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Yes, it's possible RT may not be entirely impartial.
One must always keep in mind who is funding a news organization.
ha ha you think? yes a criminal state..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe...go-into-hiding
Invasion fears mount as Russia sends 9000 troops to Belarus border
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe...belarus-border
Apple freezes plan to use China's YMTC chips amid political pressure
https://archive.ph/jskDq
The US deploys its new weapon to destroy China’s tech dream
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-...erm=2022-10-17
Consulate attack in UK reflects China’s aggressive foreign policy, analysts say
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/uk/300...ed-from-the-uk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...olicy-analysts
UK to issue ‘threat alert’ over China’s attempts to recruit RAF pilots
Former and serving pilots told not to disclose sensitive information, in attempt to ‘mitigate risk’ of schemes
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...uit-raf-pilots
India fires submarine missile warning at China, Pakistan
https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/india-...hina-pakistan/
The Economist lets slip a few clues
As NATO holds nuclear exercises, Western spooks watch Russia’s warheads for any sign of movement
https://www.economist.com/europe/202...nuclear-attack
Experts wary of Guam's desire to join the Pacific Islands Forum
https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/13...-islands-forum
Stuck in the middle - can New Zealand learn anything fro Vietnam? Their situations have some similarities
https://thediplomat.com/2022/10/can-...r-competition/
Full Text of Xi Jinping’s Speech at China’s Party Congress (plus follow-on articles) - BB
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-congress-2022
China’s plans to annex Taiwan moving ‘much faster’ under Xi, says Blinken
Comments by US secretary of state come after Xi told Communist party Congress Taiwan is core to plans for China’s ‘rejuvenation’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...i-says-blinken
Russia warns of fight for Kherson in ‘very near future’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...0868508426f9e6
US software gives China its hypersonic edge
Investigative report shows how US software firms put profit before security by selling China hypersonic weapon test tools
https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/us-sof...personic-edge/
Brexit : Its logistic silly... and at the time that was what no one wanted to talk about but really who didnt know .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2lWmgEK1Y
How will the US Navy navigate an uncertain security environment? A conversation with ADM Mike Gilday
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/even...y-environment/
Australia and Japan to share intelligence on China in security deal, ambassador says
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/20/australia-and-japan-to-share-intelligence-on-china-in-security-deal-ambassador-says
“We all know the security environment has dramatically changed since 2007. If you look at the Chinese military budget, even if you look at the announced official budget, it has more than quadrupled.”
Protester condemns ‘barbaric’ attack in Manchester outside China consulate
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...hina-consulate
U.S. charges Russians for shipping military equipment, Venezuelan oil
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-pro...on-2022-10-19/
ASEAN bracing for US-China rivalry to explode
Strategic region on edge as China points to ‘stormy seas’ ahead and US fires more punitive economic measures at Beijing
https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/asean-...ry-to-explode/
Analysis: Japan rushes to rearm with eye on 2027 - and China's Taiwan ambitions
https://www.reuters.com/world/japan-...ns-2022-10-18/
Some more on the sitution in the south and the meeting overnight in Washington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gkQv7rLZSg
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...signs-fracking
Liz Truss resigns as prime minister
Quote:
Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after just 45 days in office.
The announcement, made by Truss outside Downing Street, follows the near-complete evaporation of her political authority which has seen her crash the markets, lose two key ministers and shed the confidence of almost all her own MPs.
Truss will be the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history.
As part of this, it’s interesting to see Turkey perceived as overly culturally liberal:
Amid a rapid rapprochement, Ankara has relied on soft power in Uzbekistan by strengthening cultural ties in language and education opportunities. But is it enough?
https://thediplomat.com/2022/10/to-d...ltural-appeal/
The ugle bear appears to be now in the business of a pirate country ... blowing stuff up on the high seasssss....
https://tvpworld.com/64068525/rock-rachon-2010
The commander of the UGLY Bears is starting to lock down the wilderness to keep full controls of the cubs...
