Russia rising all of a sudden in 2022

[QuebecOverCanada]

The French diplomat has been ousted of Mali by the new local government which took power with a Coup d'État, and Swedish and Danish elite troops that were supposed to deploy in between Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali as an European operation presided by France finally have left after Mali government told them to just go. This coincides as Mali, which has now welcomed 1000 Russian elite mercenaries, requests for more troops from Russia and asks France to leave Mali totally. France will have no choice but to go, and they're planning a shameful exit and are calling for sanctions against the poor African country. The Russian troops now occupy the capital Timbuktu, which the French had reconquered in 2013 from the 'Jihadis'. Now, Russia occupies it after all those years the French army spent, losing men and money, and above all, local support in favor of Russia.

'Russian troops deploy to Mali’s Timbuktu after French exit'

Army spokesperson says the Russian soldiers are in the northern city to train Malian troops.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/7/russian-troops-deploy-to-malis-timbuktu-after-french-exit

Today Russia and China announced a 30-year agreement for gas via a new pipeline that will provide Russia foreign currency in Euros.

Russia, China agree 30-year gas deal via new pipeline, to settle in euros

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-russia-china-agree-30-year-gas-deal-using-new-pipeline-source-2022-02-04/

The 'protests' in Kazakhstan have been out of control according to the media for a few days. Then, they were not talked about at all. Maybe the media here didn't want to show they were chopping off heads and were radical Islamists who had funding from NGOs. Maybe they didn't want to show it was a coup d'État orchestrated by American intelligence services in cooperation with traitors inside Kazakhstan. Hunter Biden had a really good relationship and made a lot of deal with Kazakhstan while his father was vice-president in the early 2010s. Then it appeared that he also had a really good friendship with the head of intelligence of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan intelligence chief who was Hunter Biden's 'close friend' and posed with him and Joe is charged with treason during protests that have seen 160 killed and 8,000 arrested

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10388217/Kazakhstan-intel-chief-Hunter-Bidens-close-friend-charged-treason-amid-protests.html

Kazakhstan is a really strategic point for Russia and China, as the government of the country is in good terms with both the Putin and Xi's regimes. The country is at the center of the project for the Silk Road from China and it was after all a Soviet Republic at the end of the day which means that Russia has much soft power in the region and is a good buffer zone for Russia. The protests, or coup d'État depending on your naiveté, was happening right at the moment Russia and the United States were confronting each other at the Ukrainian border, what a coincidence.

This all comes at a time in which we have to think; Are autocratic regimes winning across the globe, right now, and unifying?

The Hong Kong protests turned out to fail, giving another win to my little rambling here. The revolutions in the Arab Spring brought a lot of misery and not a lot of democracy after all, the Operation Freedom in 2003 was a disaster for the Iraqi people. Americans used the same helicopter to retrieve diplomatic staff in Kabul that they did in Saigon.

Are we learning about to learn that inevitably, the West is on the decline?

[TrudeauSucks]

The west distracts themselves with over a 100 madeup genders, instead of worrying about international security.

[QuebecOverCanada]

35 minutes ago, TrudeauSucks said:

The west distracts themselves with over a 100 madeup genders, instead of worrying about international security.

This is exactly the problem. We're politicizing this issue so much and it's missing the bigger picture. The useless wars and invasions and the demise of the West, especially America's influence on the planet was initiated by wars that predate the existence of the Woke movement. You're creating a caricature, a strawman to excuse the defeats of the military-industrial complex by fanatical ideological fallacies that come short of any practical solutions. So the solution to your comment is eradicating the Woke? How useful is that compared to question the ideas promoted by our politicians and the overreach of our armies in other countries? I am not a Woke myself at all, and is very critical of everyone, and I don't see where your comment was going except point the finger at a political subgroup while a real systemical issue remains.

Edited February 5, 2022 by QuebecOverCanada

[eyeball]

4 hours ago, QuebecOverCanada said:

This all comes at a time in which we have to think; Are autocratic regimes winning across the globe, right now, and unifying?

I was answering with a resounding yes to that about 20 years ago in this very forum.

Nowadays I post about the consequences of that and shake my head at why people are still asking questions like your's.  

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Canada has come off badly again in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), with the country’s score falling faster than any other in the 180-country rankings, which were released this week. Canada’s score has dropped to its lowest ever — 74 out of 100 — a slide that has cost Canada eight points over the past five years alone.

...one shudders to think what Canada’s score would be if Ottawa allowed the degree of public scrutiny that would be needed to effectively expose the rackets that move money into Canada on behalf of big-time gangsters, police-state apparatchiks and oligarchs and kleptocrats from Belarus to Beijing.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-canadas-rankings-in-the-corruption-perceptions-index-have-plummeted-under-trudeau

 

 

 

[ironstone]

I have to wonder how many leaders and family members in the West have very lucrative deals with dictatorships which greatly soften their stance with regards to standing up to these countries. How many Hunter Biden's are out there? He is the most blatant example but this is a problem with politicians and family members on all sides.

Some leaders, like our own Justin Trudeau just have a soft spot for ideologies as heinous as communism.

Caught red-handed: A Review of Peter Schweizer’s exposé of the corruption spread by Communist China - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

 

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There might be a destructive WW 3 at some point in the future but it will surely be sparked off from something much more important than Ukraine.