JEFF J. BROWN—I don’t even know if the US generals and Joe Biden know that since 1961, China and North Korea have had a mutual defense treaty and they just renewed it, agreed to continue it, I think maybe a year or two ago. So that if the United States does get into a physical war with China, they will automatically be in a physical war with North Korea and nobody wants to mess with the North Koreans. I mean, can you imagine 1.2 million North Korean soldiers pouring across the 38th parallel, I mean, into South Korea? I mean, the United States is trying to attack China. And the DPRK has thermonuclear multi-headed intercontinental ballistic missiles that can take out the East Coast of the United States. These people are just unbelievable.
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ALASTAIR CROOKE—The Biden Administration had bet all on a containment strategy intended to avoid a two-front war – a strategy that has not worked out, as expected. More than that, the shooting down of the Chinese balloon and the ensuing anti-Chinese battle cries emanating from all quarters in the U.S. convinced the Chinese that their earlier, November attempt at détente with U.S. and Europe at the Bali G20 was ‘dead in the water’.
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ERIC ZUESSE—The world that Truman started on that day in 1945 has shaped the world that we all live in today. Truman’s decisions shaped it by enormously increasing wars and deaths and war-dismemberments and destructions and refugees, and especially by creating (and most especially by the continued cooperation of all U.S. Presidents since the time of GHW Bush who secretly decided to continue the Cold War on the U.S. side) the danger that we all now face, of a nuclear Armageddon.
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Gonzalo Lira calls attention to “US Hegemony and Its Perils”, China’s foreign office’s clear and irrefutable summary of US imperial crimes and violations that Beijing (along with Russia, Iran and other nations in the multipolar bloc) now find unacceptable in the conduct of civilised international relations. The 21st century must be a century without capricious and oppressive neofeudalist hegemons, declare the rising Eurasian powers.
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PAUL EDWARDS—The Empire has managed to continue intact to date, dispensing sleazy, transparent lies and howling fabrications to its sadly hoodwinked, floundering, irascible people, without dissolving in its corrosive bile. This affirms that selling lies and deceptions is effective as national policy but we may be excused for wondering if it can sell rank absurdities quite as easily.