The police state extends its powers with all parts of the country under new security powers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63319100
Pipeline blasts truth would surprise Europeans: Kremlin
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/w...opeans-Kremlin
Warning to Russia re tactical nukes ?
Highly Unusual Disclosure Made Of U.S. Ballistic Missile Submarine’s Presence In Arabian Sea
It is extremely rare for the US military to reveal the whereabouts of nuclear ballistic missile submarines while they are on patrol.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...m_medium=email
Isn't this funny? He says that the truth would surprise Europeans, but given that they are so keen to be involved into the investigation seems to indicate that they don't know the cause of the explosion either?
Confusing :confused:
Or maybe, they know the facts and want to distort or conceal them? :ohmy: but no, our Russian brothers would not do that, wouldn't they? ... I guess I hear even the holy Russian church is supporting their killing, raping and looting!
Australia needs more defence grunt in its Pacific policy
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/au...cific%20policy
Opportunities for Australia in Biden’s national security strategy
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/op...ity%20strategy
The US national security strategy and what it means for Australia
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/th...or%20Australia
The new nuclear era - Richard N Haas
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/th...0nuclear%20era
Internal divisions spell the end of ASEAN as we know it
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/in...we%20know%20it
The real costs of Australia’s defence budget ‘blowout’
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/th...dget%20blowout
Seismic shifts underway in global semiconductor market as US accelerates decoupling from China
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/se...20from%20China
Australia–Singapore comprehensive strategic partnership lives up to its billing
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/au...0its%20billing
The Russian military-industrial complex must be in a state of shock - having to go begging cap in hand to North Korea, Iran, . . . . . . and who else?
https://kyivindependent.com/uncatego...th-north-korea
How firm is Xi Jinping’s grip on power?
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ho...p%20on%20power
Lockheed Martin ready to boost HIMARS production to 96 units per year. The American defense industry giant has already taken steps to prepare to raise production of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System from 60 to 96 per year, funding the fast-tracked production of some parts, the company's CEO Jim Taiclet said during an earnings call, according to the Breaking Defense media outlet. The announcement comes amid increased international demand for the system following incredible success on the battlefield in the hands of the Ukrainian army.
US charges seven over alleged Beijing plot to forcibly repatriate ‘elite’ Chinese
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-elite-chinese
Albanese government to give $900m budget boost to Pacific countries
Funding will help tackle poverty and shore up security in the region and make Australia ‘more influential in the world’, Penny Wong says
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...ific-countries
Steadying their nerves ?
Russian and US defence ministers discuss Ukraine war in rare talks
Few details given but Ukraine discussed in the second call between Lloyd Austin and Sergei Shoigu since war began
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-in-rare-talks
China wraps up 20th Party Congress with Xi set to become most powerful leader in decades - live updates
https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-ne...hnk/index.html
Warning to China/ North Korea ?
American B-1B bombers land in Guam to 'deter adversaries' and reassure allies
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...es-2022-10-21/
Russia-Ukraine war: Ukrainian forces bombard river crossing; Kherson a fortress
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/rus...NEY55TRIGKEMI/
A nuclear South Korea.
Is it a case of "will-they-or-won't-they", or a case of "have-they-or-haven't-they".
Either way, who'd be next?
https://thediplomat.com/2022/10/the-...to-go-nuclear/
Kyiv Independent
German firm provides Ukraine with radars for IRIS-T air defense systems. Hensoldt, a German company, reported that it had supplied four TRML-4D radars for cutting-edge IRIS-T systems, which include both surface-to-air and air-to-air versions. The radars are able to detect and track 1,500 targets within a radius of up to 250 kilometers. They can also differentiate between various types of air targets, focusing on high-speed and low-flying cruise missiles, as well as aircraft and helicopters.
Ukraine improvises with ageing air defenses to counter Russian missiles
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe...ssian-missiles
Gives a whole new meaning to asymmetric warfare, drones especially eh GTM...
