Peter Klevius definition of science is lack of bias. Because science is pure logic, bias hides in the scientific process masked as "peer review" etc. and boosted by citation cartels. Klevius is the ultimate bias assassin - well aware of and troubled by his own bias. The foundation of the blog is Klevius book Demand for Resources (1992, ISBN9173288411), which was rooted in a 1981 article and 1980 correspondence with G H von Wright (Wittgenstein's successor at Cambridge) and many earlier writings.
So rogue state US' now tries to extend its stolen dollar hegemony by tying its "allies" to its own fate. However, these allies US places in the front line, and they will only suffer on behalf of US, which strategy is to extend its "borders", army and confrontations far beyond itself.
A deep ignorance (or prejudice) about China's technological supremacy, pared with oligarchical and corrupt policymakers, paves the road to a hell caused by US, not China.
Timeline of how orders from US dictatorship quickly become political "facts" in the rest of the West's "democracies.
10 March 2023: Biden tells EU president to go after China, and as a reward offers trade deal.
23 March 2023: Nicely obeying US order EU president gives a speech at Mercator where she said EU needed to go after China.
25 May 2023: Mercator's Mikko Huotari made a speech why EU was going after China. However, at no point in his "analysis" did Huotari mention the Mammoth in the room, i.e. the ending of US stolen dollar hegemony, which would have explained the real reason behind US "going after China" policy, and in one trike would have turned the attention from China to US itself. And this is nothing that one needs Peter Klevius IQ 200+ to understand because it's all out there to see, and a child could understand it!
The above also reveals how democracy is sidestepped in a West now led by a criminal embezzler eager to cover up its own crime and finding a scapegoat instead. And the best scapegoat for US is of course the one that challenges US dollar hegemony.
While
US spies, controls and dictates everything in the West (hense
constituting a real threat because of its $-theft desperation), and even
physically occupies and endangers countries it abuses for the sole
purpose of continuing its stolen dollar hegemony, China has the talent
and means to make the world cleaner and more peaceful.
How US robs the world
China
is by far the world's oldest civilization, because China happened to be
located south of from where the first big skulled truly intelligent
humans spread (compare Malta Buret etc.).
There's still a prevailing myth of the
"talented religious and democratic West" when in fact West's
imperialism and occupations and colonizations were only possible by
copying Chinese technology (everything from paper, printing, gun
powder, cannons etc.).
Fascist (now a direct copy of Nazi
propagandist Goebbels) and partial polarizer, hate spreader and
warmonger BBC supports desperate dollar freeloader US complicity in Gaza
war crimes and genocide by falsifying information about US s.c.
"resolution"* - and demonizing China, now by spreading false accusations
that Chinese cars "could be a security risk"! In other words, all these
"China threats" BBC - as the mouthpiece of the desperate and criminal
dollar embezzler US - spews out would mean that consumers in the West
should be hindered from getting the best technology - cause "everything
from China poses a threat".
*
Since Israel's war crimes and genocide against Palestinians started, US
has continued to deliver weapons and vetoed any ceasefire resolution -
until now when there was a real resolution proposed in UN, then so to
hinder this one and/or make it look like China and Russia was against a
ceasefire resolution, US proposed a wording that excluded a clear
demand for a ceasefire by just stating that "it's imperative to get a
ceasefire". And this happened after months of extreme slaughtering and
destruction. It's truly appalling to see how US tries to cover up its
evil behavior by now pretending to care about Palestinians while "always
standing on Israel's side" as Blinken said.
The first physically fully modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) have been found in China.
This remarkable skull is covered by
Wikipedia in two short sentences 2015: "The Liujiang men are among the
earliest modern humans found in East Asia. Their remains were discovered
in the Tongtianyang Cave in Liujiang County, Guangxi, China."
Peter Klevius wrote:
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Why were tall men from the south dumber than tall men from the north?
Why has the tallest region in Europe (parts of Balkan) also been the
poorest when the next tallest region (Northern Europe) has been the most
affluent?
Answer: It's got absolutely nothing to do with tallness - and everything
to do with brainpower. Oops, did Klevius say something "blasphemic"?
Ok, here's Klevius' defense.
Väinö Myllyrinne, Finland, 251 cm (8 ft 3 in), had the world's biggest
hands - and a quite ordinary life, except for some circus trips to earn
some bucks on his stature.
So what if Väinö Myllyrinne had been born into a warrior family some
5,000 ybp and equipped with a brain like, say Klevius (but way more
aggressive)? Oops, Klevius did it again.
Height is genetically determined. Stunting because of malnutrition is
only between 1-2 cm in a study of the Chinese famine 1959-1961. What has
previously been assigned to malnutrition is in fact selection. Growth
hormone irregularities are relatively rare.
There's a distinct genetic growth stop at around age 14 for a huge (?)
part of the world's population, while others continue growing until the
age of 16-18. Mixing of these genes give results that no one so far has
studied in more detail. This is the basic reason for height variation
among today's humans. Klevius strongly suggests that someone starts a
research project based on this Klevius' problem formulation.
However, some continue growing also after their growth spurt. One such
an example was the world's tallest healthy man (most exceptionally tall
people are sick and die young) the Finnish Väinö Myllyrinne.
Väinö
Myllyrinne (born 27 February 1909 in Helsinki – 13 April 1963 in
Helsinki, Finland) was an acromegalic (continued growth after the growth
plates have closed) giant who was at one time (1961–1963) the world's
tallest living person and is the tallest non-American person of all time
whose height is not disputed (do note that all Americans were
physically handicapped). He stood 224 cm (7 ft 4 in) and weighed 141 kg
(311 pounds) at the age of 21, but experienced a second phase of growth
in his late thirties, attaining a height of 251 cm (8 ft 3 in) and
weighing 171 kg (376 pounds). Myllyrinne is considered the tallest
soldier ever, having served in the Finnish Defence Forces. He underwent
his conscript training in 1929 in the Viipuri Heavy Artillery Regiment,
and was 220 cm (7 ft 3 in) tall and really strong. In the 1930s he
traveled around Europe. He returned to Finland in 1939 to serve in the
Finnish Army during the Winter War. In 1946, he moved to Järvenpää and
ran a chicken farm. He died in 1963 after a hip surgery caused
inflammation. In 1962, just a year before his death, he was measured by
doctors at 2.47 m (8 ft 1.2 in). This confirms with normal shrinking
over more than a decade. He had a 340 mm (13.2 in) size hand, the
largest known.
Väinö Myllyrinne
Väinö Myllyrinne with two upper average size women.
Peter Klevius' (who isn't tall) analysis: Because the northerners had
access to short and intelligent women to the north of themselves among
the hunter-gatherer population, they also got closer to the genetic
background of modern humans. So some kids became short, others average,
and some tall - and some even blond. Likewise, some got average IQ while
a few got the genius gene. And a few became highly intelligent giant
warriors at a time when size mattered - especially in sparsely populated
areas where hit and run attacks were easy and where they could gather
more of the same while going southward. One may assume that these
phenomena happened more frequently during bad farming times - which
occurred quite often in the vulnerable climatic borderland of farming,
and dwelling in dark woodlands in the extreme north added blondness and
fair skin.
The tallest people seem to have followed part of haplogroup I-M170. And
when it comes to aDNA there are hints that point to the same direction,
e.g. some tall ancient human remains in the southern Gravettian ice-age
refuges (e.g. Italy).
However, it's mainly tall people from Fennoscandia/Russia
(Indoeuropeans and Uralics) who - together with shorter people -
constituted the stock from which the technological expansion of the West
emanated. This has also led to many misconceptions, i.e. that being
tall would somehow be connected to intelligence - no matter how many
short geniuses in the West (Newton, Einstein, Hawkings, Penrose etc.)
there are. Looking back in prehistory it seems more likely that the
opposite is true. However, luckily today we've already messed everything
up globally to an extent that it's impossible to tell anything for
certain based on physical appearance. So why not just follow James
Mallory's Bhuddist advise in the context of Tocharians: Don't believe
what you see!
The Indoeuropean language border just
south of the Uralic one is approximately the same as the border of
farming which is pushed to the dark north when affected by the
Gulf-stream.
The Vikings, Goths, the Seima-Turbino, phenomenon, Kurgan people etc.
are all example of movements of mainly tall male warriors in the first
stages. And all of them were closely connected to Uralic speaking
cultures.
