Empire's Sunset
Empire's Sunset
'They won't outline any breakthroughs until they are already in effect.'
BREAKING: Ze in a nutshell.
https://gettr.com/post/p29xhwdb64e
A few things missing, but still and all. Brilliant work.
Anyway.
0000 - The Philosophy of Low Expectations
Why does it take our old Transmit eight bounces to launch when none of our 70+ apps need even one bounce?
Transmit needs 273 files to launch. All our boxes have SSDs. Just imagine how slow Transmit was back in the old days.
You realise that HDD speeds, median access times, are measured in milliseconds? Whereas memory access is a matter of microseconds at the worst?
With very few exceptions, all the ACP resources are held in a single file in the ACP framework. Homework assignment: locate that file and note its size.
Once that file is loaded, it's resident for all future use. So do the math that Maccie developers can't work out.
(Our apps were known already back then as one-bounce launches.)
(Actually it turns out that Transmit has 274 files. We pruned one file away earlier as it was inexcusably stupid.)
It's in Resources you feel the crunch. 233 files right there. Those guys are amazing.
AboutBox.nib. Could have been named About.nib. As if there could be more than one About NIB.
Or call it 'BespokeAboutBoxNIBForTransmitApplication.nib'. Just in case anyone's confused.
Then a dozen PNGs to simulate a wait state. When aniGIFs or aniPNGs could be used.
177 PNGs all told. Those guys are good.
Imagine if this was an old HDD. Imagine how long it'd take.
The remarkable thing about old HDDs was that they were more bang for buck than anything else, and kept improving, and kept getting cheaper.
All the while the quality of those so-called programmers drops off the cliff like there's no tomorrow.
Remember what Brian Kernighan noted in the 1970s. Namely that the big post in IT expenses is no longer hardware but software.
Remember as well Steve Jobs’ frank observation that, based on his own experiences, good programmers are not 2-3 times better than average but 200-300 times better. [We concur. That's how bad things are. Sorry.]
Then Transmit's got 11 14x14 TIFFs. Some have the extension 'tif', others 'tiff'. Like who cares, what?
Years later, Apple would 'invent' a way of making - what did they call them? CAR files? So you'd typically get all your resources, now called 'assets', in one humungoid CAR file. Presumably some type of compression would be used.
Something like we've been doing for 15 years.
We saw someone doing something like that one day long ago and thought 'why not' and since then we haven't had any 'resource files' in any of our apps, save for the obligatory icons.
But let's not talk icons? That's another sore topic for Apple. Here we have brilliant SVG technology that can scale images to any size, and mostly you can't possibly need an icon bigger than 128, but Apple will suggest you bloat up to... 1024.
Why? Same reason as the US southern border is open?
No one knows, or cares. March on.
And the tools to build ICNS icon catalogues? NeXT had Icon Composer, which was great, which still is great, but it makes icons only up to 256 or 512 or something like that, and Apple? They love BIG icons. You can never use them, but who cares?
0001 - Retooling Be
We're going to retool Be. It's fine as is, could use one final feature to tie it all together, but there is potential in that app, and streamlining is how you get to tap into that potential.
Encodings are set and got all over the place.
What's important with encodings? Encodings are how you interpret raw data as text or conversely store text as raw data. You use one encoding to store, then try another to read, and things won't work right.
You have to find the right encoding to load a file.
With an app like Be, you have the encoding on the 'backside' (in Be's proprietary XA). So you shouldn't figure out the encoding from the file extension or anything else as Rixedit has valiantly done. (Nor should you scribble something on the back like Ali Ozer.)
So. Ideally. When the document controller says you gotta load a file, you look first at the backside and see what encoding's been used to store. Naturally you have a default system - like Rixedit's - if that setting's not available.
Anyway. That's what we have to sort out. Be's remarkable as is already, but we want to move things even further.