EU plus US together have 25 times the economic power and GDP of Russia - and this is not even counting Britain and others who are helping the Ukraine as well.
Who goes broke first?
Apart for that ... you don't need an expensive IRIS-T to down a cheap Iranian drone. They fly slow and low. The Gepards (cheetahs) the Ukrainians are receiving from Germany (I used to operate them a long time ago) are more than capable to get the drones ... and with a hit rate of well above 90% do the Gepards need only 1 (or take 2 to be really safe) projectiles to down an Iranian drone. Not sure what they cost these days (its cal 35), but I am sure you can down an Iranian drone with them for less than $50 or so ...
Who is going broke first?
The Arctic ice between Russia and the US is melting. What’s at stake at the top of the world?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/exp...p-of-the-world
The US had how many times the economic power and GDP of North Vietnam.
The issue is technology mismatch.
And, as Marshal Stalin reputedly pointed out - Quantity has it's own Quality.
West and Russia clash over use of killer drones in Ukraine
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe...nes-in-ukraine
Japan and Australia sign new security pact as concerns over China grow
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/austra...ver-china-grow
China Summons Chip Firms for Emergency Talks After US Curbs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...er-biden-curbs
Russia got a bloody nose in Afghanistan (1979 ... 1989), and so did the US.
The issue is that the attacker needs roughly 10 times the resources of the defender to be successful and the attacker needs to hold these resources basically indefinitely to occupy.
Russia is the attacker.
The issue is motivation and resources. Russia's troops are neither trained nor motivated to fight against a real enemy defending himself, they only can only bomb small children in Syria. Russia's technology is a laugh and Russia's resources are basically at the end.
Russia has not even the quantity. NATO has roughly 3 times more soldiers (and much better equipped) than Russia has. Russian soldiers even need to bring their own sleeping bag, body armour and tampon (to close bullet wounds). How long do you think they will survive in Ukraine's winter? What we are observing now is Russia's death struggle.
What they still have plenty of is recklessness and disregard of any humanitarian standards. Just a bunch of dirty cowardly terrorists. They have as well a bunch of nuclear weapons and some of them might even work. However - the US has as well nuclear weapons - and I expect them to be in better maintenance.
China’s leader Xi Jinping secures historic third term in power – live updates
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...-term-in-power
US and Ugly bear defense heads communicating for the second time...
In WW2 BP the ugly bears blew up that dam or a similar one killing a lot of people...
https://www.rferl.org/a/european-rem.../25083847.html
Is this the trailer for a TV comedy series?
Is Russia really stealing Swedish speed cameras for drones?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/r...nish-knd2b22qt
The first Americans crossed over from what is now Russia, using the land bridge at the time - safer perhaps for the top Russians in the Arctic, who these days sometimes disappear over the sides of ships! Maybe Putin will claim The USA and Canada as part of Greater Russia. However Sarah Palin can keep her eye on Russia...
China names Xi Jinping loyalists for core leadership group.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/23/china-names-xi-jinping-loyalists-for-core-leadership-group.html
Nothing is more important than loyalty for these regimes.
North, South Korea exchange warning shots along sea border amid tensions
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/nor...G3EZ22QYPHCZA/
Russia-Ukraine war live news: 25,000 have fled Kherson, Moscow says; west denounces Kremlin ‘dirty bomb’ claim
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...rty-bomb-claim
China continues to look to the west. . .
Central Asia is becoming more and more crucial to China’s interests, and Beijing’s recent diplomacy reflects that.
https://thediplomat.com/2022/10/chin...west-strategy/
... and nothing is more likely to kill them.
A bunch of Yes-man won't point out Xi's mistakes. And clearly - China has currently huge problems (like population pyramid doomed to topple and a big real estate speculation bubble) and is making them worse with their crazy Covid policy ... and at the same time killing off foreign investments by shackling their technology companies.
