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Kinesiskt exportförbud av grafit till specifikt Sverige

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/kina-hindrar-export-av-viktig-batteriravara-till-sverige

Grafit är ett mineral som används till batterier och som Kina dominerar produktionen av. Krigshandlingar av Kina. Hur reagerar Sverige? Vad har vi som Kina behöver och som de inte kan få från annat håll? Kan vi frysa kinesiska tillgångar i Sverige? Utesluta kinesiska forskare från svenska universitet? Vi bör slå oss ihop med USA i deras ansträngningar att decimera Kinas ekonomi. Inga jävla velour-fasoner tack!

Roger Klang

Kategorier: China, Defense, Kina, NATO, South China Sea, USA | Lämna en kommentar

Nothing New Under the Sun

Is the name of an article by Andrew Wallace at the Royal Academy of Military Sciences.

The author is Dr, BEng(hons) PhD EurIng

Pretty much everything he writes in the article on Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademin is nonsense. You don’t get wise to the article at all. Note, I’m not a fool. And I’m not ignorant. The question is whether he has even made an effort. Despite 28 references at the end of the article, there is no link to the article Wallace responds to by Major General Jonny Lindfors (a hardcore Swedish war veteran with permanent physical war injuries), Colonel Mats Ludvig, Lieutenant Colonel Filip Scheynius, and Lieutenant Colonel Jan Lundberg, which you can click to get to. But at least the article that Wallace is responding to is named at the beginning and can be found. It would be really bad otherwise. The article by the said defense force representatives in SDF (Swedish Defense Forces) is initiated (of course) and makes a hell of a lot more sense than Wallace’s article. It is cognitively farsighted. It is called: Multi-domäna operationer (MDO) – en Arméangelägenhet

I propose you read both articles below and make up your own mind about Wallace’s article. Does it make sense or not, that is the question.

Roger Klang

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Possible shift in Biden’s grand strategic plans

Never assume that a world leader is good. I want to emphasize the importance that we should not be naive! Biden is thinking of the United States and Americans, when he conducts his politics. But if it does not affect the abilities for America or Americans to economically strengthen or at least maintain their leading position in the world, then of course he can throw a bone to a party outside of AUKUS and the border states of Canada and New Zealand, especially if Biden’s country benefits from it. Israel also has a key position, but I can’t really read out why the Israelis’ treatment of the Palestinians and the West Bank, plays such an important role in Biden’s and Blinken’s plans. However, you can read what Blinken said in black and white with the headline;  ”US warns Israel: Peace with Saudis getting ‘tougher, if not impossible’”; on the online medium World Israel News on July 5, 2023. Quote;

”We’ve told our friends and allies in Israel that if there’s a fire burning in their backyard, it’s going to be a lot tougher, if not impossible, to actually both deepen the existing agreements as well as to expand them to include potentially Saudi Arabia,” said Blinken.

He also said, quote;

“It’s also, at least in our judgment as Israel’s closest friend and ally, profoundly not in Israel’s interest for this to happen—both because of the added degree of difficulty that this presents for pursuing normalization agreements, or deepening them, but also because of the practical consequences,” he added. End quote

Why is it not marginal? As for the importance of the Abraham accords, I can understand why the US does not want it to develop between Israel and Saudi-Arabia right now. But it doesn’t seem like the haussed to the sky Israeli intelligence service Mossad really understands how the land lays or why it is so. They persist in opposing Biden’s plans. They have done so for a long time. Of course, the Israelis have an interest in the Middle East, but they should have fathomed that it is not in their interest that the United States fall to pieces by internal division, like once the Roman Empire did before them. We here in Sweden observe how the Israelis act more and more like their antagonists in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine. It’s just that Israel is more powerful than their enemies and they also have more powerful allies.

Have we considered that Israel is a special country? It is the land where Judaism, Islam and Christianity converge – in Jerusalem. In addition, there are elements of reincarnation in Judaism. We can think what we want about it, but the land of Israel is important to our own security. They are important to the whole of Europe’s security. The Israelis know this, why doesn’t the EU realize this? It is mindboggling to the Israelis. We cannot let them perish.

It seems as if we are needed all of a sudden. Saudi-Arabia may be the new enemy. But don’t listen too much when Biden says that, quote; ”We have always strongly supported Sweden to get Sweden into NATO” End quote. Empirical evidence shows the opposite. Not once has Biden commented on Erdogan’s tango dance with the Swedish government, but he has, under greatest possible silence, left us alone to cope as best we can in the recent past. It is clear who led in that tango dance, it wasn’t Ulf Kristersson in any case. (Spoiler alert, it was Erdogan.) But it can be differently now, Biden can show a ”good” side if he wants to. It’s just that, as an Irish-American, he doesn’t like us Swedes at all. But probably even an Irishman can like Swedes. But not him. Then I don’t like him, and I will turn away my gaze when he is led screaming and kicking to the guillotine by his countrymen. The reactionaries always win in the long run. For being the world’s most powerful man, he poorly realizes that Sweden has been one of the biggest guarantors that the US will remain the master of the world, by our support purchase of US security bonds and us consistently refraining from selling them when the dollar has been under attack. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what we’ve done for the United States. But ingratitude is the wages of the weak.

