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May 2, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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J.R. Nyquist warns China pre-positioning military assets across the USA in preparation for WAR
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Welcome everyone to Brighton Conversations.
I'm Mike Adams.
Today we have an extremely important guest.
I think the best qualified researcher and analyst in the world to talk about the geopolitical dynamics involving Russia, China, and the United States.
Which gets into the Trump administration and how they're trying to compromise him and, you know, Hillary Clinton's Russia hoax and all these things.
We're going to talk about that and so much more, including what we think is going to happen with the election or after the election, where America is headed.
Our guest today is Jeffrey Nyquist.
J.R. Nyquist.blog is his website, and he's the author of a book called The Fool and His Enemy.
The Fool and His Enemy.
I haven't read that book, but I've read so much of J.R. Nyquist's work.
It's outstanding work, and he is extremely well-informed.
Not a sensationalist, but really more of an academic researcher and analyst.
So he joins us today.
Welcome to the show.
It's great to have you back on in this really crucial time for world events.
Thanks for having me, Mike.
Well, let's just start with your take right now of this big dynamic, the big three.
If you could give us an overview.
China, Russia, the United States.
It's clear that China doesn't want Trump to win re-election.
It's not so clear what Russia wants in terms of presidents.
Maybe you have a different view of it.
What do you think is happening right now with this dynamic?
And is China trying to interfere with this election legitimately, not just some conspiracy dreamed up by the deep state?
What do you think is going on?
The Chinese were getting such a deal when they were trading with us and getting everything they wanted from Obama.
The switch to Trump was quite traumatic.
Then they were forced in those trade talks last year into a situation where they had to accept a more fair and level playing field for trading with the United States.
This they would not accept.
You notice that after the trade talks failed, COVID got out.
And everything, you know, basically everything broke loose and we were in this mess called COVID-19.
And that was in the wake of these Chinese-American trade talks.
I think China made a conscious decision to strategically use this unrestricted form of warfare and all their forms of warfare.
China has three basic things they do.
They use deception, like the Russians.
They use subversion, like the communists and the Soviets did in the Cold War.
And they use espionage.
And you could think of their companies and their trading practices as an extension of their army and their intelligence services.
And it's no joke.
In Africa, they're colonizing Africa.
They're moving troops into Africa.
They're taking over whole African countries and they're pushing Chinese people in there.
They're doing that in places like Canada, Mexico, South America.
China is an enormous country with over 1.4 billion people.
So they've got a lot of people to export.
And of course, they're in the business of doing it.
So that's kind of the dynamic there with China and the U.S. The U.S. has been sort of like a sugar daddy for all of these totalitarian states that are claiming to become capitalistic.
And Russia's been through that before.
Russia's position in this, and some of my sources say, you know, China's ready for war.
China wants to get out of the situation that they're trapped in, because they see themselves as sort of cornered.
They had everything their way, and now they don't, and they're not really accepting it.
Russia's situation is different.
From all the indications, Russia and China have been allies openly, especially since our bombing of Kosovo, the Serbians during the Kosovo War in 1999.
And for example, The Russians have made some kind of promises with China.
In 2018, there was this joint Chinese-Russian-Mongolian exercise called Vostok 18, in which it was like in September.
It was...
Two years ago, in which they basically was a practice invasion of Alaska, presumably with strikes on the United States.
And it was, according to Peter Vincent Pryor, it was the largest military exercise since the Cold War.
Maybe one of the largest military exercises in modern history.
And they massed a lot of ships in the Bering Straits.
Now Russia has made these strange statements about her northern fleet.
You know, the northern fleet is in Murmansk on the Arctic.
And they've been talking about, you know, they've been building icebreakers, nuclear icebreakers.
And they've been talking about moving their northern fleet in a movement through the ice, through the Bering Straits.
And this is a very unusual movement, and Russians have been talking about what it means that they would talk that way.
That is, moving the biggest...
Russia has four fleets, you know, the Baltic, the Black Sea Fleet, the Pacific, and the Northern Fleet, which Northern Fleet and Murmansk is thought to go out into the Atlantic.
You know, they come in over Norway, but they could move it through the Arctic into the Pacific.
So this talk about this is a kind of move to support China.
But at the same time, Russia's having internal problems.
You have this revolt against Lukashenko, who's basically, there's a military union between Russia and Belarus, and Lukashenko's election, it looks like he lost and he faked his win, and they basically, you know, basically forced the lady that probably beat him into exile in the Baltic states.
And there's been massive riots in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and there's been video of Russian We're good to go.
So Putin is at a low ebb politically.
We don't know, because public opinion in countries like this is very hard to register, we don't know how this is inhibiting them.
