The test I use for assessing whether war is more or less likely between the West and Russia (and possibly China) centers on if tensions are rising or falling.
Currently, everything I am tracking shows a breakdown in communications, continued provocations by the West, and an astonishing lack of interest in covering any of it in sufficient detail.
The targeting of Russia’s over-the-horizon nuclear early warning system should have been the biggest news ever, and it should still be in the news. But it floated right by the Western (goldfish-like) attention span.
Naturally, the passage by the US Congress of an ‘upgrade’ to the Selective Service Act making the registration of “every male in the US” automatic has to go into the negative column as it’s one more step in the wrong direction:
The US Senate, not to be outdone, proposes $923.3 billion(!!) of “defense” spending in its version of the NDAA and also proposes to include women in any future conscription or draft.
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This all has to be viewed against the backdrop of more and more military-aged males streaming into the US across its non-border every single day of the week. This especially includes Chinese males.
This brings me to the next bit, which you are free to complete discount as it’s entirely hearsay. But I have received three separate sources confirming …(more)