This map from Chernyc's Nomadic Cultures in the Mega-Structure of the Eurasian World
(2017) emphasizes the hot spot area of metal working in the 5th
millennium. However, do note the upper reaches of the darker area which
points towards the most often cited Urheimat of proto-Uralic. This
strange tail seems to be quite unexplainable if you don't take this into
account.
The unfortunate belittling of first the steppe people and then the
Uralic speakers has blindfolded many theories - and maps. Here the
Corded Ware culture well overlaps later Uralic areas. Klevius assumes
the people there must have spoken relaed languages at the time of Corded
Ware.
According to Klevius, Corded ware horizon is a mix of Indoeuropean and
Uralic with bilingual border zones. Although Iceland was populated from
Fennoscandia some two millennium later, Icelandic has many
characteristics in common with Finnish. This makes sense when
considering the Vikings started as "Finland-Swedish" (see Origin of Vikings)
explorers/raiders capable of making themselves understood from Finnish
Karelia to Old Nordic Scandinavia and beyond, e.g. Shetland, Scotland,
England, Ireland etc. And do note that 'land' is an old pre-Viking age
Gothic word.
Haplogroup U descends from a woman in the haplogroup R mtDNA branch of
the phylogenetic tree, who is estimated to have lived around 55,000
years ago. An Upper Palaeolithic human who lived in Western Siberia c.
45,000 years ago has been shown to belong to the U* mitochondrial
haplogroup. Haplogroup U has also been found among ancient Egyptian
mummies excavated at the Abusir el-Meleq archaeological site in Middle
Egypt, which date from the Pre-Ptolemaic/late New Kingdom, Ptolemaic,
and Roman periods.
Red hair distribution from a northern heartland. The Uralic speaking
Udmurts have been described as the "most red-headed" people in the world
and having "deep blue eyes".
Blond hair distribution was connected to southern Fennoscandia being
the northernmost place were small scale farming was possible due to the
Gulf stream. However, this part of the farming world was also the
darkest, hence putting immense pressure on vitamin D uptake - resulting
in survival advantage for fair skinned people in the farming/hunting
communities. The northern hunter-gatherers, like Inuits, Sami etc., got
their vitamin D from other sources.
If, as Klevius working theory suggests, the boost in intelligence, that
created the unique paleolithic Eurasian art etc. track from Mal'ta Buret
to the Pyrenees, was the result of a Homo floresiensis like tropical
island dwarfed brain genetically flowing up in the form of Denisovan to
big skulled northern homos, then we would expect a concentration of
intelligence genes in the sparsely populated north (because those going
back south were diluted by the mass of people already there). Most of
these moderṇ (<50,000 ybp) northerners (Siberians, north Europeans)
were (and still are) of relatively short stature (compared to e.g. most
central and "half-northern" Europeans) and not very fair skinned nor
fair haired.
The tallest people used to live in Australia - already some 40-60,000 ybp.
There are two main unsolved mysteries about height:
1 Where did the tall genes originate?
2 Which genes determine earlier and later growth stop?
Lake Mungo man (Australia) who lived more than 40,000 ybp is estimated
to 196 cm (just a couple of centimeter shorter than Klevius childhood
friend).
Mungo Man's "wife" was found 400 m away from him.
These guys from the Burrup peninsula (Western Australia), photographed in the 1920s, were 200.6 cm and 195.5 cm.
These guys photographed in the 1920s in North West Australia, were reportedly both over two meter.
However, most Aborigines are of relatively short stature, and the tall
guys above were reportedly even less intelligent than other tribes the
Western "conquesters" - to use a word commonly used about muslim
colonizers - had met with.
Southern farmers were short and not particularly intelligent
It's a myth that - as Klevius still thought 1992 - that farming caused
civilizations. It was only when the gains of farming was utilized by
non-farmers that the so called "civilizations" emerged in Mideast. Long
before this time there had already been advanced civilizations from Ural
to Ukraine.
Klevius theory on IQ and human evolution and its relation to stature - the first truly intelligent humans weren't tall.
As you dear reader already know, until proven wrong Klevius analysis of
the evolution of modern humans is in its shortest form as follows:
1 The early IQ track visible through the Aurignacian art/technology
track from Baikal/Siberia to the Pyrenees means something extraordinary
happened in the Altai region more than 50,000 ybp when the first sewing
needles were already in use.
An extremely sophisticated stone bracelet was produced in Siberia/Altai
more than 40,000 ybp. Both the needle above and the stone bracelet were
found in the Denisova cave.
2 DNA analysis from the Denisova cave has revealed both hybridization
between so called Neanderthals, Homo sapiens sapiens, and a third party,
the so called Denisovan who in turn is also linked to Australia, Papua
New Guinea and Melanesia.
3 Homo floresiensis proves that a bigger skull can shrink in a tropical
jungle/island environment without loosing IQ. So if a similar but
opposite (i.e. expanding skull while keeping up the per cm3 IQ) process
was at stake among the so called Denisovans when they managed to
re-enter mainland Asia during lower sea level, they would sooner or
later meet with their big skulled northern relatives in the Altai area.
As a resukt some of their kids would get both a big skull as well as
high IQ. How many of them is up to guesswork so far but there must have
been quite a few (proportionally - considering small population) of them
to cause such a rapid spread of what we might call the truly modern
human over the world.
However, this spread was far from even. Climatic as well as geographical
factors played an important role - compare e.g. Mammoth fluctuation,
migration and extinction.
When farming emerged population rapidly increased while stature and
intelligence decreased (e.g. compared to the early geniuses in Altai).
So when the tall Kurgan people from the Russian steppe met the southern
farmers the difference in height could be up to half a meter - and some
of the Kurgans also possessed superior intelligence due to their mating
connections to the north. So whereas mating with average farmer girls
didn't produce many geniuses, the opposite was true when it comes to
girls/women from the north.
Klevius will teach you more about this scenario later on but in the
meantime he suggests you read the Finnish/Karelian epic Kalevala where
Louhi is a "wicked queen" with magical power of the land known as
Pohjola (the North). Louhi promises her eldest and most magnificent
maiden daughter to the smith Ilmarinen if he forges a Sampo (or Sammas)
which was a magical artifact constructed by Ilmarinen that brought
riches and good fortune to its holder.
Klevius wrote:
Friday, March 25, 2016
Klevius' Finland-Swedish Hobbit story
The Dragon of Evil, Tolkien, and Moomin Mum
The Dragon of Evil in the Tolkien calendar by Tove Jansson
Everyone (except islamist muslims) seem to agree that islamism is evil.
However, many, especially politicians and muslims, claim that islam is
"a great and peaceful religion". From this we may conclude that islamism
contains both islam and evil in an inseparable connection which poses
the question how islam could possibly be without evil. Even more so when
considering that the original spread of islam during more than hundred
years (before it settled as sultanates simply sponging on slave business
- the so called "golden age") was completely based on evil religiously
"justified" robbery, slaughtering, raping and enslavement of the
"infidels". Islam's problem is it foundation in evil medieval parasitism
that it has now brought to the modern society.
The twisted logic that evil islam should be blinked as "islamism" has
led to a variety of incomprehensible stand points. For example and
ironically, because of muslim terrorists muslims now ask for extra
protection against "anti-muslim sentiments" - on top of the general
protection already in place. Why? Does this mean that non-muslim
right-wing politicians also should get extra protection because of
right-wing extremists? However, the worst twist of all is by far the
Saudi based and steered (by the Saudi dictator family) all muslim's
world organization OIC and its sharia declaration via UN.
Klevius has no knowledge about J R Tolkien's view on islam. However,
Klevius is convinced that J R Tolkien would have shared Klevius
definition of evil based on Human Rights equality.
J R Tolkien's main hero since he was a boy and throughout his entire
life was Kullervo in the Finnish epic Kalevala. Many characteristics of
Kullervo can also easily be traced in Beowulf and Hamlet both of whom
were Scandinavians from a time when Fennoscandia was known as Kvenland
(see further down). This period is called Vendel time after a small
village near Uppsala in eastern Sweden which at that time was populated
by Finns and some old Nordic speaking bi-lingual "Finland-Swedes" (see
more about this further down).
Klevius is convinced that Tove Jansson would have full heartedly
approved of Tolkien's choice of such an ambiguous hero as Kullervo.
The official Tolkien calendar of 2016 (left) is illustrated by Finland-Swedish Tove Jansson (aka Moomin Mum).
Tove Jansson has also illustrated Swedish and Finnish books by Tolkien
(right). However, she is most famous for her Moomin books and
illustrations.
