MBS better reinforce and strengthen the bodyguard team around himself and the Saud royal family.
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Not even the CIA could coup so many countries simultaneously.
I've seen more Russia-China joint exercises in a single year than Japan-Taiwan, South Korea-Taiwan, Australia-Taiwan joint exercises in 5 decades. I don't see any evidence for those vassals to directly be involved. There is no evidence of joint-force cooperation or mil-to-mil training at any meaningful level against PLA. Same for the US. US even excludes Taiwan from RIMPAC exercises.
Lord knows they've tried in the past couple of years (Belarus, pretty much every single Stan, South East Asia like Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc.)
WTF, now that's a surprising move. Now it makes me wonder whether the whole strategic autonomy shtick is just a show orchestrated by US
Baerbock is a US plant through and through. There's no way she actually supports this
Unless......there really is something in the tea in China
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She may not have much choice if all the top business elites in Germany are driving this. She can't say no to them or she'll see herself on their shit list. US imperialists have her from the front, but corporate Germany likely has her from the rear.
Pakistan and Myanmar somewhat. Philippines quite a lot. Thailand a little but not really. They're definitely biting off way more than they can chew. And that's really likely down to the way they manage budgets and projects internally at Langley. If every viable project gets some budget, but none of them get nearly enough, you just end up with dozens of failures on your hands (and immense blow back from all directions).
Jokes aside one of the main reasons for the formation of Five Eyes was enabling legal spying on members' civilians. Most US and British agencies are banned from spying on their own countries'. With Five Eyes organisation, they can just ask another member to spy on their countries'.
Politico has a different read:
But from what I glanced from her speech it's somewhere in the middle. She basically said a lot of words and they didn't really mean anything and it felt like a waste of time.
Perhaps German industrialists put a lot of pressure on her to not do a VDL.