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Sorry for not responding and answering you shortly after in this thread, I was busy going out and making arrangements with some friends and going out and planning what I was going to do for the next exam term I have in September - that I took up my time the day before and yesterday - and I didn't want to write and answer you in the late evening and night hours here because I was unsure of what the exact difference in the timezone hourly gap is and the fact that I didn't want to bother you checking up message threads in the night hours, and also the fact that I felt a little bit too much exhausted and tired after those days to think and write long and in-depth Hope you can relate and understand! Interesting. I had a discussion with a friend the other day who is a bit of a know about, about this topic, about the context of relatively recent historical events in Iraqi politics, and he told me if I understood correctly that this al-Sadr guy had acquired a religious status of an ayatollah himself in the context of the Shiite faith if that is true from religiological and factographic perspective and not a false assumption and claim, and implicit backing of Iran up until a point. He also told me that because of the relative power vacuum leftover by the devastation of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and the role of Iranian Quds Revolutionary Guard Special Forces in militarily defeating it and dismantling it, that as a result of the aftermath of that, Iran has, and the overall type of its Shiite-dominated religious cleric government there, garnered a relatively very popular and favorable status among the Shiite population of Iraq, to the point that Iranian Revolutionary Guard regular and special forces are allowed and almost implicitly understood in an informal agreement, between them and the populace and their religious militia there, to be able to almost pass virtually unchallenged, unrestrictedly and without a bat of an eye through the borders of Shiite religious regions of Iraq going straight through them then into Syria and Lebanon if they so wish, with some minimum border checks and regulations there between Iraq and Iran in those said regions. So it seems like at a cursory glance at what you explained to me and wrote that that al-Sadr guy maybe is in some ways possibly more deeply connected and in touch with the religious power structures currently residing in Iran and maybe using them as a sort of legitimization tool and conduit for garnering approval and support for his Shiite follower base in Iraq, if I am not too mistaken to assume and speculate that, albeit without any solid proof or evidence from my side still backing that claim, on a relatively still flimsy and loose connection and hypothesis. Perhaps he was just testing the waters for his support among the Iraqi Shiite population overall with that call to that armed uprising brief attempt and stunt of his and to maybe see how far willing is Iran also ready to go to possibly back him and support him. Maybe the storming government and officials building's stunt was an attempt at a show of loyalty to Iran? Possibly? Maybe? Perhaps? And also to send a clear message maybe to his rivals among his Shiite support base in Iraq of how much influence and support he really has among them and to whom they are willing enough to truly support, back, and make daring stunts and attempts for, through a show of a general call to an uprising among that part of the population. But if the oil flow export continuity is the sine qua non for the stability generally for the mutual respect for plurality and degrees of tolerance and mutual co-operative co-existence of Iraqi politics, as you say, I don't think, IMO, just shared concerns and economic survival interests alone of continuing to reap the benefits indefinitely, and without a further plan for future economic transformation, transition and also further re-organization and re-structuring, of that type of that raw material and natural resources export-heavy and intensive dependent economy can be the only predictable binding factor there if there are sudden eruptions and disruptions in the world market for that, not indefinite guarantee for stability there to be suddenly pulled like a rug underneath the stability for the whole political scene there if some massive changes and transitions happen in the meantime on the world demand market or some massive world economic organization crisis erupts in the years to come. But hopefully, it doesn't soon and the worst possible imagined outcomes don't come to pass, and some people like yourself still have plenty enough time left in the meantime to keep their options open for elsewhere, for temporary residency or migration in the world for example, until things would stabilize themselves there and truly transform the diverse, and often at conflicting interests odds, society there and solidify for good, to make Iraq a very wanted and sought after destination and a prosperous region like some other states in the Middle East. Hopefully, I wish for that to come to pass as soon as possible rather than later for you as well!

If that is even a partially true personal assessment, then Israel and Saudi Arabia could go a long way in dismantling and ending the Apartheid of Palestinians and reforming/or abolishing their backward dynastic monarchy that launches aggressive and brutal military and economic blockade campaigns on their smaller, religious minority southern neighbors respectively, in counteracting that Shia extremist ideology allegedly all coming from Iran, as a central operating hub for it, from having any fertile soil, fuel, basis or appeal as protector of Shias across the Middle East from having even half of the influence that it now has. Also, don't forget the role of Saudi Arabia has had and still has to an extent in acting as a tacit financial and ideological platform for a time in spreading and promoting Sunni extremism and fundamentalism not just in the Middle East but also in parts of Africa, Europe and Central Asia.

Thanks first and foremost, for answering back and responding, so that we know that you are doing fine and that you are okay! Very glad to hear from you, that everything is alright there personally with you in terms of physical safety and security. Be in no rush or hurry to comment, write and try to explain things or in detail there for us immediately, only when you are personally ok and feel like it! BTW will always be there for the solidarity Meso!

