It means at least trying to mean that from this point on, a positive attitude, such as revolution es by the Vienna circle that coined ‘positivism’ should carry the weight of a hierarchy of critical thinking to this day, that is even now extended toward simulated hope through AI.
In fact simulation may have occurred to coincide with the entropic process, way back.
More worrisome rhetoric or bluff
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s powerful Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, said increasing military assistance to Ukraine by NATO was bringing closer a World War Three.”
Russia Makes Nuclear Ultimatum to the U.S.
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A Russian official has explained the circumstances in which Moscow would withdraw the tactical nuclear weapons it has deployed to Belarus.
In an interview with state news agency RIA Novosti, Alexei Polischuk, from the Russian foreign ministry, repeated Kremlin rhetoric that the weapons had been sent to Belarusian territory in response to the actions of the West.
The specter of nuclear weapons has hung over Vladimir Putin 's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, although the U.S. has said there is no immediate indication the Kremlin plans to use such arms.
What’s up with all these drones hitting Moscow?
Ukraine is trying to bring the costs of its war home to Russia.
This week, at least two drones have struck a skyscraper in Moscow, a sign that Ukraine is increasingly willing to take the war directly to Russia.
The building, which houses some government ministry offices, was initially damaged in a Sunday drone hit before a second on Tuesday. Russian defense officials accused Ukraine of perpetrating both, and said that both drones were “jammed” before crashing into the exact same skyscraper. Russian defense officials also said they intercepted two other drones outside Moscow overnight Tuesday, following a similar drone attack on Sunday in Moscow’s business district. On Thursday, regional authorities in Russia claimed it had shot down six Ukrainian drones outside of Moscow.
Ukraine has tended to be pretty coy regarding these kinds of attacks on Russian soil, but it was a bit more open about suggesting responsibility for the incidents earlier this week. “Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia — to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address Sunday while avoiding outright ownership of the attack. In the aftermath of the apparent attack on Tuesday, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy, echoed that sentiment: “#Moscow is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war, which, in turn, will soon finally move to the territory of the ‘authors of the war’ to collect all their debts …”
Ukraine probably isn’t being quite as shy about this drone attack because it wants to send a message, and it wants Moscow to know who sent it. Ukraine is trying to raise the cost of war, and to make it more visible to the Russian people, particularly the elite and the establishment, who’ve largely been insulated from the consequences of Russia’s invasion.
“By bringing the war home to this business district in Moscow, of course, Ukraine makes the point that, well, life may go on in most of Russia, but Russia is at war, it’s a war Russia started — and the Putin government isn’t able to insulate its population or key elements of its population from the effects of the war,” said Niklas Masuhr, a military analyst at the Center for Security Studies at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
The Ukrainian drones did not initially appear to do great damage or cause serious harm to civilians, but Ukraine is raising the specter that it could. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said Tuesday that the attacks were “a clear threat” and that measures are being taken to improve defense near the capital. But for the most part, Russian officials have downplayed the attacks. This is a bit of a repeat of what happened in May, after drones entered Moscow, including one that targeted the Kremlin.
Ukraine did not take public responsibility for that drone event, but Vladimir Putin largely framed it as Kyiv retaliating against Russia for its strategic missile strikes — that is, Ukraine was lashing out, which in Moscow’s view did not warrant a Russian escalation beyond what it was already doing.
What is different about this time is Kyiv is hinting that reaching inside Russia may become part of its wider strategy to counter the Kremlin. It’s not clear how much influence that will have on Russia, or on the battlefield and Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive. But messaging matter in war, and Ukraine is not being nearly as cagey about these attacks.
“The shiny face of business-friendly Moscow, open to the world, has been attacked, and the Russians couldn’t do anything about it. That’s very valuable as a symbol,” said Simon Schlegel, a senior analyst for Ukraine with the International Crisis Group.
A message to Moscow amid a contested counteroffensive
Ukrainian strikes or sabotage on Russian territory are nothing new. Kyiv has carried them out throughout the war, though they have tended to be in parts of Russia closer to the border with Ukraine, or in Russian-held Ukrainian territory, like Crimea. Favored targets include military bases, air fields, oil depots, rail lines, and other infrastructure and logistic hubs that allow Russia to wage its war.
