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"How the West Brought War to Ukraine", written by Benjamin Abelow, praised by Jack Matlock, John Mearsheimer, Chas Freeman, Douglas McGregor, Richard Sakwa, Kristen Mehta, Gilbert Doctorow & Robert Kennedy Jr.

This is a concise but useful history to NATO's implementation war with Russia. It provides much of the background necessary to understand why this war was very much avoidable but made inescapable by the political actions of the NATO collective. While its brevity prevents it from going into details or considerations for all sources on the matter, it is a very readable work that quickly delivers the most important arguments about the many Western provocations against Russia.

Russia just 'destroyed'* the Neocons (* upset)

The secret deal of Washington & Moscow to pursue peace.

Read the full transcript of the press conference on Pascal's Substack:

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Today I’m talking again to Dr. Joanna Lei, a former KMT lawmaker in Taiwan as well as a media executive in the US. Today is August 7th and only 10 days ago, on the last weekend of July we had a rather important extraordinary election in Taiwan. 24 KMT parliamentiarns were under the threat of being unseated in a mass-recall. Now, recalls are a proper constitutional measure in Taiwan to take down law makers before their mandate is over. It’s a bit like an impeachment for a president—sometimes if someone did something criminal or outrageous, you might wanna get rid of them before their time is officially over. However, what we have never seen is a coordinated attack on so many parliamentarians at the same time and all of them against KMT members, that is the party holding the majority in parliament but not the executive branch which is held by President Lai Ching-te, a DPP politician. Now, the recall failed epically, all 24 MPs were reaffirmed by their constituencies. What this means is what we wanna discuss today. Links: Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:36 Interpreting the KMT Recall Outcome 00:03:33 Was the Recall an Attempt to Overturn Parliament? 00:10:48 Impact of Failed Recalls on Upcoming Votes 00:14:40 Law Changes and Recall Abuse vs. Democracy 00:16:07 Public Sentiment on Pro/Anti-China Politics 00:18:00 Voter Motivation & Possible Chinese Interference 00:23:11 Role of NGOs and Foreign Influence in Taiwan 00:29:45 Political Impact of the Second Recall Round 00:35:02 Can the KMT Build Ties with Mainland China? 00:38:36 Why Political Cooperation With Mainland Remains Difficult 00:41:23 Will the DPP Rethink Foreign & Economic Policy? 00:46:20 Current Political Balance in Taiwan

Last week there were rather large protests in the capital Taipei against the ruling TPP party and President William Lai. This news got suprpisingly little coverage in western media, which usually is so keen on showing all kinds of “people’s power” movements when they occur against governments the west doesn’t like. But this time, rather a wave of silence. To discuss this and more, today I’m talking again to Dr. Joanna Lei, a Taiwanese business woman, media executive and former law maker for the Kuomintang Party in the Republic of China (Taiwan).

How the West fell for its own propaganda - Ambassador Chas Freeman

Neutrality Studies - Pascal Lottaz, Associate Professor for Neutrality Studies at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Law & Hakubi Center, Japan

"Today I would like to share another brilliant talk of Ambassador Chas Freeman with you. This one was recorded as part of a Zoom event on 20th February 2025 by Mr Eddie O'Brien of the Thinking Center, an Irish civil society organization. The video is a Q&A type of roundtable with Ambassador Freeman and all of his insights are, as always, very much worth listening to. Among other positions, Ambassador Freeman served as US Assistant Secretary of Defense, as US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and he was Richard Nixon's principal interpreter during his 1972 visit to China, which led to the normalization of US-China relations."

Chapters 00:00​ Intro 02:02​ Was the Russian invasion unprovoked? 07:18​ Was America and Western Europe part of the provocation? 13:38​ Was the lack of diplomacy astonishing to someone like you? 15:38​ Does the west not see the value of diplomacy? 20:00​ What is the role of "Empathy" vs. "Sympathy" in diplomacy? 28:12​ How does Israel have so much lobbying power over the US government? 34:52​ Is there a genocide taking place in Palestine? 37:13​ So, where are we headed?

There is a full transcript available

The provocations from Washington just never stop. Be it Nancy Pelosi visiting Taipei or US military personell stationed on some of Taiwan's closest Islands to mainland China, the US is upping its game to make sure China is provoked into a corner form which only war can result. Donald Trump just staffed his cabinet with people who want to bring peace to Europe to focus all their warfare on Asia. The signs for Taiwan (and the Philippines) are bad. To discuss the unfinished but currently peaceful Chinese Civil War, I'm joined today by Dr. Joanna Lei, a scholar, business women, US media executive, and former Senator in the ROC parliament and the US-American scholar, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, an economics Professor at Columbia University.

I'm huge fan of Joanna Lei.

(33:43) "You want peace, don't provoc." - Dr. Jeffry Sachs

Yeah, same thing said by Putin at end of 2021 (no, he said Russia and Ukraine are borthers there no need a war) and Zelenskyy basically tell him f**k off I'll continue bombing eastern Ukraine anyway you can kick me back if you dare and oops, a sad bomb dripping on Russia's land.

(38:08) "It is important to have the United States turning its head to look at China in a different way as a potential partnered to solve issues of the world. And the only time I saw that happening was in those disaster movies, you know 2012 and all these others - when you have foreign invasion or aliens coming down to the world, the earth, United States will work with other powers." - Dr. Joanna Lei

Gosh I love her so much. X"D

(5:28) "Biden has propelled Taiwan as a model democracy, a value partner in the West Pacific. However, the DPP is not what they have touted for. For in the third term, or the second term in Tsai Ingwen's term, DPP has a super majority in Congress as such: they have passed a series of targeted bills of attender, that allowed them to a recent news channels licenses and therefore stem on the freedom of speech. They have also cancelled over 100 political parties, over 40 political associations registration with the internal affairs department. Thirdly, they have incarcerated political dissidents and political party leaders. Even today, they have incarcerated who he is - before they were sentenced to be guilty, they have incarcerated the opposition party - the number three party leader Ko Wen-je to, yet again back to before he was even tried. And the last one is they have confiscated KMT's party assets as well as deemed a lot of KMT affiliates to be special relationship with KMT and confiscated their assets as well. So you can see that the sort of model value partner by DPP - which the Biden administration used as a reason to defend Taiwan is but a facade or a movie theater. It's a very nice facade, but if you pierce into it, you can see why we have so many silent cries in Taiwan, and our legislative branch has no real power to check and balance the abuse of power by the executive branch or by the president." - Dr. Joanna Lei

It's a 100％ authoritarian government under martial law. And it's a model of democracy - 100％ correct for USA.