Klevius wrote:
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Finland-Swedish Moomin Mum Tove Jansson 100 years
Back then Hitler (the Germans) cried for more cake - today islam (the muslims) do the same!
A brave caricature, 'more cake' was made by Tove Jansson in Finland
during a time when Hitler (the Germans) were considered friend of
Finland in its war against Stalin's communist Soviet-union.
Here Tove Jansson with her longtime partner Tuulikki Pietilä
Tove Marika Jansson (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a
Swedish-speaking novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author
from Finland. For her contribution as a children's writer she received
the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966.
Tove Jansson is best known as the author of the Moomin books for children and the astonishing The True Deceiver
for adults. The first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood,
appeared in 1945, i.e. the same year Astrid Lindgren, an other world
famous Swedish speaking author, published her first book about the
Tomboyish Pippi Longstocking.
Like Klevius, Tove Jansson belongs to the tiny bilingual Finland-Swedish
minority. In fact, access to her summer house on the pic passes a
nearby place where Klevius used to live, neighboring a carpenter who
used to build Moomin furnitures for Moominland.
However, unlike Klevius, Tove Jansson never had kids. It's even alleged
that she felt slightly uncomfortable with kids. So where Klevius has
been a family man in practice, Tove Jansson created her family
environment as a fiction.
The little bright Hobbit girl and the giant blonde warrior
There seems to be no way of
avoiding the fact that the first truly intelligent modern humans arose
in northern Eurasia. The art and genetic tracks (see below) are more
than convincing albeit not yet visibly presented as such other than on
Klevius book, blogs and sites so far (though the field is slowly but
inevitably moving towards Klevius).
The people who got the new brain set up were short in stature as
most Siberian people were until recently. However, when Seima-Turbino
like phenomenons started (possibly even long before Seima-Turbino) big
guys who had become blond in the north hunted for cute mongolic looking
girls (compare Kalevala). Some of those girls possessed still a great
chunk of the original super brain (compare the Denisova cave etc) so
some of the kids produced with the blond giants turned up really smart.
Their smartness together with a strong physical constitution in a
sparsely populated river way landscape with small villages/camps
constituted an ideal environment for nomadic robbery. And after some
time some of these guys had collected enough financial and man power to
go further south. Klevius will in detail explain this development later.
Suffice to say that this is also the explanationary basis for why the
Goths from the north managed to conquer the whole of Europe.
Klevius wrote:
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Klevius Midsummer quiz: How come that Klevius can read Beowulf but modern Brits can not?!
Klevius question to BBC: Why so much focus on Muhammad and so little on Beowulf?
The epic poem Beowulf, the masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon literature, was
composed in pre-Viking time by an anonymous poet. It tells the story of a
Scandinavian hero whose feats include battles with the fearsome monster
Grendel and a fire-breathing dragon. It survives in a single manuscript
dating from around 1000 AD. In form (e.g. alliteration) and content it
follows much of the Finnish Kalevala (pictured below). Not the least as
how it's influenced by later Christian material.
The simple answer is that as a Finland-Swede Klevius happens to master
not only Swedish and Finnish but also old Finland-Swedish dialects - and
in an extension most old wordings based on Old Nordic (aka Old Norse)
over an area covering all the Nordic countries (incl. Gotland) plus
Netherlands, England, Scotland plus most of the north Atlantic islands east of Iceland.
In the 1990s when Klevius studied English at Stockholm University they
offered a video recording of a play based on thousand year old English
texts. To Klevius astonishment he immediately recognized many
familiarities with the East-Nyland dialects Klevius had grown up with.
So when two Norwegian linguists a couple of years ago stated that
English is a Scandinavian language Klevius applauded them.
So what does this have to do with Midsummer? Well, it's not just
linguistics but a load of other familiarities as well, not to mention
the fire feasts which may even be traced back to the Celts. And remember
that much/most pre-Christian cultural influences are shared within all
the Nordic countries.
Is Sinophobic, warmongering US puppet
Alicia Kearns dumb or corrupt (or both) when she works so hard to hinder
UK from prospering with China cooperation, while pushing for US
dangerous anti-China demonetization and militarism?!
However,
undemocratic and Human Rights violating dollar thieve (since 1971) US
will inevitably continue losing against meritocratic modern China.
Anyome can figure that out already, and the slight delay US criminal
trade behavior has achieved is quickly running out of time.
Against
this background it's not only idiotic and against the best of the
people, but also the worst security threat, to participate in defending
and supporting the biggest financial fraudster ever on the planet.
BBC
today again spread lies about Hong Kong. However, the threat to Hon
Kong is "vaguely formulated" precisely to fit whatever CIA comes up with
in its desperate efforts to saw evil split and disharmony.
So BBC actually works together with CIA in trying to make it more difficult for companies to run good business in Hong Kong.
And
today BBC again invited the extremist right wing warmongering scumbag
politician Alicia Kearns who of course again spewed exactly what BBC
wanted.
Despite the world's largest muslim organization OIC has
checked, approved, and even applauded China's treatment of Uighurs and
other (non-extremist) muslims in China, the ridiculous "genocide"
accusations by BBC are repeated by Alicia Kearns, who, after more than
31,000 Palestinians have been murdered by Israel in what ICC
investigates as a real genocide, doesn't call this a war crime and
genocide!
Here are the latest casualty figures as of March 18 2024 at 12:00pm in Gaza (10:00 GMT):
Gaza
Killed: at least 31,726 people, including more than:
More than 13,000 children
8,400 women
Injured: more than 73,792 people, including at least:
8,663 children
6,327 women
Missing: more than 8,000
The latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the occupied West Bank are as follows:
Occupied West Bank
Killed: at least 435 people, including more than:
116 children
Injured: more than 4,650
In Israel, officials revised the death toll from the October 7 attacks down from 1,405 to 1,139.
Israel
Killed: 1,139 people
Injured: at least 8,730
The
very existence of Alicia Kearns as an MP in the Tories should be a
reason not to vote Tories, no matter how much you otherwise share their
values.
It really doesn't matter in the war escalating West what Kremlin says, does it.
Do
note how Yahoo "news", which happily distributed disinformation about
Putin's "death", now blames others for disinformation about king Charles
"death".
Finland's
(you know, the stupid victim of $-thieve US military abuse and
occupation) Iltalehti thought it wasn't Putin bu AI that made his New
Year speech!
Nazi
propagandist Goebbels couldn't have been more fascist in his
"reporting" than US misled (actually steered/coerced to) Western media
today!
China thought it had its chip production safely within Chinese borders because even US had accepted UN's decision that Taiwan belongs to China (PRC). This is why US criminal acts now weren't predicted by China. However, it's just a matter of time before China has an even better one on the mainland - and Taiwan will get closer to mainland China. And the desperate and dangerous $-thieve (1971-) US knows it will end its $-hegemony!
Everything people love from China is banned by the "liberal
democracies" in the West ruled by the dictator and dollar thieve (since
1971) US!!
Confucius (551 – c. 479 BCE): Banned because he proposed meritocracy instead of oligarchy.
High tech
Green tech
Ordinary items
Infrastructure
Cars
Tik Tok
Fashion
In fact everything except what US needs for its military from China! And the sad fact is that you can't get better quality and more advanced tech anywhere else in the world!
UN Resolution 2758 was taken 1971 despite loud protests from dollar thieve US which had caused the Taiwan problem in the first place and has illegitimately continued to do so ever since.
UN Resolution 2758: The resolution served to “expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it.”
Do note that at the time of the resolution Chiang Kai-shek was president of Taiwan. Of course UN wouldn't use the unlawful name of Taiwan which is Republic of China and originally created by Chiang-Kai-shek. Taiwan still today uses this unlawful name officially. It should rightly be Province of China.
Moreover, when studying the the process that created the basis for the 1971 resolution 2758, there can be no doubt about the fact that it was all about Taiwan's position within China (PRC). It was the dollar embezzler (1971-) US that not only created the Taiwan "problem" in the first place, but also
* Taiwan is one of many islands in China, but the illegal "Republic of China" is an illegitimate creation made by US military.