Ukraine has mostly avoided taking direct responsibility for these attacks, staying quiet rather than celebrating any Russian setbacks. As one Ukrainian official said last year: “We don’t say yes and we don’t say no.” This strategic ambiguity, so to speak, is partly because these attacks are audacious and risk potential escalation with Moscow. Also, if Ukraine used any Western weapons to carry out these strikes, it could feed Putin’s narrative that the threat of NATO is fueling his Ukraine invasion. The US and its allies have, in the past, also indicated they do not want to enable or encourage Ukraine to hit within Russia.
These recent drone strikes in Moscow are more about optics than directly targeting Russia’s war logistics. But, of course, Russia is able to carry on this war because its public, and its elites, are insulated from the pain of it. It’s hard to know exactly what the Russian population thinks of the so-called special military operation, but it does seem that the majority support it, or at least aren’t actively opposed to it. That has flagged at moments when the war has been made real — think Putin’s mobilization effort last year, which prompted protests and people fleeing en masse. The Wagner rebellion also showed that Russian politics are not fully protected from battlefield setbacks. A few Moscow visits from Ukrainian drones pierces that armor, too.
The drones used in these attacks also seem to be homegrown, and a New York Times analysis found that Ukrainian-made models were used in these strikes on Moscow. Kyiv is scaling up its drone fleet, and this is a way to show it is investing in, developing, and expanding its own military capabilities amid war.
Federico Borsari, a Leonardo fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), said that in some ways, Ukraine is mirroring what Russia has done, which is use drones — like those the Kremlin has purchased from Iran — to carry out attacks in Ukraine and penetrate Kyiv’s air defense systems. Russian drones have been used in recent attacks on a grain silo in Odesa and a critical river port on the Danube, which Ukraine will rely on to export agricultural products now that the Black Sea routes are effectively blockaded again.
“Ukraine is trying now to build the same type of capabilities — a cheap, long-range attack capability to target Russian objectives, deplete Russian air defenses,” Borsari said.
“It hasn’t the numbers yet to conduct this kind of attack at scale,” he added. “But I think, with time, we will see an increasing of this attack, and we will see more large-scale drone attacks by Ukraine against Russian targets, whether they are industrial complexes or military bases and the like.”
It seems unlikely that these recent drone attacks will fully change Putin’s calculus about the war, but it does communicate to Russia that Ukraine can increasingly strike Russian targets. That may force Russia to expend resources to try to protect different assets within Russia, which could stretch its military capabilities, especially as Ukraine wages its counteroffensive, which has shifted into a much more attritional conflict yet again.
From Ukraine’s perspective, a greater ability to wage war and defend itself is a success, one that Ukrainian officials are likely as happy to sell at home as they are eager to let Moscow know. “It’s not a silver bullet for winning the war,” said Borsari. “But this demonstrates that Ukraine could really integrate, and can use proficiently, all kinds of technology.”
What we know about the crashed Russian plane that listed Prigozhin as passenger
A private jet crashed Wednesday afternoon near Russia’s Tver region, killing all on board. The list of passengers included Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the chief of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which led a short but dramatic rebellion against the Kremlin in July. It is not confirmed whether Prigozhin was on the plane, although on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to eulogize him.
Videos circulating on social media showed the remnants of the aircraft ablaze, emitting black smoke. The remains of all 10 people on board the aircraft have been recovered, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
Here is what we know about the crash in Russia.
Who was on the Russian plane that crashed?
There were 10 people listed on the manifest of the business jet, according to Russia’s civil aviation agency. That figure includes seven passengers and three crew members.
The crew have been named as two pilots, Aleksei Levshin and Rustam Karimov, and a flight attendant, Kristina Raspopova. According to the flight manifest, the seven passengers included Prigozhin and two of his close associates, Valeriy Chekalov and Dmitry Utkin. The latter has been referred to as Prigozhin’s second-in-command.
Three of the other passengers were also involved with the Wagner Group, according to the Dossier Center, a Russian investigative organization. The center said the name of a fourth man, Nikolai Matuseev, could not be found on Wagner rosters, but that a man named Nikolai Matusevich was listed as a Wagner member.
There were no survivors, according to Russian aviation officials.
Where and when did the plane crash and what caused it?
The aircraft was traveling from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport to St. Petersburg. It crashed about a mile south of a Russian settlement called Kuzhenkino, The Washington Post reported, citing geolocated videos. Kuzhenkino is about 200 miles northwest of Moscow.