But one thing that's inhibiting Russia and China is Iran, which has really been boxed into a corner by President Trump's recent moves, helping Netanyahu solidify alliances with Arab countries in the Middle East.
This really, Iran was going to become very aggressive.
And Iran has been boxed in.
We remember that big explosion in Beirut here some many weeks ago.
What was that?
We haven't gotten a good explanation, but one of my sources who was talking about Hezbollah was going to organize rocket attacks on Israel this fall.
And this explosion may have been involved with the warheads that were going to be part of that attack, which has not come off.
It doesn't look like it will.
And, you know, it's very common for Russia and China to use their proxies, Iran and North Korea.
But these proxies themselves seem to be under extraordinary pressure.
This could be that President Trump and the people that he's picked to do this have done a good job, along with Israel.
But right now it looks like Russia is not showing great enthusiasm.
For China being aggressive, understandably.
And there's even, I wouldn't take this seriously, a dispute between China and Russia in the Arctic, which looks phony to me.
They're trying to cover their tracks.
I mean, right now, any appearance of unity between China and Russia could be very damaging to both countries, given the kind of threat that has occurred since COVID-19.
So that's kind of an overview.
Okay, you've covered so much there.
Let's get into some of the details.
Let's start with China.
What you said, Trump has been a game changer, changed all the rules, flipped against China, whereas the Democrats have been pro-China this entire time.
You know, you've got Hunter Biden involved in China.
You've got Senator Feinstein.
Most of the Democrats, especially West Coast Democrats, Our Chinese collaborators or even Chinese spies in some cases actually working for China.
You mentioned that Trump's actions on the trade front have likely cornered China or pressured China in many ways on the economic front.
And when you said that it reminded me Of Japan and World War II and the naval blockade of the energy supplies of Japan and how that was used to force Japan into a very aggressive, striking out kind of mode after which they struck Pearl Harbor, which allowed the United States to have the public support to enter the war and use its economy to go after Japan.
And I believe some of that was allowed to happen.
I think a critical look at history shows that there were elements in the U.S. that wanted Pearl Harbor to be struck, and many of the key strategic naval vessels were removed from the harbor in anticipation of that attack.
But that's beside the point.
Is China being pushed into war by the United States on purpose, in your view?
Well, there are elements in the State Department.
Mike Pompeo and certain others are pushing a very aggressive line on China.
And some people, of course, feel that this is too aggressive that it could tip China over the edge.
I certainly would be extremely cautious, because we know that a country that gets put in a very desperate situation, especially an Asian country like China, like the Japanese...
They can become aggressive when cornered like the Japanese did in 1941.
And certainly nothing that we have done vis-a-vis China, by the way, we shouldn't really...
I mean, it's good to look at history, but nothing we've done to China compares to what was happening with Japan because we literally cut off Japan's oil.
Which it really had only had so many months' supply after we were cutting them off.
And we were making demands, very serious demands on them to make peace in China.
Demands which they were not willing to follow through on.
And with China, their advantages and the things they're doing even now in the United States, their subversion, their corporate influence or their influence of our corporate world and our politicians is just staggering.
They've got a lot of levers.
And the people that are trying to, you know, President Trump and the people that are supporting a harder line on China really face a stiff opposition here in the U.S. because so many people have lined their pockets by, if you excuse the expression, getting into bed with the Chinese communists.
It's quite a story in itself.
Well, we recently saw Mark Cuban.
The owner of a sports team in Dallas, I believe, was excusing China's human rights violations, saying, yeah, he's happy to do business with China, even though they have torture chambers and organ harvesting and political dissidents disappear and so on.
Mark Cuban's happy to do that.
And the same is true with Google and Apple and, you know, all these corporations, as you mentioned.
They're happy to do business with China.
The Chinese word is kowtowing.
That's right.
That's exactly what they're doing.
And at the same time, though, it's interesting, they will condemn the history of America.
They're tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln, but they won't condemn today's modern-day organ harvesting and gulags in communist China.
They won't condemn that.
That's fine with them.
Yeah.
Suppression of the Tibetans, suppression of the Uyghurs, suppression of the Chinese people.
Let's face it, the Chinese people are miserable under this dictatorship, under the boot of these people.
And I don't think people understand the baseness of China's legalistic political tradition, Han Fei Tzu, Sun Tzu, combined with the legacy of Mao Zedong.
You know, a lot of people don't know.
In 1958, Mao Zedong assembled his generals together.
And he said, I want you to think this, think in terms of eventually landing troops in Manila and San Francisco.
This is what we should aim at.
That is, you know, I mean, is he a crazy person?