Lai Ching-te is due to be the third incumbent vice president of
Taiwan to become president, and the first to assume the office through
election instead of a predecessor's death. His inauguration will be held
on 20 May 2024. However, politics professor Su Tzu-chiao, from Soochow
University in Taipei, noted that only 40 per cent of the popular vote
went to Lai. Most Taiwanese voted for either Hou Yu-ih from the KMT or
Ko Wen-je, whose smaller Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) also favours more
exchanges with Beijing. The latest result could also be understood as 60
per cent of voters signalling that they were fine with voting for a
candidate with moderate or more friendly cross-strait policies compared
with the DPP, he said. Lai achieved the second-lowest result for an
elected Taiwanese president since 1996, and the party lost 2.58 million
supporters compared with four years ago, as well as its legislative
majority. The DPP will have just 51 seats in the 113-member legislative
yuan, compared with the 52 held by the KMT, which secured the speaker’s
chair for its candidate Han Kuo-yu on Thursday. The TPP – which secured
eight positions in its best result – will be a “critical minority” in
the new legislature.
This video should be the most viewed to understand why US became the evil of the world!
The Nixon chock 1971 - the biggest financial robbery ever - and growing in enormity and danger by the day!
The
Volcker shock 1979/1981 - how an economy professor reveals his
ignorance about US evilness because of its 1971 financial theft of the
world dollar.
And
there are no mitigating circumstances but just the opposite, i.e. US
has used its stolen gains from its financial fraud to cover up its crime
and to invest its looted money in arms and wars.
US Fed rules
supreme over the world currency US stole 1971, but only bothers about US
- not what its behavior means for the rest of the world.
US
stolen (1971-) gdp is also heavily inflated because of Fed's
manipulations. Two natural elements of economy is inflation and trade
balance. However, since 1971 both have been replaced by artificial ones
dictated by US Fed.
Although democracy - defined as the informed* consent of a qualified majority of the people - election is its Achilles heal because populism* kills meritocracy!
* Ruling parties in the West are mostly populist - and what ruling parties call "populists" are often grass root opposition formulated in opposition parties.
Although democracy is generally understood to be defined by voting, no consensus exists on a precise definition of democracy. Karl Popper says that the "classical" view of democracy is, "in brief, the theory that democracy is the rule of the people, and that the people have a right to rule".
The record voter turn out in Putin's re-election 2024, as well as his record percent of votes can best be explained as the result of US led West's hate campaign and attacks against Russia. Without this "support" Putin would probably have won anyway but nowhere near these numbers.
"Authoritaian" seems in the West - ruled under dollar embezzler US dictatorship - to mean a country that US doesn't like. And of these countries some may well be "authoritarian" (like US itself) but some, like e.g. China, may not, whereas India's religious populist "democracy" is approved of by world dictator US as long as India is hostile to China.
Several justifications for democracy have been postulated:
Legitimacy
Social contract theory argues that the legitimacy of government is based on consent of the governed, and that political decisions must reflect the general will. China's meritocracy ticks the box!
Better decision-making
Condorcet's jury theorem is logical proof that if each decision-maker has a better than chance probability of making the right decision, then having the largest number of decision-makers, i.e. a democracy, will result in the best decisions. This has also been argued by theories of the wisdom of the crowd. China's meritocracy ticks the box!
Economic success
In Why Nations Fail, economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argue that democracies are more economically successful because undemocratic political systems tend to limit markets and favor monopolies at the expense of the creative destruction which is necessary for sustained economic growth. Nodern "guarded"capitalism in China ticks the box!
A 2019 study by Acemoglu and others estimated that countries switching to democratic from authoritarian rule had on average a 20% higher GDP after 25 years than if they had remained authoritarian. The study examined 122 transitions to democracy and 71 transitions to authoritarian rule, occurring from 1960 to 2010.[230] Acemoglu said this was because democracies tended to invest more in health care and human capital, and reduce special treatment of regime allies.
After Mao's Western caused chaos modern China ticks the box!
Peter Klevius wrote:
Peter Klevius obituary over Finland's lost independence on "Independence
Day" 2023. Why did PM Sanna Marin commit treason and sell out Finland's
neutrality and Åland's demilitarization?!
Following the tradition of his mother who served in the Finnish army
and chased the Nazis out of Finland, Peter Klevius, who was born long
after in Sweden, now defends Finland against a desperate* and therefore
extremely dangerous and misery bringing dollar freeloader loser US
invasion* and occupation* of Finland.
* Modern
China has applied a "guarded capitalism" and an anti-corruption
meritocracy stance that easily trumps US so called "democracy", but more
importantly China's super high tech acceleration is completely out of
reach for US - who knows it and therefore behaves accordingly criminally
instead of honestly facing the consequences of its dollar theft 1971,
when US like a dictator violated the Bretton Woods agreement, which
meant that instead of connecting the dollar to gold as a stable world
currency, it became connected to US trade and loan deficits (US is the
only countre that can prosper despite enormous trade deficit). The world
dollar became separated in a US dollar steered by US, and a
rest-of-the-world dollar, also steered by US.
Finnish army proof of assignment to collect information about German Nazi soldiers in northern Finland 1945
As a PM Sanna Marin committed treason by
betraying not only her party but, more importantly, her country, and
invited the most dangerous occupier, the embezzler and counterfeiter
(1971-) US which is about to lose its stolen dollar hegemony because of
China's success - making it now a cunning global desperado!
Although
Sanna Marin did it together with president Sauli Niinistö, everyone
knew his position from long ago. So the disastrous Nato decision was a
creime committed by Sanna Marin! Without her it would never have
been possible. And do recall that her decision was made long before the
Russian invasion against Ukraine's genocide against an ethnic group
of its own population.
Finland
is in practice a non-meritocratic one party state with little say by
the people, and where the omly possible presidential candidates are
situated in the very center of the political value spectrum - especially
when it comes to more important issues like for example neutrality and
independence. So before the Ukraine war, only a small minority of the
Finns wanted to join NATO and thereby losing its hard fought neutrality.
But politicians like then PM Sanna Marin and the politically
dumb and over the top anglophilic warmonger and previous PM Alexander
Stubb (popular on BBC and in the US military complex) decided (long
before the Ukraine war) not to listen to the people but to buy US nuke
carrying F35 and to join US foreign attack organization called NATO. We
can only speculate how (not if) US "arranged it in the dark. So now
Finland gets either a Green party or a right wing liberal party member
as president - because they both share exactly the same unfortunate
values that the Finns used to reject.
US desperate policy of containing of China from US puppet "allies" will hurt Finland's development - and risk war!
In PISA ranking* half of the top ten are from East Asia, and four from Europe of which two are Uralic speaking countries.
*
It seems that dollar-freeloader (1971-) US also has tried to remove
China from the PISA ranking precisely because China always scores the
best while US is in free fall in comparison.
Peter Klevius wrote:
Finland signs a deal with the Devil - choosing militarism and disaster instead of peace and prosperity?!
The Finnish "mongol complex" Peter Klevius wrote about 20 years ago is now taking Finland down the wrong path!
The
Finnish licking of the criminal US ass has a long background in
Finland's history in the shadow of Russia and Finland's disastrous
alliance with the Nazis, but also because of the racist "mongol complex"
which started after US' 1917 hate laws against Chinese (the Yellow
Peril), and the import of poor Chinese slave workers from Stalin's
Soviet to Finland. These poor Chinese prisoners situation was even worse
than the poor slaves in the US because the Chinese were even robbed of
their family and kinship ties. However, the Chinese slaves also looked
different than the average Finns - but did resemble the much hated Sami
people. The US former slaves at least had same looking wealthy people as
well in the same country.
US' dollar theft 1971- has made US a
dangerous rouge state - especially now because of China's rise. It means
disaster (even without any war) for Finlad to let itself be lured by US
into a position exactly opposite to what would be goog for Finland. The
only right thing to do would have been opening up for trading with the
capitalist modern China which has a successful political system based on
meritocracy which democratically (i.e. measured by the will of the
people) outperforms every country inside US' Western hegemony. Moreover,
because of China's accelerating R&D lead it will soon be very
obvious for people that befriending a criminal loser only hurts in the
not so long run.
When US on the brink of bankruptcy in 1971
started stealing feom the rest of the world by instead og paying its
debts, US started robbing the world with a dollar hegemony - i.e. by
disconnecting the dollar from all other currencies and having a
non-democratic institution (Fed) printing dollar with impunity. In other
words, US became the only country in the world that could survive with a
massive debt and constant trade deficit - because the deficit wasn't
paid by US but instead spread all over the rest of the world via the
dollar hegemony to pay for US criminal wellbeing!
