Those who voted for Trump saw his electoral victory denied in 2016 by numerous loud voices calling for “resistance” as if the President elect were an invading foreign army – voices eagerly relayed and magnified by mass media, emphatically including pro-Tump media.
Then they saw his victory sullied by constantly repeated accusations of collusion with Russia from chairmen of Intelligence committees, and immediate ex-intelligence chiefs who habitually signalled that they were accusing Trump of being Putin’s agent because they had secret information, which, alas, they could not disclose. What they did do was to deplore Trump’s “subservience” to Putin on a weekly basis for four years, while refusing to entertain the possibility that in a confrontation with China it might be a good idea to overlook Putin’s sins, just as Nixon embraced Mao to counter the Soviet Union.
Edward Luttwak is author of ‘Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook’.
Great interview on “America, can we talk” today a little long but worth a listen,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SjoNU60deH4
By the time this you read this it may have been taken down.
We’re still linking to Amazon? Seriously?
I linked the book as information on his background. Lighten up.
Ms. Kate, I would suggest that you don’t need permission from anybody to link to anything you want.
Its entirely your decision.
Somebody does not like, tell them to suck it up.
One sometimes can’t believe how shuttered some peoples minds are.
Our globalist elite are in bed with Communist China. They’re imposing the CCP social control model globally.
Putin’s a holdout & thorn in their side. Expect an escalation of proxy little hot wars a la Syria & Ukraine & Georgia under the Biden regime. With psychopaths in control in D.C., Russia cautioned tactical nukes will be employed should circumstances dictate.
“Putin’s a holdout & thorn in their side”
Nonsense. Russia(Putin) sold the PRC their technology for:
a) Sukhoi 30 strike fighters (+blueprints/rights to build them)
b) AK47 rifles and SKS rifles (+blueprints/rights to build them)
c) T60 and T70 main battle tanks (+blueprints/rights to build them)
d) an aircraft carrier
e) a buttload of other military technology
The entire notion that there is or has been any rift between Moscow and Beijing is pure smoke and mirrors.
Russia and China have been allies since the 1950s and have remained so. No thorn, no rift.
Russia and China do huge joint military games together all of the time, as recently as 2019.
I fully agree with the key point you’re making but, what are T60 and T70 MBTs? (sorry can’t resist :p )
Also AK and SKS are 1940s designs, so really nothing related to todays relationship between Siberian Mongols and Chicoms.
Sorry I’m tired. Good catch. T64 & T72.
“nothing related to todays relationship between Siberian Mongols and Chicoms”
Su 30MKK
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/su-30mkk-designing-an-elite-fighter-to-protect-chinese-coasts-and-the-beginning-of-chinese-maritime-a2ad
The PRC have been and are now building the SU30MKK themselves.(Russia under Putin sold these to them)
Oh and Russia(under Putin) sold them an aircraft carrier which they have been working with for about half a decade using it to learn carrier operations, and also learning how they might attack the carriers of other nations.
Awaiting to see anyone actually point up this mythical animosity between Russia and the PRC.
Not simply restate that the animosity exists, but to point to any concrete friction between the 2 communist states.
Like I said, I agree with the general sentiment. Putinista junta transferred a lot of military tech to Chicoms on the last decade. SAMs (S-400) and anti-ship missiles (P-270) being very relevant examples.
Russians and ChiComs fly joint threat mission December 25 2020.(less than a month ago on Christmas day)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a35059342/watch-russian-and-chinese-bombers-fly-a-rare-joint-mission-over-the-pacific/
Training together in military games pays off.
Flying this kind of mission is a harbinger of threat, not hope of how an absurd fantasy of Russia being some kind of ‘check’ on ChiCom power might come to fruition.
ChiComs have also purchased the SU 35 air superiority fighter. They are contemplating buying more and will probably buy the rights to build these too.
Why China’s Air Force Loves Russian SU-35 Fighters (And Keeps Getting More)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-chinas-air-force-loves-russian-su-35-fighters-and-keeps-getting-more-82681
propaganda quote from article:
“For a nation that boasts of developing an advanced stealth fighter, it seems strange that China would need to buy warplanes from its former rival Russia.”
That they were ever “rivals” is pure BS. The Bolsheviks and the Maoists have been allies since the Chinese civil war.
Heh, most of the stuff of US companies is made in China, Apple?, 99% of the computers?, a very good part of technology, pharmaceuticals?, Hummer?, and on and on …..
The AK 47 were made in every communist run country for 50 years.
The tanks were made in most of the countries for just as long.
Are you bloody kidding me?
Sometimes its hard on the eyes to read that kind of bullshit.
Try S-400 and P-270 missiles.
“Are you bloody kidding me?”
No. I’m telling you and all the other idiots that there has been and is today NO RIFT between Russia and the ChiComs dating BACK to the Chinese civil war in the 1930s. Too bad your reading comprehension is so abysmal.
