My latest two articles showcasing Lavrov’s talk to Russia’s version of the Empire’s Council on Foreign Relations and his presser after the SCO Council of Foreign Minister’s Summit both contain points China’s Foreign Minister Yang Yi also stated at the Summit as reported by
fyi MoA has gone offline again due to Bs health issues.
RT reports - The Russian authorities have arrested Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, the head of Russia’s Main Directorate of Communications, for alleged involvement in a bribery case, officials have told Russian media. Shamarin, who is also the deputy to the chief of the General Staff, is the fourth senior Russian defense official said to have been arrested in criminal cases in April and May.
Thanks. Martyanov has commented on the corruption train being arrested. Imagine what it would be like in the West if we had real investigators and prosecutors!
As always, grateful to you Karl for your diligence and excellence in organizing disparate threads and sources into a unity to share with us.
As is recognized but perhaps not emphasized, “splinter” movements rely (apart from the financial rewards) on the feeling of “separateness”, or superiority or chosen-ness. In Hong Kong, the natives drew some assurances from the fact that their elites drove around in gold Rolls Royces and belonged to anglophile organizations such as the HK Jockey Club. The public felt entitled to look down on the mainland bicycle riders, latterly parvenus.
In a recent online exchange with someone virulently anti-PRC, but with a seeming Chinese surname, I asked if he was Taiwanese. Yes. Conversation rambled along and I had the sudden impulse to ask him if he was gay. Yes — he added that “civilized countries” did not suppress gays. Lai apparently recently led a big LBGT parade (following the practice of the unmarried prior president). So the covert social engineering of the West may be a plank used to rally some young people to the independence movement. I wonder how the HK émigrés to the UK are doing in view of the reality they encounter.
Basic in-group/out-group manipulation to divide and rule. It's hard work getting to know yourself; much easier to join an already defined group and mimic. It's hard to stand out from the crowd as it can get lonely and thus uncomfortable unless you know yourself, and that's very difficult when you're young and susceptible to becoming a herd--any herd--member. I was lucky and finally learned how to become and remain a rock.
Then it would seem that psychological vulnerability about sexual identity seems an opening to manipulation; within a society, at least divisiveness, and at a larger scale maybe regime change. I’ve been told personally that this was a factor in HK, and now it seems so in Taiwan. I now wonder if East Asians are particularly vulnerable.
It's really about strong will and values plus how society raises its youth. That's one reason why I follow what Russia's doing; IMO, it's doing what needs to be done to build the society it will need in the future. At the end of the ASI meeting a type of phone game is discussed that's designed to be educational and produce positive values. Check it out.
Did you read "1984"? Lots of elements from that work are at play globally, including Taiwana and Ukraine. It's enough to recall what was said in the Senate in 1949 after Mao's/PRC's victory: "Who Lost China", as if it was ours to lose. The fixation of megalomania on global control was also part of the KMT philosophy until Taiwanese revolted against their dictatorship--not the communists. Of course, a significant percentage of Taiwanese don't want to become the next Ukraine, but they seldom get heard in the West. They are the main reason China remains patient.
Thank you! Shared!
fyi MoA has gone offline again due to Bs health issues.
RT reports - The Russian authorities have arrested Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, the head of Russia’s Main Directorate of Communications, for alleged involvement in a bribery case, officials have told Russian media. Shamarin, who is also the deputy to the chief of the General Staff, is the fourth senior Russian defense official said to have been arrested in criminal cases in April and May.
Thanks. Martyanov has commented on the corruption train being arrested. Imagine what it would be like in the West if we had real investigators and prosecutors!
As always, grateful to you Karl for your diligence and excellence in organizing disparate threads and sources into a unity to share with us.
As is recognized but perhaps not emphasized, “splinter” movements rely (apart from the financial rewards) on the feeling of “separateness”, or superiority or chosen-ness. In Hong Kong, the natives drew some assurances from the fact that their elites drove around in gold Rolls Royces and belonged to anglophile organizations such as the HK Jockey Club. The public felt entitled to look down on the mainland bicycle riders, latterly parvenus.
In a recent online exchange with someone virulently anti-PRC, but with a seeming Chinese surname, I asked if he was Taiwanese. Yes. Conversation rambled along and I had the sudden impulse to ask him if he was gay. Yes — he added that “civilized countries” did not suppress gays. Lai apparently recently led a big LBGT parade (following the practice of the unmarried prior president). So the covert social engineering of the West may be a plank used to rally some young people to the independence movement. I wonder how the HK émigrés to the UK are doing in view of the reality they encounter.
Basic in-group/out-group manipulation to divide and rule. It's hard work getting to know yourself; much easier to join an already defined group and mimic. It's hard to stand out from the crowd as it can get lonely and thus uncomfortable unless you know yourself, and that's very difficult when you're young and susceptible to becoming a herd--any herd--member. I was lucky and finally learned how to become and remain a rock.
Then it would seem that psychological vulnerability about sexual identity seems an opening to manipulation; within a society, at least divisiveness, and at a larger scale maybe regime change. I’ve been told personally that this was a factor in HK, and now it seems so in Taiwan. I now wonder if East Asians are particularly vulnerable.
It's really about strong will and values plus how society raises its youth. That's one reason why I follow what Russia's doing; IMO, it's doing what needs to be done to build the society it will need in the future. At the end of the ASI meeting a type of phone game is discussed that's designed to be educational and produce positive values. Check it out.
As I read this I couldn't help but wonder why Taiwan would want to become the next Ukraine.
Did you read "1984"? Lots of elements from that work are at play globally, including Taiwana and Ukraine. It's enough to recall what was said in the Senate in 1949 after Mao's/PRC's victory: "Who Lost China", as if it was ours to lose. The fixation of megalomania on global control was also part of the KMT philosophy until Taiwanese revolted against their dictatorship--not the communists. Of course, a significant percentage of Taiwanese don't want to become the next Ukraine, but they seldom get heard in the West. They are the main reason China remains patient.