Oh Maccie programmers. Worst in the business. Woz said so too. He wasn't kidding. How many years did we spend with that platform? And not once, not a single time, did we run into a real professional programmer anywhere. Not once. We ran into Rob Keir on Windows. Rob was brilliant. We ran into others too. And Rob started using a Mac at home, but work was only on Windows - fighting Windows malware. He would have been brilliant on OS X.
Think of his SuperScan. If you only paused to think of how much code he needs to resize the SuperScan window. On OS X he'd need no code at all - it's all tidily set in the NIB. 'Tis a shame he never experienced that epiphany. He would have knocked heads...
The Windows people were more mature. A lot more. And they had respect for people with skills and for technology. The Maccies don't respect anything. Probably hate their own mothers. And whatever it is they see in the mirror. The 'landed gentry' crowd: you can't understand them and you don't want to either. A sick constellation, predating and surpassing even California Woke.
Some of us like technology. Some of us at least recognise we have to live with and understand technology. Without becoming robots ourselves.
Mediocrity. The politics of low expectations.
Tried Rumble? Noticed they have navigation issues? Whatever the originators at YouTube or the green-haired freaks at Mountain View did, they did it right. Rumble did not do it right. This must be obvious to them all. Yet they do nothing about it. Their entire overall design is flawed as well. But the suits at the top? No, stagnancy is what you see.
Have you ever thought of how easy it is to remove trailing white in files? It's easy. You look for ' \n'. That's it. Google's able to do that in your mail. Proton can't. You can beg Proton to look into it but they won't, they can't. They're intellectually not up to it. Let that sink in.
Or look at GETTR. One of the friendliest sites going. Whoever designed their diagnostics is at least an accidental genius. Now look at their UI code. We were warned about this when first we joined. But oh what a mess. And it only gets worse. Now their group of nerds are busy adding new features, but ignoring all the bug reports that come in. We've seen one bug get fixed in two years. One.
How about Twitter? Well, don't go there, for starters, Elon or no. The place is still radioactive. But how about layout design? Why do all those idiot designers think you need lines to set borders on things? Look at the really well designed sites. They make you feel borders without putting in lines.
There is genius in simplicity. Talk to the nerds of the world about it and get them to understand. Good luck.
0002 - The World Around
Outside the safe world (?) of IT there's a storm brewing, shit be going down. The biggest item - and there are many big items in this 'Era of Brandon 0' - is how the Chinese, in rapid succession, dropped off three official bombshell documents in a row.
Then too, there was Putin's speech 21 February.
Many people, yours truly included, anticipated something big, something - I shudder to use the word - 'explosive'. But that was stupid. Not Putin and no general is going to time things in a conflict to match the expectations of some Hollywood producer.
And, in retrospect, as pointed out by someone other than yours truly again, that Putin speech was loaded with - again, a hated word - 'bombs', that just hung there mid-air and caused no stir at the time. And then attention turned to what the Chinese had been doing.
Gonzalo noticed the significance of the Chinese docs. This was also noticed by Tucker Carlson. Given where Tucker works, and for whom, even considering his reputation, that's really something.
Here's the short version.
It's 'empire's sunset'. And, for so many of us, not a day too soon. We who've grown up in the West, in the shadow of WWII, it's been one war after another, more and more bloodshed. Even as we try to get on with our lives. Even as we, when looking back, think of the good times and tend to forget the bad things.
My Three Sons. The Andy Griffith Show. Leave It To Beaver. American Bandstand. The Beach Boys. Jan and Dean. The Beatles. Ed Sullivan. The Summer of Love. Woodstock. Jimi Hendrix. Janis. Cass. The breakup of the Beatles. Joni's 'get back to the land'. The emergence of country rock. And punk rock. The Sex Pistols.
The eighties. Hair bands. Dire Straits. Carlos Santana's Abraxas. (But of course that belongs to the previous decade.) The advent of the CD. Brothers in Arms on DDD. Recorded fully digitally on Montserrat in the Caribbean. George Martin's studio. Today covered in volcanic ash. Oh well. The Wembley concert for Nelson.