These are my notes and excerpts from the Understanding Modern Power Dynamics in Contemporary Russia from the Kotkin video lecture on the tendency of the historical nature of U.S. - Russia relations. Here is the 37-minute-long video which the notes were taken from: And here are the notes in the pdf. the file was taken from that video regarding the four-point analytical framework for understanding Russia and Russian power and relation to the West through the ages: Analytical Framework for Understanding Power Dynamics in Russian History by US Historian Stephen Kotkin 1.pdf

I have watched a lecture by US-based historian Stephen Kotkin on his proposed analytical framework for explaining and understanding the phenomena of the emergence of authoritarianism in politics worldwide and the implications of such for geopolitics. I have also watched some other of Leo's videos on Authority and their presentation of a wide deconstruction and explanation of where the metaphysical, mental power of authority lies inside one's ego-mind and the collective unconscious ego-mind from beforehand, as underlying cultural mental software programming, and have memorized some aspects then of his explanation of how this dynamic manifests in wider societal structures, norms, and beliefs - the cohesive unity of which inside one's mental programming underpins the existence of the societal matrix understood and experienced as a real, reality-based hard and tangible phenomena. I have found that this lecture by US Historian Kotkin, in my personal understanding, also crisscrosses and inter-laps with some of the themes and explanations that Leo has given there in the series of those Actualized.org videos on Authority on the basis on which aspects of modern authoritarianism in mostly the social and the political, and to a lesser extent the economic sphere, it chooses to give most credence and attention on in some part of its analytical narrowing down to and deconstruction of the causations, origins, and maintenances of such socio-political systems. I will post my notes and excerpts that I have taken from this lecture by Kotkin here in a Word file and also the whole video lecture itself to those interested in the original sources of the notes: Also, I will later also post and publish, when I finish taking and compiling the notes from that video, the analytical framework on modern political authoritarianism that Kotkin uses for explaining the political state in contemporary Russia and its historical-genesis underpinnings beforehand based on his interpretation of its understanding of its history, culture, and politics. I do all this in hopes of sparking a productive discussion on this sub-section of the forum, which will interplay a lot of elements and factors at once from SD psycho-developmental theory, history, and current geo-political economic power realities in the world, in hopes of arriving on some answers of how one is to interpret them and approach them best in order get the best possible understanding and grasp of them from a personal-adaptive perspective and how one is the position one-self most strategically and consciously in the world in order to try to deal with, avoid and adapt to their reckoning and potential consequences, repercussions, and overall end results. Thanks to anyone for being willing to try to understand my intentions regarding my engagement with and showing interest and partial mental pre-occupation with these topics and anyone who is willing to engage and spend their time on the discussion of this topic and theme in this thread, if it, of course, proves sufficiently fruitful, productive, useful, interesting for those participating in it and kicks-off ''Once upon a time, there was a seductive story about twin revolutions, a political one in France and an industrial one in Britain, that supposedly ushered in our modern world. This narrative never sat well with empirical realities, yet it lives on in textbooks. What might be a more persuasive framework for a global history of the modern era? What are the implications for research and the teaching of history?'' The lecture by Kotkin starts at the minute time stamp of 3:44. Notes and Excerpts from this Lecture as pdf. file: (I will do the same for the analytical framework for Understanding Authoritarianism in Russia, through domestic power politics, geopolitics, and socio-historical-civilizational narratives) I can of course re-edit this file and re-post it again if some express a desire and concern for it to do so for the sake of increased clarity in taking notes from it yourself and reading from it. Understanding Modern Authoritarianism in Politics by US Historian Stephen Kotkin 1.pdf

This is almost pure comedic gold with the way they actually managed to edited in the snipets from clips of him actually talking, claiming and saying that stuff unironically to fit in almost perfectly organically and naturally into the whole meme video ? I lol-ed so hard and beyond actual belief at the sparkling water claim actually unironically coming out of his mouth as an actually seemingly serious statement and claim xD?? "Wearing sun glasses indoors" xD?

Seems to me and sounds like taking a cursory glance at his personal known history and known current following that he is really an exceptionally Andrew "Taint" influence on the new younger generations and male youth or frustrated or unaccomplished males in general xD?. I'd personally wager that if a person with a current personality and psychology akin to that of Andrew Taint was born and raised in Serbia as a tabula rasa individual in his starting class bracket that he would eventually very soon go onto become a full-fledged serial criminal offender or professional con artist here, get involved in some criminal extortion gang, or some well-known international bank and jewelry store robbers gang here at the very best of his professional criminal career potential given his seeming personal intelligence, talents and skills, or get involved within a criminal drug dealers and trafficking cartel, simply with the way he is opting and choosing to navigate, behave, operate, interpret and treat life and other human beings and socio-economic conditions in it with the life-conditions he has been given with (aka Spiral Dynamics stage Red blatant and brutal common criminality and criminalism would come immediately bursting through just if we would have tweaked his life conditions and cultural upbringing a bit where he would have been originally brought up in, especially with this country [Serbia] still in the process of reconciling with it's brutal war, economic, social and cultural relatively recent past - where a lot of personal self-awareness is even more needed to become a decent human being and individual, and not immediately go the easier route and spiral into common crime and criminality at the first tough intersection in life in order to acquire material wealth, influence, social status and power here asap for social fame, status and prestige collective tribal egoic ("traditional") values and reasons xD?) I am also taking into account, of course, when positing this personal assessment claim, that he arrived in another relatively more developed and bigger Balkan EU member state (which Serbia still isn't) Romania as an already relatively rich and self-made man from his personal material, carrer exposure and fame success in the U.K. prior.

