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I think you give the Chinese government too much credit. The fundamentals of the Chinese economy - natural resources geography, and the quality of its workforce - would predict that it'd be a pretty wealthy country. It was only because it had the worst policies in the world a few decades ago that it was as poor as Sub-Saharan Africa. I don't think it's given any indication of being a better government than the more developed Asian countries; it just used to be way way worse, and thus has had lots of catching up to do.

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Feb 2, 2022·edited Feb 2, 2022

Hilarious to me that in that podcast discussing you, Freitch claims several times that he doesn't believe cancel culture and wokeness are powerful forces of progressivism in the working world. Several minutes later, he lets it slip that he no longer officially identifies to his university as white, but as Ashkenazi, because "it's just something I've been working out". So Freitch claims he doesn't believe wokeness is harmful or antagonistic towards whites, but he's also taking steps to set himself apart racially from the list of white faculty. He even admits his workplace only keeps tabs on those numbers for the sake of their DEI statistics (and presumably, future hiring initiatives).

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Everywhere a puzzling and completely irrational DNC/media/security state propaganda.

BUT -- there is a VERY rational reason for that.

We are dealing with BIG Lie(s)

ANY, even rudimentary, discussion would unravel the lie(s) -- total censorship and prompt defamations are the ONLY choice for the immensely corrupt Deep State cabal.

PS: A sad thing is that GOP lunatics are equally repulsive and dangerous -- happily grunting together while feeding at same donor troughs.

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That video clip of the duo talking your work is pretty interesting. I didn't know professors these days are so extremely online.

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WOW. I will have to really review and reserve any kind of support or non support for some of Richard's positions. Very smart and interesting. I see a lot of "coded" language and I am a scientist by training in Molecular Biology and I worked in hard sciences: biochemistry so I always get those little tingles when I see the language of what I call SOCIAL justice terms; like Political Science or WOKE unless one is very clear like Vivek. Good for you responding to the WOKE social justice warriors who imagine that if they use the terms "social justice" in the same sentence often enough then magic happens, and justice will be socialized; just like if Woke social justice warriors use the term "equity" over and over that somehow it actually means equality. Both of those amazing concepts are defined in the Old Testament.

Back to your main point: I am a serious China Watcher and have been for over 20 years for personal reasons and I do think that it is CHINA that our attention should be laser focused because of its total disregard for human life and enslavement and genocide. Have you ever read a book called Full Spectrum Dominance? Fascinating title and I don't agree with a lot of it.. but that is the nature of intellectual discussion in the arena of disagreement which could lead to WAR. I speculate that China and XI are on their way to attempting Full Spectrum Dominance Worldwide. IT IS THEY WHO are actually engaged in this right now, not the U.S, Ukraine, Russia or any of the other OTAN, UN, "other nations" category. I would like to comment on Richard's reference to his Judaism. (Please excuse my use of referring to him by his name rather than addressing him directly since I am not sure if this is really his site, and I am not sure why, I am tired though). He may want to refer to some his ancestors' beliefs and practices as well as the suffering the Jewish people have gone through since Jews are God's servants on this planet as manifested through by the Jesus Christ who assumed flesh sent by a loving Creator God for Israel in the second Covenant called the New Testament. The Old Testament contains all the information that mankind needs know for future engagements and negotiations with other nations. Yeshua was Jewish and his ministry was based on the Old Testament which predicted His manifestation in Flesh. I am not Jewish, well DNA said 2.4 % if that counts, but of 30% Italian and German 40%, some French and "other nations" of Caucasians heritage: so what? I am God's kid.. just as we all are! I am frankly not sure what to make of your assessments, I guess I will have to read more. As a scientist and technical writer, I have tendency to go right to the heart of the subject rather than wandering around social issues and answering people's questions about who thinks I am what kind of thinker re: Agnostic “Caesarist and so on.. OK.. now that I have wandered about my pet topics we agree in many areas, but I am not sure why you are even talking about Biden's and Ukraine... other than it is a news topic. Putin is not going to invade Ukraine not even Eastern Ukraine. The core of what happened in terms of WORLD VIEW and the SCRIPTURE is Crimea. Anyway, I will take some more time to see if I can WADE through all the other personal tales.. :) and check out your podcast. Yes, as a retired Virologist I think masks never worked and the current vaccination were useless and were chemical analogues for a real vaccine. We should have used the cheap therapeutics which many doctors knew worked. When history records this "pandemic" created by Chinese, who failed in their true goal of creating a virus to destroy the population, science writers will say wow.. created a chemical vaccine for an endogenous cold/flu virus which existed in mammals and was then GOF'd to be transmissible to humans to give us a severe cold. yeah. That is a tale for another day! Shabbat Shalom!

