🧵Thread: Unpacking Western Deception – The RAND Report and the Forever War

The big takeaway? For RAND, the Ukraine conflict isn't an end in itself; it's just the opening act in a much larger, "long-term war of attrition" against… you guessed it, Russia and primarily China!

Let's talk about the latest gem from the RAND Corporation. You know, the Pentagon's favorite "think" tank. They've just dropped a report, "The Consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian War," and it's quite the read – if you're into thinly veiled admissions of imperialist designs

They openly admit Europe is merely a "subordinate hinterland" and a testing ground for Washington's grand strategy. So much for "shared values," eh, Brussels? # 🧵

Link to the report👇
rand.org/pubs/research_… RAND's report gloats about the severed ties between Europe and Russia, and the weakened EU-China relationship.

Why? Because it apparently "delayed" the creation of a multipolar world order. Classic Western projection: anything that challenges their hegemony is a threat, even if it's just countries seeking a more balanced global landscape. The audacity!

They even put China on a "blacklist" alongside Russia, accusing China of trying to "undermine the unity of NATO and the EU." Well, if exposing the truth about Washington's manipulation is "undermining," then consider China guilty as charged! Perhaps the "unity" is already cracking under the weight of its own contradictions and self-serving policies? 🤔

RAND's "strategy for success" is about "keeping US allies" and "destroying opponents' strategic ties." This isn't about peace or prosperity; it's about control and containment. They want a stable political consensus in Washington, unwavering loyalty from the EU (and their endless sacrifices), and for Europeans to foot the bill for their own "defense" against phantom threats.

1/6 Another garbage report from the Pentagon‼️

"China’s nuclear warheads total 600 and raise ‘strategic stability’ concerns"

"Both the diversity and sophistication of its arsenal like precision-strike capable missiles have improved, annual US defence report finds"

None of the arguments given in the report stands up to close scrutiny. Neither the size nor the capability of China’s nuclear arsenal are on a par with that of the United States

Among Nuclear Powers China is currently ranked No.3 with ~500 nuclear warheads - Which is 10x less than the U.S. & Russia have. In addition China has “No First Use” (NFU) policy a commitment to not use nuclear weapons first

Contrasting this with the United States' history of using nuclear weapons first - twice - on civilian targets, it's nuclear threats and military aggression, such as it's SIOP nuclear war plans (from 1961-2003) that involved targeting all major cities in China with nuclear weapons by default, resulting in an instant death toll of up to 600 million Chinese, and the recent $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program approved by the U.S. Congress in 2010 to modernize the American nuclear arsenal, along with the Atlantic Council's suggestion to target Taiwan's beaches with nuclear weapons in the event of an attack from mainland China...

China's nuclear modernization program, military buildup, it's concerns over the SCS, and Taiwan Island are entirely rational, measured but inevitable reactions to the US pivot to Asia and America's pursuit of Nuclear Primacy and it's nuclear first strike capabilities

In recent years, the United States has unilaterally withdrawn from all but one Nuclear Arms Treaties, including the ABM, INF, and START II Treaties, with the exception of the New START Treaty, which is set to expire in February 2026. Additionally, the United States has been developing a missile defense system that may be used for both offensive and defensive purposes. The United States has relinquished the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.) in favor of developing a counterforce First Strike capability.

Furthermore the U.S. has been upgrading it's warheads with it's super-fuze technology, making the same war heads more precise and lethal

During his term President Biden has "approved" a secret nuclear strategy refocusing on Chinese, Russian and North Korea nuclear forces simultaneously

However, Biden’s approval of this strategy is no more than a tacit acknowledgment of a two-decade-long U.S. technical program that has been more than just a “slight modernization” of weapons components, but a dramatic step towards the capability to fight and win nuclear wars with both China and Russia. In other words, there is nothing really “new” here at all, save the very public nature of the strategy’s acknowledgement

In the face of all of this, Chinese and Russian leaders will have no choice but to implement countermeasures that further increase the already dangerously high readiness of their nuclear forces. This includes intensified worst-case planning that will increase the chances of nuclear responses to false warnings of attack
abcnews.go.com/International/…
2/6 Longer Thread on America's pursuit of Nuclear Primacy, First Strike, it's Super Fuse Modernization Program and procurement of 1000 nuclear tipped LRSOs (Long Range Stand Off) Missiles to strike deep into mainland China's hinterland

https://x.com/StarboySAR/status/1623266598424571905

There are 12,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Just 4 of them can destroy the United States