A simple folk wisdom morality punitive action application to quickly go around these attempts of legal shenanigans for and by Trump if he tries to invoke his "First Amendment rights" regarding his freedoms as a retired high office holder, now private citizen to sell state secrets about state-of-the-art nuclear weapons and technology to a foreign aboslute monarchical power that he got in a private, corrupt incestuous relationship and deal with as the highest bidder and most favored client dealership with for acquiring and getting them new state-of-the-art nukes and secret, classified nuclear tech to aid and benefit the dynastic Kingdom, for whom he now seemingly serves as a self-appointed squire too under their peerage and tutelage. It's from the Simply must be killed (Egyptian Mujahideen) guy school of legalist thought: BTW imo in one of the most personally crucial brief time stamp moments of the video that you linked and shared with us above here, about the basic U.S. legal explanations of the seemingly basic looking requirements and pre-conditions behind the fairly straightforward looking and seemingly simple step-by-step process and actual procedure when it comes to formally and officially de-classifying state secret, classified documents from 19:17 to 20:17, only shows to demonstrate the staggering almost unimaginable levels of the sheer and utter horrority of borderline pure negligence and incompetence involved on part of the supposedly former official head and leader and appointed staff of an actual voted-in and former elected US state admin, to even come close to with even a slightest modicum of effort, efficency and competence at least try to be able to effectively cover-up the severity of some of one's own crimes and corrupt dealings, and not getting afterwards and in the end busted on stuff such as not taking a brief moment of one's life's work time to cross over with a pen, marker or do it in an electronic Word file equivalent of an e-file copy to be then printed again as an official paper document or to try to put anywhere at least one (or however much of them is the legally required absolute minimum in U.S. law) declassified stamp on the classification markers on classified, sensitive state secret documents properly to mark them as officially de-classified, in order not to get prosecuted for that type of existing criminal offense under U. S. law of holding unto illegally in private possession of sensitive classified state documents pertaining to nuclear secrets and tech for personal, private (possibly deal secure) usage that you even failed to, of some of them that that can be done to at least, properly declassify within the reign of your former power or notify about it to the relevant authorities and turn in all in time after multiple legal requests?‍♂️.

Typical Oceanianist way of thinking about this ?

Quick two questions if you of course, sorry, by chance know off the bat and if I am not pestering too much as an outsider on much of the info I don't know about the US federal and customs legal system: 1. How many citizenships can one acquire and have at one time, apart from his own naturalized US citizen one, while living in the US? 2. Of which countries are the two passports that Trump has/had or acquired in some point of his life, was it solely on the basis of having property there or on being proclaimed an honorary citizen in some as a reward for his lobbying for them. I heard theories and speculation that the first one was either Russia, on the basis of having had some property there, or Israel, because of the excess of lobbying for them. and that the second one was Saudia Arabia, because of having some property there and also because of his excess of lobbying for them on some deals vital to some sectors of their industry and economy. Is it just empty speculation based on uncomplete knowledge, or is there some truth or validity behind those claims of those being some of the possible theories behind the origin and seizure of three passports (one now expired) that he has/had?

He is too busy with dealing pedagogically and sternly parentally\paternally with Kane at the moment and those possessed by his spirit that draws confused minds to the Luciferian ideologies... [that are [those unspecified confused minds that fit that unspecified definition and criteria], according to his words, in the long run only partially possessed, and in the ideal - fully redeemable!] Trump is probably somewhere at the bottom of his bucket list of concerns of immediate dangers and threats for the future of humanity and world peace at this point:

