20 Feb, 2023 01:06

US gaslights China and the world with warnings against Taiwan aggression

Washington says Beijing must not use lawmaker visits as pretext for an attack – while trying to provoke exactly that

The United States has publicly warned China against using US lawmakers’ visits to Taiwan “as a pretext for military action” and has demanded that other countries warn Beijing against conflict over the island.

The statements were made last week by US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. They come amid speculation that more American congressional representatives will soon visit Taiwan. US lawmakers have been making such trips since then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit last August, which created a crisis and caused China to respond with large-scale military exercises. Sherman’s warning also comes amid an increase in US-China tensions over the so-called ‘spy balloon’ that recently flew over American territory.

According to the US, China is an aggressor seeking to unilaterally change the status quo over Taiwan. Meanwhile, Western mainstream media keep the tensions up by speculating as to whether Beijing will invade to accomplish its affirmed goal of “reunification.” Throughout the past year, the Taiwan issue was given more traction by the events in Ukraine, which the US has been exploiting to make comparisons in order to push for the expansion of NATO influence to Asia.

But who really wants war?Washington claims to support peace and stability with its constant warnings and preparations for a what it calls a military contingency in the Taiwan strait. In reality, the US is deliberately undermining the established consensus of the One China principle, forcing Beijing to react and subsequently branding it the aggressor. This, in turn, legitimizes Washington’s ongoing militarization of the region and asserts its clout over regional partners by placing them in a situation where they have to choose sides.

American foreign policyselectively weaponizes the idea of self-determination in order to project military power on a global scale. Using its ideology, the US proclaims it is a champion of free countries to allow it to militarize certain regions of the globe against rival powers. For example, the US uses the former USSR and Soviet Bloc Countries to sustain military dominance in Europe, and uses Israel to project itself in the Middle East. Now, Washington is seeking military hegemony over a region it describes as the Indo-Pacific in a bid to contain the rise of China.

Of course, it is impossible to get countries of a given region to agree to mass US militarization and destabilization if there is no political will or incentive to do so. For many decades Asia has been integrating within itself, which provides an emphasis on common peace and stability, despite the many disputes that often come with it. This means the US needs an “entry point” in order to force its way into the region, to undermine the existing regional order, and transform it into a zero-sum rendering of ideological and geopolitical confrontation against China – in other words, a Cold War model.

How does it do this? As with NATO and Russia, the US activelyseeks to foster military tensions by playing up the Taiwan issue and declaring China the aggressor. Thus, in recent years, the US has begun to downplay its commitment to the One China policy it established as the foundation of its diplomatic relations with Beijing, and actively uses the island as a wedge in the containment of China. The US sees Taiwan as being positioned among several key island chains and maritime routes, which, if allowed to return to Beijing’s full control, will change the balance of power in the region permanently in its favor. So, the US sees multiple strategic benefits in promoting Taiwan’s ‘de-facto’ independence and using it to bait China into provoking instability.

In doing so, the US has been able to reassert geopolitical clout over both Japan and the Philippines, effectively locking them into Taiwan contingency scenarios with West through massive sanctions. In doing so, even if no war occurs, the US is actively seeking to stir up a sense of crisis and opposition to a Taiwan emergency in Asia.

These warnings are, therefore, pure gaslighting.

(What Russia is saying is Trump was an honest and better negotiator, and leaders didn’t feel like going to war with him. On the other hanf Bidan is pretending to incite war. China doesn’t have an ounce of respect for him. A powerful foe is more fun)

https://www.rt.com/news/571748-us-warning-china-taiwan/

PN>>18378550 Oliver Alexander says he's blowing holes in Sy Hersh's "Pipe Dream" DIG CALL

Got it. The US thought that someone on the team would leak (or not), so they sent a mole whistleblower member in with obvious inconsistencies, a plant into the media.

They chose an old man the broke the most celebrated news stories in the US abd the most outrageous illegal and unethical stories about what our government did (and still does).

The media left Hersh out in the cold years ago, the man with a lot of pulitzers during the 60s to the 90s. When all the news agencies were bought and threatened by the government, they ignored and didn’t dare support him. Even though his fame was phenomenal.

So the Bidan admin chose Hersh to fake leak to, simply to destroy him; no one else would do it.

The plant told a solid story filled with details with inconsistencies that Hersh included.

And than they filled in and bought this debunker to humiliate Hersh and exonerate the Bidan Admin.

The problem they have, the fake whistleblower Bidan sent in, made other whistleblowers more courageous

This story isn’t over and the Bidan Admin blew up Nord Stream.

Who to heck knows, there might have been Russians on the divibg team! Russia always knows more than they would ever say.

Sy Hersh will be exonerated.

PN >>18378739 Callesto: Lemon BOOTED from CNN's Monday am breakfast show

Lemon was logically right, she us not in her 20’s, 30’s or 40’s and is correct, but politically because Licht is trying to pretend CNN is friends with republicans to get more airtime, but Licht boots him, not knowing more republicans were starting to trust them again.

Lemon was saying “in her prime means 20’s-40’s, not over 50.

CNN may never make it back. Lemon has been pretty temperamental lately though.

Its fun to watch

19 Feb, 2023 15:01

Bodies of 18 migrants found abandoned in truck

Six people have been charged with human trafficking in Bulgaria following the incident

Prosecutors in Bulgaria have charged six people with human trafficking following the discovery near the capital, Sofia, on Friday of an abandoned truck containingthe remains of 18 Afghan migrants who died of suffocation.

“The victims died slowly and painfully,”Borislav Safarov, head of the country’s National Investigative Service and deputy chief prosecutor, said on Saturday. He added that the driver ignored repeated requests to stop the vehicle, despite persistent banging on the cabin.

The driver and a companion abandoned the truck upon discovery of the deaths.

“This case shows an extreme callousness and demonstrates that migrants are seen only as goods that need to be shipped from one place to another, irrespective of whether they are alive or dead,” Safarov added.

The truck was transporting a total of 52 Afghan migrants who were hidden under wooden planks and covered by foil to avoid thermal-imaging technology, and who hadarrived from Turkey via Serbia. They were destined for western Europe, according to initial investigations. The surviving migrants were transported to local hospitals on Friday where all are understood to be in stable condition.

Six Bulgarians, including the alleged ringleader of a human trafficking group, have been indicted by authorities – one of whom, who remains at large, was charged in absentia, according to a spokesman from Sofia’s Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Members of the smuggling group face up to 15 years in prison on conviction, including involuntary manslaughter, participation in organized crime and people-smuggling. Safarov added that the 18 victims ranged in age from 13 to 35, and that each had paid around $7,500 to the traffickers.

Bulgaria, which is an EU member state,is often used as an entry point into the European bloc by migrantsseeking to gain access to western European nations via its southern border with Turkey.

Thousands of migrants(not millions like the US) attempt to make the trip every year as they flee war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. A United Nations report has warned of an impending humanitarian crisis developing in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized control of the country in 2021, with more and more migrants expected to flee to western countries

https://www.rt.com/news/571738-bulgaria-human-trafficking-arrests/

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So bidan will destroy any good will Trump created. Predictable