Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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@antoniomromo
That's a false equivalence.
Unlike Russia, the US did NOT assimilate Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia into US federal structure.
>Yugoslavia
9 February 1994: At UN request, NATO agreed to authorise air strikes, declared 20 km total exclusion zone around Sarajevo and required Bosnian Serbs to withdraw heavy weapons from zone or place them under UN control within 10 days; also called on Bosnian Government to place heavy weapons in Sarajevo under UN control. Agreement between 'RS' and Bosnian Government to a ceasefire in Sarajevo, negotiated by Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Rose, then Commander of UN forces in Bosnia.
UN Security Council through UNSCR 836 of 4 June 1994 authorizes the use of air power to defend the safe areas created by UN Security Council resolution 824 of 6 May 1993.
>Libya
NATO STOPPED the bloody civil war in Libya.
Putin STARTED the bloody war in Ukraine.
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 17 March 2011 in response to the First Libyan Civil War. The Security Council resolution was proposed by France, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom.
Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and win stupid prizes.
The US supported France(EU)'s and UK(EU)'s, and Lebanon's United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
NATO wasn't used until United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 since it was vetoed by Turkey.
>Iraq
Facts: Iraq started the hot war against Kuwait.
Iraq attempted to annex Kuwait. If a country attempted to annex another country, the invading country that attempted to enlarge its territory (expansionist nationalism) should be prepared to be annexed by another country. Don't cry to me about moral superiority when Iraq doesn't have this position in the first place!
If you can't handle the heat, don't start a hot war in the 1st place.
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>Poland is the only European country that never fell asleep concerning the Russians.
Poland is not the only European country that never fell asleep concerning the Russians e.g. Finland (e.g. conscripted army), the United Kingdom (i.e. nuclear weapons existence is against Russians, domestic military-industrial complex for producing warships, nuclear attack submarines, nuclear ballistic missile submarines, aircraft carriers/flat top LHDs, and Eurofighter Typhoon), Sweden (e.g. strong domestic military-industrial complex such as AT4, Saab's Viggen, and Gripen fighter aircraft, Kockums submarines).
Besides the United States, the United Kingdom or France can retaliate causing the end of mass life in Russia.
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@driesherreman6894
U.S. interventions in the Middle East area started from First Barbary War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
Conflict: U.S.A vs Islamic Ottoman Empire. U.S. is joined by the Kingdom of Sicily and Kingdom of Sweden
Goals: Stopping Ottoman's slavery on US trade.
Both Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Sweden have pre-existing conflicts against the Ottoman Empire's slaving Europeans.
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In March 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). When they enquired "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied:
It was written in their Koran, (that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise). He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.[25]
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This is an existing "old world" issue.
The 1st Barbary War leads to the U.S creating the Department of Navy, anti-slavery direction, and infamous freedom of navigation foreign policy.
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@jasonm949 >How many countries has the US invaded vs Germany?
>Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden's group executed multiple strikes inside the US.
>Libya
NATO STOPPED the bloody civil war in Libya.
Putin STARTED the bloody war in Ukraine.
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 17 March 2011 in response to the First Libyan Civil War. The Security Council resolution was proposed by France, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom.
The US supported France's, Lebanon's, and the United Kingdom's United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and win stupid prizes.
>Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq STARTED the bloody war in Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992 <---- note the 1992 year.
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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@claudiopereira9900 Against "Russia invaded the territory of Poland, the Polish government in exile agreed" claim.
This is false.
The Polish government in exile, Mikołajczyk and his colleagues in the Polish government-in-exile insisted on making a stand in the defense of Poland's pre-1939 eastern border (retaining its Kresy region) as a basis for the future Polish-Soviet border.
Churchill is a realist who didn't support Mikołajczyk's demands since the UK is unable to fight a war on two fronts. The fight against USSR was inherited by the post-WW2 superpower US. After WW2 and the creation of the Five Eyes alliance, the US inherited most of the UK's foreign policy positions e.g. alliance with Saudi Arabia, and distrust of the Russians.
After WW2, exiled Polish government continued its struggles against USSR until the fall of the USSR.
In December 1990, when Lech Wałęsa became the first non-Communist president of Poland since the war, he received the symbols of the Polish Republic (the presidential banner, the presidential and state seals, the presidential sashes, and the original text of the 1935 Constitution) from the last president of the government in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski. In 1992, military medals and other decorations awarded by the government in exile were officially recognized in Poland.
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@matejtanko5117 Non-NATO Finland has Israeli design strike weapons with a 400 km range. Finland has PTSD against Russia. Perhaps Finland should buy Israel's Popeye Turbo SLCM with a 1500 km range. As long Russia sells missile tech to Israel's opponents, Israel will keep selling its missile tech to Eastern European countries.
Unlike in 1956, Israel is a nuclear-armed state.
Note the existence of independent nuclear weapons from US allies such as the UK, France, and Israel. The trigger is the 1956 Suez Canal crisis when the Soviets have threaten to nuke Britain, France, and Israel without US nuclear weapons coverage.
Russian-dominated USSR's threaten to nuke non-nuclear states and the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons coverage have made the argument for independent nuclear weapons armed US allies!
The Falklands War reveals the US will NOT defend UK's territorial integrity. The US will only defend its own and common interest with Saudi and Kuwaiti oil. France and UK also have a common interest in Saudi and Kuwaiti oil.
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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Ireland's GDP is similar to Singapore's GDP.
From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated nanny state savings) funds vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member)
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member)
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member)
(I don't have data for NZ)
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
CANZUK group total: $8,977 billion estimate.
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3%
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5%
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, EU is promoting the Netherlands as a UK replacement. A long way to go.
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks the strategic mandated savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3%
North America
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9%
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9% <--------
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3% <--------
Total for China: $484 billion
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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@qinby1182 My "Australia doesn't exploit its mineral wealth like China's raw materials to the manufacturing chain" context based on the following news articles
From WSJ
Date: Aug. 15, 2010
Title: After securing Rare-Earth monopoly, China Dangles Rare-Earth Resources to Lure Investment
BEIJING—China is cautiously using rare-earth resources as bait for foreign investment that could bring in sophisticated technologies that it needs.
Industry and government officials have begun talking about a Chinese government plan to offer access to its rare-earth resources—which are used in products such as hybrid-car batteries and missiles and are under strict export restrictions—to get companies including electronics manufacturers and auto makers to set up rare-earth-processing plants in China.
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My comment: China has a government policy that enforces manufacturing located in China when using China's rare earth.
Setting up the leverage to use China's rare earth .
From Graphite Publications article from 2010.
Title: Will chinas Outrageous Rare Earth Monopoly Persist
Year Date: 2010.
Heavy importers of these REEs such as the U.S., Germany, and Japan believe these rationales disguise China’s true exploitative motive: to force foreign factories to move to China to keep their costs low and their supply high
Second, importing countries have been concerned with the agglutination of Chinese mining companies in what appears to be a calculated move to make China’s monopoly even more monopolistic. Most prominently, Bao Gang Rare Earth (BGRE), a state-owned REE company forcibly merged with four smaller companies and numerous smaller companies were shut down to create a monopoly in Northern China which accounts for two-thirds of China’s output. Moreover, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) decreed minimum production thresholds for domestic companies in early August 2012, essentially truncating the smallest REE producers as well as with 20% of China’s rare earths capacity.
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Your argument and mindset are simplistic, NOT holistic. You're stupid while China is smart.
Australia's increase in rare earth exports is relatively recent and backed by the Australian government's $2 billion state loan facility (Sep 2021) for Australian critical minerals projects.
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