"In 2011, Prince Turki al-Faisal, who has served as the Saudi intelligence chief and as ambassador to the United States has suggested that the kingdom might consider producing nuclear weapons if it found itself between the atomic arsenals of Iran and Israel. In 2012, it was confirmed that Saudi Arabia would launch its own nuclear weapons program immediately if Iran successfully developed nuclear weapons. In such an eventuality, Saudi Arabia would start work on a new ballistic missile platform, purchase nuclear warheads from overseas and aim to source uranium to develop weapons-grade material. Officials in the U.S. alliance believe Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have an understanding in which Islamabad would supply the kingdom with warheads if security in the Persian Gulf was threatened. A U.S. official told The Times that Riyadh could have the nuclear warheads in a matter of days of approaching Islamabad. Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Naeem Khan, was quoted as saying that "Pakistan considers the security of Saudi Arabia not just as a diplomatic or an internal matter but as a personal matter." Naeem also said that the Saudi leadership considered Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to be one country. Any threat to Saudi Arabia is also a threat to Pakistan. Other vendors were also likely to enter into a bidding war if Riyadh indicated that it was seeking nuclear warheads. Both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have denied the existence of any such agreement. Western intelligence sources have told The Guardian that the Saudi monarchy has paid for up to 60% of the Pakistan's atomic bomb projects and in return has the option to buy five to six nuclear warheads off the shelf. In March 2018, the crown prince said if Iran decided to build a nuclear weapon, "we will follow suit as soon as possible". This prompted U.S. Senator Ed Markey to comment "nuclear energy in Saudi Arabia is about more than just electrical power", implying Saudi Arabia was interested in nuclear power to gain the skills to be able to develop weapons. This potentially reduces the probability of a nuclear deal with the U.S. In May 2018, Al Jazeera media reported the statement from the former director of Al Arabiya TV, Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, who wrote in the Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper an article while accompanying Prince Mohammed bin Salman on his recent visit to Washington that no one can confirm if Saudi Arabia is capable of building a nuclear weapon yet. However, the news former director has pointed out that Riyadh owns uranium materials in its desert, and has adopted a plan to extract it within 2030. In March 2019, Donald Trump's administration approved a deal allowing Saudi Arabia to access to nuclear secrets through the U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, with an approval known as Part 810 authorizations. Although it doesn't allow to access equipment required to process Uranium, it allows the 6 companies involved to keep their authorization be withheld from public release and evading the Congress about the information shared with the Kingdom. It was also reported that Saudi Arabia did not sign up to halt the enrichment of uranium, reprocessing of spent fuel and neither signed the 123 Agreement with the United States. Saudi Arabia constructed a facility for extracting uranium yellowcake from uranium ore with the help of China. According to a western official, the facility was built near the remote town of AlUla. Saudi Arabia has signed the most limited safeguard agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. On 17 September 2020, The Guardian reported Saudi Arabia of being in possession of enough uranium ore reserves to produce 90,000 tonnes worth of uranium. It stated the finding on the basis of the reports compiled by the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology (BRIUG) and the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), in association with Saudi Geological survey. As per the reports, three different deposits in the central and northwest region of the country were reported to be potential for the extraction. The disclosure reportedly increased concerns regarding Riyadh’s aggressive interest in developing atomic weapons program. In this report geologists identified some reserves near the controversial Neom megacity development are and estimated that Saudi could produce over 90,000 tonnes of uranium from three deposits." And also one should keep in mind that: The Trump admin almost immediately withdrew at the beginning of their term from the JCPOA agreement with Iran for monitoring, capping and containing their uranium enrichment processes at their nuclear research facilities for development of possible weapons grade uranium compatible for nuclear warheads and their payloads, upon assuming office. As if they knew how the Saudi officials and their regime said they would respond in that case if Irans nuclear development program resumes no longer bound by any international legal mechanism enforcement and oversight agreements with some tinge of shared authority, legitimacy and control and being effectively now mostly uninhibited henceforth and that they [the Saudis] would be searching rampantly for needed more advanced nuclear tech for swift development of their own nuclear weapons program to keep the pace or have the advantages over the Iranian one, triggering, finding an a excuse and precursor for another fueling of a new nuclear arms race in the Middle East - by doing this needless further antagonization move to create a rushed manufactured, artifical demand for such [weapons] in order to profit-off of personally by getting involved in it directly as a facilitator of such [backdoor deals] by possibly using shady, corrupt private backdoor insurance dealings, understandings and agreements routs. This is what I speculate with my limited available information and by connecting the dots using some common sense logic and my limited knowledge of the existence of potential prior vested interests and conflict-of-interests involved in this case and prior dealings that this current mainstream popular perception of a major US national scandal and controversy is all most likely maybe about.

To be fair even they had some more compelling justifications and reasons why they did this in their era and time period (apart from being hard-line ideologically committed communists then and NKVD/KGB assets) i.e. the delicate atomic and then nuclear balance of power between superpowers issues during the Cold War. But in today's world if this turns out to be due to just corrupt dealings and bribery with a country that is much less developed (politically, culturally and institutionally wise), reliable, stable and less deserving of a responsible big power status (war of attrition with genocidal and famine characteristics and economic blockade launched against Yemen and Yemenis civilians and people, their newborn babies and children by extension and rebels being a peak example), then that is even worse offsetting a delicate balance of power in a region that is already myred in tensions, potential future new wars and conflicts and still filled to the brim with sectarian, fundamentalist and extremist worldviews, with cataclysmic and catastrophic consequences if you potentially add the unchecked, unfettered proliferation of the nuclear weapons component adding massive extra new added layers on top of more insecurities, anxieties, paranoia, skepticisms and mistrusts and distrusts to it and to the world.

"Trump's Pledge of Allegiance and Oath of Loyalty Song accompanying him in court."

As a non-native English speaker learning around my way with the language I find that compliment and appraisal of yours very dear to my heart. Thank you very much for those kind and encouraging words ??

This parody edited videos of JP gives me OAN (One American News) schizophrenia vibes with an added touch of a slow but steady descent into absolutely bonkers conspiracy theories induced insanity and paranoia on steroids LOL ?

Jordan Peterson also gave his "measured", "calm", "reasonable", "sensible", "rational" "non-veiled threatening" and "non-ominous" real-time warning, reaction and response to this whole supposed "national scandal and controversy" and it's possible "repercussions" and "consequences" on the William Frank Hour Show:

No unfortunately I mean intimidate, by a show of sovereign Chinese military force and presence around Taiwan, the Taiwanese Chinese into seeing that the only safe, secure and reliable option for their continued economic and cultural prosperity that they uniquely constructed for their island and it's long-term future is to re-join with the Mainlander's into a One China international legal framework by a show and display of consequences of what will happen if they instead pursue their independent island dependent on others superpowers and alliance's military might presence to defend them policy and let it become a zone for a new proxy or even full-blown war over political and economic power and influence with the US and some other coalition forces powers in their attempt to contain China's expansion of influence in the region and the abroad.

