Re: Brian, read the SMH article - here it is

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:32:01 -0000, He Who Sees All  
<[email protected]> wrote:

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> https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/the-age-of-the-carnivores-is-upon-us-china-russia-and-their-war-machine-20241118-p5krgh.html
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> There's no point at all in fruitlessly commenting on something before
> actually reading it.
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> Here's the text:
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> "The world is “made up of herbivores and carnivores”, French President
> Emmanuel Macron said in a speech this month. Europe, he said, was a
> plant-eater. And the meat-eaters are circling.
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> Until now, most Western nations have been content to live peaceful
> lives with minimal military capability because the biggest of them has
> offered to protect the others by maintaining a war-like vigilance.
> That, of course, was the US.
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> Under the eagle’s wing, post-war Europe and Japan became so relaxed
> that they adopted a pacifist stance. They relinquished any effective
> offensive combat capability to the point where they were declared to
> be the world’s first “postmodern” states, together with New Zealand,
> which sheltered behind Australia, in the categorisation by the British
> diplomat Robert Cooper. These pacifists were full herbivores.
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> But almost all Western democracies, including Australia and Canada,
> also allowed themselves to stand down. Their statecraft and their
> defence forces operated on the assumption that war between the great
> powers was an artefact of history and if anything went wrong, America
> would deal with it. “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night
> only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf,”
> according to a quote attributed to George Orwell. America was the
> rough man of the West.
>
> The West’s enemies fell into a sullen survival mode. But they did not
> lose their appetites for the red meat of history – the urge to attack,
> butcher and digest the territories of their neighbours.
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> That era is over. America’s will has wilted, and its enemies sense
> opportunity. When Syria’s Bashar al-Assad crossed Barack Obama’s “red
> line” against chemical weapons use in 2013, and Obama did nothing in
> response, it whetted the appetites of the four greatest predators of
> the international system. Russia annexed Crimea the next year and
> still Obama did nothing meaningful, so the annexation became merely
> the prelude to Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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> Emergency workers extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack
> in Lviv, Ukraine, on Sunday.
> Emergency workers extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack
> in Lviv, Ukraine, on Sunday.Credit:Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP
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> China activated its salami-slicing encroachments to seize territories
> that were also claimed by half a dozen of its neighbours and launched
> the world’s greatest military build-up since World War II. North Korea
> revived its ambition to conquer Seoul. Iran’s revolution negotiated
> with the West over its nuclear program while continuing to arm its
> proxies against Israel.
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> These four predators have been grouped under a new acronym: CRINKs,
> for China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. America’s Politico outlet
> dubbed it “the new axis of evil”.
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> Today, 1000 days since Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to strike
> Kyiv, we can see clearly that history has entered a new phase. These
> four have come together in a war of territorial conquest. Russia’s war
> on Ukraine has become a carnivores’ picnic.
>
> China has become the main financier of the Russian economy by stepping
> up to buy 215 billion euros’ worth of its fossil fuel exports since
> the invasion began, according to the Finnish non-profit Centre for
> Research on Energy and Clean Air. China is the “decisive enabler” of
> Russia’s war effort, according to a NATO summit communique, by
> supplying industrial machinery and semiconductors and other
> technology.
>
> Iran has given Russia 8000 Shahed drones, each carrying a payload of
> 50 kilograms of explosives, and has delivered the first of hundreds of
> promised Fath 360 ballistic missiles, according to the Pentagon. North
> Korea has sent 13,000 containers of weaponry to Russia, including 8
> million artillery shells, missiles and anti-tank rockets, according to
> South Korea’s National Intelligence Service.
>
> And now North Korea has ordered at least 12,000 of its combat troops
> to Russia. Just over two weeks ago, on November 4, they engaged in
> their first firefight with Ukrainian troops, according to the US State
> Department. They are the first foreign combat forces to enter the war.
>
> In a speech on Friday, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, urged his
> troops to “go all out” in fighting Ukraine, according to Pyongyang’s
> news service. Over the weekend, The Financial Times published a
> Ukrainian intelligence report that North Korea has given Russia “some
> 50 domestically produced 170mm M1989 self-propelled howitzers and 20
> updated 240mm multiple launch rocket systems”.
>
> CRINKs is no longer just an acronym. It now describes a group of
> nations engaged jointly in waging a war of aggression.
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> In an apparent response to the North Korean entry into the war, Joe
> Biden has released Ukraine from a key US-imposed restraint, it emerged
> on Monday. Until now, America supplied its HIMARS – high mobility
> artillery rocket system – to Ukraine on condition that it not be used
> against targets inside Russia. This was imposed to limit escalation.
> Biden now has freed Kyiv to hit Russia directly with a system capable
> of firing missiles up to 300 kilometres into its territory. Britain
> and France are expected to lift similar restraints on the missiles
> they supplied to Ukraine.
>
> Wesley Clark, a former US army general and commander of the NATO
> forces, told CNN that this newfound Ukrainian freedom is “too little,
> too late” materially to change the course of the war but that it would
> be a useful bargaining chip in any ceasefire negotiations.
>
> A central question for the global jungle is what the incoming US
> president will do. Will Donald Trump support the US allies – mostly
> herbivores – confronting aggression, or will he side with America’s
> traditional enemies – the carnivores?
>
> World leaders issue warning to Trump on trade, but not by name
> The US is increasingly an unpredictable and unreliable protector.
> While the CRINKs moved earlier to take advantage, the herbivores
> finally have got the message. In the past few years, US allies have
> started to sharpen their claws and bare their fangs. In Macron’s
> metaphor, he wants the herbivores of Europe to, at the very least,
> become omnivores, he said.
>
> US allies have stepped up their defence budgets and increasingly
> started to herd together for protection. Australia’s Northern
> Territory showcased the latest development in this trend at the
> weekend when Japanese troops joined US forces for the annual US Marine
> rotation. This is set to be an annual event.
>
> The meat-eaters are hunting in a pack. The eagle is no longer a
> reliable protector. The age of carnivores is upon us."

