Defence

2025-10-20

Has Xi lost his campaign to continue on as China's Leader?

Nine generals gone on the eve of the 4th Plenum, and is Zhang YouXia in the ascendant to control the PLA?

Roughly transpose "Take over Zhongnanhai" to the UK and you get "Take over Westminster".

Yes, it's serious.

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2025-10-18

Stepping back from the minutiae of current conflicts, this little feature brings out some developments that we haven't heard of, yet which promise to reshape our world over the coming years, starting now.

With the USA and Middle East in meltdown assisted by D J Trump, the EU in the final stages of political dementure, Russia facing down NATO, and the UK and Anglosphere stultifying from an  apparently deliberate lack of purpose, China and North Korea have been setting an example of resurgent ambition that perhaps we should all be emulating.

(36 minutes)

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2025-10-18

The war in Gaza still smoulders...  although the full-throated bombings are as yet in abeyance.

"... this is the most depraved violations of international law, but it has become so normalised with Israel... "

Prof. Mohamad Marandi and journalist Ali Abunimah review the situation pertaining.

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2025-10-17

Madame Lei brings us up to date with the way the campaign is going... and it's not clear-cut.

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2025-10-17

Danny Haiphong hosts a sensible discussion on the Trump - Putin method of diplomacy.

Anyone who can make sense of Trump's changes of direction on Ukraine may well be provided some insight into the logic behind the first impressions.

Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern explain.

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2025-10-15

All this (all right, most of it) is speculation, but if it turns out to be accurate, would anybody be surprised?

But maybe Bibi Netanyahu didn't sign the Peace Deal for a reason?

Still, predictions are tricky, especially about the future....

... and could Trump really keep up his support for Israel if or when "his" ceasefires are broken?

(55 minutes)

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2025-10-15

Madame Lei brings us up to date on the fortunes of Xi JinPing - is he still on the way out, or is he clinging on despite the odds against him?

"We are living through a turning point in history the likes of which we have never seen before... "

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2025-10-15

This is a brief canter through the 'Q' posts, which may delight conspiracy theorists and turn off those who don't suffer from that affliction in equal measure.

It's only a few days old (!) but already feels a bit "last year"...   it isn't.

Israel indicates the end game - but pay attention, I don't think we are quite there yet... there is still unsettled business to be concluded on various fronts, notably Ukraine and Israel (two sides of the same coin?) but also Europe China and the rest of the world.

There are two ways to judge Trump's actions - at face value (they don't exactly work together on this metric) and as pointing up those miscreants that he wants investigated (makes more sense and keeps everybody confused).

Happy hunting.

2025-10-14

Will the "peace" last?

Will supplies get through?

Are the returning Gazans merely walking back into a trap?

"On the surface, this is not sustainable... "

So is this the making of a new turning point for "Palestine"?

The jury is out, for now.

(24 minutes)

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For a slightly different viewpoint

2025-10-13

"Doves of Peace over Gaza" but "Escalating War with Moscow"?

Can it make sense?

(21 minutes)

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2025-10-13

Hostages are released... ceasefire is in place... what now?

Make of all this what you will.

(30 minutes)

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Trump addresses the Knesset....

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2025-10-13

"It’s not indecision; it’s structured hesitation"

My readers may already be primed to accept this concept - after all, I've written a fair few articles where I have noted that "it's OK to be undecided".

Martin Geddes takes it to a more academic level with the concept of "plausible neutrality", and frankly, with all the stuff with which we are assaulted in the media these days, it's an essential concept both to grasp and to respect.

One might call it hesitation with a purpose. Once seen, remembered for when it may require more objective evaluation in the light of new information.

"In fifth-generation warfare, this becomes a survival tactic" - Quite so.

There is more. See how many points you can score as already

2025-10-13

Maybe the current US regime (USA Inc) really has at long last run out of money. Maybe even Israel is in much the same boat.

Whether the regime is fake, or whether Trump is playing so may double games with everybody, is probably not going to make any material difference at this stage - when the money runs out, the money runs out.

If we've been following Clif High, now is the time to start manifesting the world that we really want, and we can leave the Universe to work out how to do it!

Whether or not we follow Clif, maybe start to improve community cohesion locally. When the money runs out we will be in a different world... and we will be stronger working together than competing over scarcities.

"Keep calm and carry on".  (Modest subscription required for full

2025-10-12

"The more chaos, the better his odds..."

Is the new ruckus between China and Trump a sign of what is going on in Chinese leadership circles?

If your enemies are in the ascendant, bowl them a googly for which they are unprepared... and the 4th Plenum is critical.

Xi JinPing may not be done quite yet, and Trump now has a big paddle with which to stir the troubled waters. Will he use it? Silly question!

(62 minutes)

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2025-10-09

Alert readers may notice the additional quote in our site masthead!

Clif High is an extraordinary polymath of vast learning and exceptional life experience. Following his teachings is also an exceptional experience, by which perhaps many may be unpersuaded, but which I find logically compelling as his notions fit in well with my intuitive (yet not so far very practical!) understanding of how this universe works.

The critical question (which perhaps Science as we know it gets backwards) is:

"Which acts as foundation for the other: consciousness or 3-dimensional matter?"

You may agree I think that the question is fundamental!

If consciousness is the foundation of matter, then it follows that if we wish to understand matter then we must first understand consciousness, whereas if somehow consciousness arises from matter then we must first understand the material

2025-10-09

The country has always run on lawful consent.

No consent, no obligation.

But did we not consent to Parliament doing as it wanted when we participated at the last election?

Well, there's the rub. The nub of the problem.

We as a population may have expressed a wish (assuming that the election result wasn't fiddled, as it now appears the US elections were at times fiddled), but how to refute UN-WEF policies when all major parties support the same? It would require a monumental public awakening to get everyone to spoil their ballot and declare "None of these thank you".

So such "consent" is at best dodgy, and in practice impractical. And even if we may be presumed to vote on the basis of politicians pre-election promises and manifestos, we all know how well carried through those promises turn out to be post-election.

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2025-10-08

Alex Krainer spells it out.

Again. But maybe it needs saying once more, just to be sure.

(49 minutes)

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2025-10-08

Prof Jiang Xueqin talks to Danny Haiphong about the major geopolitical question just now - when and how might the Israel - Iran war be resumed?

And where will the US stand in such an event?

"... if it does that, then it's basically WW3... "

"... Britain is responsible for many of the global conflicts that have occurred the last 20 years... "

(93 minutes)

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2025-10-07

"Europe is about to collapse and the United States is washing its hands of it"

Well, if the EU is truly intent on picking a fight with its easterly neighbour, what is the US supposed to do about it?

"Western elites in Brussels, Berlin, and Paris are pushing Vladimir Putin into a corner — leaving him no choice but to defend Mother Russia"

"The elites want war without regard to reality"

"A top US general now says that NATO could seize Kaliningrad in just a matter of hours... "

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