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Ukraine war: Blinken says China may give weapons to Russia (+ flight tracking update: Chinese Air Force military transport plane en route to Russia right now...)
BBC ^ | 2/19/2023 | Samuel Horti

Posted on 02/19/2023 2:17:52 PM PST by marcusmaximus

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To: MeganC

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/china-control-over-your-prescription-drugs#:~:text=Most%20pharmaceuticals%20used%20in%20the,our%20relations%20with%20those%20countries.


41 posted on 02/19/2023 2:51:17 PM PST by crz
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To: MeganC

“ China wants to be sanctioned, too. That’s great news for the American job market as we take back the jobs we gave to China over the past thirty years.”
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You clearly lack understanding of the intent of the GLOBALISTS’ UKRAINE PROJECT and all the other globalist initiatives such as the “Anti-Whiteness” project, the Open Borders project, all the efforts to weaken the West economically, the dumbing down all levels of education. ABSOLUTELY ZERO OF THESE GLOBALIST INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS ARE AIMED AT CHINA.

So, PLEASE, educate yourself and don’t be so damned GULLIBLE!


42 posted on 02/19/2023 2:53:29 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: MeganC

There’s no way in the world the current gang of griftera in DC will sanction China. Heaven forbid they have to vacation at Burney Falls or Wally World instead of the Costa Del Sol or Qatar this summer.


43 posted on 02/19/2023 2:53:34 PM PST by skeeter
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To: dforest

Everything from clothes, shoes, electronics, tools, medicines, car parts, the vaunted N95 masks, rare earth mining, etc etc etc are made in China.
I wouldn’t even want to imagine how much of the value of Wall Street stock prices involves US global corporations factoring in their China investments. Then they hold a ton of our debt.

Sanctioning China is like shooting your assailant in the head, when your head is right beside theirs and in the path of the bullet.

That was something someone like Trump was smart enough to understand. But not this bunch of clowns.


44 posted on 02/19/2023 2:54:35 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MeganC

https://www.voanews.com/a/race-for-semiconductors-influences-taiwan-conflict-/6696432.html


45 posted on 02/19/2023 2:54:51 PM PST by crz
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To: dforest; BobL

Putin got the green light from Biden to invade Ukraine in a “minor incursion” in early NOVEMBER 2021

CIA director makes rare trip to Moscow for talks on Russia-US ties

CIA director William Burns is making a rare visit to Moscow to discuss US-Russia relations, the latest in a series of high-level contacts

A US Embassy spokesperson said Burns was leading a delegation of senior US officials to Moscow on Tuesday and Wednesday (2 and 3 November) at President Joe Biden’s request.

“They are meeting with members of the Russian government to discuss a range of issues in the bilateral relationship,” the spokesperson said.

Russia’s Security Council said Burns, a Russian-speaker and former ambassador to Moscow, held talks with Nikolai Patrushev, the council’s secretary and a former head of Russia’s FSB intelligence service.

Neither side gave details of the conversation, but security issues loom large in their troubled relationship.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/cia-director-makes-rare-trip-to-moscow-for-talks-on-russia-us-ties/


46 posted on 02/19/2023 2:54:52 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: dforest

“Leftists don’t think. They just assume all this stuff was easy peasey.”

Yep, and when they emptied out their arsenals, just to have it destroyed in Ukraine, they went to Radio Shack to buy replacement munitions and electronics...but we’re told that Radio Shack doesn’t make those items and that the factories that did make the electronics are now shopping centers on I-5.

Then they went to Smith and Wesson, figuring that a company that makes 22’s by the millions can simply scale-up a bit to 155’s. Once again, they got an answer they didn’t expect.

...and so we’re disarmed, Russia and China are allies, the Petro Dollar and Reserve Currency are TOAST, and Russia is in the process of obtaining FAR MORE of Ukraine than they wanted 12 months ago (when they only wanted Crimea).

Leave it to the Neocons to cause, yet, another TOTAL DISASTER, with this one being far worse than all of their other disasters combined.


47 posted on 02/19/2023 2:55:51 PM PST by BobL
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To: MeganC
"China wants to be sanctioned, too. That’s great news for the American job market as we take back the jobs we gave to China over the past thirty years."