And through all that - hey you might want to add Elvis, Chuck Berry, Great Balls of Fire, Dion and the Belmonts - there was war. Lots of it. We were always in the thick of war. Humans who have absolutely no grudge against one another. But they're sent out to murder each other. That other guy is a bad motherfucker. Oh yeah.
People in the US were told that the Japanese eat their own babies. Some believed it. They were told that by their government. Companies with names even remotely sounding Japanese had to change names fast. Attacking Pearl Harbor sort of stacks the deck against them, but even so.
What's the name of that French president who visited Bush after 9/11? Whatever. Right on the tarmac he supposedly gave Bush a copy of a new book published by his 'Surete' who'd dug into what happened around 9/11. Hint: it wasn't Saddam. Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. Saddam hated bin Laden. He hated all those terrorists. But heck, what does that matter. The new age with the new art of propaganda. Explained at length in that book. As if Bushie's people didn't already know.
Or the French opposition to the 2003 Iraq invasion? Remember 'freedom fries'? Remember 'W Ketchup'?
You don't have to create a sensible narrative, said the book Bush was given. Bush of course knew that. But now he knew that others knew he knew it.
All you have to do is juxtapose the right images and people will react as you want. Mushroom clouds. Saddam. 9/11.
They'd already drawn up plans for Iraq before 9/11. See how easy it is? Colin Powell with his vial? Do you remember what he said at the UNSC? Did he say directly that the vial had something from Saddam? He didn't need to. Juxtaposing images.
One of the most amazing things I ever experienced was talking to Germans at their places of work, and in the streets and in their homes, and just asking them some obvious questions.
'Didn't you see it coming? Could you not do something to stop it?'
'Did you try?'
They never saw it. Not a one. They were living the good life again. The 20s had been terrible. Now they were promised a chicken in a pot on the stove every Sunday. Yes, there were stories, there were rumours, people started disappearing, but eyes front, there's nothing you can do anyway.
In 1979 some independent filmmakers in Germany produced a film which went back to the 1930s and 1940s and showed that the Nazi rise to power would not have been possible without the support of the German people. Germany went nuts.
'But we didn't know! We were told we had to go off to defend the Vaterland!'
No, they didn't know. How could they?
But some people did know. Some did. If they spoke out, they disappeared. Some from that era were still around. They know.
'The German people didn't know? Quatsch! Of course they knew! We all knew! But some people chose to pretend they didn't know!'
That's always been the dilemma for all our lives. In the wake of the nuclear age. How to stay away from the brink. That great movie by John Badham. War Games. The only winning move is not to play.
Gorby and Ronnie started ushering in a new age. Never count out the CIA of course. How involved Ronnie was isn't known. It wasn't just about detente, in case you thought so. The back end was the deep state of the US wanted to piggyback on the detente to break up the Soviet Union. They enlisted the help of the Vatican. They got what they wanted.
Not one inch further east. You know of course that Gorby is outright hated in Russia today for being such a fool?
The US loved Boris Yeltsin. Oh they loved him. Jeff Goldblum made a movie about the Yeltsin years. Worth a viewing. Probably available on YT. Also stars Liev Schreiber and Anthony LaPaglia. Sugar-coated version of how the CIA, through a middle man of course, contracted political PR hit-man consultants George Gorton and Associates to keep Yeltsin in power in 1996. The drunken sucker was polling single-digit. Yes that bad. It wasn't that his commie opponent was in pole position, it was that Yeltsin was their cash cow. But of course, by 1999, or more precisely on the eve of 2000, Yeltsin knew he couldn't go on any longer. So he had his staff round up five likely prospects to replace him.
The idea was to cultivate a new political party, use this party to surround the new prospect, make sure the party did well in the elections so the new prospect could be prime minister, then it's only a short jump to the Kremlin and the presidency.
Yeltsin liked Putin best. They didn't know each other. Putin was a former KGB officer, stationed a while in Germany. Official duties were to keep track of events in Germany.