To like the
U.S. Congress without the slightest evidence against China's leadership
but only because it dislikes China's success, "suspecting" the
leadership of modern capitalist and meritocratic China of doing anything
with Tik Tok that even comes close to what the U.S. is now doing with
U.S.-based platforms worldwide, is not only the height of hypocrisy but
incredibly dangerous given how the dollar thief U.S. (1971-) is
currently manipulating the entire West. No, there is no good U.S.
anymore just because of 1971 - but there are lots of good U.S. people,
albeit not as many as good Chinese people proportionally, precisely
because of 1971.
England and the United States are now also
sending nuclear weapons to Ukraine. Depleted uranium in projectiles is
nuclear weapons because the definition of nuclear weapons is that the
purpose of the nuclear matter is not contamination but instead the extra
force that is achieved compared to conventional projectiles. In other
words,
Peter Klevius wouldn't at all be surprised if the Ukraine
civil war which was originally meddled, instigated and incited by US'
support for the genocide against Russians in Ukraine from 2013 and on,
would end with Ukraine opening up for China and thereby prospering ahead
of Finland in the near future!
Shouldn't
the ICC puppet clowns instead take a good look at US criminal behavior
as well as against those politicians who lured the Finns into the
Devil's mouth!
Peter Klevius wrote:
This year Peter Klevius cannot congratulate Finland on its traditional
Independence Day because it's not neutral and independent any more.
And as US/CIA raped Finland with
militaristic NATO (i.e. US) and US nukes (F-35 with s.c. mini-nukes), so
does Finland rape the demilitarized Åland.
Finland's
PM Sanna Marin warns (on order from US?!) countries to not trade with
China – New Zealand’s largest trading partner. “We will see in the
future that technologies and the digital environment will only be more
in our societies than now, and we have to make sure that we don't have
that kind of dependencies that becomes vulnerabilities and risks that
will come to realise.
Peter Klevisu: Right! Stop your dependancy of the financial- and war-criminal US!
Peter Klevius to Sanna Marin: Are you dumb or corrupt?! If the former then you may benefit from these facts:
1.
Everything that - since China surpassed US in economy and technology -
now comes out from Uncle Sam's rottening mouth is the wording of a
desperado who doesn't see any way out of its own criminal dollar
counterfeiting (since 1971) other than trying to harm the challenger by
using US financial and militaristic global hegemony and monopoly - and
stupid poiticians of its "allies"/puppets!
2. According to
several US made research the leadership in modern China has by far the
best approval rating from its people compared to other technologically
advanced countries. And it has nothing in common with North Korea but
everyting with US' "ally" Vietnam (which is tiny and much less
technologically advanced than China) when it comes to politics and
government.
3. Chinese leadership has been by far the most
successful when it comes to lifting people out of poverty and improving
infra-structure, both at home and worldwide.
4. China has a privacy law that is equal to that of EU but makes US look like a Medieval dictatorship in comparison.
5.
Islam's biggest and most important global organization OIC carefully
inspected the alleged "Human Rights violations" and "genocide" against
Uyghur muslims, and not only declared them totally unfounded but also
credited the Chinese leadership for its treatment of muslims in China.
6.
China has been most successful in handling Covid by offering (not
commanding) a real vaccine to its people, and especially to those
elderly who are vulnerable. That many elderly have been reluctant to
take it has to do with Chinese traditions and suspicions due to the
vaccine scandals in the West. And the reason the Chinese leadership
didn't enforce vaccination was precisely because of the old Confucian
tradition of respect for the elderly - which we in the West seem to have
abandoned. The rigid Chinese lockdown was the will of Chinese people -
not the "Communist dictatorship" as US/CIA steered media want us to
believe. Against this background it's pathetic that Finland kicks out
Confucian institutes because US ordered it to do so, but has no problem
with islamist mosques and institutes paid by the islamofascist Saudi
dictator family. And to top it all, now China, as the first country in
the world, has developed a recombinant human monoclonal antibody vaccine
that fully protects against all variants; uses own human antibody
cells; has no side-effects; is cheaper then Western vaccines; and can be
taken as a nasal spray - i.e. directed precisely to the first barrier
of defense, which then goes farther and kills the virus already in the
lungs.
7. China, according to US research, is now by far the
world leader when it comes to R&D. Abandoning ties with China will
inevitably lead any country incl. Finland into backwardness in the near
future.
8. The only way for US to stop China from developing even
further and faster is to start a war. That's why US makes every effort
to subvert Taiwan-China and mainland-China ties, by supporting the the
anti-China party against the pro-China party in Taiwan, as well as
militarizing Taiwan itself and the whole of the East Asian territory,
and even pushing for NATO extension against China. Do you Snna Marin
want to support Uncle Sam's own criminal interests and starting one more
war initiated by US?!
9. So dear Sanna, why did you choose Uncle Sam's nukes while abandoning China?!
And
the alleged "authoritarian censorship" in China pales in comparison
with the West, and should also be seen against the background of
US/CIA's continuous efforts to subvert and destabilize China. Moreover,
see how US and its puppets brutally faked and distorted information
about the opthomologist doctor in Wuhan who wrongly put on the Chinese
social media Weibu that Covid-19 was the much more dangerous original
SARS virus. After an hour he realized his mistake, and according to the
law (as in all Western countries) spreading such possibly dangerous
rumors made it necessary for the hospital to report it to authorities.
However, after a couple of days the police just asked him to explain and
then told him not to do it again. And after that he could in peace
continue his work at the hospital without any kind of sentence or fine
etc. So how does this fact as well as the fact that he could say
whatever he liked on Weibu fit an "authoritarian dictatorship"?! But in
the West he was "a suppressed whisteblower silenced by the Communist
dictaorship". Similarly, when the unhealthy and dement former Chinese
leader Hu Jintao got worse during the long lasting congress and was
helped out, the Western media and especially BBC, desperately tried to
make readers and listeners belive the poor man was "silenced" by the
"dictator" Xi. Same story with the mentally ill "whistleblower" woman,
and the "batwoman" etc. etc. the list could go on.
Peter Klevius wrote:
Tuesday, November 01, 2022
Finnish politicians and "experts" lie about US' NATO nukes straight in the face of the Finnish people.
When Newsweek rightly pointed out that
'Finland May* Allow NATO to Place Nuclear Weapons on Border With Russia'
it just repeated what Peter Klevius warned for almost a year ago when
Finnish politicians made the disastrous NATO decision without asking the
Finns.
*
In fact it's inevitable that if Finland really goes through with this,
then the road for US nukes is wide open, no matter if the nukes are
physically there before a conflict or not.
Peter
Klevius translation: American (sic) magazine reported about Finland and
nukes - Aaltola and Stubb snarled: 'Humbug' (this was in regard of
Newsweek's article - which isn't "American" but a U.S. magazine).
At
the heart of US' aggressive nuke policy is the B61-12 Life Extension
Program with s.c. low-yield (Hiroshima+ size) ground penetrating nuclear
warheads, tailored for stealth attacks with F-35b departing from
countries close to Russian or Chinese borders.
According to the
Helsinki-based newspaper Iltalehti, the bill regarding potential NATO
membership the Finnish government will put before parliament doesn't
include any opt-outs for nuclear weapons.
Speaking to the paper,
defense sources said Finland's foreign and defense ministers, Pekka
Haavisto and Antti Kaikkonen, gave a "commitment" to NATO in July that
they wouldn't seek "restrictions or national reservations" if Helsinki's
application is accepted.
However, now the same Iltalehti has the
nerve to call this information a "fake", and pretends to excuse the
move by writing that 'Finland hasn't asked for nukes'. Well, if you sign
with the Devil which clearly wants to utilize your position as a border
against Russia, and which has produced more than 600 "mininukes"
tailored for exactly those 64 F-35 you were cheated to buy instead of
the Swedish ones that had for long been the plan, then only a fool or a
deliberate lier/cheater would argue as Iltalehti does.
Here's Iltalehti's nutty "defense" translated by Peter Klevius:
Iltalehti's
article doesn't argue that NATO plans to bring nukes to Finland. The
article deals with information according which the government's bill
doesn't explicitly prohibit this.
'Iltalehden artikkelissa ei
väitetä Naton suunnittelevan ydinaseiden tuomista Suomeen. Artikkeli
käsittelee tietoja, joiden mukaan hallituksen lakiesitys ei erikseen
kiellä tätä.'
Peter Klevius: I rest my case! Rest in US nukes, Finland!
