Will the “China-virus” and “Unprovoked” Lies Lead to WW3?
January 9, 2023
Given their synergistic effects, the two biggest lies of the 21st Century so far are: “China-Virus,” and “Unprovoked attack.”
1. Get CHINA!
A Google search using the phrase “US militaries are preparing for invasion of China” yields 38 million, one hundred thousand results as of the date of this writing.
First off, we get an article from The Guardian,
US general’s ‘gut’ feeling of war with China sparks alarm over predictions - Leaked memo forecasting Taiwan strait conflict in 2025 triggers debate about ‘undisciplined’ comments, by Helen Davidson in Taipei, Feb 2, 2023
So, a US general echoes what he heard from upstairs. No news there. The next article however did elicit a half-smile.
Is the US over-militarizing its China strategy? By Harlan Ullman, February 3, 2023
Last weekend, a leaked memo from four-star US Air Force Gen. Michael A. Minihan set Washington spinning, as Minihan predicted the United States would go to war with China in 2025. The proximate cause of this conflict would be a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Then on Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned trip to China after a Chinese balloon was spotted sailing across the northern part of the United States and over a US strategic missile base in Montana.
These are just more signs of an over-militarization of US China policy that dates to the National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy of the Obama administration but has accelerated rapidly of late.
In 2021, then Indo-Pacific Commander Adm. Phil Davidson warned of a Chinese move against Taiwan by 2027, a sentiment that has been echoed by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday as well as by both Democratic and Republican members of Congress.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/is-the-us-over-militarizing-its-china-strategy
With all due respects, those people don’t know much about Chinese history. Patience has always been the great virtue of Asia, and there isn’t any doubt in this writer’s mind most of China’s planners expect Taiwan to come begging to join China within the next few years, given the rapid decay of western industry, other measures of declining development and total failures to adhere to climate change treaties.
What’s funny about the above article? Look at the linked citation. The Atlantic Council! They’re like Godzilla on a permanent mean drunk while on steroids and cocaine. They’re the Epoxy cement of the military industrial complex, unabashedly naked cheerleaders for war, war and more, war, one of the deadliest snake pits in the swamp, a veritable Wagnerian collection of lost souls dragging the entire human collective to global ruin, Dante’s worst nightmare after a week of Absinthe, and so on.
If the Atlantic Council asks if the US is overmilitarizing its China strategy, one can only assume they’ve had their thinking caps on and finally figured out WW3 isn’t really in the best interests of their corporate masters because dead people don’t spend money.
Good for them. But, most Americans don’t even know they exist, or have any idea of the kind of power they wield, so, does it matter? 50/50 at best. A careful study of those lies however might yield opportunities to correct them before too late.
And now a quick review of the Biggest Two Lies of This Century So Far – the marketing taglines used by two presidents who have brought humankind only seconds away from the obliteration of “civilization” as we know it, not so much from the thermonuclear war directly, but rather the “gain of function” viruses and bacteria in US BSL 3 and 4 labs scattered around the world that will be released upon cessation of electrical systems in those nations following the collapse of the world order since WWII. It appears probable highly communicable previously unknown diseases will account for a high proportion of deaths following WW3. And thus, the timeliness and relevance of this review.
1.1 The China-Virus Lie & Anti-Asian Violence
First is the ridiculous fiction of a “China Virus.”
A quick check on - one of the many faces of the Military Industrial Complex, the Champion of All Monopolies in History, the Corporation that Beat Oracle, the Maker and Breaker of Presidents (and any of the little people too), the Biggest, Baddest Player on the Web - Google (Corporation)(!), - the phrase “China Virus” yields 932 million results.
Trump’s ‘Chinese Virus’ Tweet Linked to Rise of Anti-Asian Hashtags on Twitter - By Laura Kurtzman, March 18, 2021
In the week after former President Donald J. Trump tweeted about “the Chinese virus,” the number of coronavirus-related tweets with anti-Asian hashtags rose precipitously, a new study from UC San Francisco has found.
