19 Feb, 2023 21:26

US draws ‘red line’ for China(too late assho)

Beijing providing Moscow with “lethal” aid would cross it, top American officials warned

Any nation providing lethal support to Moscow in its ongoing conflict with Kiev would cross Washington’s "red line," the US envoy to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told CNN on Sunday. Earlier the same day, US State Secretary Antony Blinken directly warned a top Chinese diplomat, Wang Yi, against considering such an option.

“We … have to be clear that if there are any thoughts and efforts by the Chinese and others to provide lethal support to the Russians in their brutal attack against Ukraine, that that is unacceptable,” Thomas-Greenfield told CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ adding that it “would be a red line.”

Her words came as Blinken was meeting Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. There, the US diplomat told his Chinese counterpart that the US was “very concerned that China’s considering providing lethal support to Russia,” Blinken told NBC’s Chuck Todd in the wake of the meeting.

“I made clear that that would have serious consequences in our relationship,” the state secretary added. He also claimed that the US was aware of Beijing providing Moscow wit nonlethal assistance “over these past months,”adding that this aid allegedly goes “directly to aiding and abetting Russia's war effort.”

Blinken also said that Washington got some information that “indicates” China was “strongly considering providing lethal assistance to Russia” too. He did not provide any details on the nature of the information the US had obtained or the exact type of aid for Russia that China was supposedly considering. Instead, he said that some more details would be revealed in the future.

The state secretary also said that Beijing had “not crossed that line yet.”

On Sunday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry also issued a statement on the meeting between Blinken and Wang Yi. There, China called on the US to work toward a political settlement of the conflict in Ukraine instead of “fanning the flames” of this military standoff between Moscow and Kiev and “profiteering from the situation.”

China itself is “committed to promoting peace talks,” the statement said, adding that a strategic partnership between Moscow and Beijing is a “sovereign right of … two independent states.” China would “not accept the US finger-pointing or even coercion targeting China-Russia relations,” the ministry warned.

(Blinken should change his name to Blanken, everyone in the world knows China owns Bidan Admin. Blanken is a paper tiger! Our government is so pathetic, trying to cover Bidan’s ass since his stole and sold 100’s of classified reports. Even leftists don’t believe this anymore.)

https://www.rt.com/news/571746-us-draw-red-line-china/

He’s right you know!

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1627395927840288768?s=20

19 Feb, 2023 19:15

US responds to Nord Stream sabotage allegations

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby denied any involvement in the explosions following Seymour Hersh’s report

The United States was not involved in the sabotage that severely damaged the Nord Stream pipelines last year, John Kirby of Washington’s National Security Council told Fox News on Sunday.

“It’s a completely false story,” he said, referring to a February report by Pulitzer Award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, which alleged that the White House was behind the September 26 attack on the infrastructure that transported natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea.

“There is no truth to it, Shannon,” he told Fox News host Shannon Bream. “Not a shred of it. It is not true. The United States – no proxies of the United States – had anything to do with it. Nothing.”

In a February 8 report, Hersh cited an anonymous source with knowledge of the situation who told him that the US had acted in conjunction with Norway to sabotage the pipelines. The move, Hersh alleged, was designed to compel Germany to provide Ukraine with military and financial support throughout its conflict with Russia.

"It's a completely false story. There is no truth to it, Shannon. Not a shred of it. It is not true." – NSC spokesperson John Kirby unequivocally denies a Seymour Hersh story alleging US involvement in blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline pic.twitter.com/fgD2vSyZKd

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 19, 2023

Hersh also wrote that explosive devices had been placed under the Russian gas pipelines by US Navy Seals, with the support of Norwegian operatives, in June 2022 under the guise of military drill

He added that the decision to do so was made by President Joe Biden after nine months of discussions with US national security officials. In early February 2022, Biden vowed to “bring an end” to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline if Russia was to initiate a conflict with Ukraine.

Kirby’s denial of Hersh’s allegations comes days after Beijing raised questions as to Washington’s possible role in the pipeline explosions.

“Why has the US changed its high tone of demanding an inquiry into the Nord Stream explosion but become silent after US journalist Seymour Hersh’s revelation?” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin asked on Friday.

On Thursday, the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, voted to appeal to the UN Security Council to open an investigation into the sabotage. Moscow has also requested a meeting of the Security Council on February 22 to discuss the pipeline attacks.

(The US Gov should have looked up Rupar definition, as in Aaron Rupar on urban dictionary be using this mouthpiece

rupar

To lie with impunity; a brazen statement with a focus on misleading, usually with intention of a predetermined outcome. The presidential candidate rupar'd before stealing the election. Now the few citizens that actually favored him suffer extreme voter-remorse)

by Paytr10t March 21, 2021

https://www.rt.com/news/571744-us-responds-nord-stream-allegations/

19 Feb, 2023 15:18

Mexico cutting foreigners off from its ‘white gold’

The government is planning to nationalize deposits of lithium, which is vital for the production of electric vehicle batteries

Foreign companies are set to be excluded from lithium mining in Mexico after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador issued orders for nationalization of the country’s deposits to be expedited.

The transfer of lithium reserves to Mexico’s energy ministry was ordered last April with the signing of a document during an event in Bacadehuachi in the state of Sonora, which also designated 2,500 square kilometers in the region as a national lithium mining zone.

The district, which borders the US, is home to the country’s largest lithium deposits and was chosen by the president as the location for the launch of an ambitious program called Plan Sonora. This outlined a strategy to exploit the mineral, which is used in the manufacture of smartphones, car batteries, and other rechargeable electronics.

Last April, the Mexican authorities approved a bill to nationalize lithium mining and extraction, granting exclusive rights to a state-run company that had yet to be created. At the time, President Obrador pledged to review contracts with foreign companies that were exploring potential lithium deposits in the country. The state-run firm called Litio para Mexico, or Lithium for Mexico, was founded in April.

The latest decree orders Mexico’s energy ministry “to take the actions necessary to carry out” the nationalization process.

“[Let’s make] the nation be the owner of this strategic mineral,” Obrador said, as quoted by Reuters. “What we are doing now… is to nationalize lithium so that it cannot be exploited by foreigners from Russia, China or the US.”

The Mexican government has no experience in mining lithium or commercial production of the metal. Instead, a large number of foreign corporations had participated in the exploration of the deposits.

Chinese mining company Ganfeng has been developing Mexico’s largest lithium projectat a clay deposit in Sonora, holding the rights to as much as three-quarters of the lithium extracted at Sonora Lithium.

Last week, the chief executive of the state-run company for lithium production, Pablo Taddei, told Reuters that Mexico was open to partnerships but that the federal government would have a majority stake in any future joint venture.

https://www.rt.com/business/571733-mexico-lithium-deposits-nationalization/

>>18378443

The funny part is Rupar tries to back them up, he got in the Urban Dictionary because he lies all tge time. Poso and others targeted tge blue anons at that time. So Rupar backing up Kirby’s lie just makes it a bigger lie!

I love this shit and obviously Russia knows about it

>>18378438

Yes this one has serious glitches, apologizing, he’s jiggling around, weird body movements, noticed that too

>>18378580

Maybe he’s being held hostage

>>18378413

When they use hyperbole they are freaked out, instead of “ its false, we didnt do it”, he says “it’sa completelyfalse story! Every gov stooge used hyperbole that commented on this

>>18378413

Unnecessary words

"It's acompletelyfalse story. There is no truth to it, Shannon.Not a shred of it.It is not true." – NSC spokesperson John Kirbyunequivocallydenies a Seymour Hersh story alleging US involvement in blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline

Totally freaked out this Admin is in, Yoda