China, is enabling Putin…

[shtferbrains]

PS. Someone should muzzle JT.
Telling people getting shot at he admires their democratic values. Puked in my mouth.
If we were dead serious about saving Ukraine as we know it, we'd have a no fly zone. Instead we have a no balls condition. Good bye Ukraine as a sovereign state. Talk is cheap.

Mr Treudau took advantage of VP Harris being in the same place at the same time on his last day in Poland.
High level photo op for maybe the 2 dumbest politico's ever.
Hard to hear the high level conversation as it seem to come off a reporters camera mic.
Handlers probably thought best that pair not have hot mic's.
They were blowing smoke up each others ass when Justin said " The western leaders led by the USA have provided Ukraine with UNPRECEDENTED support!"

Compared to what Justin?

2 clowns that epitomize our week leadership.

[furrowtickler]

China is not enabling Russia, it is playing Russia. China badly needs energy, resources, and land to feed and house its people and fuel its industries; all of which Russia has plenty of. But instead of waging a bloody war over Russia, China simply stroked Putin's ego and quest of power and subconsciously convinced him to annex the old Soviet lands China knew full well that Russia does not have the military might to capture and control Ukraine long term, much less other Soviet block countries. Furthermore, Chinese leaders and military planners would have foresaw the western response of economic isolation of Russia globally. All China had to do was align with Russia economically in trade and finance and they would own Russian after the Ukraine takeover fails.

The only winner in this war will be China. Russians will not speak Chinese in the near future, but their country and economy is sure to be controlled by China and the puppet regime that will replace Putin.

And there is nothing the west can do to prevent this now or in the future. China used misdirection on the west as well, leading the west to believe China's goal was a Taiwan takeover when in fact the real prize China was after was much bigger. And now the west will be too busy and preoccupied with rebuilding Ukraine to even realize that China won the war.

As China has done for thousands of years, they have quietly played the long game while everyone else only sees the immediate.

Very good points DML , unfortunately our PM idolizes XI

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ON RFD TV this morning they reported Brazil 122.8 mmt Soy 2022 production number [USDA was 127]

https://globalhappenings.com/markets/120917.html

China bought huge US Soy and corn last week...

USDA; "This summary is based on reports from exporters for the period February 25-March 3, 2022.

"Soybeans: Net sales of 2,204,300 MT for 2021/2022 were up noticeably from the previous week and up 76 percent from the prior 4-week average. Increases were primarily for China (1,096,400 MT, including 66,000 MT switched from unknown destinations and decreases of 500 MT), unknown destinations (334,000 MT), Egypt (181,000 MT, including 55,000 MT switched from unknown destinations and decreases of 2,700 MT), Mexico (142,700 MT, including decreases of 80,000 MT), and Vietnam (114,700 MT, including decreases 100 MT). Net sales of 895,000 MT for 2022/2023 were reported for China (797,000 MT), unknown destinations (66,000 MT), and Mexico (32,000 MT). Exports of 834,900 MT were up 11 percent from the previous week, but down 26 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to China (304,600 MT), Egypt (173,000 MT), Mexico (75,800 MT), Indonesia (73,200 MT), and Japan (68,000 MT).

Corn: Net sales of 2,143,700 MT for 2021/2022--a marketing-year high--were up noticeably from the previous week and from the prior 4-week average. Increases primarily for unknown destinations (800,600 MT), Japan (398,400 MT, including 37,500 MT switched from unknown destinations and decreases of 21,000 MT), Mexico (290,200 MT, including decreases of 40,600 MT), Saudi Arabia (140,000 MT, including 140,000 MT switched from unknown destinations and decreases 2,600 MT), and Colombia (129,600 MT, including 50,000 MT switched from unknown destinations and decreases of 125,300 MT), were offset by reductions for El Salvador (22,500 MT) and Costa Rica (2,900 MT). Total net sales of 22,900 MT for 2022/2023 were for Mexico. Exports of 1,763,300 MT were up 14 percent from the previous week and from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to China (555,100 MT), Mexico (371,700 MT), Colombia (258,400 MT), Japan (205,100 MT), and Saudi Arabia (140,000 MT)."

https://apps.fas.usda.gov/export-sales/highlite.htm

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Another interesting day.