The study examined nearly 700,000 tweets containing nearly 1.3 million hashtags, the week before and after the president’s tweet on March 16, 2020, to see whether his use of the term “Chinese virus” – an expression that public health experts warned against using – may have led others to use anti-Asian language on Twitter.
They found that users who adopted the hashtag #chinesevirus were far more likely to pair it with overtly racist hashtags.
By contrast, those who adopted #covid19, the WHO’s official name for the disease and the term recommended by public health experts, were far less likely to include racist hashtags in their tweets…
So, President Trump’s tweet of March 16, 2020 appears to be playing a significant role in history.
“Just do it.”
“The Real Thing”
“The China Virus”
It’s so Madison Avenue. It was just enough to resurface centuries of anti-Asian prejudice in the US, and when pushed and hugely amplified by resurrected Cold War fury, may have been the trigger that lit the fuse that finally unleashes WW3.
But is it true?
2022.08.02 Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic - Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says he is “pretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of US lab biotechnology” and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has also served as the chair of the COVID-19 commission for leading medical journal the Lancet. Through his investigations as the head of the COVID-19 commission, Prof. Sachs has come to the conclusion that there is extremely dangerous biotechnology research being kept from public view, that the United States was supporting much of this research, and that it is very possible that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, originated through dangerous virus research gone awry.
“Research gone awry?” That might be the single biggest understatement of the 21st Century.
The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) reports February 9, 2023, almost seven million deaths from COVID-19 (6,848,604), 13,283,280,658 total vaccine doses which must have made some people a great deal of money, and spinoff variants are still popping up around the world, sometimes mixed with other diseases, like the flu and sometimes with remarkable ability to evade the immune system.
And, nothing has been done to regulate American pathogen research.
China virus? I don’t think so.
Lancet is arguably one of the top 3 most respected medical journals in the world, and the Chair of their COVID-19 Committee is not going to be a dummy.
1.2 The sharks gather in the South China Sea
Words, some words at least, that are verifiable, and can change the destiny of civilizations, should be paid attention, yet his statement was barely reported in mainstream news – not a ripple of disturbance marred the perfect sea of American tranquility emanating from the White House, while the occupants of that White House appear to be doing everything, they can to increase quarterly dividends for corporate shareholders, while ignoring the potential for “error” in the South China Sea.
U.S., Partner Navies Sail Together in South China Sea. By U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs, May 8, 2019
SOUTH CHINA SEA – A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer joined ships from the Indian Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and Republic of Philippine Navy to sail through the South China Sea, May 2-8.
Transiting through international waters were USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110), Indian Navy Destroyer INS Kolkata (D 63) and tanker INS Shakti (A 57), JMSDF helicopter-carrier JS Izumo (DDH 183) and Destroyer JS Murasame (DD 101), and Philippine Navy patrol ship BRP Andres Bonifacio (PS 17)…
“The opportunity of a multi-sail with U.S. Navy and regional partners was a great experience. In addition to building mutual understanding and trust, it also served as a way to enhance peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region,” said Rear Adm. Hiroshi Egawa, commander, Escort Flotilla 1. “The ability to do various exercises among four different navies smoothly demonstrated professionalism and high operational skills."
Thanks to Rear Adm. Hiroshi Egawa, commander, Escort Flotilla 1 for reminding this writer of the 3rd Biggest Lie of the 21st Century so far: “…enhance peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.” Though the Irish in me would like to run with the ironies in that, one can’t blame the man for being trapped in this corporate-generated nightmare either. Military people sometimes think and usually do what they are ordered by politicians, regardless as to how demented, treacherous and absolutely corrupt those politicians may be.
1.3 Can you remember before COVID-19 when we mostly liked Chinese?
Before COVID-19 most people associated Chinese primarily with take-out food, Kung Fu Panda and maybe sometimes with people, like, friends, too.
After Trump sold the “China-Virus” lie, suddenly, the Cold War was really on for the majority of Americans. And yet, most Americans don’t profoundly understand the implications of the report by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs quoted above.
