The 2020 US Presidential Election: COVID-19 Pt.2.

To be read as a direct continuation of Part 1; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-2020-us-presidential-election-covid_20.html

As for President Trump's Trade War with China. COVID-19 seems to have been trying its absolute hardest to hand a huge advantage to Trump and the US.

This current chapter in US/China trade relations began in 1972. When then US President Richard Nixon visited China. The first sitting US President to set foot in the country since the Communist revolution of 1949.

Then President Nixon's over-riding objective was to find a way to end the Vietnam war. Arguably another tragedy driven by an obsession with statistical analysis. However the visit also marked the start of a much wider policy of engagement. Including the opening up of trade between the two nations.

The thinking being that increased trade would bring wealth to China. In turn creating a new middle-class. As the middle-class grew it would overturn the subjugation of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Forcing China to open up, allowing more political and social freedom for its citizens.

Initially this strategy worked incredibly well.

By the summer of 1989 this new middle-class had established itself to the point it had formed a pro-Democracy movement. Which held protests in over 400 cities across China. Most famously in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

The Chinese Communist Party's violent crushing of the 1989 Democracy Movement ushered in a new social contract between the Chinese people and their rulers.

Rather than being the driver of democracy, economic prosperity instead became the compensation for totalitarianism. In short the Chinese Communist Party would pay the Chinese people not to demand things like democracy or justice under the rule of law.

Sadly western corporations and governments have failed to adjust to this shift in Chinese society.

Primarily this is because they've all become too reliant on the short-term profits that cheap Chinese imports bring to their supply chains.

It's a lot like your cellphone plan or your utility provider. You know that you could probably get a better deal by shopping around when the current contract ends. However that sounds like a lot of effort. So you end up just sticking with your existing supplier.

Global supply chain contracts are essentially the same thing. Only with larger amounts of money and much thicker forms.

Former US President Obama did make some attempt to end this dependency on China. Through his; "Pivot Towards the Pacific" policy. He opened up trade links with lots of China's neighbours in an effort to provide corporations with cheaper alternatives to Chinese suppliers.

This though had the obvious downside of further reducing pay and working conditions for US workers. While, at the same time, legitimising rogue states such as Myanmar/Burma.

President Trump has also been attempting to end this dependency on China. Through imposing tariffs on Chinese imports. So Chinese suppliers suddenly aren't so cheap anymore. 

That has the advantage of actually being about trade. While not driving down the wages of America's own middle-class.

COVID-19 seems to have decided to take things a hell of a lot further.

It first emerged in China. Specifically the vehicle manafacturing hub of Wuhan, Hubei Province.

Being hit first China had absolutely no idea what was going on. They only thing they knew was that people were suddenly dropping dead. This meant they had absolutely no choice other than to lock everything down.

Almost all viruses work by taking over other cells. Then using those cells for their own purpose. So in a way every virus is a; "Zombie Virus." A small joke which has been played out in many Horror/Disaster movies.

One such movie I was watching around this time was; "World War Z (2013)." This stars Brad Pitt as a handsome and heroic World Health Organisation (WHO) investigator. Frantically trying to find the source of this brand new virus. Which is turning people into Zombies.

That's not really what it's about though. It's really a thundering piece of Zionist propaganda.

Apparently Israel is the greatest nation on earth. Until, that is, Israel makes peace with the Arabs and meets its downfall. It is then up to an oh, so attractive female IDF soldier to save the World.

While watching it I found myself wondering if I would lose Arab friends. By admiting that I found the female IDF soldier to be kinda hot. I then remembered that probably wouldn't be worst story I could tell on that particular front.

I remain adamant that COVID-19 came into being on precisely November 14th 2019 (14/11/19). However people didn't start noticing it until the week begining December 22nd (22/12/19). This was the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

So the Chinese legitimately could not rule out this sudden cluster of deaths being the start of the horror/disaster movie we've all seen dozens of times before.

Despite what must have been an exhausting and overwhelming sense of panic the Chinese held their nerve. Working to quickly identify the virus and share its findings with the rest of the World.

The global media was notified on December 27th (27/12/19). The WHO recieved a much more detailed notification on December 29th (29/12/19). 

The virus' genetic (RNA) sequence was identified and shared on January 11th (11/1/20). The first detailed clinical, patient study was completed and shared on February 17th (17/2/20).

So when COVID-19 started spreading globally, roughly March 2020, we already had all the information we needed. To know that it really isn't a serious disease. So there is absolutely no need to lockdown to stop its spread.

