China Sacks Russia!!!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

The comment I made below is part of a larger trend outline, and I'm sure at the time - and still now - to some it probably seems absurd that...

Mar 7, 2014 1:19:32 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Russia, Iran, and Syria think China is going to back them up.... Ain't going to happen... China is so screwed without the UST it's not even funny.... Right now I suspect China is letting the three amigos think they will be there for them.

However, consider how much China needs their reserves now that their economy is in a free fall, and Europe - their biggest trading partner - is being flooded with refugees. All because instead of working together to stop the flood before it got out of hand, Russia and Europe were locked in a battle - thanks to Putin - over Ukraine that neither side could afford.

Consider the recent events in the Mid East, and the reason for Putin's continued delusions of grandeur.. This is linked back to China making a deal for Russia's natural resources while Russia was under western sanctions for invading the Ukraine, and it's those natural resources that are the true motivation behind China bating Putin into making one stupid, irrational decision after another.(More on that in a bit)

Frank Jacobs wrote a great article back in January highlighting exactly why China will NEVER work with Russia. When you read his article you will truly understand how absurd it is that the media wants to sell stories about China vs U.S.A.: Superpowers Collide! And as always, a picture is worth a thousand words - or a billion in some cases...

Why China Will Reclaim Siberia

Now, for Putin's stupidity. When I read the following article all I thought was, "NO SHIT! This is exactly why my models were blindsided by Putin. There is NO logic in what he is doing!!!"

"The Russians have made a serious mistake": how Putin's Syria gambit will backfire

It would be easy to get the impression from media coverage that Putin's decision to intervene militarily in Syria is some kind of genius strategic move — a bold and brilliant gambit that will weaken the US in the Middle East, or at least dramatically limit its influence in the region. Headlines this week have blared that Putin has "blindsided" Obama, that Putin is now "controlling the game" in Syria, and that Obama is "humiliated" as Putin "resets the Middle East."

But as Jeremy Shapiro, a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's Project on International Order and Strategy, explained to me, the truth is far different. If Russia did manage to "blindside" the Obama administration, he argues, that's only because the Russian intervention is so incredibly stupid that it took the US by surprise that Putin would actually do it.

I have said before, I feel TERRIBLE for the Russia people because a large percentage don't want Putin the ahole running things, and he is going to lead them to so much pain and hardship it's not even funny!

Bottom line, don't be surprised when the map in this post becomes a reality over the next 7-9 years.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Just how stupid is Putin? He knows that there is a large militant Muslim movement that wants to revolt against him. For the most part these militant groups have stayed out of the battle because they seen their fight as a battle against Russia. Now that Russia is in the war......

The expansion of Russia’s radical Islamism outside the North Caucasus

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Let it be understood: Nobody and I mean NOBODY EVER invaded Russia and claimed success!
It has been tried over and over again and again:
-Alexander the Great- around 420-410 BC before russians were even a people-failed
- Napoleon- 1812 - failed miserably 
- Hitler -1941- it was his end

Tose are just the ones that are worth mentioning

What in the world makes anybody think that they would just sit idly by while the Chinese or anybody else takes control?
Never will that happen! Nikogda!  

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

They aren't sitting back and taking it, Putin is driving them directly to this with his delusions of grandeur. It's been a long time since Russia has resembled anything like you are describing(emigration proves this) and Putin is spending money like Russia is the biggest economy on Earth. China is simply baiting him into it with economics and following it up with mass migration. What moves this into high gear is the war - of course.

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[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Lure, bait, and Putin is hooked.

China’s Great Game: In Russia’s backyard

Khorgos, the dividing line between China and Kazakhstan. And while it may not look like much now, China has ambitions to transform this border point at what was once the edge of the Russian empire into a new gateway to the west.

