Kim's sister says S. Korea-U.S. deterrence plan would result in 'more serious danger'
Saying that Biden was "too miscalculating and irresponsibly brave," Kim painted the warning as "nonsensical remark from the person in his dotage."
"It may be taken as a nonsensical remark from the person in his dotage who is not at all capable of taking the responsibility for security and the future of the U.S., an old man with no future, as it is too much for him to serve out two-year remainder of his office term," Kim said.
She also took a swipe at Yoon, calling him a "fool" who has "put the security into crisis with his incompetence."
"The pipe dream of the U.S. and South Korea will henceforth be faced with the entity of more powerful strength," Kim said.
Biden warns nuclear attack by N. Korea will result in end of regime
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230427000025
“A nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies or partisans -- partners -- is unacceptable and will result in the end of whatever regime were to take such an action.”
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Does he mean similar to how he's ended the Putin regime?
Or how he's controlling China's actions?
The escalating problems with the worlds 2 other super powers being blatantly mismanaged is a dream come true for N.Korea.
It greatly weakens our reserves and has obliterated our credibility in the global theater.
N.Korea would be easier to defeat and their guy seems like more hot air but he's crazy. Putin is crazy too and his hot air was completely backed up by actions.
But N.Korea might need to wait in line until the US runs out of really dumb wars to be in, which has defined out country more than anything during my life time.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94793/#94810
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Outside of the propaganda and DISinformation on Biden, most of the world sees the same thing on him.
Somehow, he is running to be elected again.
Only in the new America, here in 2023 where manufactured realities and 1984 fictional type dynamics rule is such a thing possible.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94642/#94655
We are living in a world that mimics the story line in George Orwell's book, 1984!
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94629/#94650
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94482/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94338/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94709/
Doshi discusses the failure of Western Sanctions imposed upon Russia since the beginning of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Historians will mark the low point of Pax Americana in the Middle East by several rather brutal humiliations that American prestige has undergone under President Joe Biden’s presidency. Examples would include having phone call requests by the US president declined by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in March last year and mass media pictures of the impersonal fist-bump between Joe Biden and de facto ruler and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman (or “MBS” as he is familiarly called) in July.
The US president had come to Riyadh with a begging bowl but failed to convince the Saudis to rescue the US gasoline market from high prices by opening the Arab oil tap in time for the mid-term US elections. This was after the President Biden had promised to make the Kingdom a “pariah” during his 2020 election campaign in response to the killing of Adnan Khashoggi.
With the decline of US dominance in Middle East security affairs, a spate of intra-regional diplomatic moves towards peace seems to have broken out. This might sound ironic to observers of American diplomacy and military power in the region. But an assertive Saudi foreign policy under its Crown Prince and the vastly altered circumstances caused by Western sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas exports saw Riyadh distance itself from Washington.
It is a comprehensive article about the decline of US influence in the Middle East due to the policies of the Biden Administration.
The Middle East regional order has undergone a dramatic realignment under President Biden’s watch. Following the landmark Chinese-brokered deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran on resuming ties last month, the US was again left on the sidelines a few weeks later. It could only passively observe yet another major diplomatic initiative, this time between Saudi Arabia and Syria, mediated by Russia. After rounds of discussions in Moscow and Riyadh in recent weeks, the emerging Damascus-Riyadh rapprochement is signalled by a series of reciprocal state visits by the region’s leaders.
At a stroke, MBS displaced the “oil-for-security” deal that has lasted over three quarters of a century between the US and Saudi Arabia since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic meeting with King Ibn Saud in 1945.
It gives a history of the relationship between the US and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as the OPEC Block
The Yom Kippur War (1973) and resultant OPEC embargo that led oil prices to skyrocket in the United States threatened the status of the fiat dollar. In the wake of the oil price shock, President Nixon empowered then secretary of the Treasury, William Simon, to get the Saudi monarchy “to finance America’s widening deficit with its newfound [oil] wealth.” In a further elaboration of the original Roosevelt-Ibn Saud “oil-for-security” deal, the Saudis under King Faisal promised to denominate global oil purchases only in dollars and in return Washington would provide military aid and materiel to the Kingdom. The quid pro quo came in the form of guarantees that the Saudis would “plow billions of their petrodollar revenue back into Treasuries and finance spending” of every US administration since.
The Russian economy is now slated by the IMF’s latest economic outlook to outperform Britain and Germany this year. Russia posted a record current account surplusof $227 billion in 2022, up 86% from 2021. Russia replaced revenues lost from its oil and gas exports to Europe with a pivot to China, India, UAE, Turkey and other countries not participating in the Western-led sanctions (i.e. the rest of the world outside the “collective West”). Its oil export levels have not seen any significant reduction. Last week, Reuters reported that oil loadings from Russia’s western ports in April rose to the highest since 2019. Though sold at discounted prices, Russian oil and gas exports to markets in the “Global South” have enjoyed relatively high international commodity prices even if below the peaks immediately after the Ukraine invasion.
