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John Mearsheimer o evropskih političnih vazalskih psih
Tri nore slike: eksplozivna rast DeepSeek, sesutje prodaje Tesel in propad nemške industrije
Slika 1: DeepSeek je potreboval le 7 dni, da je dosegel 60 mio uporabnikov. ChatGPT pred njim je potreboval 60 dni, Google 515 dni itd.
Slika 2: Januarja se je v Evropi sesula prodaja Tesel, medtem ko so se ostali e-avti prodali v enakih količinah kot pred letom dni. Špekulacije so, da gre za evropski odziv na obnašanje Elona Muska. Lahko pa, da so Teslo samo izrinili Kitajci.
Slika 3: Nemška industrijska prizvodnja je že šesto leto v prostem padu, trend se je močno zaostril navzdol po začetku vojne v Ukrajini in energetski krizi. Konec 2014 je bil obseg nemške industrijske proizvodnje za 20 % nižji kot konec leta 2017. Ameriška napoved carin za EU ne obeta umiritve trenda propadanja, ker so ZDA največji izvozni trg Nemčije.
Trumpova administracija razpustila delovni skupini za zaseg ruskega premoženja in za spremljanje kitajskega in ruskega vplivanja
Zanimivo. Ameriško ministrstvo za pravosodje naj bi uradno razpustila delovno skupino za zaseg poslovnega premoženja ruskih subjektov in tudi delovno skupino za spremljanje ruskega in kitajskega vplivanja v ZDA. Namesto tega naj bi ssredstva preusmerilo za spremljanje mednarodnega kriminala in tihotapljenja fentanila. Torej se Trump “ne gre več” vojne proti Rusiji in ga tudi ne skrbi kitajsko in rusko vpletanje v notranje zadeve ZDA. Dodatno k temu je zanimiva informacija, da naj bi Trumpova administracija prijazno preložila organizacijo ukrajinske obrambe na vlado V. Britanije.
The U.S. Justice Department, under new Attorney General Pam Bondi, has officially disbanded Task Force KleptoCapture, the unit created during the Biden administration to seize Russian business assets in response to the Ukraine conflict. The move marks a significant shift in Washington’s approach to economic warfare against Russia.
Task Force KleptoCapture was established in 2022 with the goal of enforcing sanctions, seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs, and targeting businesses linked to the Kremlin. Over the past two years, the task force oversaw the confiscation of high-profile assets, including luxury yachts, real estate, and bank accounts, as part of Washington’s broader financial war against Moscow.
Bondi has also disbanded the Foreign Influence Task Force, which previously monitored Russian and Chinese political influence in the United States. According to sources, the Justice Department is now redirecting resources to focus on transnational crime and fentanyl trafficking, shifting away from aggressive sanction enforcement.
With U.S. enforcement weakening, previously targeted Russian individuals and businesses may now regain access to frozen assets.
Meanwhile, European governments, which have been at the forefront of maintaining sanctions against Moscow, now find themselves increasingly isolated as Washington steps back from its previous hardline stance.It is difficult and time-consuming to do the work that proves Beijing is lying. Tools that allow us to uncover the flaws of China’s own system, and the actual struggles Chinese people face, directly support the goals, security, and resilience of democratic governments.
Without the work that China nonprofits do, it will be much harder to show that China’s governance model is deeply flawed. If we can no longer prove that, it becomes much harder to understand why democracies are worth fighting for in the first place.
Vir: DD Geopolitics via X
Tuji mediji objokujejo, ker se je s koncem USAID zrušil ekosistem za dezinformiranje o Kitajski
Predvidevam, da je ključna kolateralna korist of Muskovega lomastenja po ameriških institucijah prekinitev financiranja “razvojne pomoči” v obliki financiranja “nevladnih organizacij” po svetu, katerih vloga je bila v zbiranju in pripravi informacij, ki so služile za dezinformiranje velikim tujim medijem o državi. Britanski The Economist neposredno objokuje, da se je s prekinitvijo USAID financiranja zdaj sesul celoten ekosistem dezinformiranja, na katerem so se napajali tudi njegovi novinarji, ko so prali možgane svojim bralcem glede Kitajske. Kot najbrž veste, je v zadnjih 20 letih The Economist najmanj dvakrat letno objavil kampanjo, v kakšnih hudih težavah je kitajsko gospodarstvo in kako se bo zdaj-zdaj kitajsko gospodarstvo sesulo. Kot veste, se ni. In nič ne kaže, da se bo v doglednem času. Nasprotno, kitajsko gospodarstvo nesramno hitro tehnološko prehiteva gospodarstva razvitih držav. Torej je bilo nekaj zelo hudo narobe s kvaliteto oziroma natančnostjo informacij, ki so jih o Kitajski pripravljale ameriško financirane “nevladne organizacije”. Očitno so jih načrtno pripravljale za namen dezinformiranja.
Spodaj je zapis Arnauda Betranda na to temo:
Hilarious how the Economist describes the news of the US government cutting funding to part of the vast network of anti-China propaganda shops it was financing. Or, as they put it euphemistically: “groups promoting rights in China”.
