John Garfield

Chipset Philosopher

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@psiphi_gavagai @ConservaWonk @dylanc78 @vtchakarova Intention is threat*capability. Even if you believe Putin has intent, its meaningless alone. The Russian empire is threatened by China too. Under Merkel/Schroder the Russians weren't transferring crown jewel strategic tech to China on subs, enabling massive nuke build out, etc.

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@psiphi_gavagai @ConservaWonk @dylanc78 @vtchakarova Source of those screenshots is this paper by Maitra, it was written before the war, but really illustrates how predictable (not morally justified, but predictable) the Russian response to the policy shifts by the Biden admin was.

https://t.co/m5LRZ52JzZ

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@psiphi_gavagai @ConservaWonk @dylanc78 @vtchakarova That actually strengthens the argument Russia is a realist power applying Walt's balance of threat logic. NATO expansion triggered varying responses based on the threat perception at the time and the degree of Russian interests in the particular region.

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@Felix_Nuno @vtchakarova Is Europe re-industrializing? Is it securing cheap energy? Besides strategic technologies, China is securing those benefits. I don't think they're losing from the war, they're benefitting from the fact they're distracting the US from China and Europe from its own revitalization.

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@BristbyJohn @sourceryy @PalmerLuckey Working to revitalize Foss Shipyard in Seattle, among other things I'm sure.

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@Quagmire720 @KartikGadaATOM @razibkhan A belief that modernization can improve sanitation? The Japanese literally had the emperor publicly eat beef after a millennia long taboo on meat, the Chinese cut their own hair after their ancestors had died resisting the Manchu Tifayifu, but you won't even use a fucking spoon?

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@AlecStapp https://t.co/ZsjiRqQ5XC

https://t.co/J6rf06CAtY

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@AlecStapp Lol that's nothing, look up the 100 childless days if you want to be truly scarred.

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@duncanstives @Unveiled_ChinaX @lsferguson If they work at SOEs it's probably pretty easy for the party officials inside the firm to direct them to another agency, UFWD group or gang proxy they're supposed to cooperate with. I assume its like a lot of IP theft cases, you don't contact the relevant groups, they contact you

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

China gave the world COVID. Then the Chinese Communist Party directed hackers to steal American COVID research while we were fighting the pandemic.

Yesterday, one of those hackers was extradited to the U.S. to face charges. He’s also linked to a Chinese state-backed group that compromised nearly 13,000 U.S. organizations.

This is one arrest, but China has thousands of hackers on its payroll. Worth remembering as we’re negotiating deals with the same government that did this.

[橋広バロン幸之助🇯🇵MJGA💫 @hasibiro_maga]

YouTubeで一発凍結される動画です

[Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 @StevenGlinert]

I am not a DC person, so let's briefly go over what Tianyu argued today:

1. He argued that the exit ban for Manus founders, where their passports were removed, was the same thing as US investment restrictions.

2. He argued that @RushDoshi lost Biden the election.

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@iixfrzn @ahamasmiyodhhah @_TheUnknown007_ Main thing that matters for a countries international image is quality of its urban governance. India doesn't have empowered mayors but conflicting state level agencies because state politicians don't want municipal political competitors. 74th amendment sabotaged by strong states

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

A national scandal.

NEITHER of the men principally responsible for the UK's self-harming China policy (Mandelson and Powell) were DV cleared before they were appointed.

Both with heavily chequered histories of China engagement.

National security clearly an afterthought....

[Richard Holmes 🕵🏻‍♂️ @Richard_AHolmes]

BREAK: National Security Advisor, Johnathan Powell, was appointed before going through DV clearance, Morgan McSweeney claims.

The Prime Minister's former Chief of Staff also says he was appointed before being security cleared.

My understanding was that Peter Mandelson was a rare case due to being a former Minister and member of the Lords, but this suggests something far more widespread.

[John Garfield @peresuslog]

@americakaran Other terrorist groups have been vastly more successful than the LTTE. The LTTE were particularly brutal even by terror standards, but their success can be explained by incompetence from the top military/political leadership and direct support from Indian intelligence agencies.

[🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 @Jkylebass]

@TheJusticeDept @lude_media Fantastic work. It became quite obvious that any suggestion that China’s PLA might be involved got squashed before any real investigation could have been conducted. Remember, China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology is run by China’s army. It’s a bioweapons lab.

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

Former Senior NIAID Official Indicted for Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic

“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”

🔗: https://t.co/HvhF5LnskS

[Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton]

Pointing out that COVID leaked from a lab in Communist China was never a conspiracy, it was common sense.

The conspiracy was Tony Fauci and his assistants doing Xi Jinping’s dirty work and lying about COVID’s origins.

I’m thankful that @TheJusticeDept and @FBI are holding these fraudsters accountable.

[Rush Doshi @RushDoshi]

I think when one is justifying coercive exit bans on Chinese citizens - and doing so with a logic that would justify threats to their family members to force compliance - one has lost the argument, if not the entire plot.