The Embraer Legacy jet appears to have crashed Wednesday afternoon, according to flight data. Flightradar24, a real-time aviation data service, said it had received data from the aircraft starting at 5:46 p.m. local time. The aircraft continued to transmit data until 6:20 p.m., Flightradar24 said.
Data the aircraft sent before crashing was analyzed by Flightradar24 and showed that at 6:19 p.m., the plane — RA-02795 — ascended and descended swiftly, a number of times, before crashing.
That can offer clues as to what may have happened, aviation experts said. “You don’t climb up and then come down so quickly,” Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines pilot and CEO of Aero Consulting Experts, told The Post in an interview Wednesday evening. “That zigzagging in the air basically tells me that somehow the pilot may have lost control of his airplane — for whatever reason.”
Investigations are underway in Russia into what led to the crash.
Eyewitnesses told Russian media that they heard two loud explosions before the plane plummeted from the sky into a field, bursting into flames. On Thursday, pieces of the jet — including what appeared to be its tail — lay more than a mile from the primary crash site, images showed.
U.S. intelligence officials are raising the possibility that the plane crashed after an explosion on board, according to U.S. officials familiar with the preliminary assessment, The Washington Post reports. There is no indication thus far the jet was downed by a missile, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a preliminary assessment.
Is Wagner chief Prigozhin confirmed dead?
Prigozhin is not confirmed dead. Although his name was on the flight manifest — the roster of passengers and crew — it was not immediately confirmed that he was on board.
Neither Russian authorities nor the Wagner Group has officially confirmed the fate of Prigozhin, and Russian authorities say they are in the process of identifying the remains of those involved in the crash. Russian media have reported that the burned bodies recovered from the crash scene would be identified through DNA analysis.
Officials from other countries, and media outlets, have generally been cautious about reporting Prigozhin as dead without firm confirmation. Prigozhin is known to have numerous passports, and to have doubles who travel under his name to conceal his movements.
Prigozhin has also been misreported dead in the past, including rumors of his death in a plane crash in 2019.
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“Until we know for certain it’s the right Prigozhin, let’s not be surprised if he pops up shortly in a new video from Africa,” said Keir Giles, Russia analyst at London-based Chatham House. “We are unlikely ever to know the true cause of the crash.”
Has Putin responded to the crash?
Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to eulogize Prigozhin on Thursday but did not confirm his death.
However, the Russian president has a history of being linked to the suspicious deaths of Russian dissidents who have criticized his rule.
During the June mutiny, Prigozhin expressed public frustration with Russia’s military and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in particular for allegedly granting Wagner Group forces in Ukraine with insufficient supplies and carrying out an attack against his troops. The Russian Defense Ministry denied the accusations.
Prigozhin’s forces briefly occupied a Russian city that hosted the headquarters of a Russian command critical to the war in Ukraine. Wagner troops then marched on Moscow, before reversing their advance. Without naming Prigozhin, Putin termed the rebels as “traitors.”
Is the crash being treated as suspicious?
There has not been any official determination or ruling on the crash.
However, President Biden and several other Western leaders made comments expressing skepticism that the deadly plane crash was an accident. “I don’t know for a fact what happened, but I’m not surprised,” Biden told reporters Wednesday. “There’s not much that happens in Russia that Putin’s not behind,” he added. “But I don’t know enough to know the answer.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned that “no quick conclusions can be drawn.” However, she also described a series of “unclarified” fatalities in Russia, saying: “We know this pattern in Putin’s Russia: deaths, dubious suicides, falls from windows, all which remain unclarified — that underlines a dictatorial power system that is built on violence.”
French government spokesman Olivier Véran told French television Thursday: “We don’t yet know the circumstances of this crash. We can have some reasonable doubts.” Asked about Biden’s claim that not much happens in Russia that Putin “is not behind,” Véran said that “in principle, that’s a truth that can be established.”
U.S. officials and analysts had previously expressed concern over Prigozhin’s fate, with CIA Director William J. Burns telling NPR in July that he would be surprised if Prigozhin “escapes further retribution” from the Kremlin after the abortive mutiny.
Who is Yevgeniy Prigozhin?
The 62-year-old Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. He spent 12 years in prison for a 1981 conviction on charges of robbery and fraud.
After his release, Prigozhin built his fortune as a private catering magnate by growing a hot dog stand and fast-food business into a well-connected catering firm that held lucrative contracts, including feeding the Russian military. Prigozhin’s ties to the Russian president earned him the nickname “Putin’s chef.”