Putin resigned from the KGB in protest against what they did during the 'White House' confrontation between Yeltsin and Gorby. He talked to Oliver Stone about this. They were talking about Snowden. Putin said he didn't approve of how Snowden handled the Clapper scandal. What should he have done, asked Stone. Just resigned, said Putin.
Somehow Putin made it from the uni in St Pete to Moscow. He had two young daughters. Yeltsin told him of his plans and Putin said no. Why, asked Stone. Too big a change in life, said Putin. I was only an apparatchik. I could leave my work behind at 5 PM and go home to my family. A president can't do that. You never get time off when you're president.
Putin ultimately relented. The odds are that no one understood what they were underwriting, particularly the carpetbaggers from the West who'd been plundering the country.
Academic families resorting to making bread with tulip bulbs. Jeff Goldblum made sure he could still succeed in 'spinning Boris'.
The first statesman to ring the White House after 9/11 was Putin. He wanted them to know he'd help with anything he could.
The first two official international acts Putin did after taking office on New Year's Day 2000? Anyone know?
Contacted NATO and applied for membership.
Contacted the EU and applied for membership.
The EU told him 'but you're too big!' NATO were as flabbergasted as back in the day when Gromyko asked Harriman if Russia could join NATO. Harriman shat a brick, rang Ike and told him, then Ike shat a brick.
The best person to consult if you really want to know what Putin is really like is Sharon Tennison. She's got some really nice stuff out there. She's been heavily funded by the USG in the old days. Back then it didn't matter. After 2007 everything mattered.
2007 was when Putin told McCain and (Robert) Gates and Joe Lieberman that the Empire of Lies would soon be at an end.
Even Tucker Carlson sees it now. Tulsi's also noticed. (Small wonder Tulsi is Tucker's replacement when one is needed.) They get it - even from inside their bubble. The empire is over.
But is that something to bother people? Probably not. Talk to some America First MAGA people. They probably don't care either. It's only the maniac neocons in Washington who care. Their dicks aren't biggest anymore, George Carlin would say (and he'd be right). So we bomb them, George would add (and that'd be accurate too). Ever since the end of WWII, when agrarian lands morphed into ploughshare factories to weaponise the new leading military power on the planet, things have got only worse. There's no 'pax' in 'Pax Americana', there never was, and the 87.5% of the human race on this planet are sick and tired of it.
So somebody else is going to be king of the hill? No. Things don't work well that way, Putin told McCain, R Gates, and Lieberman back in 2007. This new world is a multipolar world. You no longer have one baddie to cancel out only one other baddie. You have a half dozen of them, all hopefully trying to play fair with each other. That's been Putin's suggestion. We shall see. Above all else we have to scupper the nuclear idea and the warfare idea. We have to get into actively promoting peace and wellbeing and wellbeing (true prosperity) through peace. Some peoples on the globe already get it - the 'uncivilised' outside the Golden Billion.
Here's one of the China biggies. Published the day before Putin's speech.
0003 - US Hegemony and Its Perils
Note the date. Coincidence?
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html
https://rumble.com/v2ax97o-china-and-russia-align-to-challenge-collective-west.html
China will not let Russia lose. That's a fact. Everybody's flocking to Russia and China, and running away from the US.
'We're with Russia!'
Get used to Peking Duck and Borscht. Save treats for the feature - Ursula and Brandon/Nuland eating hippo do.
Here's Putin's speech. 21 February.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70565
The formatting of the Chinese doc can be difficult. Several copies online do a better job.
People we've seen commenting on the Chinese piece all see it as a major thing, and find it's spot-on accurate throughout.
What's its significance? Supposedly that it signals the realignment of China and Russia. And realignment is what scared Zbig the most. (Being frightened about the inevitable is suspect.)
Zbig is of course Zbigniew Brzezinski. Saying Zbig is easier. Zbig is Galician. Yes, that's where Stepan Bandera comes from. Zbig's 1997 book The Grand Chessboard lays it all out. He's not the only one or the first one or the last one. The chief plot line is this.
