CHINA SIDES WITH RUSSIA AS OBAMA QUIVERS!

Submitted by: Donald Hank with foreword:

According to US strategy wonks, at the crack of dawn, the US will first overthrow Assad, then turn Iran into a parking lot over a perceived threat to Israel, and then beat both Russia and China in a nuclear war.

Then they will all go have breakfast.

You'd think 70 plus years of US defeats would have taught Americans a lesson. Yet I have correspondents who are telling me we need to declare war on Russia because it is the Gog and Megog mentioned in the Bible (there was no Russia when that was written, but who cares?) and that we must bow before Netanyahu because Israel is the chosen people. And we must also bow to the terror-supporting Saudis because they are part of a divine plan.

Out of the third side of their mouths, they say Americans are the chosen people.

So which is it?

Folks, what I am trying to say is, be careful about theologically based foreign policy. It was tried before.

Remember Gott mit uns?

That side also lost!

God does not make sure you win just because you claim He is on your side. You have got to MOVE OVER TO His side before you say that.

America has a LOT of moving to do.

When it comes to foreign policy there is absolutely no substitute for wisdom and hard study. You had better know who your friends and enemies are and learn what makes them tick. Once you have learned all you need to know about the world around you, you can see God's plan a whole lot better.

Don Hank

China Warns US, Sides with Russia over Ukraine Conflict

It's official: China is now openly warning the United States against meddling further in Ukraine

 

This article originally appeared at Zero Hedge

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When it comes to the Ukraine proxy war, which started in earnest just about one year ago with the violent coup that overthrew then president Yanukovich and replaced him with a local pro-US oligarch, there has been no ambiguity who the key actors were: on the left, we had the west, personified by the US, the European Union, and NATO in general; while on the right we had Russia. In fact, if there was any confusion, it was about the role of that other "elephant in the room" - China.
To be sure, a question few asked throughout the Ukraine civil war is just whose side is China leaning toward. After all the precarious balance of power between NATO and Russia had resulted in a stalemate in which neither side has an obvious advantage (even as the Ukraine economy died, and its currency hyperinflated, waiting for a clear winner), and the explicit or implicit support of China to either camp would make all the difference in the world, not to mention the world's most formidable axis.
Today we finally got the answer, and the winner is... this guy:

Xinhua reported that late on Thursday Qu Xing, China's ambassador to Belgium, was quoted as blaming competition between Russia and the West for the Ukraine crisis, urging Western powers to "abandon the zero-sum mentality" with Russia.
Cited by Reuters, Xing said that Western powers should take into consideration Russia's legitimate security concerns over Ukraine.
Reuters' assessment of Xing speech: "an unusually frank and open display of support for Moscow's position in the crisis."
Xinhua reported that late on Thursday Qu Xing, China's ambassador to Belgium, was quoted as blaming competition between Russia and the West for the Ukraine crisis, urging Western powers to "abandon the zero-sum mentality" with Russia.
Cited by Reuters, Xing said that Western powers should take into consideration Russia's legitimate security concerns over Ukraine.
Reuters' assessment of Xing speech: "an unusually frank and open display of support for Moscow's position in the crisis."

At least it is not a warning to the US to back off or else. Yet.
Speaking in very clear and explicit language, something diplomats are not used to doing, the Chinese ambassador said the "nature and root cause" of the crisis was the "game" between Russia and Western powers, including the United States and the European Union.

He said external intervention by different powers accelerated the crisis and warned that Moscow would feel it was being treated unfairly if the West did not change its approach.
"The West should abandon the zero-sum mentality, and take the real security concerns of Russia into consideration," Qu was quoted as saying.
His comments were an unusually public show of understanding from China for the Russian position. China and Russia see eye-to-eye on many international diplomatic issues but Beijing has generally not been so willing to back Russia over Ukraine.

As noted above, China has long been very cautious not to be drawn into the struggle between Russia and the West over Ukraine's future, not wanting to alienate a key ally. And yet, something changed overnight, with this very clear language, warning some could say, that China will no longer tolerate Pax Americana, and even the mere assumption of a unipolar western world, let alone the reality.
Qu's comments take place just as talks between the United States and its European allies over harsher sanctions against Moscow.

On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western powers of trying to dominate and impose their ideology on the rest of world. The United States and European delegations slammed Moscow for supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Qu said Washington's involvement in Ukraine could "become a distraction in its foreign policy".

And then, Qu's slap in the face of Obama: "The United States is unwilling to see its presence in any part of the world being weakened, but the fact is its resources are limited, and it will be to some extent hard work to sustain its influence in external affairs."
Especially if and when China decides to send a few peacekeepers of its own into Ukraine. You know - just to make sure US influence in external affairs isn't "sustained" too much.