This should have created a situation where the global economy kept on running as normal. While China faced a 6-12 month period of trying to get its economy back up and running again.

Exactly the sort of systemic shock needed. To force business to start looking for alternatives to China in their supply chains.

Unfortunately there seems to be a certain type of political leader, particularly in the US and Europe. 

Who are apparently too thick to understand what China very clearly and promptly told them. Or are secretly, and progressively, very attracted to China's model of Totalitarian Capitalism.

As for Britain's attempts to muscle in on US/China trade relations. The riots in Hong Kong.

Well. It certainly appears as though the environment has taken one look and gone;

"Oh, so you want masked hordes everywhere. Smashing apart the economy and society. There you go!"

So if COVID-19 is the Force Majeure that famously voids contracts. It certainly seems to be the majeure of Leviticus. Or perhaps Enoch.

As for Britain's self-proclaimed big moment. Hosting COP 26. In the first two weeks of November 2020. Amid this US election and its fallout, in the final six weeks of the Brexit negotiations. Up in Scotland.

Life seems to have issued a pretty firm veto on that.

Since COP 21 global efforts to combat Climate Change have been intertwined with global Islamist terror. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated groups.

The November 13th (13/11/15) Paris Massacres being used to intimidate nations into signing up to Obama's Paris Agreement. The "12/12 Atrocity" as it was described by the espionage adjacent TV Show "Homeland."

There are people who would like you to think that Islamist terror atrocities such as the Paris Massacres, the war in Syria, the war in Libya etc are all random, unconnected events. They are not. They are linked by a single, controlling hand. A controlling hand which seems to have forgotten how eminently shootable it is.

COVID-19's early spread outside of China seemed almost designed to provide a commentary on this current World War that Islamist terrror has inflicted upon us.

Certainly to me the most high profile front has been the war in Syria

Despite what you may have been told this is caused by the fact that Syria is a long-standing ally of Iran. So the US, under then President Obama created ISIL. To overthrow the Syrian government, robbing Iran of a key regional ally.

Quite why America decided to do this remains a complete mystery to me. However, like many western leftists, Obama did seem to easily fall under the thrall of that one Muslim friend.

Under President Trump the US did, finally, end its support for ISIL.

However the lunatic faction of his Republican Party - John Bolton, Mike Pompeo etc - did not give up on their animosity towards Iran. 

Something which stems from Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution and continues to this day. No matter how much damage that does to America's current interests. Or how many times they're reminded of the reality of how their hero President Reagan actually dealt with Iran.

So in place of ISIL Trump's America withdrew from the so-called; "Iran Nuclear Deal," re-imposing sanctions. Along a raft of fresh new sanctions.

Iran was really the first country outside of China to be hit by COVID-19. 

Due to the sanctions its healthcare system was completely unable to cope. The astonishingly high deathtoll in Iran should have made President Trump, and us all, brutally aware of the immense human cost of Bolton and Pompeo's insanity.

Particularly the ongoing wars in Syria and Libya have created a massive refugee/irregular migration crisis. The scale of which has not been seen since, well, the last World War.

Within this refugee/irregular migration crisis there are two main routes;

The Balkan Route: This stretches across Turkey, into Greece and up through the Balkans. Into western Europe.

The Mediterranean Route: This begins in Sub-Saharan Africa. Then stretches through Libya, across the Mediterranean Sea. Into western Europe.

The border between Turkey and Greece is extremely tense. Not least because of Turkey's policy of using refugees/irregular migrants as human weapons against Greece and the EU. A large COVID-19 outbreak on the Balkan Route is likely to tip a tense standoff into a bloody conflict.

So COVID-19 seems to have decided to skip over it entirely.

Instead it focused its attention of the Mediterranean Route. Italy was the first western European nation to be hit hard by COVID-19. Almost immediately after Iran.

The Mediterranean Route is particularly relevent to this convergence between Islamist terror and global efforts to combat Climate Change

It is well established under international law that irregular migrants seeking refugee status must do so in the first safe country they arrive in. This law is based on the principle that we, as the international community, will work to swiftly stop whatever it is they are fleeing from. Then help them return as quickly as possible.

The thing is if you start in a country like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and head north. The combination of Islamist terror and Climate Change means that Italy really is the first safe country you're going to arrive at.

In yet another wonderful example of; "Thanks Obama!"