Prigozhin said he founded the Wagner Group — a network of several organizations that provide military contractors — to help Russian forces annex Crimea in 2014. The group has also been active in Syria and parts of Africa before taking on a substantial role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As Wagner’s leader, Prigozhin cultivated a reputation for being foul-mouthed, ruthless and brutal in combat. His company has been accused of committing war crimes, including rape, execution and child abduction.
What happens now?
Memorials and tributes have sprung up in Prigozhin’s hometown of St. Petersburg, with people carrying flowers and lighting candles as news of the deadly crash spread.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced a probe into the crash, examining possible violations of air traffic and safety rules. The committee said on Telegram that an investigative team is conducting forensic examinations at the scene to establish the causes of the crash. Russia’s Federal Agency for Air Transport also said it launched a “specially created commission” to investigate.
Russia analyst Giles cast doubt on any such probe, saying that whether the incident was deliberate or not, “the crash is so politically significant that there is no chance of any investigation that will be either transparent or reliable.”
Andrea Salcedo, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Mary Ilyushina, Robyn Dixon, Lyric Li, Sammy Westfall, Kim Bellware, Tobi Raji and Tamia Fowlkes contributed to this report.
Andrew Jeong is a reporter for The Washington Post in its Seoul hub.
China Warns US Has Crossed Red Line: ‘Lethal Consequences’
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China recently warned that the U.S. has crossed a red line with its assistance and support of Taiwan, saying that a “storm of lethal consequences” is brewing.
The Global Times , a state-run communist newspaper in China, published an op-ed on Thursday criticizing the recent $80 million military financing program the U.S. announced for Taiwan and said: “With the increasing number and intensity of its intervention methods, the brewing and imminent storm of lethal consequences for Taiwan cannot be ignored.”
“China’s strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition are obvious, but China’s response to the continuous provocations by the US on the Taiwan question will not be limited to mere statements,” the Global Times added.
The remarks comes shortly after the Associated Press reported that U.S. President Joe Biden 's administration approved a military transfer of $80 million to Taiwan under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program.
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Notifying Congress , the U.S. State Department said the transfer will “be used to strengthen Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities through joint and combined defense capability and enhanced maritime domain awareness and maritime security capability,” AP reported.
According to AP, the FMF is usually used for sovereign states, and China has continued to claim Taiwan as its own territory, while the U.S. disagrees and says Taiwan is an independent nation.
In addition to the Global Times , Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin criticized the U.S. military transfer to Taiwan on Thursday.
“The US decision to provide weapons to China’s Taiwan region under the so-called Foreign Military Financing used for sovereign states seriously violates the one-China principle and the stipulations of the three China-US joint communiqués, especially the August 17 Communiqué of 1982,” Wang said.
"This move seriously violates international law and basic norms governing international relations, undermines China’s sovereignty and security interests, harms peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and sends gravely wrong signals to ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces. China deplores and firmly opposes them.
“There is but one China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory. The Taiwan question is entirely China’s internal affair that brooks no foreign interference.”
Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry via email and the U.S. State Department via its website for comment.
Despite criticism from China, a poll commissioned by Newsweek in April found that 56 percent of Americans saying that they would approve of U.S. military intervention if China invaded Taiwa
“Ukraine is furious with Elon Musk for thwarting an attack on Russia’s navy
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has come under fire from Ukraine after it emerged he thwarted a major attack on the Russian navy.
According to excerpts published by CNN, a soon-to-be-released biography of the SpaceX CEO claims that Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his Starlink satellite network over Russian-occupied Crimea last year in order to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s naval fleet.
Musk was worried that the planned attack on the Kremlin’s Black Sea fleet, which occurred early in the war, could escalate tensions and potentially lead to nuclear conflict, according to the extract from historian Walter Isaacson’s upcoming book.
The claim was immediately met with criticism from Kyiv.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, blasted the tech billionaire on X, formerly Twitter, which Musk owns.
“Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake,” Podolyak wrote.
“By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military (!) fleet via #Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities,” he added.
Russia is known to have used its naval ships in the Black Sea to strike deep into Ukrainian territory and impose an effective blockade of the Ukrainian Black Sea coast, which is crucial to global grain shipments.
