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[manqiangrexue]

Cutting off rare earths to the West would give an extended period of time (close to a decade of effort to replace Chinese monopoly on various critical components) for China to develop its military uncontested while adversaries are dealing with supply chain crunch. The US cannot start anything if they don't have the magazine depth nor replenishment to last more than a few days of combat. 25% of global THAAD interceptor stocks were depleted against Iran in 12 days. Crippling enemy initiative while creating a window to act with impunity. Does that count for intimidation under your framework?

No, that's not intimidation; intimidation is building a military so large and powerful that it's laughable to even think the US would fight this force in Asia. What you are saying is the final lever being pulled. When the CCP calculates that it's the final hour, hold nothing back, cutting of rare earths to the West straight to zero, no warning, no negotiation is trap to spring. If the CCP hasn't done it, it's because we're not in that situation yet. They judge that the world is still stable enough to keep expanding and improving the Chinese military in anticipation of that day.

 

[FriedButter]

Norway Gov: “when you meet an Indian and a snake, kill the Indian first!”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018061131298881665

 

[Thecore]

If you read about the belief system of many of these satanic cults, the belief revolves around variations of "Satan is the real, original god who's throne was usurped; by following Satan, we can overcome the current usurper". They don't see a humiliating afterlife, but rather one where Satan is the Savior.

Although potential CIA-op, Prof Jiang on youtube, seems pretty loony with his wild extrapolations and ponderings based on his "game theory" view of the world, a lot of what he says about kooky stuff like secret societies rooted in Gnosticism, belief in Demiurge, Monad, their pursuit of "hidden knowledge" and basically the elite living a literal life of complete occult-framed hedonistic pursuit without restraint is becoming more and more pertinent and believable with each passing day...

 

[FriedButter]

Arab Soft Power in Action.

The holy cloth of the Kaaba that several million muslims touched and prayed to being used as Epstein carpet for him and his associates to walk on.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018077840818721196

 

[JohnnyD]

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[proelite]

I've heard of many women in Western countries taking their placentas home after delivery (birth) to cook and consume.

Most hospitals offer a service where they make the placenta into pills for you.

 

[pmc]

Arab Soft Power in Action.

The holy cloth of the Kaaba that several million muslims touched and prayed to being used as Epstein carpet for him and his associates to walk on.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018077840818721196

i will wait for more information. Arabic Soft Power is not that easy to identify. but i will not be surprized if Saudis are behind him.
Ukranian dismissed Arabic Soft Power. now they are freezing and Europeans loan they got they are fighting with French what they can buy and what they cannot from outside Europe. If Ukranian not appreciate this Soft Power. it can quickly convert into hard power. Russia has only used moderate Power against them.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1978142524234494103

I think it was Jasur or Klashnikova of RT Arabic i first time understood huge operational diffference between Su-30 and Su-34. Russia can basically scale Strike power more than ten times from what they are delivering because pilots feel relaxed for multiple sorties and enhanced fuel supply gives higher afterburner use and height of plane easy to load with weopons that has longest range.

 

[GZDRefugee]

No, that's not intimidation; intimidation is building a military so large and powerful that it's laughable to even think the US would fight this force in Asia. What you are saying is the final lever being pulled. When the CCP calculates that it's the final hour, hold nothing back, cutting of rare earths to the West straight to zero, no warning, no negotiation is trap to spring. If the CCP hasn't done it, it's because we're not in that situation yet. They judge that the world is still stable enough to keep expanding and improving the Chinese military in anticipation of that day.

Carney, an absolute running dog of the empire, just said that the rules-based international order was always a farce. How long do you see the world remaining stable if the vassal has thrown away the mask? Wouldn't crippling American production now contribute to the overwhelming military advantage you mentioned?

 

[Eventine]

The collective West will suppress the Epstein files the same way as they have always done - through paying off "Western experts" to dismiss the reports as "exaggerations and hallucinations." They'll paint the evidence as flawed and the witnesses as delusional - e.g. "he was in a drug induced state and dreamed it all up." Maybe throw in a few scape goats just to take the fall.

But what's important here is the seed that has been planted in the minds of the rest of the world. Now, there is a moral justification to oppose the West and its elites. Their optics have been tainted, and idea that they're just "basically well intentioned people trying to do the right thing" has been fundamentally shaken. This is the means by which the current world order will be unraveled, especially as people like Trump continue to erode the moral basis of US hegemony through the abuse of power.

All of this is proceeding at a pace that could not have been imagined just a few years ago. One cannot help but wonder if the West had lost a vast, elaborate intelligence game, where by Epstein inadvertently became the agent of the West's decline, which was not his original purpose.

 

[manqiangrexue]

Carney, an absolute running dog of the empire, just said that the rules-based international order was always a farce. How long do you see the world remaining stable if the vassal has thrown away the mask?

This running dog might be talking shit but there is very little hard power being shifted here. America is still largely in control of its vassals and whatever damage has occurred is easily reversible once Trump is gone. Despite how absolutely horrible America is treating its allies now, the vast majority of voices are either a very reluctant few words to seem like they have spines or desperate pleas for Trump to stop attacking them and work together against China.

Wouldn't crippling American production now contribute to the overwhelming military advantage you mentioned?

It would, but it's a one shot cannon and it's a gamble when you fire it. If you do this while America's military is still largely intact as it is now, you risk WWIII. The later you do it, the greater the power shifts to China's side. The more you wait to do it, the less chance of a chance that the US would dare start a final desperate nuclear war gamble. If you wait even longer without being sucked into a war, you won't even have to do it; the US would have already conceded Asia to China.

I wrote before, the final years before the Soviet Union fell were America's most restrained years. Even in the face of Soviet provocation and aggression, America remained calm and non-escalatory, not because it was weaker, but because it felt that trading a bright and rising future to a declining rotting rival in a final nuclear showdown was a very bad deal. Best to gently let the dying die rather than honor him with a brilliant final fight while he's still capable. China feels this now. Our economy and technology have overtaken the US and continue to pull ahead. Our military is racing past them in Asia and into the blue seas. They are waning and we are rising; if we all took each other out now, it's a bad deal for us. If we allow them to use their military before it rots away like their economy and society, it's unwise of us.