Now a question. Are the Swedes prepared to contribute with troops in a future American war in the Middle East, for example against Saudi-Arabia and, in the extension, China? Are the Swedes prepared for a two-front war? Then we should join NATO. Otherwise, we will probably have to fight Russia alone. But we will win against Russia, mind you. Personally, I do not want to join NATO, because I think it will create greater strain on us in the long run. One must not forget that we have a domestic, quote; ”situation”; to deal with, simultaneously. Of our two supposed choices, it is only an all-out Swedish war against Russia on Swedish soil that can straighten up our backbone and make, quote; ”our”; criminals listless, which means that in that case we can turn the tide in Sweden. Also remember that a Swedish NATO membership in no way provides any guarantees that we will be able to stay out of a war against Russia in the event of a major war. An American war against one or more actors is in the long run inevitable unless the Gulf states change their mind, because China gets most of the oil from the Persian Gulf oil states and the US has domestic oil for perhaps only 12 more years of consumption if you are to believe the CIA WORLD FACTBOOK 2023-2024 . I don’t think it’s possible to achieve, but if the US were to run its motor park and its many fossil fueled powerplants on domestic oil alone, that time would almost be halved to only six years of consumption. It has become more difficult to calculate precisely, because the CIA has deliberately made it so in the CIA WORLD FACTBOOK 2023-2024 compared to previous editions of the book. Maybe you can thank Me for that.

It is established in the CIA WORLD FACTBOOK that Saudi-Arabia, just like Iran, and every other oil producing country in the Persian Gulf, does more business with China than with the United States. Saudi-Arabia has literally extended a hand to Iran recently. They are suicidal. It’s clear as hell that it has the potential to overturn the US original game plan. But in that case, it’s not the tiles that are moved alternate, the whole boardgame is likely to change.

My name is Roger Klang

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Chinese trawlers’ spoofing measures in African waters

I recently learned that the Chinese trawlers are taking measures to spoof GPS-satellites in African waters when they illegally are trawling for fish there, so that the GPS-system will give the wrong coordinates for their illegal fishing vessels at sea. What can we do about it?

One thing we can do is to institute a tribunal for preventing trawlers from overfishing. And we can trial Chinese and other non-African nations’ trawler captains for fishing at all in African waters.

Second, we can introduce a civilian corps of aviation, policing the waters outside of Africa. There is just the question of where these aircraft will take off from and land. It probably must be from an African nation somewhere. France can contribute there.

But we have to have some way of discerning and ascertain trawler identity. European trawlers could have an identity number on the roof top so that policing aircraft can identify the trawlers. This is just so to see that no European trawlers can fish anything at all in African waters. It is easy to control European trawlers from air, if they have a number on the roof top. The policing aircrafts can have a digital cartulary over all the registered trawlers image shapes and sizes. They can also map unknown trawlers.

One problem with this approach is that the tribunal will become teethless if there is no way of enforcing intervention on Chinese trawlers. But it is a good way of putting all the spotlight on China.

And the European illegal trawler captains will have no way to escape the law.

Roger Klang

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Friendly ports and the economy

To ship cheap-line articles like beers through the Panama Canal I imagine is not very cost effective. But neither is shipping them to Europe all the way around Canada’s northern waters alt. around the south of Americas. I don’t even think they construct any ships, at any shipyard, that can travel such a long journey without refueling the ship’s fuel tank on fuel oil at least once.

Refueling ships’ fuel tanks is done often relatively far from the existing oilfield, but virtually always close to existing refineries around the world, which can complicate things, and it gets important for those extra miles that one has friendly ports one can use to refuel ones ships with fuel oil.

This is one of the main reasons why classical American conservatives have been all for globalism, since a nation with higher living standard is a nation that is less likely to cause any troubles, because they rely on American products to maintain their relatively high living standards.

Countries connect logistically, and new ports for selling American merchandise and buying the up-and-coming countries’ raw materials are built.

Another upside is that with more US friendly fuel oil supplying ports, the US gains an advantage over each single port, because the American ships can easily redirect their shipping routes to bypass, sanction or blockade a specific trouble making port nation.

But globalism isn’t so dandy in the US politics any longer since many countries are partly surpassing America economically and/or getting means to process their own raw materials in order to sell the finished product, instead of the unprocessed product, making America lose money, influence and power.

Albeit, this is not a zero sum game and it has never been one. The world economy grows long term, and with that the American economy grows. Till we run out of raw materials and oil that is. We are close.

You may come back with a rebuttal that America buys a lot of technical stuff from China now, and why would they do that if it is like I claim? That is exactly my point! This is a struggle over control.

Roger M. Klang

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