Adding to hostility toward China, the US now intends to make the case that China is expanding its footprint into Europe, with the purchase of six attack drones by Serbia. This is the first purchase by Serbia.
The US takes it for granted that Europe is “NATO’s territory” and anyone who buys arms would get them from a NATO member, almost certainly the US. Serbia was always a special case, however, buying from Russia and getting warned all the time by the US to stop buying from Russia.
Since NATO hasn’t been on the best of terms with Serbia, however, and has gone to war with them in recent memory, it is perhaps a bit much to imagine they can count on Serbia as customers. China, as a much lower cost provider, is popular across much of the world.
Buying arms from the US is usually about paying for future favors from the US, and Serbia’s relatively small economy means they are more price sensitive than most in Europe. It probably doesn’t mean China is going to spread sales in the Balkans, however, with so many of the nations there now NATO members.
So this is our global priority — a few military grade drones, cash strapped Serbia bought from China!
So we have economy with 40 million unemployed time bomb, a plague nobody is actually dealing with, and cities turned into battlegrounds — while officialdom bickers about jurisdiction. And the division of powers ended up with Congress running foreign policy, Federal Reserve funding wars, while President and press duke it out. With China Communist scare not working — it is time to pick in Serbia. Then back to Venezuela, then Iran.
Then there are organizers claim about 1.3 million Germans protesting. They say it is about Corona. But it is much more then that. They are calling for Merkel’s head for putting up with US interference in their gas pipeline, China policy, NATO pressure to pay more.
They’re trying to drum up support for China as “the enemy”, along with Russia and Iran. Without a constant supply of enemies they could not possibly justify giving a trillion dollars a year to the military-industrial complex while millions of Americans go without healthcare and line up at the food banks. And for some reason Americans always fall for it. By the way, although the organizers of the protests in Germany say 1.3 million people protested, the police say it was only about 20,000.
We sell sh*t all over the world, and we have the gall to yap about the sale to Serbia by China????
Bianca is on the money.
We brought this upon ourselves. We had a once in a lifetime oppurtunity to make the world a better place when the USSR broke up and the Berlin Wall fell. We blew it. Man did we blow it.