Peter Klevius wrote:
Friday, February 25, 2022
Why did Finland suddenly jump for F35 instead of (as planned) Swedish Gripen? Because Gripen can't carry US new mini nukes!
How stupid and dangerous can Finnish politicians be who try to push Finland into US extended nuke army (i.e. NATO)!
US is 100% to blame for the Ukraine disaster as well. STOP US (+ its Anglospheric puppets), the worst threat to the world right now! This monstrous rogue state $-freeloading U.S.: 1. Is adding more than 600 nukes to its already more than 6,000. Because of smaller size, better transportability, higher accuracy, and US first strike policy (unlike e.g. Russia, China etc.) the risk of use of nukes by US has dramatically increased - especially considering the end of $-hegemony because of China outperforming it in tech and healthy development. 2. US can at any time read and silence your free speech, or stop your transaction - wherever you are in the world (except in China). 3. UK/AUKUS bought US mini nukes (e.g. for Trident) and NATO+Finland bought F35 which can carry them.
Peter Klevius wrote:
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Shame on you Finland! Why risk yourself and others by defending a
criminal* loser** like $-freeloader US (unless US causes a nuke war)
against a certain winner like China?!
* 1971 USA robbed the world by
cheating on its promise to keep the dollar connected to gold in exchange
for the dollar being the world currency. In other words, all other
currencies dropped compared to the dollar which now became a
"schizophrenic" currency with an A-dollar in US and a B-dollar in all
other countries. And although every country may print as much own
currency they like, it comes with a cost it has to carry itself while
the US dollar printing is paid for by the rest of the world. Only
inflation is a risk for US - but not as much as outside US (except
China).
** US has already lost its position as the largest
economy to China, and is also fast losing in every high tech branch and
science - while China is on its way up. This is why US so desperately
tries to contain China and force other countries under US rule against
China. However, ask youself which is better: Belt and road or nukes?
F-35A + B61-12 + NATO makes Finland a U.S. base for nuke threat/attacks against Russia - and ultimately China!
The
Finns are now lured into NATO when the West is collapsing. A
combination of US influence and a longlasting Finnish mongoloid complex
that they weren't Western enough. Finnish Russophobia started with the
grim Finnish civil war 2018 influenced by the US led Red Scare campaign
which is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of
communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state.
It is often characterized as political propaganda. The term is most
often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States
which are referred to by this name. The First Red Scare, which occurred
immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from
the American labor movement, anarchist revolution, and political
radicalism. The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World
War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign
communists were infiltrating or subverting U.S. society and the federal
government.
North Atlantic Aliance is turning into US' South and East China Sea Sinophobia alliance.
How
many Finns were aware of US true motives for pushing Finland into US
militarism and nuke sphere for the ultimate aim to act as one tiny and
helpless piece in US strategic and tactical containment of and attack on
China? And how US uses its influence to corrupt politicians to betray
their country and democracy.
Finland's young PM Sanna Marin rose to power thanks to US led/influenced World Economic Forum's "Young leaders" program.
A
former Finnish PM Alexander Stubb celebrates that his long time wish
for a Finnish NATO membership now comes true thanks to Russian invasion
of Ukraine.
Peter Klevius wonders whether this was exactly what the US administartion also wanted - and even planned for.
Finns are thoroughly brainwashed with US narrative while completely locked out from alternative narratives.
It
looks like US has been mostly interested in arms race and miltary,
financial etc. evil meddling in Europe while Russia's main interest has
been to sell cheap gas to Europe.
A Norwegian intelligence report
points to three reasons why Russia feels threatened, making the
country’s nuclear deterrence more important.
Firstly, Russia
claims NATO has changed patterns from normal patrols and intelligence
gatherings to simulated attacks on Russian targets, including with
strategic bombers. Part of the Russian narrative is that NATO is coming
closer to its borders.
Secondly, Moscow accuses NATO of
introducing new areas of warfare, like the use of digital operations and
militarization of the space, potentially being used to attack Russian
ballistic missiles before launch.
Thirdly, Russia blames the
United States for undermining the global security balance and arms
control treaties, by that pushing the world towards a new nuclear arms
race.
After all, US isn't interested in "defending" Europe.
US' main and only goal is to (again) attack and eliminste China becaus
US dollar scum is coming home to roost any day now because of China's
succes. US managed to keep a stagnating Japan at bay with the help of EU
in the 1990s. However, China is some ten times bigger and growing.
Chinese
slave workers were brought to Finland from Russia some 100 years ago.
They became part of the Finnish mongolid/russophobia racist complex.
Chinese slave workers brought to Finland via Russia.
Peter Klevius wrote 2003:
The Finnish/Swedish/European Mongoloid-complex http://klevius.info/mongol.html?1076242540617
In
1952, only seven years after the end of Finland's disastrous connection
with Germany in the World War 2, apart from having its first Olympics
the nation celebrated the 17-year old Armi Kuusela's victory in the Miss
Universe "beauty" contest, thus finally releasing the Finns from what
was considered a traumatic connection with the East and its
Russian/mongoloid inhabitants.
Interestingly enough it seems that
the Finns express the most mongolic genetic profile of the Europeans.
On the other hand especially eastern Finns tend to be more blond, more
blue-eyed and to have the lightest skin color of all! Could that very
fact be an effect of precisely that blend/traits from northern mongoloid
people? I.e. that the most admired of "Nordic" features were inherited
from the most unwanted direction? That the genetic blend happened to be
especially sensitive to poor light conditions/folic acid intake etc.,
i.e. as an extra addition to the general impact of farming.
Also check out the Finnish "TAT"-controversy!
The
Sami population inhabits an area (in Russia, Finland, Sweden and
Norway) that is approximately the size of the entire Sweden (within
Sweden about half the size of the country).
When the Swedish
Prime Minister Göran Persson in 2004 held a conference on genocide, the
only media that reported about the Sami protests against the decision
not to include the native Swedes, seems to have been the Sami News.
Soft
Genocide in Sweden (apart from the soft genocide executed by the
Swedish legislator and the social authorities etc in matters of
children).
Finland-Swedish Peter Klevius exhibits the art of the Finland-Swedish
artist Hugo Simberg, calling it The Rape of Finland and Åland
Peter Klevius feels that Hugo Simberg
would have 100% approved of this 2023 art exhibition on the web as a
follow up to his 1903 exhibition of the 'Wounded Angel' at Ateneum
(Helsingfors) - where Peter Klevius would have no access today
More than a century after Hugo Simberg painted the The Wounded Angel, it was voted Finland's "national painting" in 2006.
The Garden of Death by Hugo Simberg - updated by Peter Klevius.
The
main problem for Finland (and other US puppets) is that US is now a
dangerous losing criminal due to its dollar theft 1971- coming home to
roost thanks to Cina's success, and that China surpasses US in all tech
categories - which means that hanging on to US hegemony inevitably means
retarding in technology, wealth, and security.
To understand the
civil war in Ukraine you need to understand how US managed to
reintroduce fascism in Europe, and how this has made it possible for US
controlled media to support what it previously used to attack, and to
attack what it previously used to support. What would normally be called
neo-fascism, neo-nazism and genocide is now called "heroic", and
liberation from state terror and oppression is now called crime of
aggression.
A reaal genocide in Ukraine
backed by US is dismissed while China's treatment of muslims is
applauded by OIC (muslims' world organization) but declared "genocide"
by US and its puppets!
The Neo-Nazi Question in Ukraine The
real problem is actually the administration's over-engagement in this
case -- as in meddling in the affairs of another state and trying to
rearrange its domestic political machinery to suit Washington's agenda. By Michael Hughes, Contributor Foreign Policy Analyst Mar 11, 2014, 12:44 AM EDT | Updated May 11, 2014 This
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The
Obama administration has vehemently denied charges that Ukraine's
nascent regime is stock full of neo-fascists despite clear evidence
suggesting otherwise. Such categorical repudiations lend credence to the
notion the U.S. facilitated the anti-Russian cabal's rise to power as
part of a broader strategy to draw Ukraine into the West's sphere of
influence. Even more disturbing are apologists, from the American left
and right, who seem willing accomplices in this obfuscation of reality,
when just a cursory glance at the profiles of Ukraine's new leaders
should give pause to the most zealous of Russophobes.
In a State
Department "fact sheet" released last week the U.S. accused Putin of
lying about the Ukrainian government being under the sway of extremist
elements. The report stated that right wing ultranationalist groups "are
not represented in the Rada (Ukraine's parliament)," and that "there is
no indication the government would pursue discriminatory policies."