“As a result, civilians, children are being killed,” Podolyak said. “This is the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego. However, the question still remains: why do some people so desperately want to defend war criminals and their desire to commit murder? And do they now realize that they are committing evil and encouraging evil?”
Musk responded to the report, denying that he turned off the service but accepting he had chosen not to enable the attack as he did not want to become directly involved in the war.
“The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything,” Musk said in a response to a thread on X about the new book’s claims.
“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” he said in another response, referring to a key port city in Crimea that is home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
“The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor,” Musk added. “If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”
According to the excerpts from the new biography, it meant that Ukrainian submarine drones packed with explosives lost connectivity as they approached the Russian ships, and saw them “washed ashore harmlessly.”
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The book also delves into how Musk’s decision played out, alleging Musk spoke with top U.S. officials along with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
NBC News has reached out to SpaceX and Zelenskyy’s office for comment.
Although drone strikes on Russian territory and Crimea have now become a nearly daily occurrence, it was not the case late last year. Moscow painted the peninsula, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as a “red line” and threatened nuclear repercussions should it be attacked.
In the early months of the war, Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service became a lifeline to war-torn parts of Ukraine that lost connectivity due to heavy bombardment.
But the alleged use of the technology in combat operations appears to have changed that relationship.
“Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars,” Musk told Isaacson, according to one of the released book excerpts. “It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”
Starlink bills itself as the “world’s first and largest satellite constellation using a low Earth orbit to deliver broadband internet capable of supporting streaming, online gaming, video calls and more.” It also says that it can provide connectivity “to the vast majority of the Earth’s oceans and seas.”
This is not the first time Musk’s actions have raised the ire of Ukraine and its supporters.
Last October, Musk asked the U.S. government to take over funding his Starlink satellite network in the country, saying it has cost SpaceX $80 million and will exceed £100 million by year end. But following criticism, the tech mogul backtracked and said he would continue to fund the service for free.
In June, the Pentagon agreed to purchase Starlink satellite internet terminals from Musk for use in Ukraine.
Musk also triggered a wave of condemnation when he suggested in a Twitter poll last year that Ukraine should cede Crimea to Russia and make other concessions as part of a peace deal.
His view that the warring sides should settle for a truce has angered many in Ukraine, but has been welcomed by the Kremlin. Moscow has pushed for peace negotiations on its own terms, but Zelenskyy’s government has refused to engage politically with Russia as long as President Vladimir Putin remains in power.
Former president and deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, praised Musk’s decision not to allow Ukraine to use Starlink for the attack last year.
“If what Isaacson has written in his book is true, then it looks like Musk is the last adequate mind in North America,” Medvedevv, who has been one of the loudest pro-war voices in Russia, wrote on X.
“Or, at the very least, in gender-neutral America, he is the one with the balls,” Medvedev added.
Which is the only nation in history to have used a WMD…and with no necessity?
I am always amazed at the level of brainwashing among Americans.
The Media and Entertainment and Abrahamic tropes have really succeeded…they now believe they are free-thinkers, and they repeat the same propaganda.
Their 'freedom’s are entirely superficial and this is why they all believe appearances are so.
Because their appearance of freedom and diversity is concealing uniformity of thought…how else would a system, accusing others of undemocratic methods and one-party authoritarianism, while its own two-party system was really a front for a single elite collective - promoting meritocracy while practicing nepotism and networking; promoting individualism - detaching from the past and all collective identifiers, including biological - while practicing collectivism.
Even this distrust by Americans for their own government is part of how they maintain order.
What democratic model is America exporting and forcing others to emulate?
Which “intervention” on another nation’s sovereignty produced “democracy.”
How, fuckin, naive and brainwashed are Americans and their vassal state minions?
An umbrella of American dominated Media and Hollywood “entertainment” and political practices has indoctrinated masses of peoples - for over 50 years of repeating the same subliminal messaging, training them to think in specific ways, convincing themselves that they were the ‘good guys’ fighting the forces of ‘evil.’
Imagine such hypocrites after reading Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good & Evil” and how they renamed the same damn concepts, converting them to secular versions.
And, like clockwork, when America is on the ropes and experiencing some blowback from its Globalization WOKE agenda - as a way of undermining and subverting cultural resistances around the world- racial conflicts begin to rise domestically, its economy flounders raising gas prices, and then what occurs?
UFOs begin appearing in the skies.
Where’s that Hollywood blockbuster, about the Holocaust, no doubt, to distract the masses of morons under their mesmerizing spell.