### - it's basically as i said/suggested; an article one could predictably  
read just about anywhere out there currently via western media, the  
emphasis on predator/carnivore being only the latest twist on the  
good/evil paradigm everyone is otherwise jaded with hearing, all of it,  
however, persistently emphasising the exact same picture of an 'evil  
empire' and/or 'axis' of evil' aimed at a particular racial target in  
people's minds, such is the very nature of propaganda and how it's  
designed to work + keep that shit up for 70+ years and people grow up  
believing it all!

i.e., thus the smh should change its name to 'the daily brainwash' for all  
the objective news it's actually reporting, it being exactly the same here  
of course; the bbc making a really big deal out of objective, unbiased  
reporting, whole shows dedicated to it being so, literally, and yet still  
droning-on in the same old tone of the 'evil' russians + reinforcing such  
ideas with examples of the damage they've reputedly done, only ukraine's  
side of things reported (perforce all negative) and verified by the bbc to  
have occurred, meanwhile all/any russian media or accounts of the matter  
is totally banned here haha... don't you get it yet?

this is why reversals often work to clarify matters, not everything and  
not always, but propaganda is one subject wherein it nearly always works  
to reveal more than we're being told/instructed to think/believe... all of  
it simplified to the battle between good & evil, right & wrong, with us or  
against us, those with god on their side and those on the side of the  
devil: the disney version of life, the universe & everything, which, for  
most people - let's face it - it is!

outsiders, however (and have always considered you to be one), providing  
they don't just go nuts that is (coz sadly many do), remain objective...  
first by insisting on always hearing 'both' sides of any argument, and  
then by realising that both sides are ultimately exactly the same in  
believing their own narratives, even if/when those narratives lead to  
war...

unfortunately, the world is owned/run by wealthy gangsters, all determined  
to maintain & increase that wealth before anything else and woa betide  
anyone/anything that gets in their way, which then sets the pace for  
everything else that happens...