Russia's too big. It's a self-sufficient nation. They don't need anything from other countries. They have a lot to give. They have more precious metals and diamonds and gemstones and fossil fuels and gas and fertiliser and grains... than almost anyone.
They have 11 time zones. The clocks on their morning telly shows show a colon and the minute past the hour. It'd hardly make sense to line up 11 clocks in the studio. When the people in the far west are getting up in the morning, the people in the far east are either sitting down for dinner or getting ready for bed. When the people in the east are getting up in the morning, the people in the west are finishing their dinner and still haven't gone to bed. From one end to the other they stretch almost halfway around the globe.
Now they're allied with one of the two most populated countries on the planet, an undisputed leader in manufacturing, and, according to some sources, home of the planet's biggest naval force.
The fulcrum in Eurasia would be there regardless of any military aspect. It had always been. Things shifted temporarily in the 1940s with WWII. NATO came out of that. NATO was a manifestation - a concentration - of that shift.
But things weren't going to stay that way forever, no matter what. And that's where Zbig comes in again. There could be a way to at least delay the inevitable, reasoned Zbig. If the US could use the Ukraine to keep annoying Russia...
When was it that Nixon visited China? Anyone wonder why that was so important? And what about this 'one China' policy?
Then there's this big Chinese one. 21 February.
0004 - The Global Security Initiative
The Global Security Initiative - Concept Paper
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230221_11028348.html
And then this one on 24 February.
Rising Economic Polarization in the United States: Truth and Facts
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230224_11030978.html
When asked by pundits what it all means, the people we trust say the papers signify that China came out with these papers simply because they feel there's been an opening, that they can finally say what they really feel.
And the reason they sense the opening is likely the catastrophe that's come of the current US 'administration'. They're really losing it on all fronts. Their attempts to piecemeal Russia failed miserably. The Russian people are doing better than ever, no one misses McDonald's, they won't get their perfumes from Dior for a while but who cares? And if things weren't bad enough, Sy Hersh brings it all home with his piece from 8 February.
Brandon goes off to Kiev as the people in East Palestine... Ask Tulsi why he does that. She'll tell you it's because he doesn't care about the people of East Palestine. Remember that she quit her party after realising they're only - and this is a quote - 'a cabal of elitist warmongers'.
0005 - Inside the Golden Billion
The way we see it at our end, where we are, it's the people of MAGA country in the Golden Billion, together with the 87.5% of the rest of humanity, against the neocons in Washington. They're bullies and they're showing that they will kick and spit until they're completely trounced. They could back off now, accept a new world order, but they're so drunk on power that they can't. It's a shame of course - they risk the wellbeing of us all, and the planet, for their juvenile ego trip.
We who live in another part of the world do not have to like MAGA or what MAGA does or how they live their lives. To us, a lot of that is very 'foreign', very hard to understand.
But their very premise - their basic modus operandi since the beginning, since the campaign of Woodrow Wilson over one hundred years ago - is to leave the rest of the planet alone. 'America First' was a response to the war hawks of that time who wanted their country to intervene in that bloodbath known later as the 'first world war' or the 'great war'. [And the sheer insanity of that exposition of the human condition led most historians to conclude that the 'first' big one is actually the chief cause of the 'second' one, which is even bigger and bloodier, and it also led Sigmund Freud to conclude that there must be a latent gene in the human DNA for self-destruction.]
There's no mistaking the mood at a MAGA rally. There's no mistaking the fun in the air, all the smiles, all the - dare one say - love? As the ladies might say, it's nice to have the whole family together at the dinner table. As the gents might say, it's far better to be at home with the wife, enjoying life and having her to bonk later on, than to be off to some stupid war that's being waged for someone else's pathological greed.
'Rachel kommst du her!'