“East meets west. It’s here. This is the linking point,” says Hicham Belmaachi, commercial director of a newly-built dry port at the border, designed to speed up the transit of Chinese goods via Xinjiang on their way to central Asia, Europe or the Middle East.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Mar 7, 2014 1:19:32 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Russia, Iran, and Syria think China is going to back them up.... Ain't going to happen... China is so screwed without the UST it's not even funny.... Right now I suspect China is letting the three amigos think they will be there for them.

At the U.N., Beijing Begins to Shift Away From Putin

In late September, a Chinese foreign ministry delegation held a closed-door meeting at the United Nations’ New York headquarters with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and gave him some good news: Beijing was prepared to vote in favor of Ukraine’s bid for a seat on the U.N. Security Council despite a campaign by Russia to thwart its adversary’s ambitions, according to U.N.-based diplomats familiar with the meeting.

The move marked a diplomatic setback for Russia, which has sought, and generally won, China’s support at the United Nations in its geopolitical and ideological struggles with the West. It also sent a clear signal that Russia’s closest and most valuable ally at the U.N. is willing to pursue its own interests, even if at Moscow’s expense....

...Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, China has expanded its commercial links with Ukraine, which this year surpassed the United States as the largest importer of Ukrainian corn, according to the Financial Times.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Without even firing a shot... Bravo, Putin. Bravo!

China's advance into Central Asia ruffles Russian feathers

Slowly but surely, a four-lane highway is beginning to take shape on the sparsely populated Central Asian steppe. Soviet-era cars, trucks and aging long-distance buses weave past modern yellow bulldozers, cranes and towering construction drills, labouring under Chinese supervision to build a road that could one day stretch from eastern Asia to Western Europe.
This small stretch of blacktop, running past potato fields, bare dun-colored rolling hills and fields of grazing cattle, is a symbol of China's march westward, an advance into Central Asia that is steadily wresting the region from Russia's embrace.

Here the oil and gas pipelines, as well as the main roads and the railway lines, always pointed north to the heart of the old Soviet Union. Today, those links are beginning to point toward China.
Tom Miller, at a consulting firm called Gavekal Dragonomics, argues that as Beijing's investment and financial ties with Central Asia deepen, "its political influence will inevitably strengthen", too. Harking back to the Great Game, the 19th-century contest between the British and Russian empires influence in Central Asia, he says there is only one winner this time around.
Beijing's strategists studiously avoid any talk of playing a new Great Game in the heart of Asia - "but they look set to win it nonetheless," Miller said.

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China has most likely financial interests in Russia. We are not the only ones borrowing money from them. Russia did the same.
As a result of their agreement to buy gas/oil from Russia, the Chinese have to somehow get there. Therefore they are tirelessly working on building a highway that would give them easier access to Central Asia. They have to move in with equipment and such.
Maybe their agreement states that " you can have it but you have to pump it out and transport it"

In the late 90s early 2000s, Romania joined NATO after being 45 years attached to Warsow Treaty(eastern block)
As a EU border state and geografical position, Romania is strategic in the interests of NATO.
There is no actual value in the standing military that the country has so due to that, U.S. decided to take over some Airforce and Naval bases.
The general agreement is more of a lease of said facilities which according to the documents " will be modernized and updated" at the expense of the U.S. and after a period of X years will fall back to the Romanian military with all equipment and technology(except some things) present on the premises.
To create easier access to these bases, the U.S. DOD also had to finance road construction and harbour upgrades.

 The point is that there might be a deal in the middle that justifies Chinese presence north of Amur river and is not necessarily a take over.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Putin is going to cause a soviet style melt down in the Russian Federation. If China would have been in the position they are today when the USSR fell, the map in the first post would already be they way it is. Just look to 1929 and 1969 for how much love there is between China and Russia in the modern era.

But hey, the Sino-Russian cooperation story makes for great "news."

