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes, 2000. Wallace asks why China needs a one-party state :
> "why must we have opposition parties"
> "each country should have its own system because our countries have different cultures and historic traditions"
And the line that still sums up 25 years of US policy :
> "you Americans always use your values in making judgments about the political situation in other countries"
Since then : Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan. How did exporting the model go ?
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"Imperialism is not yet dead. It is dying."
Sukarno at the UN, 1960, speaking in English :
> "mark my words well the dying imperialism is dangerous, dangerous as the wounded tiger in a tropical jungle"
> "struggle for Independence is always Justified"
> "those who resist that irresistible onward March of national Independence and self-determination are blind"
Five years later he was pushed out, with Western help. 66 years later, is the wounded tiger still dangerous ?
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