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| − | With the demise of the [[Soviet Union]], [[Francis Fukuyama]] declared the "end of history." The "unipolar moment" had arrived, with the [[United States]] being the "only [[Superpower]]". The United States spoke of a "rules based order", which it empowered itself to enforce while freely violating those same "rules" that it imposed upon others, in order to benefit itself. With the U.S. dollar as a "global [[reserve currency]]" and the [[SWIFT]] network monitoring and carrying out international banking transactions, and a free-wheeling Congress willing to print and issue more dollars in circulation globally through [[deficit spending]] and debt financing, the United States was able to persuade, coerce, and blackmail nations with promises of aid and loans, or the threat to withhold funding. | + | With the demise of the [[Soviet Union]], [[Francis Fukuyama]] declared the "end of history." The "unipolar moment" had arrived, with the [[United States]] being the "only [[Superpower]]." The United States spoke of a "rules based order", which it empowered itself to enforce while freely violating those same "rules" that it imposed upon others, in order to benefit itself. With the U.S. dollar as a "global [[reserve currency]]" and the [[SWIFT]] network monitoring and carrying out international banking transactions, and a free-wheeling Congress willing to print and issue more dollars in circulation globally through [[deficit spending]] and debt financing, the United States was able to persuade, coerce, and blackmail nations with promises of aid and loans, or the threat to withhold funding. |
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| | After a series of actions that began with the [[Kosovo war]] in 1998 and dismemberment of [[Serbia]], the 2003 [[Iraq war|invasion of Iraq]], and the 2014 overthrow of the legitimate democratically elected government of [[Ukraine]] - all in violation of [[United Nations]] resolutions<ref>"No State shall organize, assist, foment, finance, incite or tolerate subversive, terrorist or armed activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another State, or interfere in civil strife in another State," [http://un-documents.net/a25r2625.htm 2625 (XXV). Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations].</ref> - many [[nation state]]s, members of the [[UN General Assembly]] (often referred to as "the developing world" and "global South") became fed up with the hypocrisy and [[double standard]]s. | | After a series of actions that began with the [[Kosovo war]] in 1998 and dismemberment of [[Serbia]], the 2003 [[Iraq war|invasion of Iraq]], and the 2014 overthrow of the legitimate democratically elected government of [[Ukraine]] - all in violation of [[United Nations]] resolutions<ref>"No State shall organize, assist, foment, finance, incite or tolerate subversive, terrorist or armed activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another State, or interfere in civil strife in another State," [http://un-documents.net/a25r2625.htm 2625 (XXV). Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations].</ref> - many [[nation state]]s, members of the [[UN General Assembly]] (often referred to as "the developing world" and "global South") became fed up with the hypocrisy and [[double standard]]s. |
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| | The authors argued that the notion that “national defense being the country’s main security goal is somewhat outdated, at least rather inadequate." Under such circumstances, a country, especially a weak one, must go beyond the limits of "traditional war" in order to win when it is faced with an opponent stronger than itself. | | The authors argued that the notion that “national defense being the country’s main security goal is somewhat outdated, at least rather inadequate." Under such circumstances, a country, especially a weak one, must go beyond the limits of "traditional war" in order to win when it is faced with an opponent stronger than itself. |
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| − | "Traditional war" follows certain rules or boundaries, for example, protections for the civilians and civilian facilities, humanitarian treatment to [[POW]]s, banning the use of [[weapons of mass destruction]], etc. These principles were formally established in a series of international agreements. "Unrestricted warfare" means going beyond the limit, whether it is material, spiritual, ethical or technical; and whether it is called 'range', ‘restriction’, ‘restraint’, ‘boundary’, ‘rules’, ‘law’, ‘limit’, or ‘taboo’ ". In “unrestricted warfare” there is no distinction between " front and rear", "military and civilian", country and territory. It is not restrained by moral and ethical limits. Any person and any facility can be considered as a military target. In order to achieve the goal, you can do whatever you want. | + | "Traditional war" follows certain rules or boundaries, for example, protections for civilians and civilian facilities, humanitarian treatment to [[POW]]s, banning the use of [[weapons of mass destruction]], etc. These principles were formally established in a series of international agreements. "Unrestricted warfare" means going beyond the limit, whether it is material, spiritual, ethical or technical; and whether it is called 'range', ‘restriction’, ‘restraint’, ‘boundary’, ‘rules’, ‘law’, ‘limit’, or ‘taboo.’" In “unrestricted warfare” there is no distinction between " front and rear", "military and civilian," country and territory. It is not restrained by moral and ethical limits. Any person and any facility can be considered as a military target. In order to achieve the goal, you can do whatever you want. |
