Putin promised unspecified technological help to #NorthKorea, which could advance its #NuclearWeapons prgm.
As Putin’s #Russia & #Xi’s #China deepened confrontation w/the West over the past decade, they were united w/the #US on at least one #geopolitical project: dismantling or at least containing North Korea’s #nuclear arsenal.
#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
President #Xi has told his military to be ready to invade #Taiwan by 2027…. #Biden doesn’t rule out sending troops to defend Taiwan if #China attacked, saying, “It would depend on the circumstances.”
Biden’s record in facing these tests is more than just nostalgic talk. He has added 2 powerful European militaries to #NATO, & will soon announce the doubling of the number of countries in the Atlantic #alliance that are paying more than the target 2% of their GDP toward #defense….
"We are living through a massive and concerted attempt to delegitimize and discredit our democratic institutions, especially our elections and judiciary. Judges, prosecutors, and the courts are major targets, as they are wherever authoritarianism is trying to take hold."
"This is what Trump wants so badly, and why admires Putin, Xi, and other leaders he endlessly praises. And in fact this trial could never have happened in any of the countries those leaders govern. In China, Russia, Turkey, North Korea, and other authoritarian states any criticism of the leader brings prison or a lawsuit or worse."
@ScientistRebellion in 2023 the top 3 oil producers in the world were Saudi Aramco🇸🇦 with 12.8 mmb/d Rosneft🇷🇺 (5.4) Abu Dhabi ADNOC 🇦🇪 (4)
Exxon is barely 4th (3.7), equivalent to Iran NIOC🇮🇷
Chevron (3.1) equals Kuwait 🇰🇼 Shell (2.9) equals CNPC 🇨🇳 Total=Petronas🇲🇾 BP=Petrobras🇧🇷 Equinor=Pemex🇲🇽 Conoco=CNOOC🇨🇳 Eni=Sinopec🇨🇳 Repsol is smaller than PDVSA🇻🇪 same as KazmunayGas🇰🇿
If I were #Putin#Khamenei#Xi or more modestly #MBS I would agree with you: let's sue them all in their democratic courts! #woke
While most Western countries are concerned with extrajudicial security personnel from #China going after Chinese dissidents and other interference via secret police stations, Hungary just went and signed a deal with China: "lol, police from a totalitarian country officially patrolling our streets? sure thing"
"We are witnessing a historic process -- Russians are leaving for the first time in two centuries," independent Azerbaijani analyst Elhan Shahinoglu told AFP.
#Putin and #Xi have met over 40 times; the Chinese president last travelled to #Moscow in March 2023, while Putin went to Beijing in October for a summit of #China’s #BeltAndRoad initiative.
China, once the junior partner of Moscow in the global Communist hierarchy, remains by far the most powerful of #Russia’s friends in the world. #Ukraine
#Trump said it would be a "bloodbath" if he didn't win this year's US presidential election.
"You screw us & we'll screw you," he said. "It's very simple, very fair."
Trump said he would hit cars made in Mexico by Chinese companies w/a 100% tariff, double the levy he has previously said he would put on automobiles made south of the US border.
#Trump addressed Chinese President #Xi Jinping directly during a rally speech in Dayton, Ohio, on Sat when threatening the tariffs.
"Those big monster car manufacturing plants you are building in Mexico right now & you think you are going to get that - not hire Americans & you're going to sell the car to us, no," Trump said.
"We are going to put a 100% tariff on every car that comes across the lot."
“…[#Trump] likes the dictators so much is that’s who he is” Kelly said “Every incoming president is shocked that they actually have so little #power w/o going to #Congress, which is a good thing. It’s Civics101, #SeparationOfPowers, 3 equal branches….But in his case, he was shocked that he didn’t have #dictator-type powers to send US forces places or move money around in the budget & he looked at #Putin, #Xi & that nutcase in NorthKorea as people who were like him in terms of being a tough guy”
#FBI Director issues dramatic public warning:
'Chinese CCP hackers are preparing to 'wreak havoc' on the US'
NOT only #America is in great danger
also (and above) #Europe #XI is aware that his 'communist paradise'
is about to have 'big problems'
therefore
together with #Putin and #Kameini are determined
to cause as much damage and caos as possible
to those they consider their 'enemies'
(basically the rest of the world)
Now that #China#CCP is imploding it is certainly more dangerous.
🙄”Chinese leader #Xi Jinping told US President Joe #Biden that #China would not interfere in the 2024 US presidential election when the two men met in November — an assurance reiterated by the Chinese foreign minister to Biden’s national security adviser this past weekend”
The #World is once again on the brink of #War
...
if we REALLY want PEACE
and hope to commit ourselves to improving life and progress on the Planet
3 #Dictatorships MUST BE CANCELLED
(I don't consider North Korea because #Kim is only interested in maintaining his kingdom) #Putin#Russia#XI#China#Kameini#Iran
They MUST be ERASED
It is Necessary for world pacification
because THEY are the Ones who want death and blood.
So
....
they started it
it is the World's duty... to finish them.
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
There has been relative calm in the #TaiwanStrait since the #Biden-#Xi summit, after a period of high tension in which Chinese warships and planes would regularly approach #Taiwan. At the same time however, there has been increasing friction in the #SouthChinaSea between #China and neighbouring countries, particularly the #Philippines, a #US ally. #WestPHSea