Sunday, February 27, 2022

US Govt Just Admitted This Is A War That Will Determine Who Will Rule The New World Order & The curse of 'Coddling Syndrome'

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US Govt Just Admitted This Is A War That Will Determine Who Will Rule The New World Order

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BY TYLER DURDEN

SATURDAY, FEB 26, 2022 - 11:00 AM

Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,

We now have a war that the vast majority of us never wanted.  All of our lives are going to be turned upside down, the global economy is going to be absolutely eviscerated, and countless numbers of people are going to die.  I am very angry with Vladimir Putin and the Russians for launching a full-blown invasion, because it didn’t need to happen.  And I am also very angry with the Biden administration because it would have been so easy to find a diplomatic solution to this crisis.  Unfortunately, the time for diplomacy is now over and World War III has begun.

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ON Thursday, State Department spokesman Ned Price made a stunning admission regarding what this war is really all about.

According to Price, Russia and China “also want a world order”, but he warned that if they win their world order “would be profoundly illiberal”…

China has given “tacit approval” for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest invasion of Ukraine, in the judgment of U.S. officials, as part of a joint effort to undermine the institutions that American and allied leaders established to minimize conflict in the decades following World War II.

“Russia and the PRC also want a world order,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Wednesday. “But this is an order that is and would be profoundly illiberal. … It is an order that is, in many ways, destructive rather than additive.”

It would take an entire book to unpack everything that Price said there.

First of all, by stating that Russia and China “also want a world order”, he was tacitly admitting that the United States and other western nations desire to have a “world order” of their own.

And he implied that what we are witnessing is a battle over who will ultimately run the “world order”.

That should deeply alarm all of us.

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world where nobody had global domination as their goal?

I also want to point out that Price used the term “profoundly illiberal” to describe a “world order” led by Russia and China, and that suggests that a “world order” led by the United States and other western nations would be “liberal”.

And that is actually quite an accurate statement.  In virtually every western nation today, even the political parties that are supposed to be “conservative” are extremely liberal.

If you Google the phrase “liberal world order”, you will find that it has been used by elitists for many years.  But I certainly don’t want a “liberal world order” and neither should you.

Of course I don’t want a “world order” run by Russia and China either.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that we get a vote in this.

Now that World War III has begun, things are going to move very quickly.  NBC News is reporting that Joe Biden is considering launching “massive cyberattacks” against Russia…

President Joe Biden has been presented with a menu of options for the U.S. to carry out massive cyberattacks designed to disrupt Russia’s ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine, four people familiar with the deliberations tell NBC News.

Two U.S. intelligence officials, one Western intelligence official and another person briefed on the matter say no final decisions have been made, but they say U.S. intelligence and military cyber warriors are proposing the use of American cyberweapons on a scale never before contemplated. Among the options: disrupting internet connectivity across Russia, shutting off electric power, and tampering with railroad switches to hamper Russia’s ability to resupply its forces, three of the sources said.

That would be an act of war, and the Russians would inevitably strike back really hard.

And needless to say, we are very vulnerable to cyberattacks.

If we start going back and forth with the Russians, eventually we will be pushed to the brink of nuclear war.

In fact, Vladimir Putin has already raised the possibility of using nukes

Broadcast live on television at 5.45am Moscow time, President Putin said: “Whoever tries to impede us, let alone create threats for our country and its people, must know that the Russian response will be immediate and lead to the consequences you have never seen in history.”

“All relevant decisions have been taken. I hope you hear me.”

When I first saw that, I could hardly believe what I was reading.

But it is right there in black and white.

It is so simple that even a child can understand what he was saying, but this is how Biden responded when he was asked about Putin’s statements…

REPORTER: “Putin said the West will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history. Is he threatening a nuclear strike?”

BIDEN: “I have no idea.”

Are you kidding me?

Actually, considering how far Biden’s mental abilities have obviously declined, perhaps it is not surprising that he is utterly clueless at this stage.

The rest of the world can see how weak, corrupt and utterly incompetent Biden and his minions are, and so they simply are not afraid of the United States any longer.