Since that time, the US has brought China direct and center as the “primary threat” to American “rules-based order” and the target number one nation for a thermonuclear war, direct military confrontation and definite arms escalation on all sides, all for nothing besides quarterly dividends for corporate moguls. Enthusiasm for wars is marketed like any other fad or form of entertainment in the US. It’s a well-worn industry that always follows the same general outlines.
The screams of agony and terror, and wailing of millions of human lives so cruelly and greedily extinguished are never heard by western voters who keep electing the same groups of corporate puppets back into political office thanks to those corporate CEOs’ (illegal by the way) monopolistic control of communication, news and entertainment media.
1.4 Who really designed COVID-19?
Scientific Diplomacy and International Cooperation Key, Say BSL4 Directors, Nov 28, 2018, by Connie Holubar
Editorial – SCIENCE Magazine, Nov. 28, 2018
“Galveston National Laboratory - Infectious Disease Research for Global Health Security
“We direct a newly constructed MCL in Wuhan, China (Z.Y.) and an established MCL in the United States (J.W.L), in Galveston, Texas. In preparation for the opening of the new China MCL, we engaged in short- and long-term personnel exchanges focused on biosafety training, building operations and maintenance, and collaborative scientific investigations in biocontainment.”
The Wuhan virology lab was totally designed and managed by the American Galveston National Laboratory that also directed their research, reinforcing published statements by Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Prof. Jeffrey Sachs quoted above regarding the true origin of COVID-19.
Motives, methods and opportunities for very serious crimes are established.
2. Evidence President Putin’s Special Military Op Was Very Intensely Provoked Over Decades
UN chief fears world is heading towards ‘wider war’ over Russia-Ukraine conflict
António Guterres warns in speech to general assembly that ‘chances of escalation and bloodshed are growing’ Feb. 6, 2023
UN Chief Guterres has repeatedly warned about the world sleep-walking into a much bigger “Ukraine War” there at the UN in New York, but they can’t hear it in DC. Why not?
It all started a long time ago.
The first series of crimes was the US Federal governments’ war against organized labor in the US in the 20s and 30s. Union organizers were always called Communists. Many were killed. Then, there was primarily the Republicans’ crime by way of their support of fascist groups in Ukraine since the 1930s as a hedge against the spread of communism.
The next series of crimes involved US violation of the UN Charter via intentionally, massively, unambiguously, murderously and oh-so-very-obviously and proudly(!) interfering in the 2014 Ukraine election.
Interfering in the elections of another nation is outlawed in the UN Charter. Nuland (photo below) and John McCain, not to mention VP Biden and his notorious son were deeply “embedded” in Ukraine, calling all the shots right up to who the next president would be.
And then there were all the mass murders and endless terrorism of all minorities in Ukraine, especially Russian minorities. That’s how US fascists work, whether they work for an oil corporation, military or US State Department, as in the case of Ukraine. That’s how the Nazis got going in Germany 70+years ago, while John Foster Dulles, later to become Secretary of State, smiled benignly.
In another, more honest universe, she said: “Hi! I’m Victoria Nuland, a US government official passing out sandwiches at a political rally Dec. 11, 2013 here in Kiev, Ukraine to promote OUR AMERICAN choice of president for your darling little country. This is of course, a direct, blatant violation of the UN Charter, by interfering in the domestic affairs of other nations, but hay, don’t worry, we have EVERYTHING planned out for you! Isn’t that wonderful?” And, we have millions of good old ‘Daddy War-Bucks’ for you, yes! US DOLLARS from NED and other friends just to grease the wheels here a little! Sugar and spice and everything nice for our Ukrainian friends!” - A parody
2.1 The Maidan sniper killings
“The Maidan sniper killings were pivotal for the 2014 Kiev coup – why is research into the massacre being censored in the West?” Feb. 6, 2023
Evidence that external forces were involved has been suppressed for ‘political reasons’
https://www.rt.com/russia/570921-maidan-sniper-killings-censorship
A reasonable summary of some of the evidence that Biden’s Big Lie: “Unprovoked” was indeed a lie, was provided by Stephen F. Cohen in The Nation magazine.