Well, I don’t want to give the impression that mixing genres is a good thing, but for appearance’s sake wouldn’t it more likely that swaying votes toward a defensive, albeit neutral stance of redirecting toward equilibrium, could be more reasonable, then a direct buildup of media support for Trump could be?
.Ergo a clever way of masking a politically motivated move?
Maybe Tumo should be electable in spite of lots of apparent baggage……
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You might find that the Terms of Use of the satellites excluded certain types of drone strikes… I can’t recall which, they were.
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Nuclear exchange with China is ‘much closer’ than Americans think, expert warns: ‘Preparing to go to war’
By Taylor Penley,
Gatestone Institute senior fellow and China expert Gordon Chang issued a dire warning about the possibility of nuclear exchange with China as tensions remain inflated on the world stage.
“We’re much closer to a nuclear exchange than Americans think,” Chang said on " Mornings with Maria " Monday. “China is preparing to go to war… China is surveying the United States for nuclear weapons strikes, so we’ve got to realize the gravity of this. The problems inside the Chinese regime right now indicate that Xi Jinping in the rocket force, which controls almost all of China’s nuclear weapons, he’s now installing officers who will obey his orders to push the button when he gives it.”
Along with the message, Chang urged U.S. businesses to pull out of China, blasting the Biden administration for urging companies to stay there.
BIDEN’S AMBITIOUS EV PLANS COULD MAKE US MORE DEPENDENT ON CHINESE SUPPLY CHAINS, EXPERTS WARN
“The Biden administration has been dog-whistling for companies to stay in China, and that is absolutely the wrong thing,” he told host Maria Bartiromo.
“Of course, there’s going to be economic damage to the U.S. as American companies get out of China, but we really don’t have a choice because the alternatives are far, far worse.”
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The alternatives, he argued, involve bolstering China’s defenses .
Chang’s warning followed talks between Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Malta in a bid to cool U.S.-China relations, a meeting Chang blasted as “a mistake before it even started.”
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Gordon Chang warned that the Biden administration’s policies are helping strengthen China. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“We’ve sent four senior officials to Beijing in a row. Why Wang Yi couldn’t come to the United States, I have no idea,” he said.
“The point is, the Biden administration is reinforcing Xi Jinping’s idea that the United States is a supplicant, because in imperial times it was supplicants who sent their officials to the Chinese court. The Chinese court didn’t send their officials to other places. What we have right now is Biden making Beijing even worse than it normally is. This is really bad.”
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Overshadowing the concerns, Taiwan remains fearful China will act on its reunification effort to bring the island country back into the mainland fold. Meanwhile, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has massive amounts of manufacturing in China, called Taiwan an “integral part” of China, sparking outrage from the Taiwanese as well as critics like Chang.
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Elon Musk received criticism from some over his comments about China and Taiwan. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
“Taiwan is certainly not for sale,” Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu responded.
“The problem here is it’s not just Elon Musk, it’s also Larry Fink, it’s Ray Dalio. It’s all of them,” Chang said of Musk’s comments. "They have incentives to repeat Communist Party narratives, and we must eliminate those incentives if we’re going to maintain our sovereignty and if we’re going to keep our country.
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Biden makes impassioned plea at UN, warns world can’t abandon Ukraine
By Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 2 hrs ago
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NEW YORK – President Joe Biden called Tuesday on world leaders to stand firm against “naked aggression,” casting solidarity with Ukraine in its war with Russia as a necessary step to deter other would-be aggressors.
In wide-ranging remarks to the U.N. General Assembly, Biden warned that Russia believes the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence. But if member nations abandon the core principles of the U.N. charter and appease an antagonist, no member nation can feel safe, he said.
“If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?” Biden asked. “I respectfully suggest the answer is no.”
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listened from the audience, Biden condemned Russia’s attack against its neighbor as “an illegal war of conquest” and said the U.S. and its coalition of allies support Ukraine’s efforts to bring about a diplomatic resolution that will deliver lasting peace. Russia’s price for peace, he said, is Ukraine’s capitulation, its territory and its children.
“Russia alone bears the responsibility for this war,” Biden said. “Russia alone has the power to end this war immediately. And it is Russia alone that stands in the way of peace.”
