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No joke. Berletic "Greenland is key to enhancing America's encirclement and containment of Russia
Posted by Der on January 16, 2025, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Greenland giggles"
"Actually, Greenland is key - it is in the Artic - It is key to enhancing America's encirclement and containment and agitation of Russia. The Panama Canal is, obviously, a vital chokepoint, one of several the US needs to close down, to stop, Chinese maritime shipping internationally..." (9:50)
(From transcript. 10:05) "and so that that is what the US is working its way up to um they have admitted in policy papers that if they do try to impose a maritime blockade on China uh and they'll they'll do it in a way beyond the reach of China's military because its military is designed to defend just China they they do not have the ability to project military power say uh break a blockade uh in the Middle East for example or or to sail to the Panama Canal and fight the US they don't have the ability to do that which is why the US wants to uh Implement a blockade this way but they understand that Russia with its natural resources and sharing a very long border with China they could just send resources directly into China so so they understand that they have to get rid of Russia first if they want to isolate and deal with China ultimately so there there's a lot uh to that that we have to understand when we're looking at this conflict the only thing we have to understand about this conflict is that it's not necessarily the us trying to defeat Russia militarily in Ukraine they're trying to overextend Russia overall in Ukraine in Syria in Georgia in Kazakhstan in the Arctic in Africa it's it's a whole array of battlefields the US's working across to try to overextend and eventually collapse Russia and Russia has limits and we saw that in Syria so we have to we have to keep all of this in mind while while we look at this this conflict as as it plays out..." (11:42)