Obviously - keeping everything under the carpet of their big firewall might make it for their society a bigger surprise when everything crumbles, but it won't make the issues go away.;
Of course - China's death struggle for the world will be still more painful than Russia's. Only bright line is that China has less nukes and a still less experienced army than Russia has - and this is no mean feat!
Interesting - I guess if he is a Leninist, he certainly is good in concealing that :p;
Seriously- how would you align mega corruption, a small and infinite rich and corrupt elite and a suppressed people, and attacking neighbouring countries to steal their resources and suppress them with the teachings of Lenin?
Bombers Could Help Australia Deter China During Transition to Nuclear-Powered Submarines
https://news.usni.org/2022/10/21/bom...eid=cc0f71bf89
CNBC investor says China tech uninvestable ....
been a slow train wreck now speeding up into a total smash up .... must be a lot of china tech investors now deep in do do...
they still have rare earth metal but the world will start searching and mining for them...Australia?
Not quite. I described the reality under Putin ... though I must agree, there are some parallels :):
However - nothing of these realities have anything to do with Lenins communism. It is just what any autocrat (left or right) does if they are desperate to stay in power. No difference to the dark ages in Zimbabwe, Chile (under Pinochet) or Myanmar. Crooks are crooks, and some of them might be as well communists, but not every crook is a communist and not every communist is a crook (i.e. Allende).
Exclusive: U.S. considers HAWK air defense equipment for Ukraine, say U.S. officials
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ls-2022-10-25/
What markets and the economic data are saying about Xi’s China - by Stephen Bartholomeusz
https://www.smh.com.au/business/mark...jobid=29425260
The end of Apple’s affair with China
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/wor...air-with-china
New Zealand still living in La-la land, still in denial on where China is heading, the possibility of war within the decade, the lack of an aggressive defence posture in response and burden sharing with Australia. They should take Rodney Jones advice on Defence / Foreign Affairs / Geo-Strategic risk and stop pissing around in denial, pretending it's all 'business as usual'...
New Zealand's relationship with China could face further challenge as Xi Jinping tightens his grip - Thomas Manch
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...htens-his-grip
Rodney Jones on China / NZ Defence - 5 months ago...(especially from 8 minutes in)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwCl...el=NZQandATVNZ
Russia's brutalisation in Ukraine is a losing strategy - Paul Buchanan
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/1302...osing-strategy
Washington Post:
Germans are under attack. Can they adapt?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...acking-drones/
US-Taiwan arms production plan seeks to deter China
Two sides mull joint weapon manufacturing as Ukraine war delays deliveries and Beijing cranks up its invasion rhetoric
https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/us-tai...o-deter-china/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/26/fran...on-policy.html
This is troubling - Germany and France have problems in their relationship. They looked so happy in G7 photos.
Germany and France have traditionally had a strong relationship, apart from the odd kerfuffle last century. But all relationships go through bad patches.
. . . unless it was.
https://en.irna.ir/news/84922418/FM-...r-drone-claims
Ok the UGY isnt going to use NUKE's cause the Yankee dogs have already told them its game over for all those rusting fleet ships and even the new fleet vessels with old generation western tech and poor display systems.
lots of little sunk ships .... lets not use NUKES after all ...
summer coming time to wax those surf boards...
and start investing cause the market is staying open...
We are having the world’s first global energy crisis. And next year could be worse
Stephen Bartholomeusz
https://www.smh.com.au/business/mark...jobid=29425896
Lets PARTY!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pat2c33sbog
we might even be back in Europe next WINTER!!!! Their Summer!!!
can feels the wheels touching down now as the champagne classes are raised in Business Class.
If republicans win the house in the mid terms then ukraine aid could be on the chopping block.
How to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
They don't like winnable wars - they prefer funding quagmires like Iraq, afghanistan etc.
Trump admires Putin for his macho image, decisive leadership and control over his country. Any criticism has been as a afterhought. It is no surprise that Republican support for Ukraine would falter first.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/03/p...ham/index.html