The Russians and the ChiComs have been partners and Allies for THAT LONG and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
WHERE is there PROOF of any kind of RIFT or TENSION between Russia and the People’s Republic of China? WHERE?
How is it that VLAD PUTIN will side with the west instead of Russia’s Ally Communist China?
This is a major point of the article and you are so stupid as to miss it. Forget Trump, Russia and Communist China are Allies.
“Heh, most of the stuff of US companies is made in China, Apple?, 99% of the computers? […]Sometimes its hard on the eyes to read that kind of bullshit.”
You’re just stupid. Apple computers are not war computers. They’re computers for stupid people like Hollywood celebrities.
Su 30 and SU 35 warplanes are not sold to just anybody, they are sold to Russian Allies and Russian Client states like India.
4th Generation War planes are the epitome of military technology, second only to submarines.(which have strategic value)
Go ahead and name another nation that Russia has paired with to pose an INTRUDER threat like they did with China on Christmas Day?
By the way, this Intruder threat that Russia did with the ChiComs telegraphs the message that when China attacks Taiwan and Japan, Russia will be Backing China Up. Yeah, you read that right, where is Russia’s interest in Taiwan or Japan?
China wants Taiwan back as a “rogue state” and China hates Japan for what Japan did in the early 20th century.
“Putin’s a holdout & thorn in their side.” The syntax “their side” = “globalist elites”.
The USSR & CCP China to this day have a fluid pragmatic relationship. They came to the brink of war in 1969. They didn’t amass troops at their border as a staged photo op.
P.S. Unlike the PRC, the Russian Federation is not communist. Trotsky who led the Red Army in support of the Bolshevik’s was aided and abetted by the British.
typo USSR = Russia (Russian Federation post 1991)
If the crowd was responding to months of political violence waged against Trump voters. Every legal and legislative avenue was blocked in their fight to get a fair hearing on election fraud, and often blocked by their own leadership. If the crowd had actually been a mob, the Capitol would be gone. It was amazingly well behaved, but is now painted AS THE OPPOSITE. This is en masse political persecution.
Someone who was there indicated that things were delayed because Trump was late. As a result, when the group got to the Capitol, it had already been breached. This fits with the planned attack theory. Also, she said there was a lot of love in the crowd. It was a positive gathering — not an angry, unruly gathering. I think the way they are now being treated however is making a lot of people very, very angry.
After all these years, decades, the beady-eyed Old Fart finally has the ring of power.
Is he going to control the house Dementocrats like AOC? Not likely. Is he going to be a healing president? Doubtful. Trump went after his son. Can he resist the Russian-collusion people? Nope. They helped him get here. Can he stop the deep state? What could he gain?
He’s a Swamp Creature though and though and he’s going to do everything he can to make his family filthy rich the way the Clintons and Obama’s did.
“One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
10% Joe will be ousted by summer….the best he can hope for is to be placed in a sandbox in the basement with a few toys and a shovel, and next up….
the second affirmative acting President, having never received a single vote from either her democrat
party or the population at large.
I wonder if the Marxists ever though it would be this easy….for now
“” it might be a good idea to overlook Putin’s sins, just as Nixon embraced Mao to counter the Soviet Union”””
Pompeo has ruled that play out. More likely Biden will now make nice with China since the CCP owns him.
I read ‘Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook’ back in the 1970s. The coup was the number one way changes of power happened back then. Elections were a distant second.
You Tube is totally censoring any speech by Trump covered by Newsmax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smxernbfM1U
I saw the speeches yesterday before the censoring.
“After stealing the 2020 election with the greatest heist in world history, Joe Biden, who likely didn’t receive 60 million valid votes to President Trump’s 74 million votes, wants to unite the country. He announced today that the theme for his inauguration per the is ‘America United‘.
Let’s just all forgive and forget. They’ll steal your election, call you a racist, call you a liar for saying the election was stolen, steal your vote, impeach your President, put him under constant coup attempts and legal attacks, call your President a racist, censor you, removed your freedom of speech, force racist BLM down your throat, steal two Georgia Senate seats…. but hey, let’s all move on… no big deal man.”
“Comments disabled” All I need to know.
The writer makes excuses for Biden and displays TDS in every paragraph.
Small wonder he can face no comments.
The first mark of a Progressive today?
Accept no other point of view.
A major tell if a “media” source is gaslighting you,is they permit no comments..
CBC being a classic example.
Trumps speech at the Wall yesterday – was shown on Breitbart News, i caught all of it. Screw You Tube!
Luttwak is also the author of ‘The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire,’ and ‘The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire.’ Both Excellent reads.
People overlooked Stalin and his massacres because “war and stuff” and were shocked. SHOCKED! to discover that he was as evil as the nauseating mustachioed Austrian fascist they just defeated.
As the Vulcans astutely pointed out, only Nixon can go to China, and here we all are under house arrest.
Isn’t it said that we are not meant to pick between two tyrants?
Trump was never a Russian agent but Biden’s wet nurses might just wish they were when an overreaching Chinese octopus annoys even Putin.