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Ukraine: actually, Russia has many other options in response to US intransigence, other than invading a neighboring country. Stationing short-range missiles (with nuclear warheads) in the Kaliningrad region, increasing air and submarine patrols in the Arctic and western Atlantic respectively, even starting talks with Cuba about military cooperation. According to people that are often right (moonofalabama.org) the whole “invasion is imminent” craze was made of the whole cloth.

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Unless Ukraine attacks Donbas, the probability of Russia invading Ukraine is exactly zero.

Russia needs a buffer between herself and NATO. A neutral Ukraine would achieve this goal.

Ukraine integrated into Russia just brings the border closer.

Besides, the Russians have a lot of relatives in Ukraine. A sizeable part of the Russian elite is Ukrainian born. Waging war against relatives is not an easy step to take.

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Unless Ukraine attacks Donbas, the probability of Russia invading Ukraine is exactly zero.

Russia needs a buffer between herself and NATO. A neutral Ukraine would achieve this goal.

Ukraine integrated into Russia just brings the border closer.

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Thank you --- "The Russia-gate" is MORE than just a political ploy against Trump by the DNC that distracted the media from reporting the innumerable horrible things the incompetent lunatic Trump was actually doing for four years.

Russia-gate hoax is a new term for (and the continuation of) "McCarthyism" which began immediately after WWII and is currently fueling our unilateral incredibly dangerous cold wars with both China and Russia.

Blaming Russia for everything that’s wrong in the US is absurd on its face, yet like a cancer this narrative has invaded every cell of the so-called liberal media and is ever-increasing since the Obama-Biden-Hillary lying team is back in full power (note Kamala is Hillary's protégé). Politically it derailed both the Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard campaigns and gave Americans what was close to a “single choice menu” in the 2020 election.

The Iraq War clearly revealed that our top military & intelligence officials are engaged in a disinformation campaign aimed at American citizens in service of fabricating enemies to increase their funding and justify our "interventionist" wars. During the 2020 presidential campaign Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard and Dr. Jill Stein were accused by no less than Hillary Clinton as “Russian assets”. When Clinton asked if she meant this literally she replied, “absolutely”. Clinton’s remarks were so wildly absurd and vicious that her political standing and reputation should have been forever damaged, however this didn’t happen -- the massive War party was behind Hillary (and now Biden).

Given the fact that the US has surrounded Russia's southern borders with nuclear missiles, whatever feeling Russia now has towards the US is more than understandable.

Everything Dwight Eisenhower warned the public in his famous farewell address has occurred and -- "progressive" neoliberals don't care. Arms industry is immensely profitable for ALL players involved.

“Russia-gate” is FAR MORE dangerous to American democracy than Russia will ever be... !!!

Left still unexplored is the huge role of UK in concocting the Russia-gate hoax, including Scripal and Navalny "poisonings" and US+UK fabrications of OPCW reports on Syria -- fully exposed by top experts at OPCW. Note how, in desperation and sensing the danger, DNC/CIA handlers instructed e.g., TYT's despicable Cenk & Ana to go on maximal / unhinged attack on the Gray-zone high-integrity team and, especially, on its truly outstanding and high-integrity journalist Aaron Mate.

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