After Italy the next key country in the Mediterranean Route is Malta. However Malta only has a population of around 500,000. COVID-19 killing 20,000+ people in Malta would wipe out around 5% of the population. That's bordering on a Extinction Level Event.

So, once again, COVID-19 seems to have skipped over it entirely.

Instead it chose to hit Spain. That last minute host of the COP 25 Summit.

Technically Spainish territory stretches across the Mediterranean Sea into North Africa. The outpost of Cueta. Which, to non-geography nerds, looks a lot like Morocco on a map. So Spain has certainly played a smaller role in the Mediterranean Route for refugees/irregular migrants.

Spain though is much more closely linked the the war in Syria. Through its own civil war, fought between 1936 and 1939.

For example I think we've all heard of World War Two. Fought between 1939 and 1945. However, globally, I think far fewer people are aware of the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish Civil War was really the precursor war for the Second World War. They call it a civil war. However it was the airforces of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy which really tipped the balance of the conflict. Leaving Spain as a fascist dictatorship all the way up until 1975.

The Spanish Civil War also attracted a large number of what, these days, would be termed; "Foreign Fighters." To both the Fascist forces of Franco and the Republican forces that opposed him.

This is certainly something you can see in Syria. Where it turns out very few of these "Syrian Rebels" can actually speak Syrian Arabic. 

In much the same way as how you've got more chance of hearing a Manchester, UK accent amongst the "Libyan Rebels." Than amongst the home crowd at a Manchester United match.

Many of the foreign fighters in the Spanish Civil War were attracted to the International Brigades of Republican forces. Where they fought under the banner; "Anti-Fascist Action (Anti-FA)" and the slogan; "No Parasan (They Shall Not Pass)."

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF/QSD) have also attracted their own International Brigade. Although I must stress that this is much smaller and much more elite than the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War.

Under former President Obama the US Democrats openly supported ISIL and their associated groups in Syria, Libya and beyond.

They also supported them domestically, in the US. 

First under the banner; "Black Lives Matter (BLM)." Then, when that name became too toxic under the banner; "ANTIFA." In much the same way as the "Syrian Rebels" seem to change their name more often than I change my socks. 

Which has all been a pretty sick irony for those who actually know the history of Anti-FA

Within the US BLM/ANTIFA's main objective is to keep the Democrats in power, by any means necessary. 

However their secondary objective is to legitimise Islamist Terror. By screaming; "White Terror!" at every opportunity. As if one act of terrorist violence somehow legitimises another.

"The White Terror" was a major feature of the Spanish Civil War. It was a campaign of murder, torture and rape carried out by the Fascist forces. 

However, rather than having any racial element the name was intended as a response to; "The Red Terror." A similar campaign of murder, torture and rape carried out by the Republican forces.

Spain's White Terror was led by Mohammed Meziane. A Moroccan Muslim. Rather dispelling the myth that Black and Brown Muslims can't be Fascists.

The Democrats re-brand of Black Lives Matter into ANTIFA really debuted publicly at the August 12th 2017 (12/8/17) riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. Which led to demands for President Trump to denouce the White Terror. 

Some of those at the Charlottesville riots were wearing the black St Andrews Cross on white background. The enblem of the Fascist airforces of the Spanish Civil War. The; "Condor Legion."

The Charlottesville riots were almost immediately followed by the August 17th 2017 (17/8/17) ISIL attack in Barcelona, Spain. 

This run-over vehicle attack occured on Las Ramblas. Following almost exactly the route of the funeral procession of Buenaventura Durruti. One of the most famous commanders of Anti-FA forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Providing us with yet another example of the interests of the US Democrats and ISIL mysteriously converging.

After Spain the next nation to be particularly hard hit by COVID-19 was Brazil.

Brazil is home to the largest concentration on Earth of these magical ghg scrubbing machines. The Amazon Rain Forest. Making it absolute ground zero for this debate over John Locke's Labour Theory of Property.

In the years prior to COVID-19 people, particularly some celebrities, have protested the burning of the Amazon Rain Forest. I hope these people also cheered the hundreds of thousands of Brazilians being killed by COVID-19.

After all, unless we crack this Labour Theory of Property issue that's what they're demanding. 

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians being starved to death. Just so they can keep their first class, transatlantic commuter flights.

Fortunately we think we have finally cracked the Labour Theory of Property issue. 

Unfortunately Obama's Paris Agreement forbids us from using that solution.

Continued in Part 3; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-2020-us-presidential-election-covid_11.html

17:00 on 11/10/20 (UK date).