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| − | Unrestricted warfare tactics are divided into three categories, "military, trans-military and non-military. To operate “unrestricted warfare”, any item in the table of the three categories can be combined with one or more other items as needed to form " combined tactics". The authors specifically pointed out in the note: "The three categories of operations here are real wars, not metaphors or descriptions." | + | Unrestricted warfare tactics are divided into three categories: "military, trans-military and non-military. To operate “unrestricted warfare,” any item in the table of the three categories can be combined with one or more other items as needed to form "combined tactics." The authors specifically pointed out in the note: "The three categories of operations here are real wars, not metaphors or descriptions." |
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| − | When all the boundaries of “old-style warfare” are broken, there is only one reality left: the entire human society is treated as a battlefield. There is no doubt that the [[United States]] is the simulated enemy against whom the unrestricted warfare was formulated. The reasoning goes that the People's Republic of China, being the weaker party compared with the United States in terms of military technology and power, justifies [[tactic]]s described in ''Unrestricted Warfare'', since conventional tactics may not ensure victory against the US.<ref>https://jianglinswritings.blogspot.com/2020/05/unrestricted-warfare-rulelessness-is.html</ref> | + | When all the boundaries of “old-style warfare” are broken, there is only one reality left: the entire human society is treated as a battlefield. There is no doubt that the [[United States]] is the simulated enemy against whom unrestricted warfare was formulated. The reasoning goes that the People's Republic of China, being the weaker party compared with the United States in terms of military technology and power, justifies [[tactic]]s described in ''Unrestricted Warfare'', since conventional tactics may not ensure victory against the US.<ref>https://jianglinswritings.blogspot.com/2020/05/unrestricted-warfare-rulelessness-is.html</ref> |
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| | In 2015, Chinese military scientists discussed how to weaponize SARS coronaviruses to "cause the enemy’s medical system to collapse." In a 263-page document, written by People's Liberation Army scientists and senior Chinese public health officials and obtained by the US State Department during its investigation into the origins of COVID-19, suggests that SARS coronaviruses could herald a "new era of genetic weapons," and noted that they can be "artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed in a way never seen before."<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/chinese-military-discussed-weaponizing-covid-2015-cause-enemys-medical-system-collapse</ref> | | In 2015, Chinese military scientists discussed how to weaponize SARS coronaviruses to "cause the enemy’s medical system to collapse." In a 263-page document, written by People's Liberation Army scientists and senior Chinese public health officials and obtained by the US State Department during its investigation into the origins of COVID-19, suggests that SARS coronaviruses could herald a "new era of genetic weapons," and noted that they can be "artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed in a way never seen before."<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/chinese-military-discussed-weaponizing-covid-2015-cause-enemys-medical-system-collapse</ref> |
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| | ====Covid cover up==== | | ====Covid cover up==== |
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| − | In January 2020, the [[Chinese Communist Party]] regime plainly demonstrated criminal intent by attempting to buy up the world's medical supplies and limiting all exports of its own, while refusing to communicate to the rest of the world the truth about the outbreak of the [[Covid virus]] in Wuhan. A DHS report relates, "We further assess the Chinese Government attempted to hide its actions by denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data".