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These Are The World’s Largest Armies In 2024

Despite being considered the biggest military force in the world, the United States doesn’t have the largest army in terms of personnel.

This graphic below, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows the top 10 countries by military personnel as of May 2024, including active and reserve personnel, as well as paramilitary forces. It is based on estimates from GlobalFirepower.com.

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Marse Robert was correct. I’m a fan of connecting dots in order to discern potential eventualities. Mike Whitney has done an excellent job of posting the dots on the white board for all to see. It seems the Western Powers have all determined to allow Ukraine to fire long range weapons deep into Mother Russia and apparently feel secure that there will be no blow-back. History teaches that to poke the bear results in pain, suffering, and defeat. Putin and Medvedev have warned the warmongers that they will retaliate. If taken to full measure, we’re talking WWIII. Pray it won’t happen, but prepare as if it will.

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Let’s summarize:

1.  The long-range precision weapons (missiles) are provided by NATO countries.
2. The long-range precision weapons are manned by experts or contractors from the country of origin.
3. The long-range precision weapons must be linked to space reconnaissance data provided by the US or NATO.
4. The targets in Russia are also provided by space reconnaissance data provided by the US or NATO.

The point that Putin is trying to make is that the long-range missiles are made by NATO, furnished by NATO, operated and launched by NATO contractors, whose targets are selected by NATO experts using space reconnaissance data provided by NATO. In every respect, the prospective firing of long-range precision weapons at targets in Russia, is a NATO-US operation. Thus, there should be no confusion about who is responsible. NATO is responsible which means that NATO is effectively declaring war on Russia. Putin’s lengthy comments merely underscore this critical point.

He (Putin) still thinks that possessing a large cache of nuclear weapons will deter US aggression. But a large cache of nuclear weapons is no deterrent when your opponent is convinced you won’t use them.

Sometimes being reasonable is not the best way to fend off an adversary. Sometimes you have to be a little crazy.

That’s a lesson Putin needs to learn. Fast.

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by Gordon G. Chang
May 31, 2024 at 5:00 am

• China’s regime is trying to weaponize Ebola. The disease can have a 90% mortality rate.
• [China’s secret biological weapons lab in California] also contained thousands of samples of labeled, unlabeled, and encoded potential pathogens and a freezer labeled “Ebola.” The freezer held unlabeled sealed bags used to store high-risk biological materials.
• China can make the disease highly contagious. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is, after all, the gain-of-function capital of the world.
• In March of last year, a document posted by a Chinese pharmaceutical company revealed that Dr. Qiu was working on Ebola.

“China’s military has spoken openly about weaponizing the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 and conducting gain-of-function research on illnesses as a backdoor to turning them into weapons,” Brandon Weichert, author of Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life, told this publication. “The Wuhan Institute of Virology weaponized COVID-19, but that was merely a proof of concept. There are nastier diseases, such as Ebola and Nipah, that, through gain-of-function experiments can be made into truly virulent plagues.”

Ebola and Nipah, with some in-lab modifications, can therefore be China’s tools to exterminate the American people.

Exterminate? A quarter century ago, General Chi Haotian, China’s defense minister and vice chairman of the Party’s Central Military Commission, reportedly gave a secret speech advocating the extermination of Americans. He talked about using disease to clear out the vast spaces of North America so that the Chinese people could settle in the areas left uninhabited. “It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans,” he said. “But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the Communist Party leads the world.”

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