Why is our PM over seas?

Really why are they globe trotting around.

Why?

[Robertbarlage]

He still wants UN seat he probably thinks this will help. But from what I watch no one likes him at all in Europe!!

[blackpowder]

Trudeau is like the Terrence and Phillip show on South Park

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The Telegraph
Russian state television goes off message by denouncing Ukraine war
James Kilner
Thu, March 10, 2022, 2:42 PM
Russia 1 is usually a reliable source of propaganda, but guests on one of its most popular shows spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine - Russian Defense Ministry Press Service
Russia 1 is usually a reliable source of propaganda, but guests on one of its most popular shows spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine - Russian Defense Ministry Press Service
Russian state television has broadcast calls for Vladimir Putin, the country’s president, to stop his war in Ukraine during a programme in which pundits openly likened the invasion to "Afghanistan, but even worse".

Vladimir Soloviyev, usually one of the Kremlin's most reliable chief propagandists, had to interrupt guests on his prime time television talk show to stop their criticism of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking during a broadcast on Russia 1, Karen Shakhnazarov, a filmmaker and state pundit, said the conflict in Ukraine risked isolating Russia.

He told Mr Soloviyev: “I have a hard time imagining taking cities such as Kyiv. I can’t imagine how that would look.”

He went on to call for the conflict to be brought to an end, saying: “If this picture starts to transform into an absolute humanitarian disaster, even our close allies like China and India will be forced to distance themselves from us.

“This public opinion, with which they’re saturating the entire world, can play out badly for us ... Ending this operation will stabilise things within the country.”

Later during the broadcast of An Evening with Vladimir Soloviyev, one of Russian television's most-watched programmes, guest Semyon Bagdasarov, an academic, said: "Do we need to get into another Afghanistan, but even worse?”

Is this fake news???

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/afghanistan-even-worse-ukraine-war-214211595.html

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https://ca.yahoo.com/news/even-russia-state-tv-admits-160508384.html

Doesn't look like fake news...

The Daily Beast
Even Russian State TV Is Pleading With Putin to Stop the War

Julia Davis
Thu, March 10, 2022, 9:05 AM

There is a notable mood shift in Russia, as darkness sets over its economy and the invasion of Ukraine hits major problems. While the beginning of President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war against Ukraine was greeted with cheers, clapping, and demands of Champagne in the studio, the reality sobered up even the most pro-Kremlin pundits and experts on Russian state television.

The ugly truth about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is slipping through the cracks, despite the government’s authoritarian attempts to control the narrative.

The Kremlin-controlled state media is doing its best to flip the situation upside down, blaming the victims of Russia’s aggression for all of the casualties. On Wednesday’s edition of the state TV show The Evening With Vladimir Soloviev, the host claimed the fallout of Russia’s bombing of a maternity hospital this week was “fake” with no one there to be injured, despite photos of pregnant women being carried away from the blast that killed at least one child. A guest on 60 Minutes last Saturday even claimed Ukrainians “are firing on each other and blaming us.”


On Thursday, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that Russia never attacked Ukraine and repeated the same lies as Soloviev about the total absence of patients in the maternity ward and children’s hospital bombed by Russia.

Putin’s most trusted propagandists are becoming ever more desperate to distort or deny the evidence of the atrocities because the truth is finding its way past the roadblocks erected by the Kremlin. Russian citizens are not pleased either with the war, nor with the financial price they have to pay for their leader’s ill-conceived military conquests.

Even the infamous show run by Soloviev—who was recently sanctioned as an accomplice of Putin by the European Union—became dominated by predictions of Russian doom and gloom. Andrey Sidorov, deputy dean of world politics at Moscow State University, cautioned: “For our country, this period won’t be easy. It will be very difficult. It might be even more difficult than it was for the Soviet Union from 1945 until the 1960s... We’re more integrated into the global economy than the Soviet Union, we’re more dependent on imports—and the main part is that the Cold War is the war of the minds, first and foremost. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union had a consolidating idea on which its system was built. Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia has nothing like that to offer.”

