Posted on 04/09/2025 4:44:31 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
PUTIN has stayed deafeningly silent after Kyiv claimed that two Chinese nationals were captured fighting in Ukraine.
Beijing responded to Zelensky's call for answers and vowed to investigate the alleged reports of Chinese involvement in the conflict.
Russia has chosen to stay silent on the matter, sparking fresh fears that Putin has been working with China all along.
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said: "I cannot comment on this information in any way."
Zelensky demanded an official response from Beijing after claiming that Kyiv captured two Chinese nationals fighting in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian was quick to respond and said that China was verifying the reports with Ukraine.
But Jian insisted the claims have "no basis" and added that the Chinese government requires its citizens to avoid any involvement in armed conflicts.
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Cool. Now Germany, the UK, and France can fight Russia and China.
Bob Ireland incisively posted earlier: Most countries are
wisely choosing to renegotiate with the US over tariffs.
So why is the market going super nova?
The key is CHINA! ! ! China maintains high tariffs against us PLUS they do currency manipulation, devaluing the yuan against the dollar. China brags about its status as a world power... but China depends heavily on plundering our country. During the Clinton Admin our deficit was a little less than $50 billion a year. Now it is about $1/2 trillion a year.
Add to that the theft of intellectual property, capturing U.S. patents, pirating U.S. business secrets; some estimate that our current trade deficit is probably about $1 trillion a year.
They have the world’s largest navy; they have perhaps 1/4 - 1/2 million troops. Those troops have to be fed and supplied. Those ships need fuel, parts and regular maintenance. Ammunition and rockets and missiles are regular ongoing expenses.
China is still heavily dependent on collecting dollars to maintain its world power status. They are putting undue pressure on all their ‘allies’ in this country to make Trump look like he is in a losing position. China raised its tariffs and fees on U.S. property. It is all out: defeat Trump’s tariffs! China has undue influence on the U.S. Senate - who has just tried to pass a bill to override Trump’s tariff agenda. They have avenues to attempt at least some stock market manipulation.
It is all out for China for one simple reason: THEY MUST PLUNDER THE U.S. ECONOMY in order to maintain their elevated world status. On the present path China would become the ONLY world power and the U.S. would be economically reduced to Guatemala, etc. - a banana republic.
Will President Trump blink, falter?
China is taking that gamble.
Stand fast, Don.
And just exactly what do you think Putin should have said? Please explain.
A Zeeper explanation should be enlightening.
They are North Koreans....
Oil for soldiers. Russia and China would probably both be happy with that.
FROM THE HISTORY BOOKS
In the 1990’s Israeli defense industry executives reported that the US had frozen Israel out of the “F-35 Joint Strike Fighter development” due to Israel’s military cooperation with China, selling US-shared tech with China that endangered American families’ safety and security..
Alarmingly, use of the Harpy drones were traced back
to Russia’s more recent use of them to attack Ukraine.
You make some great points and I think most of the tariff war is about China.
But I think you’re on the wrong thread for this one.
You can post this if you like it’s a great article on the subject:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-tariffs
I don’t have the time just now to post.
Who cares? Both sides are lying about who is participating.
Putin should apologize to President Trump.
What Putin oil prices doink?
Shit, man. Even for a Zeeper, that has to be the most mind blowingly idiotic comment I’ve heard in a long time.
If these two guys really are Chinese nationals who volunteered to fight for Russia, what’s the big deal? Ukraine has been openly recruiting fighters from other countries. Goose, gander and all that. Looks like a silly excuse for pearl clutching to me.
What Beijing should do is bring in thousands of Chinese troops to back the Russians in Ukraine.
Zellensky is in no position to order China about.
China will tell Zellensky the thief where he gets off.
And if these two guys are Chinese nationals, they likely would have been imbedded while Biden was president.
Does Mucous Maximus think therefore that Biden should apologize?
If not, why not? After all, this is Biden’s war.
Cuba exposes Russian human trafficking ring for military recruitment
Politico ^ | 5 sept 2023 | LAURA HÜLSEMANN
Posted on 9/5/2023, 10:49:47 AM by DUMBGRUNT
The Cuban government has exposed a Russian trafficking operation used to lure Cubans into the war against Ukraine, Cuban authorities announced Monday.
“The Ministry of the Interior has detected and is working to neutralize and dismantle a human trafficking network operating from Russia to incorporate Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba, into the military forces participating in war operations in Ukraine,” the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday....
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