‘The unipolar world has come to an end,’ Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev says “the Americans are no longer the masters of planet Earth” “the hypocritical white-toothed smiles of politicians and diplomats who said one thing and did something completely different.” 俄羅斯前總統德米特里·梅德韋傑夫說：“單極世界已經走到了盡頭”，“美國人不再是地球的主人”，“那些說一件事卻做了完全不同的事情的政客和外交官虛偽的白牙微笑.”
Ukrainian refugees suffer as world slowly wakes up to humanitarian crisis? Really! US, EU and NATO all knew in advance, they’re just expendable collateral damages. 隨著世界慢慢喚醒人道主義危機，烏克蘭難民受苦？ 真的！ 美國、歐盟和北約都事先知道，那些難民只是可消耗的附帶損害.
Video: Biden (prediction came true) speaking about the dangers of NATO expanding in 1997. Biden warns the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania, joining NATO could result in hostility from Russia. 拜登(當年有先見之明)談到 1997年北約擴張的危險. 拜登警告說，波羅的海國家、愛沙尼亞、拉脫維亞和立陶宛加入北約可能會導致俄羅斯的敵意
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg threatens China: a major world war to return Russia and China to colonial subjugation. 北約秘書長延斯·斯托爾滕貝格威脅中國：一場使俄羅斯和中國重返殖民統治的重大世界大戰
NATO meets to plot next stage in Ukraine proxy war – Statement of the WSWS Editorial Board 3-24-2022
This week US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Brussels, Belgium to take part in a NATO summit. The summit is, in fact, a war council, which will organize a major escalation of the US-NATO conflict with Russia.
Speaking ahead of the summit, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg vowed to impose “unprecedented costs for Russia.” Reviewing the troops that have already been deployed on Russia’s borders, he said:
There are now hundreds of thousands of Allied troops at heightened readiness across the Alliance. One hundred thousand US troops in Europe. And 40,000 forces under direct NATO command, mostly in the eastern part of the alliance. All backed by major air and naval power. Including five carrier strike groups in the High North and in the Mediterranean.
Turning to the outcome of the upcoming summit, Stoltenberg said, “I expect leaders will agree to strengthen NATO’s posture in all domains. With major increases to our forces in the eastern part of the Alliance. On land, in the air, and at sea.”
Stoltenberg then threatened China. “Beijing has joined Moscow in questioning the right of independent nations to choose their own path,” he said. Stoltenberg’s threats against China, echoing statements by Biden last week, express the basic reality that Russia’s invasion has provided the pretext for long-standing plans by the US and NATO for “great power conflict”: a major world war to return Russia and China to colonial subjugation.
Significantly, Stoltenberg’s historical reference point was not the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month but the 2014 fascist-led coup that turned Ukraine into a proxy for NATO. “Since 2014, [NATO] Allies have trained Ukraine’s armed forces and significantly strengthened their capabilities. They are putting that training into practice now, on the front lines, with great bravery.”
Stoltenberg made no effort to conceal NATO’s massive military buildup of Ukrainian forces over the past eight years. NATO, he said, has been “providing anti-tank and air defense systems, drones, fuel and ammunition. As well as financial aid.”
He went on, “I would like to commend the courage and the professionalism of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. I have met them in Ukraine, and we are all aware that compared to where they were back in 2014, this is a totally different force than eight years ago. The Ukrainian Armed Forces today is much bigger, much better equipped, much better trained, much better commanded. They have much better logistics than they had back in 2014.”
The main reasons for the staggering losses the Russians have incurred is that they are fighting an army that had been armed and trained by NATO. As a result, Stoltenberg said, the Ukrainian army has been “able to push back and stand up against the much bigger Russian invasion.”
In its February 28 statement, “NATO goes to war against Russia,” the WSWS noted that “the essential causes and interests of wars are often not at first apparent. They are concealed by an avalanche of propaganda. However, sooner or later, the real and more profound driving forces and significance of the conflict emerge.”
Three weeks later, it is clear that what is involved is not only a war in Ukraine, but a campaign by the US and NATO imperialist powers for war against Russia and a redivision of the world. Russia’s desperate invasion of Ukraine, provoked by the imperialist powers themselves, has provided the pretext.
In a meeting with the US Business Roundtable ahead of the summit, Biden pointed to the long-running plans that are being put into practice.
“You know, we are at an inflection point,” Biden said. “It occurs every three or four generations. As one of the top military people said to me in a secure meeting the other day, 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946.”
He added that “now is a time when things are shifting. … There’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it.”
The phrase “New World Order” has a long and bloody provenance.
On September 11, 1990, US President George H.W. Bush gave a speech entitled “Toward a New World Order.” He declared, “The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period.”
As in the present crisis in Ukraine, the United States maneuvered to have Iraq invade a neighboring country to provide a pretext for war plans long in the making. The Gulf War triggered an eruption of US militarism that continued through the wars in Yugoslavia, the “war on terror” and the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US overthrow of the Libyan government, and the years-long destabilization campaign against Syria.