2.2 Detailed list of provocations
No less important, however, is the highly selective nature of the mainstream narrative of the new Cold War, what it chooses to feature and what it virtually omits. Among the omissions, few realities are more important than the role played by neofascist forces in US-backed, Kiev-governed Ukraine since 2014. Not even many Americans who follow international news know the following, for example:
§ That the snipers who killed scores of protestors and policemen on Kiev’s Maidan Square in February 2014, thereby triggering a “democratic revolution” that overthrew the elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, and brought to power a virulent anti-Russian, pro-American regime—it was neither democratic nor a revolution, but a violent coup unfolding in the streets with high-level support—were sent not by Yanukovych, as is still widely reported, but instead almost certainly by the neofascist organization Right Sector and its co-conspirators.
§ That the pogrom-like burning to death of ethnic Russians and others in Odessa shortly later in 2014 reawakened memories of Nazi extermination squads in Ukraine during World War II has been all but deleted from the American mainstream narrative even though it remains a painful and revelatory experience for many Ukrainians.
§ That the Azov Battalion of some 3,000 well-armed fighters, which has played a major combat role in the Ukrainian civil war and now is an official component of Kiev’s armed forces, is avowedly “partially” pro-Nazi, as evidenced by its regalia, slogans, and programmatic statements, and well-documented as such by several international monitoring organizations. Congressional legislation recently banned Azov from receiving any US military aid, but it is likely to obtain some of the new weapons recently sent to Kiev by the Trump Administration due to the country’s rampant network of corruption and black markets.
§ That stormtroop-like assaults on gays, Jews, elderly ethnic Russians, and other “impure” citizens are widespread throughout Kiev-ruled Ukraine, along with torchlight marches reminiscent of those that eventually inflamed Germany in the late 1920s and 1930s. And that the police and official legal authorities do virtually nothing to prevent these neofascist acts or to prosecute them. On the contrary, Kiev has officially encouraged them by systematically rehabilitating and even memorializing Ukrainian collaborators with Nazi German extermination pogroms and their leaders during World War II, renaming streets in their honor, building monuments to them, rewriting history to glorify them, and more.
§ Or that Israel’s official annual report on anti-Semitism around the world in 2017 concluded that such incidents had doubled in Ukraine and the number “surpassed the tally for all the incidents reported throughout the entire region combined.” By the region, the report meant the total in all of Eastern Europe and all former territories of the Soviet Union…
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/americas-collusion-with-neo-nazis/
And that’s just part of it. The following is an excerpt from a book on this topic.
2.3 The May 2, 2014 Odessa Massacre – the spark of war
Ukrainian Human Rights Infringements Being Covered Up in Information War, by Uriel Araujo, Global Research, May 04, 2022
May 2 marks 8 years since the 2014 Odessa Massacre, when Ukrainian ultranationalists forced the anti-Maidan demonstrators into the Trade Unions House and set it on fire, thus killing 42 people. No one has been tried so far. In 2015, the Council of Europe’s International Advisory Panel concluded there was indication of “police complicity” and that Kiev failed to properly investigate the matter.
In today’s war of narratives, much is being said of the humanitarian aspects pertaining to the current conflict between Moscow and Kiev. However, the fact is that in the Western world in general there has not been a fair and balanced press coverage of the situation. Amid a global wave of Russophobia, Russia is portrayed as the sole aggressor to the point of demonization, while the Ukrainian government is depicted in an almost saintly light, without any basis in actual facts…
Nazi Atrocities at Odessa – 8 Years On - By John Goss, May 02, 2022
The fascists were chanting “Slava Ukraini”, that is “Glory to Ukraine”, as people burnt to death. The perpetrators walked free. These are the same Nazis fighting for Kiev.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nazi-atrocities-odessa-8-years-on/5779196
Even a BBC report makes it quite clear what happened in Odessa May 2, 2014 as shooting, bombing and burning a building filled with ethnic minority children, women and is difficult to cover up for long, though some tried to escape by jumping out windows and falling to their deaths. That, was funded with US dollars.
