Sunday, May 15, 2022

Links — 15 May 2022 Part 2

CaitlinJohnstone.com
Pentagon-Funded Think Tank Simulates War With China On NBC
Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/05/16/pentagon-funded-think-tank-simulates-war-with-china-on-nbc/  

International 360º
The Cult of Russian Victory
Dmitry Orlov, Russian-American engineer and writer who is the author of such books as “Reinventing Collapse: the Soviet Example and American Perspectives” (2008) “The Five Stages of Collapse” (2013), and "The Arctic Fox Cometh" (2021)
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/the-cult-of-russian-victory/

Oilprice
China Warns NATO Not To Interfere In Asia
RFE/RL
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/China-Warns-NATO-Not-To-Interfere-In-Asia.html

America's Electric Grid Has A $2 Trillion Problem
Tsvetana Paraskova
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Americas-Electric-Grid-Has-A-2-Trillion-Problem.html

Energy Security Concerns Are Fueling A Renewable Boom
Alex Kimani
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Energy-Security-Concerns-Are-Fueling-A-Renewable-Boom.html

ECNS (Chinese official English news service)
China doubles down on expanding domestic demand to bolster growth
Xinhua (Chinese state media)
http://www.ecns.cn/news/2022-05-16/detail-ihayhruk0775002.shtml



25 comments:

Footsoldier said...

Russia will strengthen the grouping of troops on the Finnish border if Finland joins NATO, - head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense Bondarev.

No one should have any illusions that the Russian Federation will simply put up with the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO,Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.


"This is a mistake with far—reaching consequences," he stressed.

How exactly Moscow will ensure security in the event of Helsinki and Stockholm joining NATO depends on the situation.




All about first strike nuclear response times.

Peter Pan said...

Buffalo murderer used same Nazi symbols as Ukraine’s Azov Battalion
https://rumble.com/v14x4h8-buffalo-murderer-used-same-nazi-symbols-as-ukraines-azov-battalion.html

Woke hypocrisy?

Peter Pan said...

All about first strike nuclear response times.

So move the ground base launchers to Russia's far east. Problem solved, but for these nutters who believe a nuclear war can be "won".

Footsoldier said...

"for these nutters who believe a nuclear war can be "won"."

That is another main issue they are psychos.


You move to the far East and The narrowest distance between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska is approximately 55 miles.


Footsoldier said...

Buffalo murderer used same Nazi symbols as Ukraine’s Azov Battalion



What I posted up yesterday. why I Went down the white supremacist route.


Rightly or wrongly take your pick. They now believe MAGA gives them a voice. They believe Trump speaks for them.


It is no coincidence most of these groups who arm themselves and give themselves a fancy name and have training camps in America are from the right to far right. Consider themselves as modern day militias.

Footsoldier said...

The other lot think the democrats speak for them.


They can waltz into a subway shoot people hand themselves in just to get their point across.


When neither MAGA or the Democrats and Republicans speak for any of them. They use these groups to divide America to its core to harvest their votes.


MAGA, Democrats and Republicans represent one group. The leisure class and capital.

Footsoldier said...

Then you have the Church.


World experts with hundreds of years experience at creating divisions for power.

Footsoldier said...

Built on the back of the biggest fairy tale of them all.


A fairy tale created by humans.

You wonder why economics is difficult for the majority to grasp. Wonder why they can't understand how money works when they believe just about any fairy tale put in front of them if it is done with a good story and in a co ordinated fashion.


If you want to talk about art degree thinking let's start with the Church. let's See where it leads us. If you think economics is bad hold onto your hats. Organised religion will be one helluva ride.






















Peter Pan said...

Google says:
The distance between Vladivostok and Alaska is 5241 km.
The distance between Europe and Vladivostok is 8143 km.

Solves the 'nuked from Europe' problem.

Peter Pan said...

Most people want to go to heaven.

Fairy tale, but it sounds like a great place to be.

Faith and good behavior will get you there, the church promises.

Matt Franko said...

More or less all Christendom is dialogic/Platonist….

ALL disciplines taught under that methodology are…

You don’t get a Science Degree in Theology…

Peter Pan said...

The distance from Vladivostok to Nova Scotia is 10,073 km.

Which means we get to live a few minutes longer.

Matt Franko said...