Biden’s “New World Order” involves the transition from 30 years of wars and interventions in the Middle East and Central Asia, which have killed more than 1 million people, into a conflict targeting Russia and China, which raises the specter of a Third World War waged with nuclear weapons.
The headlines in the capitalist press expose the reckless war mania that has swept over the ruling class, bringing behind it the affluent middle class. “NATO Plans to Ramp Up Forces on Eastern Flank,” blared the New York Times. Another article in the Times stated that “both Russia and the United States have nuclear arms that are much less destructive—their power just fractions of the Hiroshima bomb’s force, their use perhaps less frightening and more thinkable.”
David C. Gompert, a former acting director of national intelligence under the Obama administration, wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that the US “has more survivable, accurate and reliable offensive nuclear forces that could further decimate Russia’s strategic deterrent on the ground. Whatever Russian missiles survive such disarming strikes would be picked off by US missile defense systems.”
The Putin regime, confronted with the failure of its plan for a limited war in Ukraine that was aimed at pressuring NATO to negotiate on its security concerns, is trying to escape the trap into which it was lured by resorting to nuclear saber rattling. The world could face a dystopian crisis that ends in a “big nuclear explosion,” former Russian president and Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
The interaction of NATO’s recklessness, fueled by a series of intersecting domestic crises, and Russia’s desperation has created an extraordinarily explosive situation.
This dangerous escalation must be opposed through the development of a mass anti-war movement, based on the international working class.
There is growing movement of workers throughout the world against social inequality and exploitation. The consequences of the war drive are fueling protests and strikes over soaring inflation and mass poverty.
This is combined with the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which as a result of the criminal policies of the ruling class, has killed more than six million people worldwide, including more than one million people in the United States alone.
The fight against imperialist war must be fused with these struggles and developed as a conscious and international political movement for socialism. This means the building of the International Committee of the Fourth International and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties in every country.
US reinstates tariff exemptions on some Chinese products, higher tariff will be paid by US taxpayers and not by China. 美國恢復對部分中國產品的關稅豁免，更高的關稅將由美國納稅人支付，而不是中國.
Biden said Russia going to use chemical weapons just like US claims Iraq had WMD! 😂 拜登總統指出，俄羅斯總統普亭發動侵烏戰爭26天，跡象顯示普亭無路可退、無計可施之下，很可能對烏克蘭動用生化武器，但使用這些惡毒戰具必有「嚴重後果」哈哈美國又要吹水
[…half million children have died…more children than in Hiroshima…is the price worth it? Sec of State Madeleine Albright: “…the price is worth it.”- 60 minutes 5-12-96] Dead at age 84, she won’t be missed! […50 萬兒童死亡…比廣島死亡的兒童還多…這個代價值得嗎？ 國務卿奧爾布賴特: “…死五十萬人是值得的” – 60分鐘 5-12-96] 終於天來收她84 歲去世, 不會想念這滿手鮮血的人.
Video: It’s none of Japan’s business! China raps ex-Japan PM for colluding with Taiwan independence forces 這不關日本的事！ 中國斥責日本前首相與台獨勢力勾結
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Bloomberg: Just a question on a virtual call between former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday evening where they discussed various topics, including COVID, Ukraine, the CPTPP and peace in the Indo-Pacific region. Does the foreign ministry have any comment on this virtual meeting?
Wang Wenbin: First of all, I must correct you on one point. Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory and there is no “president” whatsoever of the Taiwan region. China firmly opposes any official interaction between Taiwan and countries having diplomatic ties with China and the Taiwan region’s accession to any agreement or organization of official nature. This is our consistent and clear-cut position.
During its colonial rule over Taiwan for half a century, Japan committed innumerable crimes, over which it bears grave historical responsibilities to the Chinese people. Some political forces in Japan openly colluded with “Taiwan independence” forces and made wanton remarks on the Taiwan question. China rejects and deplores such moves and has lodged solemn representation with the Japanese side.
The Taiwan question and the Ukraine issue are different in nature and are not comparable at all. The Taiwan question is purely China’s own affair and none of Japan’s business. It is dangerous and futile for some people in Japan to mention Taiwan and Ukraine in the same breath and seek “breakthroughs” in the relationship with Taiwan. We seriously urge the Japanese side and certain politicians to reflect on history, earnestly abide by the principles stipulated in the four political documents between China and Japan and Japan’s commitments, avoid any official interaction with the Taiwan authorities, refrain from emboldening “Taiwan independence” elements, speak and act prudently on the Taiwan question and stop making provocations.
We have noted that since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, the DPP authorities have manipulated the issue to sway public opinion and embolden “Taiwan independence” propositions. Such despicable moves are futile. No matter what trick the DPP authorities play, the fact that Taiwan is part of China can never be changed, the overriding trend of Taiwan being reunited with the motherland can never be held back, and the defeat of “Taiwan independence” forces can never be reversed.
Data and facts speak louder than anything else. A recent report showed that the US increased its arms exports by 14 percent in the past five years despite the downward trend in the global arms trade.
Cherry and Peach Trees flowers, looking forward to the sweet fruits to share with family and friends 櫻桃和桃子樹都開花了, 期待結果成熟後和家人和朋友分享.
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