There's a scene in the Peter Weir vehicle Witness, with Harrison Ford and an excellent cast, where they put up a barn, then sit for lunch in the shade. And all the women come out and start serving. Lots of corn! Harrison Ford is a city cop recovering from a gunshot wound, and those Amish are taking care of him. He doesn't get how they live. No zippers because zippers are manufactured, or vanity, or whatever. Sure, it's understandable, but it's not 'home' to him. But he 'gets' them, he understands what they have, have together, and you the film viewer thereby get it too. And that's probably what the film's ultimately about. Those people are a people. They're not bothering anyone. They're leaving you alone, so why don't you leave them alone?
[Yes, the music's fantastic too, by super Oscar-glutton Maurice Jarre who's won more Oscars than anyone else in history.]
They're peaceful. They cooperate. They harm no one. All peoples want to live like that. They do not want to live like the neocons and the NBC Rachels.
'Eins! Zwei!'
[Yes that's Aragorn son of Arathorn in the clip. Your eyes do not deceive you.]
Russia's not an imperialist power. Imperialism comes from a need for expansion, if one's own natural resources aren't sufficient. Like England in Iraq. Or the US in Guatemala. Russia may have previously been imperialist when they were still expanding hundreds of years ago - ask the historians - but they're not today. If they have one problem today, it's that they're too big. If they have one overriding goal, it's to not expand, to not acquire. Russia doesn't want Ukraine. Ukraine is a royal pain. Totally corrupt. Impoverished. Crime rampant. Full of WWII Nazis that have been lovingly nursed by Allen Dulles and the US State Department for over half a century, since 1945, and commandeered by the ever-vigilant Toria Nuland thereafter.
Nuland, Sullivan, Blinken, Brandon: the same four neocons who worked behind the scenes since before the 2014 coup (which they also orchestrated). It's time for them to go.
And it's time for us to end this missive. For here comes the most dreadful human imaginable. Take this one slowly.
https://rumble.com/v2b1gb8-bakhmut-final-stage.-eu-frozen-russian-assets-disappear.html
https://www.rt.com/russia/572126-lavrov-russia-global-elites/
Western political leaders will no longer have the power to dictate terms to Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Speaking with the heads of the ministry’s regional offices, the diplomat stressed that Russia will now determine its own needs for development.
And the neocons can stomp and cuss all they want but it changes nothing.
0006 - Final Stretch
Judge & Doug 21 Feb - No Off-Ramp?
Russian gloves are off, no more nonsense. Up to 720,000 waiting to attack. But no one knows where they'll attack. They will seize all of the Ukraine.
'As an American, I was looking forward to hearing Putin's speech. It was a very good speech, and it was surprising to me how calm and measured Putin was, considering that his nation is at war with the West. There was absolutely no element of hyperbole or inflammatory rhetoric which is so common in the speeches of Western leaders. Putin's speech was very detailed and gave a historical context for the present conflict. I was particularly fascinated with how the huge audience hung on Putin's every word. They were serious and respectful, and you could clearly see their immense respect for the leader of their country. Nobody was fidgeting in their seats or slumping back in their chairs as is common with Western audiences. In my opinion, Vladimir Putin is one of the great world leaders of our time. He is confident and shows his sincere love for the Russian people. The so-called leaders of the West are arrogant and aloof from the common people. As for the imbecile who pretends to be the president of the USA, he is one of the great clowns of all time and an embarrassment to any American with two functioning brain cells.'
'Biden's speech sounds like a Marvel comic compared to Putin's ability to directly communicate with rational people in all countries.'
'Putin's speech was excellent. He is obviously a statesman in a world where no others exist.'
+1.
+2. Walking Back on Brexit
https://rumble.com/v2b64s4-betrayal-of-brexit-complete-with-ursula-king-charles-and-rishi.html
No eggs in UK supermarkets, the same with veg.
0007 - Pepe
Just in: Pepe
https://thesaker.is/the-stage-is-set-for-hybrid-world-war-iii/
'Moscow - the undisputed capital of the 21st century multipolar world.'
It's too cold!
Putin's 21 Feb speech 'acted like a powerful drill perforating the less than short, actually zero term memory of the Collective West.'
Did they notice?