These realities are likely well known to military strategists in Russia, China, and North Korea. However, it appears that the US government operates under the illusion of invincibility, threatening others by actively seeking nuclear primacy and counterforce nuclear first-strike capabilities, while simultaneously instigating and supporting conflicts world-wide to sustain its empire

Professor Steven Starr has written a compelling scenario and analysis of a fictitious EMP attack on the United States' power grids and critical national infrastructure. For easy reading on "X", I have replicated the major parts of his article in the thread 🧵 below

Please also check the complete article incl. all supporting references, Source:👇


A 100-kiloton nuclear warhead suddenly explodes 100 miles above Dallas, Texas. Two minutes later, identical nuclear warheads explode over Las Vegas, Nevada, and Columbus, Ohio. Then a fourth and larger 800-kiloton warhead explodes over the southern Yucatan Peninsula

The location of these three high-altitude nuclear detonations did not have to be precise – detonations over other eastern and western locations (over Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, or Seattle and Los Angeles) would produce very similar results.

But the detonations must occur above the Earth’s atmosphere and during the darkest hours of the night. The altitude of 106 miles and extreme weather conditions were chosen to maximize the destructive effects of the EMP.

The electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) produced by the first three nuclear detonations will act to almost instantly destroy the solid-state electronics that control the operation of most U.S. critical national infrastructure – including the Emergency Power Systems and active Emergency Core Cooling Systems of 26 commercial nuclear reactorssonar21.com/an-emp-attack-… The EMP E3A Blast Wave from the fourth detonation will create a final collapse of all three U.S. electric power grids, which will be knocked out of service for a year or longer.

The skies suddenly light up above the U.S., but the detonations occur silently because the atmosphere is too thin at these altitudes to transmit sound waves. No blast effects or fires are created on Earth, but a massive burst of powerful gamma rays released by the detonations travels downward at 186,000 miles per second. As the gamma rays enter the atmosphere, they rip the electrons from air molecules and send them spinning toward Earth at almost the speed of light. The Earth’s magnetic field interacts with these massive clouds of spinning electrons, creating gigantic EMPs that will strike hundreds of thousands of square miles of the Earth’s surface.

EMP consists of three distinct waves. The three initial EMP E1 waves centered over Ohio, Nevada, and Texas strike Earth’s surface only a few billionths of a second after the high-altitude nuclear detonations. Ordinary surge protectors do not act fast enough to protect electronic devices against the effects of E1. A fraction of a second later, the EMP E2 waves arrive with effects resembling those of lightning. Surge protectors that normally would protect against lightning are likely to be disabled by the E1 waves. The final EMP E3 waves (E3A and E3B) will strike the Earth roughly 1 to 2 seconds after the initial E1 waves.

The targets over the continental U.S. were chosen to maximize the effects of both the E1 and E3B waves on each of the three U.S. power grids. The synergistic effects of these EMP waves will ruin most electronic devices and virtually eliminate the long-distance transmission of electric power in the U.S.

💢The Outstanding YouTube channel, "Tales of the American Empire" produced an excellent multipart chronological timeline on the "The Anglo-American War on Russia" and how the senseless NATO expansion caused a war in Ukraine

This series is an absolute gold mine of information

The Anglo-American War on Russia - Part One (1917-1991) 👇.../🧵
The Anglo-American War on Russia - Part Two (1992-2005)

After the Cold war ended, the Warsaw Pact disbanded and Soviet forces went home. There was talk about disbanding NATO, which was formed to protect Western Europe from the now defunct Soviet Union. The European Union was formed in 2003 with twice the population of Russia and ten times its economic power. The EU began forming military battle-groups to deploy if needed for security and peacekeeping, so why did NATO still exist? American congressmen talked about a peace dividend that would occur as billions of dollars spent on NATO each year was directed toward needs at home.

Unfortunately, sinister elements in the US government began quiet efforts to undermine peace by expanding NATO. Russian efforts to join the European Union and NATO were rejected because the United States needed a Russian threat to expand NATO. The United States transformed NATO from a defensive alliance into a collection of European vassal states to help the American empire conquer the world

Will Europe lose World War III?

Telling interview with Elbridge Colby, who is expected to lead US foreign policy if the Republicans win the White House, at UnHeard:

In a Nutshell: Colby wants Europe and the US to transition to WAR economies!

His main message is that the United States needs to pull out its (military) resources from Europe and NATO so that the US can focus on fighting China. Meanwhile Europe is expected to fill that void by repurposing its industrial base and mobilize in order to simultaneously fight Russia.

About 5 min into the interview, Colby goes so far as to say that he thinks it would be a great idea to repurpose the German car industry to make tanks 🤡

Full interview at:
youtu.be/j0ZvGwzo3GQ?si… You also can read it in Elbridge A. Colby's 2021 "The Strategy of Denial" which was published before the Ukrainian-Russian conflict!