It
isn't too surprising that conservative outlets like FOX News would
downplay Russian allegations but the so-called "liberal" press has also
contributed to the American disinformation campaign. Celestine Bohlen
from The New York Times considers harsh epithets, like the word
"neo-Nazi," which Putin has hurled at the demonstrators in Kiev as part
of a Russian propaganda effort to tarnish Ukraine's revolutionary
struggle against authoritarianism.
Yet after simply Googling the
terms "Ukraine" and "Neo-Nazi," the official position of the United
States government along with the stance taken by many in the American
media both now seem quite dubious, if not downright ridiculous,
especially considering that one would be hard-pressed to machinate the
lineup that now dominates Ukraine's ministry posts.
For starters,
Andriy Parubiy, the new secretary of Ukraine's security council, was a
co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU),
otherwise known as Svoboda. And his deputy, Dmytro Yarosh, is the leader
of a party called the Right Sector which, according to historian
Timothy Stanley, "flies the old flag of the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
at its rallies."
The highest-ranking right-wing extremist is
Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych, also a member of Svoboda, who
believes that women should "lead the kind of lifestyle to avoid the risk
of rape, including refraining from drinking alcohol and being in
controversial company." This is the philosophy underlying one of his
"legal initiatives," according to the Kyiv Post, "to ban all abortions,
even for pregnancies that occurred during rape."
The Svoboda
party has tapped into Nazi symbolism including the "wolf's angel" rune,
which resembles a swastika and was worn by members of the Waffen-SS, a
panzer division that was declared a criminal organization at Nuremberg. A
report from Tel-Aviv University describes the Svoboda party as "an
extremist, right-wing, nationalist organization which emphasizes its
identification with the ideology of German National Socialism."
According
to this BBC news clip two Svoboda parliamentarians in recent weeks
posed for photos while "brandishing well-known far right numerology,"
including the numbers 88 -- the eighth letter of the alphabet --
signifying "HH," as in "Heil Hitler." This all makes Hillary Clinton's
recent comments comparing Putin to Hitler appear patently absurd, as
Stanley adeptly points out: "After all, in the eyes of many ethnic
Russians, it is the Ukrainian nationalists -- not Putin -- who are the
Nazis."
Last week Per Anders Rudling from Lund University in
Sweden, an expert on Ukrainian extremists, told Britain's Channel 4
News: "A neo-fascist party like Svoboda getting the deputy prime
minister position is news in its own right." Well, except in the U.S.
Even
more disconcerting has been the emergence of phone intercepts between
high-ranking U.S. and Ukrainian officials which make it look as if the
U.S. was basically, in the words of Princeton's Stephen Cohen, "plotting
a coup d'état against the elected president of Ukraine." In other
words, the U.S., in addition to providing moral support, may have paved
the way for extremists to seize power in Kiev. Such a development would
counter the American right's condemnation of Obama for not "engaging" in
the world. The real problem is actually the administration's
over-engagement in this case -- as in meddling in the affairs of another
state and trying to rearrange its domestic political machinery to suit
Washington's agenda.
This gambit has backfired in a number of
ways. Not only has a neo-fascist-laden regime secured power in Kiev but
it may have played the U.S. and its allies for fools by insinuating it
would become part of the Western sphere when it really had no such
designs. As Svoboda political council member Yury Noyevy baldly
admitted: "The participation of Ukrainian nationalism and Svoboda in the
process of EU [European Union] integration is a means to break our ties
with Russia."
Be they radical mujahideen or neo-fascists,
Washington certainly has a penchant for bolstering shadowy forces,
usually labeling them with risible euphemisms like "freedom fighters,"
in order to satiate short-term geopolitical needs, despite said factions
being inimical to America's true long-term interests.
It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war This article is more than 9 years old Seumas Milne The
attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected
leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all Wed 30 Apr 2014 21.01 BST
The
threat of war in Ukraine is growing. As the unelected government in
Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country's
east, John Kerry brands Russia a rogue state. The US and the European
Union step up sanctions against the Kremlin, accusing it of
destabilising Ukraine. The White House is reported to be set on a new
cold war policy with the aim of turning Russia into a "pariah state".
That
might be more explicable if what is going on in eastern Ukraine now
were not the mirror image of what took place in Kiev a couple of months
ago. Then, it was armed protesters in Maidan Square seizing government
buildings and demanding a change of government and constitution. US and
European leaders championed the "masked militants" and denounced the
elected government for its crackdown, just as they now back the
unelected government's use of force against rebels occupying police
stations and town halls in cities such as Slavyansk and Donetsk.
"America
is with you," Senator John McCain told demonstrators then, standing
shoulder to shoulder with the leader of the far-right Svoboda party as
the US ambassador haggled with the state department over who would make
up the new Ukrainian government.
When the Ukrainian president was
replaced by a US-selected administration, in an entirely
unconstitutional takeover, politicians such as William Hague brazenly
misled parliament about the legality of what had taken place: the
imposition of a pro-western government on Russia's most neuralgic and
politically divided neighbour.
Putin bit back, taking a leaf out
of the US street-protest playbook – even though, as in Kiev, the
protests that spread from Crimea to eastern Ukraine evidently have mass
support. But what had been a glorious cry for freedom in Kiev became
infiltration and insatiable aggression in Sevastopol and Luhansk.
After
Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join Russia, the bulk of the western
media abandoned any hint of even-handed coverage. So Putin is now
routinely compared to Hitler, while the role of the fascistic right on
the streets and in the new Ukrainian regime has been airbrushed out of
most reporting as Putinist propaganda.
So you don't hear much
about the Ukrainian government's veneration of wartime Nazi
collaborators and pogromists, or the arson attacks on the homes and
offices of elected communist leaders, or the integration of the extreme
Right Sector into the national guard, while the anti-semitism and white
supremacism of the government's ultra-nationalists is assiduously played
down, and false identifications of Russian special forces are relayed
as fact.
The reality is that, after two decades of eastward Nato
expansion, this crisis was triggered by the west's attempt to pull
Ukraine decisively into its orbit and defence structure, via an
explicitly anti-Moscow EU association agreement. Its rejection led to
the Maidan protests and the installation of an anti-Russian
administration – rejected by half the country – that went on to sign the
EU and International Monetary Fund agreements regardless.
No
Russian government could have acquiesced in such a threat from territory
that was at the heart of both Russia and the Soviet Union. Putin's
absorption of Crimea and support for the rebellion in eastern Ukraine is
clearly defensive, and the red line now drawn: the east of Ukraine, at
least, is not going to be swallowed up by Nato or the EU.
But the
dangers are also multiplying. Ukraine has shown itself to be barely a
functioning state: the former government was unable to clear Maidan, and
the western-backed regime is "helpless" against the protests in the
Soviet-nostalgic industrial east. For all the talk about the
paramilitary "green men" (who turn out to be overwhelmingly Ukrainian),
the rebellion also has strong social and democratic demands: who would
argue against a referendum on autonomy and elected governors?
Meanwhile,
the US and its European allies impose sanctions and dictate terms to
Russia and its proteges in Kiev, encouraging the military crackdown on
protesters after visits from Joe Biden and the CIA director, John
Brennan. But by what right is the US involved at all, incorporating
under its strategic umbrella a state that has never been a member of
Nato, and whose last elected government came to power on a platform of
explicit neutrality? It has none, of course – which is why the Ukraine
crisis is seen in such a different light across most of the world. There
may be few global takers for Putin's oligarchic conservatism and
nationalism, but Russia's counterweight to US imperial expansion is
welcomed, from China to Brazil.
In fact, one outcome of the
crisis is likely to be a closer alliance between China and Russia, as
the US continues its anti-Chinese "pivot" to Asia. And despite growing
violence, the cost in lives of Russia's arms-length involvement in
Ukraine has so far been minimal compared with any significant western
intervention you care to think of for decades.
The risk of civil
war is nevertheless growing, and with it the chances of outside powers
being drawn into the conflict. Barack Obama has already sent token
forces to eastern Europe and is under pressure, both from Republicans
and Nato hawks such as Poland, to send many more. Both US and British
troops are due to take part in Nato military exercises in Ukraine this
summer.
The US and EU have already overplayed their hand in
Ukraine. Neither Russia nor the western powers may want to intervene
directly, and the Ukrainian prime minister's conjuring up of a third
world war presumably isn't authorised by his Washington sponsors. But a
century after 1914, the risk of unintended consequences should be
obvious enough – as the threat of a return of big-power conflict grows.