'Now, as we reach the next stage, it's as if Putin and Xi Jinping, each in their own way, are conceptualizing the two key civilizational vectors of multipolarity. That's the deeper meaning of the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership, invisible to the naked eye.'
OK...
'Whatever happens next geopolitically, Russia is at heart a – giant – obstacle on the warmongering path of the Hegemon: the ultimate target is top “threat” China.'
Sounds right. Brandon's messing around over there right now.
'Putin’s ability to size up our extremely delicate geopolitical moment – via a dose of highly concentrated, undiluted realism – is something to behold.'
Agree. He's stoic, rational, and very precise. And he writes his own speeches, and doesn't use a teleprompter.
'And the message is even more acute because it represents the – public – cue to the Chinese leadership at the Zhongnahhai to understand: whatever happens next, this is the Kremlin’s unmovable official position.'
Castling. Moving your king and rook. The West can no longer attack Russia. A threat akin to Kamala.
'All these vectors are evolving as ramifications of the bombing of the Nord Streams, the only military attack – cum industrial terrorism – ever perpetrated against the EU, leave the Collective West paralyzed, dazed and confused.'
He's got a better view than any of us.
'Perfectly in tandem with Putin's address, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs chose the geopolitical/existential moment to finally take the gloves off, with a flourish: enter the US Hegemony and its Perils essay cum report, which became an instant massive hit across Chinese media, examined with relish all across East Asia.'
Timing.
'This blistering enumeration of all the Hegemon’s lethal follies, for decades, constitutes a point of no return for trademark Chinese diplomacy, so far characterized by passivity, ambivalence, actual restraint and extreme politeness. So such turnaround is yet another proud “achievement” of the outright Sinophobia and mendacious hostility exhibited by American neocons and neoliberal-cons.'
Because they too now have the power, as Alexander Mercouris noticed.
'Scholar Quan Le notes that this document may be regarded as the traditional form – but now filled with contemporary wording – the Chinese Sovereigns used in their millenary past before going to war.'
That's scary. But the US already announced they're going to attack China by 2025.
(Watch out for pandemic-grounded IOs.)
'It is in fact an axio-epistemo-political proclamation justifying a serious war, which in the Chinese universe means a war ordained by a Higher Power capable of restoring Justice & Harmony in a troubled Universe.'
Oh wow.
'Of course in the Chinese universe there's no place for 'God' - much less a Christian version; 'God' for the Chinese means the Beauty-Goodness-Truth trinity, Timeless Heavenly Universal Principles. The closest concept for a non-Chinese to understand is Dao: the Way. So the Way to the Beauty-Goodness-Truth trinity represents symbolically Beauty-Goodness-Truth.'
Don't bring your bibles.
Get ready for a punch line.
'So what Beijing did - and the Collective West is completely clueless about it - was to issue an axio-epistemo-political proclamation explaining the legitimacy of their quest to restore Timeless Heavenly Universal Principles. They will be fulfilling the Mandate of Heaven - nothing less. The West won't know what hit them until it's too late.'
'It was predictable that sooner or later the heirs of Chinese civilization would have had enough – and formally identify, mirroring Putin’s analysis, the upstart Hegemon as the premier source of chaos, inequality and war across the planet. Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder, in a nutshell.'
Read on about Wolfowitz.
https://thesaker.is/the-stage-is-set-for-hybrid-world-war-iii/
'It’s never idle to remember that way back in 2000, the year Vladimir Putin was first elected as President, in the pre-9/11 world, rabid neocon Paul Wolfowitz was side by side with Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski in a huge Ukraine-US symposium in Washington, where he unabashedly raved about provoking Russia to go to war with Ukraine, and committed to finance the destruction of Russia.'
But read it yourselves.
https://thesaker.is/the-stage-is-set-for-hybrid-world-war-iii/
'One thing is certain: unlike boastful Americans, they won’t outline any breakthroughs until they are already in effect.'
Yes, true, but the odds are that no one in the West will get it.