State TV pundit Karen Shakhnazarov pointed out: “The war in Ukraine paints a frightening picture, it has a very oppressive influence on our society. Ukraine, whichever way you see it, is something with which Russia has thousands of human links. The suffering of one group of innocents does not compensate for the suffering of other innocent people... I don’t see the probability of denazification of such an enormous country. We would need to bring in 1.5 million soldiers to control all of it. At the same time, I don’t see any political power that would consolidate the Ukrainian society in a pro-Russian direction... Those who talked of their mass attraction to Russia obviously didn’t see things the way they are. The most important thing in this scenario is to stop our military action. Others will say that sanctions will remain. Yes, they will remain, but in my opinion discontinuing the active phase of a military operation is very important.”...

China can't be smiling any more....

[furrowtickler]

He still wants UN seat he probably thinks this will help. But from what I watch no one likes him at all in Europe!!

Uncle Klaus will get him a backbench spot on the WEF .... hopefully just cleaning toilets 🚽

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https://ca.yahoo.com/news/voices-biden-rejection-mig-29-114933904.html

The Independent
Voices: Has Biden’s rejection of MiG-29 fighter jets lost the war against Russia?
Sean O'Grady
Wed, March 9, 2022, 4:49 AM

Is this the moment when Joe Biden lost the war against Russia? The moment when Poland’s MiG-29 fighter jets, delivered indirectly via the US to gallant Ukraine, could have made the vital though marginal difference between peace and war, between subjugation and freedom in Ukraine?

It is a depressing thought that such a golden opportunity is being tossed away because… well, because it might upset the Russians and cause a third world war? But it wouldn’t, because the Russians know they’d lose, and for that reason a third world war wouldn’t happen.

It is the seemingly forgotten doctrine of collective security and nuclear deterrence that has kept the west safe since the end of the Second World War. President Biden, a dedicated Atlanticist, seems to have mislaid his old Cold War instincts.

If we do not want Russia eternally threatening its neighbours with war, and the rest of the world (and the planet itself) with its nuclear arsenal, then we have to stop Vladimir Putin at the earliest opportunity. We cannot just say “you can have Ukraine, but not another inch” – because he knows we don’t mean it.

If America won’t lead the west in this resistance, and fight for Ukraine, why would they fight for Estonia, Poland… or Germany even? The answer that they are all Nato members means nothing if the calculus is that America doesn’t wish to be involved in foreign wars and has turned isolationist. If Putin miscalculates, and America really is willing to fight for Poland, then we will end up with a third world war anyway."

[WiltonRanch]

China is not enabling Russia, it is playing Russia. China badly needs energy, resources, and land to feed and house its people and fuel its industries; all of which Russia has plenty of. But instead of waging a bloody war over Russia, China simply stroked Putin's ego and quest of power and subconsciously convinced him to annex the old Soviet lands China knew full well that Russia does not have the military might to capture and control Ukraine long term, much less other Soviet block countries. Furthermore, Chinese leaders and military planners would have foresaw the western response of economic isolation of Russia globally. All China had to do was align with Russia economically in trade and finance and they would own Russian after the Ukraine takeover fails.

The only winner in this war will be China. Russians will not speak Chinese in the near future, but their country and economy is sure to be controlled by China and the puppet regime that will replace Putin.

And there is nothing the west can do to prevent this now or in the future. China used misdirection on the west as well, leading the west to believe China's goal was a Taiwan takeover when in fact the real prize China was after was much bigger. And now the west will be too busy and preoccupied with rebuilding Ukraine to even realize that China won the war.

As China has done for thousands of years, they have quietly played the long game while everyone else only sees the immediate.

Wow. Very plausible. Give them enough rope like Pakistan or how many other African nations. Still though aside from pipelines for energy, any overland route for grains from major commodity producing areas is not practical vs Black Sea shipping. Across the urals in Asian Russia how productive are those areas closer to China? Not huge producers nor in highly productive areas there is lots of arable ground for soybeans.
Here’s a website which explains what I am talking about. https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/rs_cropprod.aspx

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Nice map... you can see why Putin wants Ukraine farmland......

https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/rs_cropprod.aspx

PS, I just put the internet address in the video film spot on the above control panel if you have a lap or desk top computer... that doesn't appear on my dumb phone....