<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/03/dhs-china-hiding-coronavirus-info-supplies-233185</ref> "In January, according to the report, China increased its imports of surgical facemasks by 278 percent, surgical gowns by 72 percent, and surgical gloves by 32 percent. Meanwhile, it slashed its global exports of a host of medical products: surgical gloves by 48 percent, surgical gowns by 71 percent, face masks by 48 percent, medical ventilators by 45 percent, incubator kits by 56 percent, thermometers by 53 percent, and cotton balls and swabs by 58 percent." China has long since thus squandered the right to be treated as a good-faith actor by openly warring in such a way with the free world. | + | In January 2020, the [[Chinese Communist Party]] regime plainly demonstrated criminal intent by attempting to buy up the world's medical supplies and limiting all exports of its own, while refusing to communicate to the rest of the world the truth about the outbreak of the [[Covid virus]] in Wuhan. A DHS report relates, "We further assess the Chinese Government attempted to hide its actions by denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data."<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/03/dhs-china-hiding-coronavirus-info-supplies-233185</ref> "In January, according to the report, China increased its imports of surgical facemasks by 278 percent, surgical gowns by 72 percent, and surgical gloves by 32 percent. Meanwhile, it slashed its global exports of a host of medical products: surgical gloves by 48 percent, surgical gowns by 71 percent, face masks by 48 percent, medical ventilators by 45 percent, incubator kits by 56 percent, thermometers by 53 percent, and cotton balls and swabs by 58 percent." China has long since thus squandered the right to be treated as a good-faith actor by openly warring in such a way with the free world. |
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| | Subcritical weapons tests are experiments that use chemical explosives to compress fissile materials like plutonium, but without creating a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, so no nuclear explosion occurs. [[China]], the [[US]] and [[Russia]] (possibly others including [[France]], [[UK]], [[Pakistan]], [[India]], [[Israel]], [[North Korea]] and other non-declared nuclear powers) are known or suspected of carrying out subcritical nuclear weapons testing.<ref>https://weapons.substack.com/p/nuclear-testing-its-the-pits</ref> | | Subcritical weapons tests are experiments that use chemical explosives to compress fissile materials like plutonium, but without creating a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, so no nuclear explosion occurs. [[China]], the [[US]] and [[Russia]] (possibly others including [[France]], [[UK]], [[Pakistan]], [[India]], [[Israel]], [[North Korea]] and other non-declared nuclear powers) are known or suspected of carrying out subcritical nuclear weapons testing.<ref>https://weapons.substack.com/p/nuclear-testing-its-the-pits</ref> |
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| − | On November 5, 2025, [[Russian President Vladimir Putin]] stated in a Russian Security Council meeting that if the [[United States]] or other parties to the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) conduct nuclear tests, Russia will take “adequate actions.”<ref>http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/78403</ref> Putin instructed the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, and special services to prepare proposals on the feasibility of beginning work to prepare for nuclear tests. At the same time, he stressed that Russia has always strictly adhered—and continues to adhere—to its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and has no plans to deviate from those obligations. Defense Minister [[Andrei Belousov]] proposed starting preparations for full-scale nuclear tests in response to [[U.S.]] actions. “The readiness of the forces and facilities of the central test site on the [[Novaya Zemlya]] archipelago allows it to be carried out in a short time,” He said. | + | On November 5, 2025, [[Russian President Vladimir Putin]] stated in a Russian Security Council meeting that if the [[United States]] or other parties to the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) conduct nuclear tests, Russia will take “adequate actions.”<ref>http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/78403</ref> Putin instructed the Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, and special services to prepare proposals on the feasibility of beginning work to prepare for nuclear tests. At the same time, he stressed that Russia has always strictly adhered—and continues to adhere—to its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and has no plans to deviate from those obligations. Defense Minister [[Andrei Belousov]] proposed starting preparations for full-scale nuclear tests in response to [[U.S.]] actions. “The readiness of the forces and facilities of the central test site on the [[Novaya Zemlya]] archipelago allows it to be carried out in a short time,” he said. |
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| | The head of the [[Russian Foreign Intelligence Service]], [[Sergey Naryshkin]], reported at the meeting that the United States has not yet specified exactly what Donald Trump meant when he spoke about nuclear tests, although Russian [[diplomat]]s had sent a corresponding request to explain. | | The head of the [[Russian Foreign Intelligence Service]], [[Sergey Naryshkin]], reported at the meeting that the United States has not yet specified exactly what Donald Trump meant when he spoke about nuclear tests, although Russian [[diplomat]]s had sent a corresponding request to explain. |