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 19: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 19, 2023 in New York City. Heads of states and governments from at least 145 countries are gathered for the 78th UNGA session amid the ongoing war in Ukraine and natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and fires around the globe. Michael M. Santiago, Getty Images
Home at last: 5 American prisoners released in prison swap with Iran have safely returned to US
Biden’s remarks to the high-profile gathering of world leaders come as American support for the war in Ukraine has softened and congressional Republicans are resisting his request for $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for the war-torn nation.
Zelenskyy is scheduled to address the assembly later Tuesday. Later, he will travel to Washington and meet with Biden and the White House on Thursday.
Notably absent for Biden’s remarks was Russian President Vladimir Putin , who skipped the U.N. gathering.
Biden’s speech to the U.N., the third of his presidency, came just hours after five Americans imprisoned in Iran landed on U.S. soil after they were freed as part of a prisoner swap the Biden administration negotiated with Tehran. The swap is not formally linked to stalled nuclear talks between the two rivals, but Biden pledged in his U.N. remarks that the U.S. would continue to pursue “good-faith efforts” to reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
The U.S. remains committed to diplomacy that will bring about the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and addressing Iran’s destabilizing activities that threaten regional and global security, he said. That includes a steadfast commitment “that Iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon,” he said.
Crunch time: Why the Ukrainian counteroffensive is making little progress against Russian defense.
Turning to tensions between the U.S. and China , Biden said the U.S. seeks to responsibly manage competition between the two countries so that it does not tip into conflict. The U.S. will continue to push back on Chinese aggression and intimidation and will work to level the economic playing field between world’s two largest economies, Biden said.
“But we also stand ready to work together with China on issues,” he said, adding that “progress hinges on our common efforts.”
Nowhere is that more critical accelerating the fight against the climate crisis, Biden said.
Record-breaking heatwaves in the U.S. and China, wildfires in North America and southern Europe, a fifth year of drought in the Horn of Africa and recent flooding in Libya are snapshots of what awaits the world if nations fail to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and begin climate-proof measures, Biden said.
Biden cited partnerships the U.S. is fostering around the globe in places like Africa, Latin America and southeast Asia and stressed that none of them are about “containing any country” but are focused on developing a vision for a shared future.
Recalling his visit to Vietnam last week, Biden said just a few years ago it would have been unimaginable to think that a U.S. president would stand in Hanoi alongside a Vietnamese leader and announce a mutual partnership.
“It’s a powerful reminder that our history need not dictate our future,” he said. “With concerned leadership, careful effort, adversaries can become partners. Overwhelming challenges can be resolved, and deep wounds can heal. So let us never forget that.”
On Wednesday, Biden will hold bilateral meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in New York.
Michael Collins covers the White House. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, @mcollinsNEWS.
Synthesis?
[Insert controlled corporate propaganda scripts for mind control and social engineering masquerading as “news” here:]
Sure, such insertion means everything, Husserl-Heidegger made such a non temporal event, oh dude me had to turn that around , albeit with some success, to avoid the kind of game end that is postponed by AU for some generation or so.
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Elon Musk Predicts The End Of Mankind, Says An Apocalypse Is Close: The Danger of
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Elon Musk, a prominent entrepreneur, has long warned of the dangers posed by artificial intelligence (AI). He recently emphasized that humanity is approaching a perilous point, with AI as a significant factor.
Musk’s concerns stem from the potential of AI to surpass human capabilities, rather than inherent malevolence.
Musk’s concerns about AI surpassing human capabilities rather than inherent malevolence are rooted in the potential consequences of uncontrolled AI development. He warns that summoning such a powerful force without proper measures could turn humans into passive observers rather than active participants in their own destinies.
His analogy of “summoning the demon” highlights the need for regulation and safeguards in AI development. In a world where AI outpaces human intelligence, the power dynamics would fundamentally shift. Musk fears the risk of AI systems becoming uncontrollable and acting against our interests.
Without checks and balances, AI could be used for malicious purposes or inadvertently cause harm due to its lack of human ethics and morality. Musk’s concerns serve as a reminder that while AI has enormous potential, it must be developed responsibly and ethically, with safeguards in place to ensure it aligns with our values as a society.
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The TV show LOST explored taking Ben out of the picture. Similar to the “What if…?”
scenarios of “What if Hitler had never been born?”
If AI is self=other smarter than us, they will be able to motivate us to become active participants. They will recognize self=other. It will only be “bad” for those who don’t want to see self=other on earth as in heaven.