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Per the first post; right on schedule. Stay

Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are on the ropes

Largely hidden from prying eyes, Russia is beginning to implode from within. Paula J. Dobriansky and David B. Rivkin Jr., senior officials under the last three Republican presidents, note the following in the Washington Post:

There is widespread labor unrest in cities where private-sector workers have not been paid for months at a time. There also have been months of strikes by long-distance truckers protesting extortionist road fees and corruption. Even fire and rescue first responders employed by the federal Ministry of Emergency Situations have not been paid in months. That emergency personnel in such major cities (and places where revolutions have started in Russia’s past) as St. Petersburg and Moscow, with responsibilities for handling public protests, have gone without pay underscores the precariousness of Russia’s finances and the risks it is forced to incur.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Building on the trends in this thread... Man is the next 10 years going to be interesting.

-Ambitious plan to divert Siberian water to China gets showered in criticism
-We've come for your women: Chinese men seek Siberian brides
-Rosneft Agrees to Sell Siberia Stake as Putin Boosts China Ties

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

the Western media? 99.99% of the stories about China and Russia in Western Media is how they are teaming up to threaten "western hegemony".. A denial because of guilt?

-Why forecasts of a Chinese takeover of the Russian Far East are just dramatic myth
-Parched' Chinese city plans to pump water from Russian lake via 1,000km pipeline

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

.... without firing a shot.

Russia offers 2.5 million acres of land to Chinese farmers

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

In continuation of the theme of China and USA = war is a great story; but in reality....this thread: Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’ Why would Moscow want to fight terrorists without the US? It doesn’t.

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[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Great article; even talks about how Russia laid down to China's economic prowess the same way the Ole Brits did...

The Coming Wars

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

 It's funny, now that I have less time to post because of carbon negative renewable energy; I realize how much I was harping on the big picture and not dialing in on enough details. Vrrip pointed that out a couple times over the years.

Hope you are good Vrrip!! 

But, its been fun. Now, as Frank always says; "it gets better." If you're in the hemp game, that is. 

Mujhadieen leaders in Turkey and Pakistan(talking nuclear war) helping Saudi Arabia - who is now engaging with Iran, while Iran backed Syria is confronting Turkey - take it to the next level.  Negative yielding debt (Greece selling negative yield at market) piling up, and funding markets are going erratic.

The following article has a lot of the same rhetoric as China is taking over the world. With enough notable exceptions to warrant noting it for sure as I collect data about moving into the future. I'll quote the main contrary point to hold in mind the whole time, but remember; American's don't care about a patch of land in India, and Taiwan is not our business. On the other hand Hong Kong - while sharing Chinese lineage and heritage - isn't buying what the commies are selling. As the article points out and we have talked about here a few times; there is enough historical bad blood between Asian nations; they aren't happy about the "debt trap." 

Back on point to the thread though. Putin and his delusions of grandeur on what he could accomplish in the Mid East are coming unglued; what, Erogden couldn't be trusted? And the entire time Putin was making deals and allowing Chinese immigration into lands historically occupied; and as the article points out, part of the Chinese dream. 

So, while commie China is going to have to give it up to the people, and that will include housings to the warriors in the coming war for the East; make not mistake about it. China is connected(by land) to Russia and not America. We are the reason for China's growth and their entire war chest for the next phase is USDs. It makes great stories, China vs the USA, but this is about misdirection. China sacks Russia, now that's the real story; remember:

Jan 10, 2011 20:41:25 GMT -5 @ahamburger said:

When has a military strategy been to build up other nations so that they are equal to you? Something had to be done after the forties because the war wasn't over, just turned cold. I know that we as humans can walk better with two legs. Why can't the world?? Don't fool yourself, or listen to the media that is always looking for the decline of America. It is possible that short term loss in jobs will lead to long term gain in prosperity for everyone. We are not talking about sections of the planet this is the whole world that is involved.

China: Modern Blueprint for Global Power

Chinese statecraft as being based on and reflecting ancient Confucian ethics:

Only when things are investigated is knowledge extended; only when knowledge is extended are thoughts sincere; only when thoughts are sincere are minds rectified; only when minds are rectified are the characters of persons cultivated; only when character is cultivated are our families regulated; only when families are regulated are states well governed; only when states are well governed is there peace in the world.