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| | ::*''U.S. military hegemony has caused humanitarian tragedies. Since 2001, the wars and military operations launched by the United States in the name of fighting [[terrorism]] have claimed over 900,000 lives with some 335,000 of them civilians, injured millions and displaced tens of millions. The 2003 [[Iraq War]] resulted in some 200,000 to 250,000 civilian deaths, including over 16,000 directly killed by the U.S. military, and left more than a million homeless. | | ::*''U.S. military hegemony has caused humanitarian tragedies. Since 2001, the wars and military operations launched by the United States in the name of fighting [[terrorism]] have claimed over 900,000 lives with some 335,000 of them civilians, injured millions and displaced tens of millions. The 2003 [[Iraq War]] resulted in some 200,000 to 250,000 civilian deaths, including over 16,000 directly killed by the U.S. military, and left more than a million homeless. |
| | ::*''The United States has created 37 million refugees around the world. Since 2012, the number of Syrian refugees alone has increased tenfold. Between 2016 and 2019, 33,584 civilian deaths were documented in the Syrian fighting, including 3,833 killed by U.S.-led coalition bombings, half of them women and children. The [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS) reported on 9 November 2018 that the air strikes launched by U.S. forces on Raqqa alone killed 1,600 Syrian civilians. | | ::*''The United States has created 37 million refugees around the world. Since 2012, the number of Syrian refugees alone has increased tenfold. Between 2016 and 2019, 33,584 civilian deaths were documented in the Syrian fighting, including 3,833 killed by U.S.-led coalition bombings, half of them women and children. The [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS) reported on 9 November 2018 that the air strikes launched by U.S. forces on Raqqa alone killed 1,600 Syrian civilians. |
| − | ::*''The two-decades-long war in [[Afghanistan]] devastated the country. A total of 47,000 Afghan civilians and 66,000 to 69,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers unrelated to the [[September 11 attacks]] were killed in U.S. military operations, and more than 10 million people were displaced. The [[Afghan war|war in Afghanistan]] destroyed the foundation of economic development there and plunged the Afghan people into destitution. After the "[[Fall of Kabul|Kabul debacle" in 2021]], the United States announced that it would freeze some 9.5 billion dollars in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, a move considered as " pure looting.'' | + | ::*''The two-decades-long war in [[Afghanistan]] devastated the country. A total of 47,000 Afghan civilians and 66,000 to 69,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers unrelated to the [[September 11 attacks]] were killed in U.S. military operations, and more than 10 million people were displaced. The [[Afghan war|war in Afghanistan]] destroyed the foundation of economic development there and plunged the Afghan people into destitution. After the "[[Fall of Kabul|Kabul debacle" in 2021]], the United States announced that it would freeze some 9.5 billion dollars in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, a move considered as "pure looting." |
| | ::*''In September 2022, [[Turkish]] Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu commented at a rally that the United States has waged a [[proxy war]] in [[Syria]], turned Afghanistan into an [[opium]] field and [[heroin]] factory, thrown [[Pakistan]] into turmoil, and left [[Libya]] in incessant civil unrest. The United States does whatever it takes to rob and en [[slave]] the people of any country with underground resources. | | ::*''In September 2022, [[Turkish]] Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu commented at a rally that the United States has waged a [[proxy war]] in [[Syria]], turned Afghanistan into an [[opium]] field and [[heroin]] factory, thrown [[Pakistan]] into turmoil, and left [[Libya]] in incessant civil unrest. The United States does whatever it takes to rob and en [[slave]] the people of any country with underground resources. |
| | ::*''The United States has also adopted appalling methods in war. During the [[Korean War]], the [[Vietnam War]], the [[Gulf War]], the [[Kosovo War]], the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War, the United States used massive quantities of chemical and [[biological weapon]]s as well as cluster bombs, fuel-air bombs, graphite bombs and [[depleted uranium]] bombs, causing enormous damage to civilian facilities, countless civilian casualties and lasting [[environmental]] pollution. | | ::*''The United States has also adopted appalling methods in war. During the [[Korean War]], the [[Vietnam War]], the [[Gulf War]], the [[Kosovo War]], the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War, the United States used massive quantities of chemical and [[biological weapon]]s as well as cluster bombs, fuel-air bombs, graphite bombs and [[depleted uranium]] bombs, causing enormous damage to civilian facilities, countless civilian casualties and lasting [[environmental]] pollution. |