SHANGHAI: Shops and alleyways being fenced off in continuing preparation for war

[This is not about covid but rather domestic discipline in preparation for war. Does not mean war will happen but does mean it has never been so likely. This is preparation for a “People’s War” where all citizens will be required to work toward the war effort. The war may be to take Taiwan by force or it may be to feint toward Taiwan and attack USA. Or it may be to take Taiwan while also preparing for war with USA if USA intervenes. Of course, there are other possibilities. See this for more on this topic. These are very serious events in China. Jeff Nyquist has estimated some 280 million Chinese are locked down right now. ABN]

Shanghai. Authority reinstalling barriers to stop all these shops do their businesses.
2022-06-03

Shanghai

This is how Chinese government reinstalling barriers to lock up the shop owners in their shops in the middle of night.
2022-06-03

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Dr Li-Meng Yan on leaked PLA Audio & CCP’s plan to invade the world

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Nightmare scenario: 50,000 CCP moles already inside USA on the same day release a new bioweapon in over 100,000 locations, completely paralyzing US society within one week and killing 90% of US population within two weeks. Bonus scenario, the lockdowns and testing in China today are not just preparation for this war but the testing is actually a nasal vaccine being administered repeatedly for best protection against the bioweapon. Similar scenarios will play out simultaneously in Europe and maybe Russia and Japan. End result will be a world completely dominated by CCP, just as General Chi Haotian described. ABN

Jeff Nyquist: Details from the CCP Meeting in Guangdong

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Given the bogus covid lockdowns in China which appear to be disciplinary and which fit with military preparedness described in the leaked meeting, it is not unreasonable to expect strong action against Taiwan soon. Such action could take the form of a blockade or an invasion or an invasion following a blockade. The speech referred to at the end of this short clip is The Secret Speech of General Chi Haotian, which describes using bioweapons against the United States with a feint towards Taiwan as an opening ruse. Given the inscrutable origin of covid, which was certainly a bioweapon, one cannot be sanguine about a war between China and Taiwan. From a Chinese point of view, the weak Biden administration must look like their last and best chance to destroy USA and the Western world order. ABN

Scott Ritter: Russia to Score Major Victories in Donbass, Must Adapt to New NATO Game

…Russia’s objectives in this thing – and this is what Russia has said, a permanently neutral non-NATO Ukraine, linked to the strategic objectives that were outlined by Russia. I believe, on 17 December, when they provided two draft treaties, one to the United States, one to NATO, that said that Russia finds the existing situation in Europe this to be NATO and Russia unacceptable and it goes beyond simply Ukraine, beyond simply saying no to the eastward expansion of NATO. And it includes that NATO must work with Russia to redefine what European security looks like and that the new European security framework needs to include NATO’s withdrawing back to the 1990-1997 lines. Now, this is Russia’s stated objectives.

And now we have the United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaking about using this conflict to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia by inflicting so many casualties that Russia becomes weakened to the point that it can never again carry out an operation like this in Europe.

That’s a completely different objective than what the United States was saying at the beginning. And NATO is bought into that objective. So my point is, when Russia finishes phase two, they’re still going to be confronted with a hostile Ukraine that is more closely linked to NATO’s today than they were when the conflict started. And with a NATO that is not willing to roll over and accept Russia’s demands regarding a new European security framework where both sides can live in peace together, but rather which is focused on destroying Russia and Ukraine through continued nonstop combat operations. Which means that Russia better have a phase three in mind because this war isn’t over when they finish with phase two.

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Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year

Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May 2022—just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a “global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox” beginning in mid-May 2022.

Monkeypox was first identified in 1958, but there’s never been a global Monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa until now—in the exact week of the exact month predicted by the biosecurity folks in their pandemic simulation.

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“There’s a very important psychological element involved in the narrative war over western weapons supplies to Ukraine. If it wasn’t clear already, the collective western policy is to deliberately deny all reports of their aid being struck in Ukraine. There’s a number of reasons”

There's a very important psychological element involved in the narrative war over western weapons supplies to Ukraine. If it wasn't clear already, the collective western policy is to deliberately deny all reports of their aid being struck in Ukraine. There's a number of reasons

1. By denying any reports of them being struck, despite Russia destroying multiple targets, there is a psychological element involved in deliberately playing down Russia's capabilities in order to create doubt in their own war effort, making them appear hopeless.

2. Secondly, western governments do not want to create the impression they are pouring billions upon billions of taxpayer money into weaponry that is simply being destroyed in transit. This will create domestic opposition to the war.

3. Thirdly, this feeds into the broader policy of upholding a complete media blackout on all of Ukraine's losses in terms of both manpower and equipment, again geared at giving the false impression Ukraine is winning and keeping morale high.

4. Finally, to admit that this scenario actually happens is an effective admission of defeat which will create doubt and opposition to the policy. As a result, there is a coordinated effort to simply lie to the western public and pretend it's all Russian propaganda.

Originally tweeted by Tom Fowdy (@Tom_Fowdy) on May 9, 2022.

“An enduring myth about the Soviet Union is that its economy collapsed under the burden of its military spending. This story allows America to congratulate itself on ‘winning’ the Cold War by driving it to collapse under the fiscal weight of the arms race. This is not true”

An enduring myth about the Soviet Union is that its economy collapsed under the burden of its military spending. This story allows America to congratulate itself on "winning" the Cold War by driving it to collapse under the fiscal weight of the arms race.

This is not true. (1/8)

In fact, the Soviet military industrial complex was by far the most cost effective and technologically sophisticated sector of the Soviet economy. The general academic consensus is that the Soviet Union had a comparative advantage in both military R&D and production. (2/8)

Mark Harrison, a economic historian who specializes in the Soviet Economy, wrote that nobody "saw the Soviet Union being crushed under an unbearable military burden." He furthermore deduced a counterintuitive motivation for Soviet secrecy about such matters. (3/8)

The Soviets were secretive about defense expenditures – not to hide a crushing fiscal burden, but actually to hide how cheaply they were able to make weapons! The Soviet state made a huge profit exporting weaponry, and did not wish to make known the size of the markup. (4/8)

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