Which current percentage of the whole population of the PRC do you think can be described to fall into that category, remember communists and nationalists there on this issue extremely overlap, - what maybe 70-80% of the almost one billion and few hundred million population or even a larger percentage of that. In fact I would bet that virtually every Chinese person in the Mainland thinks Mainland China and Taiwan should/and will eventually become one unified Chinese country and settle their differences in a negotiated manner at some point gradually in the future, whether sooner or later in the future, whether peacefully or by forced hand force. There are I guess micro percentages in regards to numbers of people there in Mainland China currently regardless of demographics who see Taiwan becoming some weird independent island on the border close to them also inhabited mainly by some Chinese people. And also don't forget there are also plenty of nationalists currently in Taiwan as well who don't make a small, insignificant percentage of the voting bloc who mainly back the now still majority in Parliament long-running traditional KMT party who want to become a part of a One Republic of China and reunify again with the Mainland but under a different regime than the one politically monopolistically run and with the majority power and influence allocated exclusively to the CPC.

Well, Russia did that for a few years as well in it's Southern Rostov-on-Don Military Command District, conducting yearly military and troop exercises on the border close to Ukraine, before it eventually decided to pick a date of it's choosing to eventually militarily invade and try to by military force do a regime-change operation within that country.

I found this next video to be even more elucidating and illuminating as an analysis of the personality and psychology of the psychologist Jordan Peterson and the substance and intricate mazed meaning behind his lectures, work, and teachings. Here Jordan Peterson talks about: ''Jordan Peterson informs you and General Jack Granger about the effects and dangers of Liquid Tiberium weaponry.''

Yeah, tell that to Yemen and Yemenis now currently while you are at it with that one-sided and myopic distorted claim and Iran that may face soon a joint Israel, Saudi, and US comprehensive plan of air bombing raid aggression on its nuclear research facilities and nuclear-powered plants. The latter one coupled with a Taiwan war may actually cause the Great Reset to really become a full-fledged thing and a force in the world because of the catastrophic and world-quake shaking-tectonic moving consequences of that on the fossil fuel shipments and markets - if Iran's regime survives it and becomes even more likable and likely as result that it will almost go immediately into a political, trading bloc with China and Russia - and there you have a bloc world and it's affairs - Orwell would truly be rolling in his grave at all of the countries that engaged, aided and helped to make that fantasy hypothetical totalitarian future and world of his, because of their overwhelmingly blinding bias, myopia, and internal un-principality, un-integrity, and hypocrisy, into an actual self-fulfilling prophecy close-resembling reality. https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/war-with-iran?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Yes, it is. But so are the US and other westernized countries on other players in the world market, who still support, at least in formal proclamations, the One China Two Systems policy. And also the US can't then afford to start a war with another country in the meantime, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, at the behest and request of its other very-principled and values-sharing and embodying allies in the Middle East such as the Apartheid State of Israel, or the Absolute Monarchy of the Dynastic Family of Saud in Arabia, while it's doing a decoupling from and full economic blockade of the whole of the billion people Chinese economy. It leaves the US at a time also in a really vulnerable state, since it cannot immediately decouple from and completely transition from fossil fuels dependency in the Middle East overnight if Iran for example declares a blockade in the Hormuz Strait in the Persian Gulf where currently 17% of the world's oil passes through as a result of defending itself from the joint aggression from the Apartheid State of Israel and the Absolute Monarchy of Saudia Arabia with US military aid and support from their casus belli excuse for their long-planned regime-change in Iran because of the accusation to prevent Iran from secretly developing uranium enriched nuclear warheads ever since it got kicked out from the JCPOA agreement negotiations in 2016-17 by the former US president Trump. Never mind the fact that Russia-China-Iran are working on forming their own self-reliant trading bloc, an Axis of Resistance if you will, in order to hope to stick together and survive together and plow through the hardships of those possible blockades, attacks, and sanctions carried out jointly on them by their geopolitical or regional rivals or economic and political rivals. And there as a result of duplicity, un-principality, and unpredictability of the US and some other westernized countries' myopic policies overwhellmingly and disproportionately being biased against towards some countries and not some others that may be even more culpable and being representative of being guilty of that same thing and even much more worse as such and their unwillingness to stick to any kind of international principle governing affairs in the long-term but changing them like socks depending on their own power-politics current mood for maintaining a sense of self-benefiting control, hegemony and status quo stability - and even worse condemning and resisting first the notion of power politics being engaged by anyone else in a globalized inter-connected world but then mulling for and deciding in engaging in them anyway when it suits them in a moment in an intricate masqueraded and deceptive languges versions of them as such when they think it is necessary for them and their privelleged put-on-a-pedestal above others allies immediately afterwards when instant or opportunity for that emerges to be seized for their own benefit, you would have a literal Eurasian Axis of countries or bloc or political alliance forming on the world stage - the world would literally become almost overnight the embodiment of Orwell's dread geopolitical fantasies overnight with Oceanian and Eurasian countries blocs existing separately for some time on the world stage - woefully segregated and compartmentalized.