Gone are the days when the OPEC cartel with its Saudi lynchpin played a role as the US-allied “central banker of oil”, opening the oil spigot if oil prices went too high for the Western-dominated global economy. It is the OPEC+ group that is now in the driver’s seat, combining Saudi Arabia (and its Gulf allies) with Russia. The former is the world’s largest exporter of crude oil while the latter is the world’s second largest oil exporter and largest natural gas exporter. Absurdly enough, the third heavy weight contender in the global oil and gas trade, the US itself, is hobbled by an administration which boasts a ‘whole-of-government’ commitment to anti-fossil fuel climate policies.
"N.Korea would be easier to defeat and their guy seems like more hot air but he's crazy. Putin is crazy too and his hot air was completely backed up by actions."
HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IS THAT "CRAZY, LIKE A FOX?"??????
DID YOU EXCLUDE ZEL, FOR A REASON?
I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S INSANITY CRAZY ~ IT'S EVIL CRAZY. BIG DIFFERENCE, IMO
Jean,
Maybe crazy is not even the right word for it, jean.
I explained some of it here:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92983/#92998
It's no coincidence that these are all men in this current discussion and almost every war even in recent years was the result of male brain thinking.
Lack of accountability has everything to do with it too.
The assumption right now is that Putin and Kim Jong Un are crazy and pure diabolical and Zelensky and Biden are hero's fighting the evil.
Correct on Putin and Jong Un.
Make no mistake that Biden and the US military industrial complex is calling all the shots here, as the internet whistle blower showed us.
If Biden and Zelenesky were women........or honest or had compassion for other human beings, this would NOT be happening.
Mrs. Zelensky would have continued the negotiating with Russia for peace that she was elected for as a huge part of the campaign promise.
VP, Mrs. Biden wouldn't have been neck deep in exploiting Ukrainian corruption to benefit her daughter Hunter at the expense of Ukraine and the American people, who paid for the Ukrainian aid package that Biden used to bribe them with.
When elected president, Mrs. Biden would never have made destroying Russia, by defeating them on the battlefield by bribing Mrs. Zelensky. Causing her to tell Putin to shove the negotiations, she's joining NATO so Mrs. Biden can take care of her.
Those same last names with a Mrs in front of them would have resulted in serious contemplating of the human beings and rest of the world being harmed instead of personally being obsessed with crushing an opponent they hate. Anything less than a resounding victory on the battlefield for the men has been unacceptable.
Both Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Biden do not want negotiations with Putin. They want everybody to hate him and be convinced that the only way justice can be served is to have him held accountable and destroyed..............no matter the consequences to all the innocent victims.......the price THEY DECIDED must be paid. Over 1 trillion times greater than the reward............Ukraine joining NATO.
Exactly what are the additional benefits of Ukraine joining NATO anyways? We are already arming them to the hilt with US tax funded arms.
US boots on the ground.
Yeah, that just sounds wonderful.
Think about what good the 115 billion dollars that we sent to Ukraine the first year for this endless killfest could have done here at home? That amount is equal to 2% of the entire United States budget for 2022.
Helped the homeless. Helped those in poverty. Helped reduce crime. Helped education.
How about helping the extremely poor in other countries?
Let's put the 115 billion in funding that we've sent to Ukraine into perspective below.
https://www.concernusa.org/story/foreign-aid-by-country/
February 7, 2022
Ever wondered which countries are getting the most foreign aid? Updated for 2021, here’s a breakdown of US foreign aid by country.
In 2021, the United States budgeted $38 billion for foreign aid spending. As of this reporting, it has disbursed over $32 billion. Almost 25% of that budget has gone to just ten countries:
On the other end of the spectrum, each of the countries above have — so far — received only economic assistance in 2021 and no military funding. In many of these cases, the majority of economic aid has been designated for areas such as emergency response, food security, and maternal and child health.
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In 2022, Ukraine got more than 100 times more foreign aid than the country that got the most foreign aid from based on the stats above.
In 2022, Ukraine received 3 times as much foreign aid then the US gave to every poor country in the world combined in the stats above.
If the US taxpayer, had a chance to vote on a bill in 2021, that would cost 115 billion the following year...... and the pay off would be 250,000+ dead, 8+ million displaced and 1 trillion in losses, create additional global adversaries/enemies, start a move to replace the US dollar as the global currency, cause rampant inflation from supply side dynamics(hurting the poor the most), causing even higher interest rates and banks failing, potentially instigating WW3, possibly going nuclear.........and a massive rebuilding cost that the US will also fund much of...... how many US citizens would have voted for it
Instead, our military industrial complex bribed politicians made that decision without asking us....... and the media colluded with them by selling the convincing bs war propaganda with the majority of Americans actually supporting the off the charts insanely damaging, one sided stupid war.
That would have been avoided if Zelensky hadn't suddenly shut down the ongoing peace negotiations that he was holding with Putin after Biden corrupted him/turned him into his puppet after being elected.
One year in, the US has allocated nearly $115 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine in wartime.
Published on Fri, February 24, 2023 1:05PM PST | Updated Tue, March 28, 2023 2:20PM PDT