Yeah, that's the way people who want to conquer huge territories think.
And I think that Xi Jinping, the current president of China, has the same kind of thinking.
They think really big.
And look, to understand China's legacy of imperialism, when the Romans were building their empire, when Alexander the Great was conquering, And, you know, in the third century BC, the second century BC, when Rome defeated Carthage in the Second Punic War.
When you look at these wars, the battles are fought with armies in the sizes of the tens of thousands.
The Chinese at that time were fielding armies in the hundreds of thousands, sometimes a million men.
We cannot imagine this military tradition, this militarism, this imperialism that goes so deep and runs back so long as a continuous tradition.
The West has nothing really to compare with it.
Our worst tyrants, like Caligula and Nero, are infamous.
But in China, this kind of behavior is largely normalized throughout much of China's political history.
And China has been, they have a long tradition of openly threatening the United States and more recently escalating threats against Taiwan, saying overtly they do plan to conquer militarily Taiwan, take it back because they claim Taiwan is part of China, you know, a renegade government.
Well, they don't call it a country.
What a territory now.
Of course, the Taiwan people don't want that.
And Taiwan has recently secured multiple deals for new military weapons from the United States.
And Taiwan, of course, is a U.S. ally.
And some of those weapons include mines to mine...
The straits there to destroy Chinese ships if they were to try to make a landing and so on.
But it seems like there's a lot of tension right now in the disputed areas of the South China Sea and areas near Taiwan, China building islands and so on.
And the U.S. has naval vessels in the area that are really seemingly, perhaps you could argue, provoking a response from China right now.
China doing a lot of flybys of fighter jets and bombers intruding on the airspace of Taiwan, for example.
Aren't these signs of a really obvious escalation, or do you think it's just saber-rattling that's not going to go anywhere?
The Chinese are pursuing an unusual strategy.
Of course, international law does not recognize people's control of bodies of water.
Countries control, what is it, so many mile limit out to sea.
What is it, a 12 mile limit?
Yeah, a few miles.
Out to sea.
So that water is your territory.
When you go out into these deeper waters, no, this is international.
The oceans are international and they're governed under international law.
And the U.S., freedom of the seas, the British Navy enforced it.
Our Navy is part of enforcing that.
The Chinese suddenly out of nowhere, they're saying, oh, the South China Sea, that's ours.
That's our territory.
That water is our territory.
They built artificial islands to lay claim to it, to extend their control over it, to have military outposts, air bases, to position submarines and ships.
And they're acting as though they're seriously going to enforce this.
And why this is so important is that this is where the lifeline of Japan runs.
The ships that bring oil to Japan from the Middle East, for example, to bring commerce from Europe and Africa and other places to the Far East, most of those ships pass through that body of water.
To go around that body of water would be a major disruption.
And it is the Chinese, by claiming it, are putting an open challenge to the United States saying, oh, no, we don't accept international law.
We don't accept your idea that these are international waters.
And, of course, once they claim this body of water, what body of water, what island, what territory will they claim next?
There are speeches by Chinese leaders saying that they really ought to be on North America because they discovered North America before Columbus did.
Well, yeah, they will just conquer Taiwan, let's say, or attempt to.
And then they'll expand their territorial claims to be the areas around Taiwan.
And maybe they'll attack the Philippines.
Maybe they'll attack parts of Australia, and then claim that that's their territory, or southern Japan, or some of the islands southwest of Japan, for example.
I mean, you're right, there's no limit to this.
They will just continue to expand and conquer and make claims that it's all theirs.
Yeah, the thing about invading Taiwan, my analysis is I don't think they intend to invade Taiwan.
And here's one of the clues.
The Chinese are building this Type 071 transport.
Each one of these things carries like a battalion of mechanized troops.
It has a range.
It's considered a long-range amphibious transport.
In other words, it could carry Chinese troops all the way to the U.S. West Coast in one jump.
Now, why would you build a bunch of ships like that?
And their assault carriers, too, have this kind of range.
Why would you build ships like this if your invasion is only a few miles off your own coast?
The thing about military conquest is that once China conquers something like the Philippines or forces Japan or Australia into this sphere of influence, Taiwan will have to surrender without a fight.
Because all they have to do to defeat Taiwan is blockade it.
Taiwan is dependent on everything it needs from the sea.
If the U.S. Navy isn't there to rescue it, then Taiwan is done.
So an actual beach invasions, Normandy-style invasion, I wouldn't do it.
And I think when the Chinese keep loading their transports and acting as though they're going to, this is just a kind of threat.
And it may also be misdirection because their real strategic target...
It's us, the United States.
Their missiles are aimed at us.
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