Most of the right and the left in the US and some other western nations are currently in perfect alignment and sync when it comes to this issue. Their only difference is currently in the degree of political correctness in which they each approach it - The Right more unabashedly Sinophobic overall and the Left more anti-authoritarian non-western imperialist resistant overall at least in theory when it comes to this particular case and issue involving another powerful nation challenging US military hegemonic presence and ambitions in some region in the world. The issue isn't if Taiwan in current reality is really functioning as an independent nation, state, country, island, etc. it is what that functioning entails for US/West-China relations. You can say Hong Kong functioned and still functions to a degree as an autonomous entity and system within China - its own laws, self-reliant system, etc. - with not much political liberty to do absolutely what they want independent of PRC concerns - and yet when the sh#t hit the fan during the 2019 Hong Kong independence protests, you could see young Chinese Hong Kongers openly calling for US military intervention in their city-state and hostilely waving Trump campaign flags in hopes the US military will somehow come there and do something to stop the PRC not signing it's new citizen extradition laws into effect encapsulating also Hong Kong. The same goes for Taiwan, if it's independent, what kind of independence does that entail, is it the Singaporean neutrality trading hub kind of independence or more like the American Guam kind of semi-independence - with the US Pacific Fleet warships circling on shift around the island and strait just a few hundred kilometers from Chinese Mainland territorial waters 24/7. In other words, is it going to effectively allow itself when it declares independence to effectively become another US military base and airstrip in some areas for the potential of allowing easy air raids into China in order to have some control and leverage over it in order for the US not to risk to lose out to China in the long run perhaps politically and economically in some parts of the world where it competes with it? Also, what's that Chinese Taiwanese identity going to be based around on - being exclusively Anti-Mainland Chinese, anti-socialist and anti-communist, anti-CPC, anti-Beijing centralism as a negationist kind of identity ("If not this then that, if not that then this. We are not that, hence by not being that we have to be this which really is the most possible this that is not that (overcompensanting unique identity investment and mongering in short of being a Taiwanese Chinese - different, unique, better and superiority complex superior in every way than being and having being designated of having one Mainland Chinese identity like every else Chinese in Mainland China), especially it must be different from that in every possible way - not of course mention that this becomes again extremely mired in yet another opposing dualities deliberately clashing against each other and mutually deceptively thinking they are exclusive to each other purely for the maintenance of opposition's sake in which that type of identity can exist at all and flourish - "precisely because we are not anything like that we are this - look how different, unique and special we are from it - unintentionally creating a values placement hierarchy in terms of worth and significance appraisal") in that we are Taiwanese Chinese settlers or indigenous Taiwanese precisely because we don't want to be and are not like those Mainland Chinese, even though we are essentially very similar culturally and linguistically wise, we are special and different from them, don't want to be the same as them, even though no one is advocating complete Borg-like assimilation under the One China Two Systems Policy as far as I know, and we don't want to have to do anything with them even though we are also a type of Chinese. So in order to achieve that we are going to swing the pendulum to another extreme, we are going to strive to become 100% unabashedly pro-Western and US-aligned on every and most issues in the world to safeguard our specialness by becoming an essentially a supply-chain slush fund for them for getting easy market access to the semi-conductor and chip production global monopoly that we established on our island and they will repay us in kind by allowing us to become a part of their immobile island aircraft carrier fleets against their current adversaries - screw the Mainland Chinese we never had or don't want to have anything to do with them - even though we are just a few hundred kilometers away from them - and also screw any sort of pretense of guaranteed neutrality and de-militarized policy in order not to cause tensions or frictions in the wider region, and ultimately global and international market massive shocks and instabilities and the disruption of it's it's weirdly placed supply chains of some essentials that keep this type of a global digital economy running smoothly. Also, why are we still then waving the ROC flag everywhere all around then, as a state-official flag, as that lays claim to the whole of the PRC territory then, while we are calling and advocating for more US presence and support around our island while we claim we just now want to stay and be an independent island inhabited by mainly a type of Chinese with differing political views and beliefs on China and Chinese history as a whole while we wave and show that flag everywhere around - interesting how that looks from the Mainland Chinese point of view optics wise still. And what's more interesting with that flag what you will achieve the most is to claim to be another type of China on an island, but still, essentially lay claim to being Chinese, and laying claim to Chinese culture, history, identity, and representation at international politics gatherings worldwide. This is as well another important part of the unstable and long term unsustainable tense ambivalence of the underlying political schizophrenicity behind and involved in the whole of this situation, it's deeply long- running identity crisis issue and the problem of how it is referred and approached in the majority of the world and some differing parts of it internationally also surrounding the status of Taiwan, of what Taiwan actually is, was or it ought to be in the future and become, it's relations and relationship to the rest of Mainland China. Since rarely almost, as far as I know, no political state and country in history on this planet involving a maintaining of a distinct identity and culture of humans can long stand, bare with and reconcile with the fact or possibility of the dilema and duality of there being two of it, almost exactly the same, existing at the same