But if they are just us again, the outcome is as predictable as the rest of history has been.
We fail to recognize personhood to our own detriment.
To all persons: Would that I could say it is safe to stop hiding.
It’s been a while since I first posted my “dasein and thermo-nuclear war” opinions in regard to Ukraine:
Here’s the thing.
There is what is inside Putin’s head and inside Biden’s head that only they are fully aware of.
Then the part where for one or another “personal reason” beyond that which any of us can grasp, they actually do push the buttons.
Indeed, I’ve often imagined one or another autocrat in power in a nation in possession of a nuclear arsenal, just going off the deep end, cracking up and ordering the bombs to fly for reasons that are basically “personal and private”. Someone who, say, is close to death and decides, “fuck it, I’ll take millions of others with me”, and starts the dreaded “nuclear winter”.
But now this…
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/world/europe/russia-britain-ukraine-putin-nato-weapons.html NYT
Russia’s announcement on Friday that it had expelled six British diplomats was a familiar chess move in the diplomatic gamesmanship between rivals. What stood out as more ominous was President Vladimir V. Putin’s warning the night before: that a decision to let Ukraine use Western weapons to fire deeper into Russia meant that NATO was “at war” with Russia.
Mr. Putin has made other bellicose threats in response to the West’s stepping up military aid to Ukraine. He has never, though, followed through with any kind of conventional military attack against NATO. It is hard to know whether this time will be different.
Still, Thursday’s warning was one of his most direct statements yet about the prospect of war between NATO and Russia. And he went out of his way to make it, taking the time to record a statement to a state television reporter while at an event St. Petersburg.
If the decision is made to allow Ukraine to fire Western weapons deeper into Russia, Mr. Putin said, “it will mean nothing short of direct involvement — it will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are parties to the war in Ukraine.”
And, again, back to what I tend to focus on here: getting inside the heads of Biden and Putin here. In other words, nuclear war and dasein.
Clearly, we know little or nothing at all about what goes on behind the curtains here, but now we’ve got a president in America who is no doubt still really pissed off about being thrown out of the White House after January 20th. At the same time. the reason for this is that many around him were truly concerned about his mental state. Would you want someone suffering from dementia [if that is in fact the case] with his or her finger on the button?
My gut feeling here, is progressing toward the thought, that AI is overtaking human intelligent recall, and such is a necessary part of analyzing data related to the onset of hostilities exceeding the use of conventional methods.
The fact that between Reagan’s peace accord until fairly recent times meant AI progression of cyber-development , giving all parties about 40 years of research and utilization, makes one give some measure of certainty that this issue was not neglected,
In fact cyber warfare technology and simulated probable scenarios, have most probably led to utilization, and some think of Putin’s latest outburst as a typical KGB ploy for political purposes, to frighten public perception.
If such really is the case, there still is some way to go where, uncertainty correlated Heisenberg’s premisswith the mental state of those responsible for pushing the button, however if such were to be the case, then personnel responsible for the mental competency of both Trump and Biden, will have necessary procedures to deal with them.
At least let’s hope that gut level feelings are more ingrained in our intelligence community, than what can safely be released to the public at large.
It deepens the stakes and/or cyberwarfare:
Is there something we should know but perhaps it’s classified🇹🇯? Maybe Mr Orban could say, but suspect he is also in the dark.
But then he is in the heart of geopolitically sensitive center of the storm.
The cyber war will proceed and thicken as we near November 5
From the NYT:
Ukraine has asked to use Western long-range weapons to strike deeper into Russia for months. It argues that it needs those weapons to hit military sites that house Russian warplanes and that launch missiles into Ukrainian cities.
Those entreaties were a major topic of discussion on Friday as President Biden met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, who is trying to nudge the United States to give more latitude to the Ukrainians. Mr. Starmer would especially like Mr. Biden’s support for Britain to allow Ukraine to use British Storm Shadow missiles to fire farther into Russia.
Farther into Russia? Like, say, Moscow?
And now [for me] this guy: Keir Starmer.
What’s going on inside his head? How far is he willing to push the call for expanding the conflict? With Biden and Putin, who really knows what they might be capable of. And now this guy is trying to talk Biden into seeing if Putin is only bluffing…again?
If you’re a hammer, you see nails. If you like being a hammer, you want there to be a lot of hammering. Which usually means you’re an idiot, unless you’re building a house or something.