⬆️ @timagal

>> #Iran is and will remain dependent on a superpower. Under the Shah, it was #UnitedStates. Now it is #China and its #juniorPartner #Russia.

Meeting between #Putin and #Pezeshkian offers Russia an opportunity to burnish its self-image as a superpower “…as the bigger partner, and Iran as a regional partner.”

So this makes the pecking order clear in the #CRINK axis:

China (#SeniorPartner) > Russia (#JuniorPartner) > Iran (drone supplier) > #NorthKorea (cannon fodder supplier)

⬆️ @timagal

>> don't underestimate Iran. That is the same mistake Trump and Yahoo made.

Don't overestimate #Iran. That is the same mistake #Trump and Yahoo made by overestimating #US power.

Iran is and will remain dependent on a superpower. Under the Shah, it was #UnitedStates. Now it is #China and its #juniorPartner #Russia.

https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/113841037575216351

⬆️ @GrumpyOldFart

>> #China is responding to #IranWar on 2 parallel tracks using the precise language that #US is “addicted to war.”

As part of its 25-yr “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” with #Iran, China successfully derailed the #Arab - #Israeli peace process by brokering a secret #rapprochement between Iran and its mortal enemy #SaudiArabia just 7 months before #Oct7 attacks on #Israel.

#Russia, which is China's #juniorPartner, is helping on a "parallel track"

https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111940327270063179

⬆️ >> #China laid out the #Chinese checkers and chess pieces on the Board before #Biden, #Blinken, and #Bibi became aware of them.

Meeting between #Putin and #Pezeshkian offers #Russia an opportunity to burnish its self-image as a superpower “…as the bigger partner, and #Iran as a regional partner.”

So this makes the pecking order clear in the #CRINK axis:

China (#SeniorPartner) > Russia (#JuniorPartner) > Iran (drone supplier) > #NorthKorea (cannon fodder supplier)

https://www.byteseu.com/658601/

⬆️ @w7voa

>> #China is quickly catching up to Russia as an effective proliferator of disinformation, says the former chief and founder of the #NSA’s Office of Operational Psychology.

#Russia and #China are working together ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112450609431774444

Of course, China is the #SeniorPartner (and has been for long). So it is not surprising that China's pace of spreading #disinformation is accelerating compared to that of its #JuniorPartner

⬆️ @tobie1 @GreenFire @lawyerjsd

>> shape of international order is being contested by Russia, China and Iran

Mainly #China and #Russia.

China is the #SeniorPartner because it has money in hand. Russia is the #JuniorPartner because it has #Trump in its back pocket, but not a sure thing.

The way to fix China is to break this partnership. Nobody partners with a pauper. Get rid of Trump. Marginalize Russia.

#ForeignPolicy was in sharp focus during #ColdWar. Russia has now destroyed our media.

⬆️ #China tells #NATO not to create chaos in #Asia and rejects label of ‘enabler’ of #Russia’s #Ukraine war.

OK, not enabler.

How about #SeniorPartner in #JuniorPartner's War in Ukraine?

NATO said China has become a enabler of the war through its “no-limits PARTNERSHIPS” with Russia and its large-scale support for Russia’s defense industrial base.

China has refused to condemn Russia. Its trade with Russia has grown since the invasion… offsetting impact of sanctions.

https://apnews.com/article/china-nato-ukraine-war-689834988a7e0543504010649a63e319

⬆️ #Project2025RallyingCry

Nothing I’ve read in the #Project2025 Playbook so far (barely 10%) has alarmed me more than the section on the #NationalSecurityCouncil #NSC.

No one should forget what #Trump did with #Putin in #Helsinki in 2018, meeting in private, one-on-one, away from the scrutiny of anybody.

#TrumpIntendsTo delete all present NSC staff not aligned with his agenda on Day1 and replace them with partisan hacks.

#TrumpIntendsTo give #JuniorPartner HUGE leverage over #China. No Joke