time each independently on their own, and if each of them laying claim to each other as being the only possible, real, truthful and/or legitimate one politically out of the two for the whole of all the distinct culture of people's they encompass and are supposed to be a universal nation or a home country representative of all of them internationally, especially if they are bordering each other. Do you mean they've been preparing and conducting military exercises for several decades now to invade and occupy that island? Since it always has been a sore thumb for them to have a parallel Chinese government-in-exile lay claim to the whole of the political and territorial legitimacy of their newly constructed and unified country and also what other powerful nations got involved to prop up the legitimacy and maybe even offer to help that Chinese government-in-exile make and realize their dreams to become one day a reality for them to be the new regime and legitimate government for the whole of territory encompassing Mainland China today since they can lay claim to that on the basis of claiming that they are also the nation, government, and state for all of the Chinese people and representing them all as a nation and nationality worldwide. Nancy Pelosi was most likely the most chosen to do the visit after all also in large part as she was a figure that was involved in ''pro-democracy protests and movements'' from their early days and start all across China for decades now. She also got briefly involved with supporting the Tiananmen democracy activists' protests in '89 by appearing there together with some of the protestors. And that is most likely in large part why I see that she was probably chosen to do this Taiwan stunt, as she was supposed to be the most seemingly 'un-aggressive and un-hostile' long-running term American official figurehead that has a history of advocating for 'pro-democracy, independence and self-determination movements' with anything relating to China and the Chinese - and that is supposed to soften the blow as to the underlying provocativeness and aggressiveness of the timing of this seeming Taiwan visit by a US official, especially from a 'sweet and cute old lady' figure such as her, that she is only supporting for the seeming maintenance of quote-on-quote democracy and independence of the Taiwan island and to reignite remembrance using her as a figurehead representative that the US government and military now at any cost must not allow the same with what happened in Tiananmen square activists to happen with the Taiwanese Chinese independence movement leaders and supporters i.e. political repression, persecution and ultimately exile from the island once the Mainland Chinese take political, economic or military hold over it and impose and carry out their promised Two Systems policy - since there is not a slightest chance now at this point and most certainly lightingly decided that is now certainly out of the question and any future considerations and suggestions, that was also seemingly decided impromptly for the whole of the Chinese (both Taiwanesse and Mainlanders) and the rest of the international market dependent on their two countries exports and trade, that the Mainland Chinese and Taiwanesse Chinese would ever want to peaceful re-unify or settle their status disputes through some negotiations, settlements, guarantees on proclaimed neutrality and de-militarization at some point as to prevent a major regional conflict or potential spiralling into a world war with the US and it's patched up together unprincipled China containment coalition forces around this relatively small island's future status, functioning, identity and sovereignty issue. I think some people have been drinking too much war propaganda and cyber-information war Kool-Aid as a result of this Ukraine war online propaganda, comparing China and Russia in this weird bloc same compartmentalized cultural and civilizational stereotyping ego manner. One should remind such people of the famous Sun Tzu quotes from the Art of War standing firm still today as perennial Truth for the ages, that: 18. "All warfare is ultimately based on deception." 19. ''...when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.'' 10. "In battle, there are no more than two methods of attack - the direct and indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.'' 11. ''The direct and indirect lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circle - you never come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination.'' The fact of the matter is that the Chinese military is very prepared for this and was preparing for this for several decades now, and they have been dreading internally of the possibility of Taiwan's full independence as an island that can do whatever it wants and invite whoever the hell it wants a few hundred kilometers from Chinese soil and would then subsequently house another US base or airstrip for conducting attacks into China or again at some point again when the PRC is vulnerable or weakened claim to be as the status of a government-in-exile claim to be the last remaining legitimate political government for all of China and the Chinese under a ROC banner and calling for regime-change within China with its aid and abetting as a US proxy. The Mainland Chinese as they said multiple times, called onto the phrasing of their warning right before they invaded US and UN troops in the North of the Korean Peninsula during the Korean War, that they ''will not sit idly by'' waiting for this to spontaneously happen due to signals and incentives green-lighting it and pushing it slowly but steadily from abroad and going with the flow with the ''Independence Proclamation'' and with whatever might happen and which direction it might then take afterward. One earlier War Simulation example conducted some time ago before of the possibility of where that might go and what it might lead to on a tectonic shift level in the global scale potentially depending on its course, carrying out and lasting duration as well as the further consequences of that: Yes, I bet it also gives visiting high-ranking foreign officials of antagonistic and rival superpowers towards their neighbor insider information on the maintaining of their micro-chip production monopoly on the world market on their special visits to their island in exchange for continued military support, regional commitments and pressure, and stewardship, and ''favored micro-nation island'' status protection and protectorate guarantees - well then that would just make it a down-right a put on a pedestal above others VIP client of special interests groups worldwide gosh darn it - worthy to go to even world war over to keep and secure the status quo of that intact and in place for more decades to come.