They argue that “some aid money has been very well spent” and when you read through the article to understand what they mean by that it’s because “journalists rely on them for first-hand accounts and data.”
So in effect the US government was financing the entire ecosystem: the journalists writing on China and their sources! “Money very well spent” indeed…
Ever wondered why the narrative on China was almost exclusively of the “China bad” or “China collapse” type? Wonder no more.
Hopefully this will serve to awaken people as to the extent to which they have been brainwashed on this topic (and many others).
Ameriški “na pravilih temelječ red” je nered dvojnih standardov, zato ga je treba zamenjati z univerzalnim mednarodnim redom
Odlično branje!
The so-called “rules-based international order” aims to facilitate a hegemonic world, which entails displacing international law. While international law is based on equal sovereignty for all states, the rules-based international order upholds hegemony on the principle of sovereign inequality.
The rules-based international order is commonly presented as international law plus international human rights law, which appears benign and progressive. However, this entails introducing contradictory principles and rules. The consequence is a system devoid of uniform rules, in which “might makes right”. International human rights law introduces a set of rules to elevate the rights of the individual, yet human-centric security often contradicts state-centric security as the foundation of international law.
The US as the hegemonic state can then choose between human-centric security and state-centric security, while adversaries must abide strictly by state-centric security due to their alleged lack of liberal democratic credentials. For example, state-centric security as the foundation of international law insists on the territorial integrity of states, while human-centric security allows for secession under the principle of self-determination. The US will thus insist on territorial integrity in allied countries such as Ukraine, Georgia or Spain, while supporting self-determination within adversarial states such as Serbia, China, Russia and Syria. The US can interfere in the domestic affairs of adversaries to promote liberal democratic values, yet the US adversaries do not have the right to interfere in the domestic affairs of the US. To facilitate a hegemonic international order, there cannot be equal sovereignty for all states.
Ko se je posest nad zemljo srečala z etničnim čiščenjem
Trumpov predlog glede ameriškega “nakupa” Gaze in kasnejši razvoj “Gaza Riviere” ni nič novega. Naseljenci ZDA imajo to v genih. Iz časov, ko so zemljo etnično očistili indijancev in ga nato prodajali priseljencem.
Trumpova tragi-komedija zmešnjav
It’s now almost cute watching old Trump fail:
1. Threatened Denmark to steal Greenland, Denmark immediately allows Russia to repair and maintain Nord Stream
2. Threatened Canada, Canada talks free trade agreement with China
as for Russia & China:
3. Threatened Russia and said he’ll talk to Putin soon. Putin didn’t bite, doesn’t call, Trump now says it’s not urgent
4. New sanctions against China says he’ll have a call with Xi within a day. Xi didn’t call. China imposes painful sanctions on US (rare earth, Google).
Trump now begs for a call with Xi. Xi has time.
5. Meanwhile Musk destroyed a top tool of US international coercion, now Rubio is trying to restore USAID as government agency.
Total chaos. China does nothing, wins
I forgot one: When the master came to see Trump, he even made him wear a blue tie (blue of all colors, the color of the US democrats) to make clear who’s the boss. Note that Trump always wears a red tie, everywhere. Except when the boss comes to visit.
7. threatened Mexico with tariffs and invasion. Mexico increases border guards and takes out CIA-backed drug cartel leader as a warning shot against the US deep state. Trump is now awefully quiet about Mexico.
Vir: Harald in China via X
Zanimiva tišina v slovenskih medijih po razkritju afere o USAID financiranju
Zelo glasna tišina v naših medijih po razkritju, da so slovenski mediji bili na plačilni listi USAID izpostave ameriškega State departmenta in da so “znane osebnosti” iz šov biznisa bile bogato nagrajene s strani iste izpostave ameriškega State departmenta za svoje obiske podpore pri Zelenskem. Da ne govorimo o s strani iste izpostave ameriškega State departmenta financiranih neredov Gruziji pred in po volitvah, pa o financiranju ciljnega medijskega pokrivanja oranžnih, roza in drugih barvnih revolucij…
Zgovorno glasna tišina, mar ne?
Zlagani intelektualizem vladno financiranih “nevladnih organizacij”
Western NGOs or funders have about 0 interest to acknowledge that they are creating an Orientalist elite with the funds they provide.
First, they do not see it–because the topics they think important are ipso facto proclaimed important for all even if in the Orientalist country nobody cares for them.
Second, the comprador intelligentsia will never tell them the truth b/c they would lose funding.
Third, the funders have scant contact with the domestic intellectual scene outside the NGOs they fund.
Fourth, even when they have some contact they tend to dismiss people who do not like their ideas as half-witted hillbillies not worth paying attention to & in need of re-education.
Thus, a false intellectual life is being created whose objective is to provide income to foreign and domestic NGOs.
That intellectual life exists only in the reports they write & nowhere else.
Vir: Branko Milanović, via X
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