“World experts with hundreds of years experience at creating divisions for power.“

They are not “creating divisions “ they are proposing antithesis to established thesis…

If the antithesis is widely believed then those people form a new sect…

Footsoldier said...

Google is wrong


https://www.alaskacenters.gov/visitors-centers/faqs/how-close-alaska-russia


The narrowest distance between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska is approximately 55 miles. However, in the body of water between Alaska and Russia, known as the Bering Strait, there lies two small islands known as Big Diomede and Little Diomede. Interestingly enough, Big Diomede is owned by Russia while Little Diomede is owned by the US. The stretch of water between these two islands is only about 2.5 miles wide and actually freezes over during the winter so you could technically walk from the US to Russia on this seasonal sea ice.

Footsoldier said...

Russia will show you how they are going to solve their Finland problem.


Bondarev and Sergey Ryabkov have virtually spelled it out for everybody.


Footsoldier said...

I'm going to take a punt on at least 2 people having some brains in Washington that have real power.


After the meetings of NATO in Madrid the press release after the meetings will say.


" Not at this time, we will consider both Sweden's and Finland application at a later date"


Those 2 people in Washington how has an IQ above room temperature will have saved the planet from complete destruction.


Footsoldier said...

If that is going to happen.


Running up to the meetings in Madrid the press will start walking it back. Preparing everybody for the press release.



On the other hand if they are all crazy in Washington and both Sweden and Finland are accepted into NATO.

Well all bets are off.





Footsoldier said...

"They are not “creating divisions “ they are proposing antithesis to established thesis…

If the antithesis is widely believed then those people form a new sect…"


fancy words for division Matt.



If you read Scottish History long before the United States was invented. It was all about power and money.


The Outer and Inner Hebrides are small islands that have 20 versions of the same faith.

Nothing to do with religion or If the antithesis is widely believed then those people form a new sect as you put it.


It was all about power and a new version of the Church was created by a landlord or after a fight about power within the Church. A licence to print money or in most cases to nudge the flock to what the landlords wanted to do politically.

The Church was one of the very first " nudging " units ever created.


Who should we vote for father ?

What do you think of these highland clearances father ?


Should we support this king or Queen father ?






Footsoldier said...

All of Scotland was built using these principles


I used the Hebrides as an example because it is small the number of divisions preaching the exact same faith is ridiculous.

It was all about power and who could frame and create the narrative.


Religion was used to explain away the building of a new church a mile away instead of the truth. The new church being built a mile away was being built because those who wanted power was sidelined in the previous Church.


Nothing to do with scripture or gospal. Money and power was the reason behind the division.


Footsoldier said...

What do you think of the landlord who built the Church and who has just put out rents up father ?

Tom Hickey said...

So move the ground base launchers to Russia's far east. Problem solved, but for these nutters who believe a nuclear war can be "won".

ICBM silo are already in far eastern Russia and they have mobile (truck and rail transported) launchers.

Then there are the submarines and bombers.

Russia has a trident, too.

Peter Pan said...

@ Tom

What's the security issue then?

MAD remains intact, regardless of facilities built next to Russia's borders.

Time to face the fact that there won't be a European security agreement on Russia's terms. That plan has backfired. Finland is an example of a successful neutral country agreement, and they want to jettison it.

Stick to the plan of protecting Russians in eastern Ukraine from conventional weapons.

As for humanity in general, time to face the fact we can't prevent warmongers from destroying the world, when they wrongly believe they can win, or wrongly believe they alone are facing an existential crisis.

Tom Hickey said...

@ Peter Pan

You don't want to create a situation that induces MAD, and especially not as a first response. This is why there used to be rule not to create conditions for war with a nuclear-capable power, let alone a nuclear peer.

Peter Pan said...

There is such a rule, but it is flexible.

Obviously, an invasion of a nuclear power is a red line that can't be crossed. But you can still mess with nuclear powers, from killing their soldiers to shelling their civilians for years on end. The intention is to escalate, cause attrition, or both.

MAD is a deterrent to conquest.

We either stick with that doctrine, or get wrecked.

Peter Pan said...

To use an analogy, MAD is not a Swiss army knife with multiple functions.

North Korea's rulers understand that their nuclear deterrent doesn't allow them to invade the South. The sole function of NK nukes is to preserve the Kim Dynasty.