Pressure for a negotiated end to the crisis is essential.
Zach Dorfman·National Security Correspondent January 13, 2022·7 min read
The
CIA is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for
elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence
personnel, according to five former intelligence and national security
officials familiar with the initiative. The program, which started in
2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S.,
according to some of those officials.
The CIA-trained forces
could soon play a critical role on Ukraine’s eastern border, where
Russian troops have massed in what many fear is preparation for an
invasion. The U.S. and Russia started security talks earlier this week
in Geneva but have failed thus far to reach any concrete agreement. Ukrainian
Military Forces servicemen walk on a trench on the frontline with
Russia-backed separatists near to Avdiivka, Donetsk, southeastern
Ukraine. Ukrainian troops walk in a trench on the frontline with
Russia-backed separatists near Avdiivka, Donetsk, southeastern Ukraine,
on Jan. 8. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
While the
covert program, run by paramilitaries working for the CIA’s Ground
Branch — now officially known as Ground Department — was established by
the Obama administration after Russia’s invasion and annexation of
Crimea in 2014, and expanded under the Trump administration, the Biden
administration has further augmented it, said a former senior
intelligence official in touch with colleagues in government.
By
2015, as part of this expanded anti-Russia effort, CIA Ground Branch
paramilitaries also started traveling to the front in eastern Ukraine to
advise their counterparts there, according to a half-dozen former
officials.
The multiweek, U.S.-based CIA program has included
training in firearms, camouflage techniques, land navigation, tactics
like “cover and move,” intelligence and other areas, according to former
officials.
How to characterize the program is a matter of
dispute. The U.S. over three presidents has debated whether to provide
military assistance to Ukraine, and how much, with discussions often
focusing on whether that help is offensive or defensive in character.
U.S.
officials deny that the CIA training program is, or was ever,
offensively oriented. “The purpose of the training, and the training
that was delivered, was to assist in the collection of intelligence,”
said a current senior intelligence official.
But just what
intelligence support entails, in the paramilitary context, can be
ambiguous. And how this training will be applied by the Ukrainians may
change rapidly with facts on the ground. Ukrainian Territorial
Defense Forces, the military reserve of the Ukrainian Armes Forces, take
part in a military exercise near Kiev on December 25, 2021. (Sergei
Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images) Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces,
the military reserve of the Ukrainian Armes Forces, take part in a
military exercise near Kiev on December 25, 2021. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP
via Getty Images)
The program has involved “very specific
training on skills that would enhance” the Ukrainians’ “ability to push
back against the Russians,” said the former senior intelligence
official.
The training, which has included “tactical stuff,” is
“going to start looking pretty offensive if Russians invade Ukraine,”
said the former official.
One person familiar with the program
put it more bluntly. “The United States is training an insurgency,” said
a former CIA official, adding that the program has taught the
Ukrainians how “to kill Russians.”
The program, which does not
appear to have ever been formally aimed at preparing for an insurgency,
did include training that could be used for that purpose. Another former
agency official described technical aspects of the program, like
showing Ukrainians how to maintain secure communications behind enemy
lines or in a “hostile intelligence environment” as potential
“stay-behind force training.”
The current senior intelligence official strongly denied that the program was designed in any way “to assist in an insurgency.”
“Suggestions that we have trained an armed insurgency in Ukraine are simply false,” said Tammy Thorp, a CIA spokesperson.
Going
back decades, the CIA has provided limited training to Ukrainian
intelligence units to try and shore up an independent Kyiv and prevent
Russian subversion, but cooperation “ramped up” after the Crimea
invasion, said a former CIA executive. Militants of the
self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic walk at a fighting
position on the line of separation from the Ukrainian armed forces near
the settlement of Frunze in Luhansk Region, Ukraine December 24, 2021.
REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko Militants of the self-proclaimed Luhansk
People's Republic walk at a fighting position on the line of separation
from the Ukrainian armed forces near the settlement of Frunze in
Luhansk Region, Ukraine Dec. 24, 2021. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
The
CIA paramilitaries in Ukraine have “a very small footprint,” said the
former agency executive, and are helping train Ukrainian forces in
“potential critical nodes the Russians may focus on” if Moscow seeks to
push farther into the country.
Though the agency’s paramilitary
resources have been otherwise stretched thin in Afghanistan and on other
counterterrorism missions, the U.S.-based training program has been a
“high priority” for the CIA since its Obama-era inception, said the
former senior intelligence official.
The program did not require,
or receive, a new presidential finding, which is used to authorize
covert action, and has been run under previously existing authorities,
according to former officials.
The Trump administration —
partially at the urging of Congress — later expanded funding for the
initiative, increasing the number of Ukrainian cohorts brought over
yearly to the U.S., according to former officials.
Training
forces that could take part in an insurgency is not the same as actively
supporting an insurgency if one takes place following a Russian
invasion. The Biden administration has reportedly assembled a task force
to determine how the CIA and other U.S. agencies could support a
Ukrainian insurgency, should Russia launch a large-scale incursion.
“If
the Russians invade, those [graduates of the CIA programs] are going to
be your militia, your insurgent leaders,” said the former senior
intelligence official. “We’ve been training these guys now for eight
years. They’re really good fighters. That’s where the agency’s program
could have a serious impact.”
Over the years, the CIA training programs have been “very effective,” said the former CIA executive.
It
has helped “turn the tide,” said the first former CIA official, who
said he or she was briefed that “gains were being made on the
battlefield” as a “direct result” of the program. Snipers in
camouflage suits during The celebrations on the occasion of the 5th
anniversary of the National Guard of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. (Maxym
Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Snipers in camouflage suits
during The celebrations on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the
National Guard of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. (Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via
Getty Images)
Both U.S. and Ukrainian officials believe that
Ukrainian forces will not be able to withstand a large-scale Russian
incursion, according to former U.S. officials. But representatives from
both countries also believe that Russia won’t be able to hold on to new
territory indefinitely because of stiff resistance from Ukrainian
insurgents, according to former officials.
Working so closely
with the Ukrainians has presented unique challenges, according to former
officials. For years, U.S. officials have believed that, because of
Russia’s web of spies within Ukraine’s intelligence services, the
program has very likely been compromised by Moscow.
Senior Trump
administration officials discussed worries about Russian penetration of
the program with their Ukrainian counterparts, according to a former
national security official. The Ukrainians, well aware of the issue,
have tried to vet the U.S.-bound trainees to weed out moles, according
to former officials.
Still, Trump-era National Security Council
officials established a rule not to tell the Ukrainians anything they
weren’t comfortable with the Russians subsequently learning about,
recalled the former national security official.
A small number of
trainees in the earlier U.S.-based cohorts were sent back to Ukraine
for breaking security rules, like possessing unauthorized electronic
devices, according to the first former CIA official.
CIA
officials also believed their trainees were being targeted by the
Russians once they returned to Ukraine. “Russians and traitorous Russian
loyalists within the Ukrainian security services were seeking out
graduates of those classes to assassinate,” said the former CIA
official. Forensic police experts and military intelligence examine
the wreckage of a car in Kyiv. The commander of Ukraine's
military intelligence special ops unit colonel Maksym Shapoval was
killed by a bomb attached to the bottom of his vehicle in central Kyiv.
(Sergii Kharchenko/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Forensic
police experts and military intelligence examine the wreckage of a car
in Kyiv. The commander of Ukraine's military intelligence special ops
unit colonel Maksym Shapoval was killed by a bomb attached to the bottom
of his vehicle in central Kyiv. (Sergii Kharchenko/Pacific
Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Russian penetration of
Ukrainian intelligence has been a long-standing problem for the CIA,
according to former intelligence officials. For decades, the agency has
tried to work only with special select Ukrainian units — some created at
the agency’s insistence — that have been isolated from the rest of the
country’s intelligence services in order to prevent Russian compromise,
according to former officials.
Even though the CIA assumes some
Russian compromise when working with the Ukrainians, the agency still
believes the training program has been, on balance, highly valuable,
according to former officials.
If the Russians launch a new
invasion, “there’s going to be people who make their life miserable,”
said the former senior intelligence official. The CIA-trained
paramilitaries “will organize the resistance” using the specialized
training they’ve received.
“All that stuff that happened to us in
Afghanistan,” said the former senior intelligence official, “they can
expect to see that in spades with these guys.”