fmr. adviser to the Defense Secretary under the Trump administration Col. Douglas McGregor (presumably still a Trump political campaign advocate and associate) gives a surprisingly strong case from a military history and strategy POV of Mainland China's position and stakes in this crisis that I have rarely heard and/or seen anywhere at this point and that requires actually an understanding of past wars and politics in the Asia-Pacific region to fully grasp and appreciate what's at stake from their Mainland POV historically in this situation, begging the question can the sole blame be put on it for heightening up the tensions with it's conducting of military exercises around the island together with US ships in close pursuit. It also begs the question why was it allowed for large part of a production of an essential commodity (almost more than thirty percent) for the digital and informational age allowed to be outsourced to a single 70 mil pop island to act almost as large monopoly on it's global supply chain distribution of those semi-conductor chips the world market with no objections raised that was already at that point in a heavy historical and political dispute and argumentation with Mainland China over it's political status, identity and relationship with the Mainland Chinese. Of course I don't agree with all points and share all his perspectives and views on the issue (he appeared also to a Fox viewership after all to propagandistically advocate for a seemingly currently democratically "disgraced" political faction within one of the two-parties to re-take control and power over the next central political administration in the US again out of his own affiliations and baked interests with it most probably one can speculate) that this seeming lone wolf voice ex-Pentagon US military commander is advocating and saying, but it is interesting to note how he takes the Chinese historical-military perspective and experience over this island heavily into account when discussing about the current problems of feelings of mutual distrust, mistrust and skepticisms floating around above it and calls into question unquestioned almost dogmatically held narratives of some people in Western countries of unstoppable US military capabilities and it's non-existent full NATO allies (there is no NATO currently in the Asia-Pacific) there, but only possibly the the NATO substitute quickly patched up military deals and alliances of AUKUS or the Quad intervening at some point, of being able to meaningfully intervene against China's PLA posturing and imposition over the Taiwan Island and it's surrounding international waters there without blowing into a major war and confortation with the whole of Mainland China that might escalate and find its self and it's allied military forces from other alliance countries sustaining heavy naval military losses in some narrow choke points near or in the Taiwan Strait where the PRC has a big advantage as quote-on-quote land fortress defense he explains, that they developed as response to quote-on-quote previous historical experiences with meddling foreign, colonial or imperial powers over their vulnerablity of major invasions into Mainland China being launched and coordinated precisely from an occupied Taiwan island. So he implicitly advises people watching this or this crisis unfold or reignite, to take heed of this past traumatic experience for the Chinese from their survival POV when approaching this issue from their own perspective of who's at the most fault and most to blame over this issue, when approaching this issue of global and international peace and stability that was put at stake to be around this island. Essentially he begs the question why should China trust the West, Western powers and people, now as sufficiently evolved unbiased and objective arbiters over this issue who are looking out for their best interests at heart for promoting and maintaining mutual peace, co-existence, co-operation, tolerance, mutual understanding and equality and solidarity with the Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese Chinese as separate countries, given the abuses China has suffered in the past by the hands of some powerful foreign imperial power due to fact it had control over, leverage over it to use against China as whole or disproportionate influence over that island in it's close territorial waters proximity much more so than the Chinese had with their also Chinese netizens across the narrow strait, and why is their an implicit Western superiority assumption that China at one point when it is developed and evolved enough (according to it's own plans for peaceful re-unification) won't be able to govern it better in order to stabilize it and its relationship with the rest of the region and itself, than Taiwan drifting further West as independent island military protectorate and at some point acting maybe as an immobile aircraft carrier that the US and some of it's regional allied powers can again use militarily as another staging ground, as well adding Japan to that, for operations against it to curb China's economic and military rise and growth in the future in order not to challenge their own global hegemony, management or control too much. What sufficent evidence now does China have that former same imperial powers previously engaged in it's colonization during it's vulnerable crisis period and their later other admitted allies who did the same and even worse inhumanities to it and some part of it's people at some point, have now sufficently evolved and learned their historical lessons for it to let them give freely control over Taiwan via as guarantor's of it's independence movement similar to Kosovo, and that they won't attempt to use it against China at some point in the future over their disagreements and distrust over self-proclaimed China's political and economic path to it's growth and development that may put them to be the first non-European power in history to be in the long term as equal to an old superpower and imperial one in it's economic and political influence across the world. How can China trust the major Western powers namely the US and some other regional ones that they will become considerate, understanding and fair to their share of global influence and power in the future - and not rely on people today like fmr. Trump Sec. Of State Mike Pompeo who have the most prominent exclusionary ideological, warmongering, xenophobic, close-minded and dismissive stance toward China, it's current government composition, it's self-derived economic system, it's culture and it's people to be major dictators and influencers of the relationship of the rest of the world towards it and the major Western powers towards it - i. e not one that is based on actual mutual self-understanding, equality, tolerance, freedom in relationships and solidarity with the whole of China it's people, but the feelings of the exact opposite of contempt, distrust and fear. This of course the military, historical, ideological, economic and geo-political part of the perspective surrounding around it, the spiral stages one and collective ego psychological ones in terms of differences, divergences, discrepancies, incongruities and inconveniences for mutual in sync agreed upon understanding, interpretation and approaches of every move being made and overall different cultural programmings also play a part, however I do not believe that excuses a mal-developed Orange to Green to want a start a war of yet developing Blue into Orange that had a significant handicap and head start over it even as recent as the last 40 years - it's sounds as another excuse born out of intolerance, unwillingness to understand and bridge the existing and obvious divides and barriers set there by the universe for a reason to increase human-to-human understanding and ultimately to let people learn and find out more about themselves and mutually self-reinforcing ignorant fear of not somehow having complete control over the world and the direction of development of it's affairs no longer solely resting in your hands and your rationally calculating mind for it's own sole security, survival, comfort, status-quo stability and benefit. BTW without further expressing my opinions and thoughts around the issue adue here is the video of the colonel explaining the obvious military problems around this situation (though beware of the Fox News viewer propaganda surrounding glow and aura of insincerity when opting to watch this short clip, and of course dismiss and take no heed or attention to the demonising, smearing, distorting and misleading nature of phrasing of the title of this video as well?):