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soryang replied to the topic US halts Blinken China visit after spy balloon row in the forum General Discussion 1 month ago
…operating in the Yellow Sea, no problem. Chinese balloon “incursion” diplomatic feathers ruffled even with apology. Any excuse will do.
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soryang started the topic N. Korea reacts to first SK-US joint drill of 2023 with threat of “nuke for nuke” in the forum Foreign Affairs 1 month ago
Posted on : Feb.3,202 Hankyoreh
Lee Je-hun, senior staff writer; Kwon Hyuk-chul, staff reporterThursday’s drill was the first US strategic weapon deployment held on the Korean Peninsula in 2023
South Korea and the US conducted a joint air drill off the western coast of Korea on Wednesday that involved the participation of US advanced f…
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soryang replied to the topic Chinese "spy balloon"? in the forum General Discussion 1 month ago
My understanding of the Gary Powers U2 incident was that the overflight of the Soviet Union was deliberate. The wikipedia write up seems fairly straightforward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident
In July 1958, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower requested permission from the Pakistani prime minister Feroze Khan Noon for the…
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soryang replied to the topic Chinese "spy balloon"? in the forum General Discussion 1 month ago
were prohibited by law after the Sept 1918 military agreements between North and South Korea. A defector group in South Korea began the practice again after the hawkish Yoon administration took power. The US via VOA Korea had promulgated the notion that the statute prohibiting balloon flights over the DMZ was an intrusion on free speech rights.…[Read more]
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soryang replied to the topic
Eastern politics of “remonstrance” in the forum Lone Nerd History 1 month ago
I knew there were Korean court politics with the aristocratic groups split into basically two competitive factions. In one (very popular) historical drama I saw where it was explicitly part of the plot. So I recognized the pattern he was talking about. In Six Flying Dragons, a neo-Confucian scholar Jang Do-jeon, was the principal…[Read more]
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soryang replied to the topic Crosstalk: Escalation Ladder (Peter Kuznick, Brian Berletic +) in the forum Multimedia 1 month ago
Otherwise I might have missed it. Glad to see Brian there. I like how he starts out with the “now or never” perception. The historian Adam Tooze talked about this in his book The Wages of Destruction, an economic history of the Third Reich.
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soryang started the topic U.S. General Predicts WAR With China By 2025! in the forum Multimedia 1 month ago
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soryang started the topic Pentagon Distances Itself from Minihan Memo Suggesting Possible War with China in 2025 in the forum General Discussion 1 month ago
Pentagon Distances Itself from Minihan Memo Suggesting Possible War with China in 2025
Jan. 29, 2023 | By Chris GordonComments by Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, the head of Air Mobility Command, about a potential war with China in the next few years have generated international headlines and led the Department of Defense to formally distance…
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soryang started the topic
Eastern politics of “remonstrance” in the forum Lone Nerd History 1 month ago
My better half showed me some old documents hand written in Chinese calligraphy a couple of days ago. They has somehow survived the tropical storm Ian floods that destroyed almost everything else we owned. They were a gift from her grandfather when she was a young grade school student. Her grandfather had hand copied these documents from a…[Read more]
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Lone Nerd History 1 month ago
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soryang started the topic 75 Year Ukraine War Warnings COMES TRUE in the forum Multimedia 1 month ago
Breaking Points
Saagar breaks down George Kennan’s predictions from decades ago on Russia and Ukraine coming true. -
soryang started the topic Zelensky to sell Ukraine off to Blackrock, Goldman Sachs in the forum Multimedia 1 month ago
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soryang replied to the topic Caitlin Johnstone: The Claim That The Ukraine War Advances US Interests Discredits The Claim That It’s “Unprovoked” in the forum General Discussion 1 month ago
…is bs. It’s way more than 5 percent. It’s more like 10 percent, without figuring in any future costs which will have to be committed. However there wasn’t much of that extent anyway. In addition those costs are likely to go up. Those future costs aren’t reduced to current value. One can argue the numbers on an annual basis but the claim…[Read more]
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soryang replied to the topic Here are two articles written by the Guardian in 2014 that they'd NEVER publish today in the forum General Discussion 1 month ago
Two of my favorite historians Bruce Cummings and James Bradley appear in it.
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soryang replied to the topic Pepe Escobar: Can You Smell What the Year of the Rabbit Is Cooking? in the forum General Discussion 1 month ago
Similar analysis from an experienced South Asian diplomat:
JANUARY 18, 2023 BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
China’s economy is on a reboundWhat Indian analysts in their schadenfreude tend to overlook is that an attitude toward China predicated on that country’s misfortunes and setbacks is a road to nowhere. There are some profound conclusions to be dra…
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soryang replied to the topic Germany to approve sending heavy battle tanks to Ukraine in the forum Latest Breaking News 1 month ago
https://www.military.com/equipment/m88a2-hercules-recovery-vehicle
http://www.military-today.com/trucks/m1070_het.htm
Without the support vehicles, their crews, maintenance, fuel, and spare parts, the M-1s will end scattered and immobile.…[Read more]
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soryang replied to the topic Ellsberg: Losing 1st Amendment Reverses War of Independence in the forum General Discussion 1 month ago
…was both informative and disturbing. I enjoyed listening to Betty Medsger’s presentation as well on the FBI break in and COINTELPRO disclosures. I think the presentations clarified some of the distinctions among whistleblowers, hackers (burglars) with a cause, and journalists. Medsger is okay with it all. That’s okay, it’s a legitimate…[Read more]
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soryang replied to the topic Ukraine war’s first anniversary and beyond in the forum Multimedia 1 month ago
His earlier article on the Chinese economy relative to its rivals is very insightful. I recommend it. I love this line- “What Indian analysts in their schadenfreude tend to overlook is that an attitude toward China predicated on that country’s misfortunes and setbacks is a road to nowhere.” This is good too- “Recasting the global supply c…[Read more]
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soryang started the topic The republic of prosecution: South Korea’s national security state in the forum Foreign Affairs 1 month ago
The republic of prosecution: South Korea’s national security state unleashes attacks on labor and peace activists
K.J. Noh Jan 24Progressive South Korean citizens have been watching with impending dread the deepening threats of political repression since the former prosecutor Yoon Suk Yeol assumed the South Korean presidency. On Wednesday, J…
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soryang replied to the topic Diesen/Macgregor: 0:04 / 49:09 NATO crossing more red lines: From proxy war to a direct NATO-Russia war? in the forum Multimedia 1 month ago
I used to see an analyst James Jaspers, evidently a Eastern Orthodox Christian, who used to appear on crossfire from time to time discuss this subject, he made an argument similar to Macgregor, that is western decadence, homosexuality, etc., that contribute to its desire to destroy Russia, I reacted the same way. He’s an obscure pundit who is…[Read more]
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