Something to wish for, but those jobs likely will not be repatriated to American soil. Cheap labor is manufacturing holy grail. Any jobs shed by China will wind up elsewhere in SE Asia or Mexico.

48 posted on 02/19/2023 2:56:09 PM PST by buckalfa (The older I become, the more clearly I remember things that never happend ~~ Samuel Clemens)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

“China’s goal is to empty out NATO so they can swarm Taiwan.”

China isn’t that stupid. They will quietly undermine and install a friendly government, as in Hong Kong. When they land, it will be at the airport, and they will step out to a delegation greeting them.

Just watch.


49 posted on 02/19/2023 2:56:29 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: marcusmaximus

Russia, China sign roadmap for closer military cooperation

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2021/11/24/russia-china-sign-roadmap-for-closer-military-cooperation/


50 posted on 02/19/2023 2:58:42 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: dforest

“Biden did make such a remark. He wanted Russia to invade Ukraine to get the proxy war going.”

Thanks, well they did get their war. But they failed to understand a VERY BASIC tenet when it comes to starting wars - which is that there is NO WAY to know how it will end, as Japan, for example, learned in 1945.


51 posted on 02/19/2023 3:00:23 PM PST by BobL
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To: marcusmaximus
This is what happens when America sticks its nose into others countries’ business when there are zero national interests. This has escalated from a war that shouldn’t have happened to an ever growing war. We all know that the war would not have happened if Trump was president. The reason is clear. Trump was all about America first.

Now we have people urging the war on into a much wider conflict. Former MAGA supporters now side with Biden and the deep state. Yes, if you are for this war, you are no longer a MAGA supporter. A simple test proves you don’t care about America or every day Americans. Just identify how this war improves the life of any average everyday American. It doesn’t matter the which side is the victor. It doesn’t make anyone’s life better unless they benefit from the military industrial complex.

Supporters of Ukraine or Russia are the most amoral people on the planet. Or perhaps the most stupid people on the planet.

America: fighting Russia to the very last Ukrainian life. That’s about sums it up.

52 posted on 02/19/2023 3:00:40 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: MeganC

If the USA sanctioned China the same way we sanctioned Russia, the US economy would go into an immediate depression.

I’m all for cutting all ties with China, it’s going to take time, just think of the things that almost over night would be gone from store shelves.

Nearly all pharmaceuticals, many of them life saving, just think of all the antibiotics that save lives that would disappear.

Nearly all solar panels and lithium batteries, it wouldn’t bother me but car companies currently selling EVs would start laying off thousands of workers.

Go into any Walmart and see how many products come from China, eliminate all those products and Walmart one of the largest employers in the USA would get crushed and start laying off people by the 10s of thousands.

Electronics, no more iPhones and may other personal technology items.

And countless other items.

Could the US rebuild those supply chains, absolutely but it would take significant time and during the rebuilding millions of Americans would get devastated and the US economy would tank.


53 posted on 02/19/2023 3:01:20 PM PST by srmanuel
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To: marcusmaximus

So Biden did what the Paul-tard neo-isloationists wanted...basically said to Putin we didnt care if he invaded Ukraine. And Bush I did the what the neo-islolationist Paul-tards wanted to....April Glaspie told Saddam his dispute with Kuwait was not the US’s concern.

Two examples of isolationism gone bad...


54 posted on 02/19/2023 3:06:06 PM PST by FreshPrince
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To: marcusmaximus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi‘an_Y-20

Can carry 66 tons of artillery shells.


55 posted on 02/19/2023 3:06:24 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Sunsong

we don’t need to buy chinese products...

except for almost all pharmaceuticals ...


56 posted on 02/19/2023 3:07:17 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: srmanuel

Forget it. Talking to these are like talking to a stone.

And twice as dumb.


57 posted on 02/19/2023 3:08:49 PM PST by crz
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To: PIF

China might launder this weapons shipment through Turkey. We’ll know shortly.


58 posted on 02/19/2023 3:10:31 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: crz

Just think, we sanction China like we did Russia and then China dumps all their US treasuries crashing the worldwide bond market, causing Interest rates to become unpredictable.

Cutting off China is a great idea, it would take 10 years at a minimum, assuming we started tomorrow.


60 posted on 02/19/2023 3:14:15 PM PST by srmanuel
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