The above link has a compilation video of that massacre by BBC and there isn’t any doubt what happened. Ukrainian nationalists (US paid neo-Nazis and professional soldiers) threw firebombs and shot at the Trade Unions House - with children inside – people jumped out of windows to escape the fire and smoke, some died in the process. Yet, now, western “news” media never mentions it, covers it all up – and if mention is made blames “the Russians.”
Those over 18 years old with a strong stomach – and wish to see photographic evidence – charred human corpses can see it here (VIEW WITH CAUTION): https://ersieesist.livejournal.com/813.html
Also see:
https://www.wesign.it/en/international/odessa-2-may--call-for-a-un-investigation
President Biden’s sale of the US proxy war in Ukraine as “unprovoked” is even more of big lie than the big lies he told when he voted to start the Iraq war. Except this time, he’s poking a nuclear armed nation that will fight back.
Virtually every news report in the west regarding events in Ukraine is based on lies wearing the sanctimonious mantle of “information war,” the same kind of lies that told Americans during the Vietnam and Afghan wars the US was winning, when if fact it was losing badly.
The same is true regarding the professionalism of the Russian military. The hooligans are not in the Russian military. Contrary to what appears in western news, it is the Ukrainians that are having “difficulty” with its own troops due to widespread lack of trust in its leadership.
It was the last four days before President Putin’s Special military operation in Ukraine that really “tripped his trigger” and I would like a worldwide poll to see what percentage of people in his situation, would have done the same thing if they knew all the details.
What follows are reports from OSCE covering those last four days.
[With 57 States drawn from Europe, Central Asia and America, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security organization, bringing comprehensive and co-operative security to a region that stretches from Vancouver to Vladivostok.]
2.4 Online OSCE Reports
Issued on Feb. 19 covering Feb. 18 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512629 Daily Report 39/2022
Issued on Feb 21 covering Feb. 18-20 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683 (Daily Report 40/2022)
Issued Feb 22 covering Feb 21: https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512842 (Daily Report 41/2022)
Issued Feb. 23 2022 covering Feb. 22 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512872 (Daily Report 42/2022)
On the 24th Russia began counter-offensive measures in East Ukraine
The OSCE Report issued on Feb. 24 does not cover the 23rd, but only pertains to the Russian intervention beginning on the 24th.
· Issued Feb, 24 covering Feb. 24 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512980 (Daily Report 43/2022)
2.5 Below is a map and some of the charts from OSCE PDFs listed above
· BELOW data issued on Feb. 19 covering Feb. 18 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512629 Daily Report 39/2022
[For a more complete set of maps and charts, download the doc. version of this article from the GB Publication page on https://altnewsreview.com ]
If that was all my cousins living in those places getting blown up by Kiev, I’d sure call that extreme provocation especially considering the women and children being killed.
That is over one thousand two hundred mortar, bomb and missile attacks on innocent civilians in Donbass region in 24 hours by Zelensky’s military just before President Putin’s operation. And if that wasn’t an “incredibly intense provocation” and his response a “humanitarian operation,” what exactly constitutes the meanings of those phrases?
It had at random times and places been going on for eight years but hugely, and with supersized unbelievably extreme provocation escalated in the four days previous to President Putin’s decision to put an end to it. That was exactly what US DoD intended, and they intended to lie and use the corporate owned media to cover it it.
They knew perfectly well President Putin had grown weary of NATO escalating on all of his borders, and his cousins in Donbass being slaughtered because of their Russian ethnicity from ancient times and greatly accelerated in the previous 8 long war-weary years. It wasn’t just Russian minorities either, it was Black, Gypsies, Jewish, the usual collection of targets for Nazis. What moral, well informed and righteous person can argue with any of that? What human with compassion for the innocent could ignore all that, when it was and remains within his power to stop it?
The USA created all the terrorist groups out there, and western mainstream news covers it all with self-serving “information warfare” as if seven syllables sells the lie better than the one syllable word: “Lie.
What’s worse is the US and NATO are playing brinkmanship games with both Russia and China now in such a way that one tiny error can ignite WWIII. Is thermonuclear war the inevitable final endgame of the unholy Western empire?
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Even if it is a lot of work cleaning up after them.
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