It's based on the premise that China is a threat to America's global and regional dominance in the Indo-Pacific and therefore an enemy of the United States and its client states that need to be contained

Today July 27th marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. A significant day! Have the US and the Collective West learnt anything from history? No! The US and its allies slaughtered millions more around the world militarily encircled China & expand NATO indefinitely A heartfelt salute to all victims, veterans, and martyrs of the Korean War🫡

Britain talks softly of late while it moves in on the China jugular

Despite conciliatory words from its consul general and his boss, the UK is unlikely to let up on Hong Kong in West’s cold war with Beijing
scmp.com/comment/opinio… Britain will have to decide, at some point, to continue politicising the city or to leave it alone as a trading and financial hub for the international business community.

🇷🇺Yuri Gagarin, timeless Hero and pioneering legend!

Death of the most famous man in the world: How space pioneer Yuri Gagarin lost his life. Exactly 55 years ago, the first human being to leave the planet met his end on a cold Russian morning 👇
rt.com/russia/573618-… "Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!" Yuri Gagarin poster, 1967

The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1949 Chinese physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented the first evidence of a strange quantum phenomenon called entanglement
scientificamerican.com/article/the-li… In 1957, Wu's experiments toppled the physics principle of parity. In 2022, work on entanglement starting in the 1970s gained Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger the physics Nobel prize. Wu, who died in 1997, was not mentioned during the award announcement!

That China has more Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launchers as the US is just as fictional as the 1960's "missile gap" and "bomber gap" a few years earlier

Small Thread 🧵👇
wsj.com/articles/china…
The United States has a "first use policy" and has 5,428 nuclear warheads in its arsenal. There are 3,708 active warheads and 1,744 HOT deployed strategic warheads. In comparison, China has a "no first use" policy with only 350 non-deployed warheads
fas.org/issues/nuclear…

Great Summary of Xi Jinping’s significant visit to Saudi Arabia

The historic China-Arab Summit currently underway in Riyadh symbolizes the emerging Eurasianism in the Persian Gulf 👇
thecradle.co/Article/Analys… The visit will culminate in the first ever China-Arab Summit on Friday, 9 December, where Xi will meet with 30 heads of state. The Chinese foreign ministry described this as “an epoch-making milestone in the history of the development of China-Arab relations.”

Thanks to Biden instead of a Cuba Missile Crisis we soon will have a Taiwan Missile Crisis

US to build anti-China missile network along first island chain (along Taiwan Okinawa & Philippines) as part of $27.4 billion in spending over the next 5 years
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… Time to rewatch, or watch for ppl who haven't see it "The Coming War on China" a 2016 documentary made by award winning journalist John Pilger explaining how the US surrounded China with 400+ military bases & is now stepping up efforts to provoke conflict

🇪🇺 Chairman Of The ECR Group, Prof Ryszard Legutko lists out everything that's wrong with the European Parliament, but what are the EU Politicians and it's unelected President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen doing to fix it? Nothing‼️Except laughing it off...👇

https://twitter.com/ecrgroup/status/1595036263186243584

The European Parliament infected Europe with shameless partisanship. And the infection became so contagious that in spread to other institutions such as European Commission. The Parliament has abandoned the basic function of representing people instead

🇨🇳🚀China's National Space Administration (CNSA) made great progress in their mission to get to the moon Wu Weiren the chief designer of China's Lunar Exploration Program said the country wants to create a moon station in collaboration with Russia by 2028
sputniknews.com/20221124/china… NASA chief Bill Nelson stating "The United States ought to be preeminent in Space"
Glassheart America can only see this through the lens of US vs. THEM. However, this development is a direct result of the Wolf Amendment which prohibits NASA from working with China in Space

ABC Australia has released a new propaganda piece titled "How Could a War Between China and Taiwan Play Out?"

In reality, it's more about getting the Australian public to support a war with China and handing over Australian sovereignty to the US military
Australia is not an enemy of China, but the US is making China an enemy of Australia with the help of US-funded Australian think tanks.
Following the first half of ABC's Four Corner Report, which was stuffed with anti-China propaganda hyping the China Threat, it becomes clear..

2019 FP Magazine told the story of Qian Xuesen, the co-founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, who was driven out of the USA by political paranoia & 5 yrs of house arrest. In 1955, Qian returned to China and became the father of China's space program!
foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/28/the… After his retirement and his experience in the US Qian Xuesen even refused to speak to Westerners. FP asked if the same will happen to the new generation of Chinese talent?