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I humbly suggest that Mr Xi plays Go. Just when the enemies think they have him surrounded, it turns out that the reverse is the case. Everything you write about him chimes with the specification of a great and fair leader.

As for Chinese history, isn't it odd that Mao's "Cultural Revolution" is even more denigrated than the Russian Revolution? And yet...

Thomas Jefferson, whose status in the USA is almost godlike, wrote of Shay's Rebellion:

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure".

- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787), quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy

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Thank you Tom. Quite correct. Go is the game.

I also agree with you about the Cultural Revolution. In the long term, it had very positive effects. Your reference to Jefferson fits perfectly.

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Awesome quote. Our tree of liberty needs refreshed, quite obviously.

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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants".

Jefferson's words have been quoted over and over. But almost always without the final two words.

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Whoops! By "the final two words" I meant "and tyrants" - not "natural manure".

8-) 8-) 8-)

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Natural manure is the media. LOL. Which is refreshed with bullshit. Revolutions are necessary to break tyranny whether explicit or hidden, as is the case of Western cultures.

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Huh.... Thanks for the Putin and Xi lovefest. While both are great leaders the same way Don Corleone was a great mob boss....they're all criminals nonetheless. And your thinking they're misunderstood is like saying Hannibal Lecter had an eating disorder. No my friend...these are not good men but syndicate bosses who use violence for a specific end. Have you ever noticed how Putin's enemies have a habit of falling out of windows? Same with Xi...have you ever noticed how people who fall out of favor vanish? Not to mention the vast swaths of the population who are directly controlled by the CCP - with who populations in open prisons. Didn't you notice how people were welded into their apartment buildings during covid? Yep...that's great leadership. While it appears that Putin doesn't have an interest in global expansion at this time...Xi definitely does. A lot of this saber rattling is a diversion from failed Xi/CCP policies. Long story short...be careful as to whom you make a hero as they tend to disappoint.

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Hi, Julian. Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it.

While I read your last post, let me beg you to cast an eye to some piece of info I find utterly concerning and that somehow completes and complements the puzzle of the last two years in Syria:

https://cf2r.org/actualite/les-islamistes-lancent-le-djihad-antichinois-en-asie-centrale/

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I will celebrate Xmas or something like it in January Thanks for this link.

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Ah. So was that the reason why so many millions of dollars worth of useful military equipment was left behind in Afghanistan by the departing USA? They don't seem to make much of a secret of their support for jihadi insurgents who provide such a 'useful' service destabilising everything they touch!

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I don't know, Frances.

I believe our species is by far much more able to seize opportunities as we go than to plan ahead, much less likely in the long run.

We know USA, more or less, but I fear not them as much. USA is a relatively new power that cannot hide its intentions nor its presence. I fear the UK.

A teacher of mine used to say that geopolitically, the UK was like that man that nobody invited, nobody recognises, nobody remembers and absolutely nobody noticed in the venue... and still appears in the background of every single wedding photo ever taken.

I am sure that the french are not wrong this time.

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Of course the City of London Temple Crown is behind EVERYTHING globalist and totalitarian! However, your comment does not address my remarks about leaving so much materiel available for paid, trained, drugged and directed jihadi insurgents and mercenaries!

Whether this idiocy was ordered from the very top (i.e., the Crown) or not is neither here nor there.... what is important is the obvious provision of military hardware into the WRONG hands by the USA. That was the dumbest move I have ever seen in a war zone. It played into the globalist plan to depopulate the entire Middle East, among other places!

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/ww3-the-pentagon-brief

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It's difficult to believe that the equipment left behind in retreat in 2021 had any other purpose than to ease the retreat... or avoid scrutiny and audit once back in the states. Leaving all that disaster behind counting on having any use for it four or five years later looks like a too long shot.

However, It would make sense to believe that the unfolding of events in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lebanon, Syria, and -still quietly- in centra Asia are dutifully being taken advantage of.

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OK, Randall. Would you care to explain to me how the Jihadis who poured out of Idlib happened to have tanks and weapons and very smart uniforms? Surely you don't think those things rotted in Afghanistan since 2021. Some of the Challenger tanks UK sent to Ukraine were (embarrassingly) 24 years old!!

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Since the CERN started the LHC, everything seems to have become more surreal than usual and nothing makes any sense anymore. :o(

Now seriously, there is obviously a connection between all these events and we will see -maybe- this anti-chinese jihad expand from Afghanistan and into central Asia.

What I dare not to be truly sure of yet, is whether they actually planned the whole as it looks like now or if, after the initial facepalms and whaddafucks, they just managed to make that FUBAR somehow useful, besides of profitable.

Everything since Korea looks like a constant flight forward for the US...

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I highly recommend to read John Helmer's perspective on Putin. He is making the point that Putin is not, in fact, a chess player at all. And, honestly, I find it irritating if people that are (rightfully) highly critical of Western politics and politicians, suddenly start idolizing others. This lack of critical thinking negates the good work you are doing on other topics. Just as a thought: of Putin would really be such an otherworldly genius, he would have found ways to prevent the current mess in Ukraine ever going to the point we are at now. He would not have given the US neocons the satisfaction of totally breaking the bonds between i.e. Germany and Russia and aligning the whole of the EU in a block against it. Anyway, glorification is not journalism.

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