And now that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has gone so smoothly, many are anticipating that it could be just a matter of time before China invades Taiwan

As Russian tanks roll over Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s crisis will reverberate around the world, possibly most dangerously in the Taiwan Strait. An attempt by Beijing to claim Taiwan by force has just become more likely. That’s not necessarily because there is a direct link between Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Beijing’s menacing of Taiwan, but because the war for Ukraine is the most unfortunate indication yet of the frightening direction of global geopolitics: Autocrats are striking back.

And if China invades Taiwan, North Korea may decide that is a great moment to launch an invasion of South Korea.

It would be so easy for the dominoes to start falling.

The existing “world order” is starting to come apart at the seams, and a time of great chaos is directly ahead of us.

Ultimately, someone will end up dominating the entire globe once World War III is over, and all of our lives will look very different once we get to that point.

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The curse of 'Coddling Syndrome'
There is no right 'not to be offended'

by Andrew I. Fillat and Henry I. Miller
Washington Examiner
February 27, 2022

https://henrymillermd.org/26040/the-curse-of-coddling-syndromeAmerica is infected with an outbreak that is worse than COVID-19. It affects almost everything in our society.

We call it "Coddling Syndrome," or CS for short. The underlying cause is the compulsion of many parents to fiercely shield their children from any form of disappointment or failure. CS has been around for generations but is now reaching epidemic levels.

An example of the syndrome in early education is the idea of "no wrong answers." Like it or not, three times two does equal six. A relatively small minority of parents have influenced schools to increase the proportion of ungraded work, dump "gifted programs" for high-achieving students, and eliminate objective testing for entry to elite schools to shield those who cannot qualify on their merits. The result is to demotivate and devalue achievement and skills, and the fallout is safe spaces, "participation trophies," and other similar nonsense. A new right "not to be offended" has materialized. Thin-skinned doesn't even begin to describe the phenomenon.

College kids are sensitized to "microaggressions." In response, they demand rectification and speech codes. Campuses are increasingly paved with eggshells and infested with kangaroo courts that mete out punishment for the most trivial complaint without common sense, due process, or recognition that people are imperfect. As these young people transition into adulthood, they feel entitled to compel others to adopt their viewpoints. This sense of entitlement has permeated the workplace and even the streets, as criminals feel able to offend with impunity, particularly in the face of weak deterrence.

In a recent op-ed , Washington Post columnist George Will chronicled the persecution of Jason Kilborn, a law professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. He has been pilloried and administratively punished for the crime of posing in an exam a hypothetical racial harassment case (for the 10th consecutive year) in which a black employee brought a lawsuit after being called the N-word. Although the word was used purely in a teaching context, one coddled student was offended by the very mention of the word and complained. The administration ignored the context and the importance of language to history and law, capitulated, and lit a fire of protest that went out of control. The cowardice of the university administration is nauseating.

Want another example?

At the UCLA law school, in an exam question about First Amendment guarantees, professor Robert Goldstein referred to a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, where the stepfather of Michael Brown, the unarmed man killed by police, reacted angrily to news that Officer Darren Wilson would not be charged in the killing. He shouted to a crowd of protesters, "Burn this b**** down!" Students were tasked to write a memo analyzing how the First Amendment applies to such speech. Several complained. Said one UCLA student : "These kinds of questions create a hostile learning environment for students of color, especially black students who are already disadvantaged by the institution." (This is law school, mind you.)

The dark side of this CS entitlement is that it censors legitimate speech, much of which is of no material consequence to the offended party. Where did such a right originate, and why should it have any moral or legal force? Why should a student or group of students have the right to censor legitimate educational examples and compromise instructors' standing? Why is this not obvious to university administrators?

The only known cure for Coddling Syndrome is a backbone. It's time for more school officials, employers, and other managers to grow them.

Andrew I. Fillat spent his career in technology venture capital and information technology companies. He is also the co-inventor of relational databases. Henry I. Miller is a physician and molecular biologist. They were undergraduates together at M.I.T.

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