Source: a bad potato (ID: iamhtd)
Zelensky thought that his spring was coming. He couldn’t help crying out and congratulated him at the first time
With the intensification of the energy crisis and Britain’s CPI soaring to exceed 10%, the British mirror recently reported that conres surveyed 2000 British adults, and the results showed that 69% of the respondents planned to turn on less heating this winter; 23% of the respondents said that they would not turn on the heating at all. Among parents with children under 18, this proportion rose to 27%. In addition, 11% of the respondents will take out loans due to the rise of energy prices, which is 17% among parents with children under 18 years old.
Christina, one of the spokespersons of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party in Britain, said:
It’s a national scandal that parents have to choose between heating and feeding their children. It shouldn’t be like this.
It’s 51 degrees north latitude in London, and winter will come in about a month. Now nearly one quarter of the people say they can’t afford heating, which is “the most developed capitalist country”.
The new British Prime Minister truss has not started his work. 52% of the British people said that they do not think truss can change the situation in Britain. Only 9% have confidence in truss, while 12% have no confidence in him or think he may become the worst British Prime Minister;
Many people may say that more than half of the British people have no confidence in it. How was it elected as the British Prime Minister?
First, truss is a party election of the British Conservative Party. Unlike the United States, the United Kingdom elects a political party, not a president or prime minister. In the last election, the United Kingdom has determined that the conservative party is in power, so the leader of the conservative party is the prime minister. So truss only needs to vote in the conservative party.
Even if the whole Britain has no confidence in it, it will be fine as long as the conservative party recognizes it.
Second, truss’s performance is good. Now only 52% of the British people are dissatisfied. Now, German Chancellor Schultz, 62% of the Germans are dissatisfied. Aren’t they still becoming president?
So it doesn’t matter if you are rotten. It’s most important to ensure that your competitors are worse than you.
At present, the inflation rate in Britain is high, and residents can’t afford to use gas, but obviously this is not something truss worries about, and these little things are not worth worrying about
On the economy, truss only proposed to “reduce taxes.” he didn’t mention how and how much to reduce taxes. He only talked about this direction.
However, this direction has made the British economic community feel that it can not solve the problem at all, because the people at the bottom who can not afford gas have no income, and the gas price is too high to afford it. What is the use of tax reduction? It will only aggravate Britain’s inflation.
But truss doesn’t care about the British economy because there are more important things to do.
The most promising person in the world is Zelensky of Ukraine.
As soon as truss was elected British Prime Minister, Zelensky could not wait to congratulate him and pleaded with Britain for help, declaring that he looked forward to reaching cooperation with truss and hoped that it would help us win Russia
Zelensky said that Ukrainians know truss very well and stressed the importance of maintaining unity.
In this British election, Zelensky can be said to be elated. What he fears most is the election of sunak, the former British finance minister, because sunak’s job is to develop the economy, and the focus is to do a good job in Britain. Truss’s job is to engage in diplomacy, and the focus is to assist Ukraine.
From the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in February to the present, as the foreign minister of Boris government, truss has always regarded fanning the flames as his first principle, stressed that he should support Ukraine with all his strength, and criticized Russia whenever he had the opportunity. Even during the election campaign, truss showed his fear of nuclear threats, with an appearance of fearlessness.
During the election campaign, truss said: under my leadership, in this dark moment, Britain will be president Zelensky’s biggest ally. We have been at the forefront of international support, providing 2.3 billion pounds of military assistance to Ukraine, more than any other country in Europe. We have united our G7 partners and imposed the most severe sanctions on Russia in history.
Truss believes that supporting Ukraine is its essential work. As for whether the British can afford gas, um… What does it have to do with it?
In fact, truss and the German foreign minister have the same idea:
Compared with the winter energy crisis in Germany, supporting Ukraine is more important. Even if Germans take to the streets to protest against energy prices, Germany must continue to sanction Russia to support Ukraine.
I promise the Ukrainian people that I will support them as long as they need me. I will honor my promise. No matter how German voters evaluate me, I will fulfill my promise to the Ukrainian people!
In the past six months, Boris frequently went to Ukraine to punch in. He is the most active Western politician who supports Ukraine. But truss thinks it is not enough. He said: I will re-examine diplomatic relations and take a tougher attitude towards China and Russia.
Well, this is basically the core ruling platform of truss, and has little to do with Britain
Doing a good job in Britain is truss’s occasional part-time job. It is the British Prime Minister’s job to speak out against China and Russia and support Ukraine.
Many people often ask me: what do European politicians think when they ignore their national interests?
Have you noticed a phenomenon that when foreign ministries of various countries speak, a small number of sovereign countries like China, Russia, and Iraq often say that “national interests are above everything” or “firmly defend national sovereignty.” but the “allies” of the United States almost never say this.
The “allies” of the United States hardly talk about national interests, and the most they say is “safeguarding our common values.”.
This is the center of all their work.
When Hungary refused to sanction Russia, saying that Hungary just needed Russian natural gas, EU president von der Leyen said in a righteous way:
This is a trampling on common values. We need to protect the European way of life and promote European style democracy. We need to firmly defend the values of our allies around the world.
Common values are the highest purpose of the EU.
Under this purpose, although Hungary has natural gas and does not suffer from cold and hunger, Hungary is shameful and should be despised. Although Europeans are almost frozen to death, it is moving
Of course, the most fundamental point is that people who suffer from cold and hunger can not get truss or von der Leyen. Not only can they not get hungry, but they can also get American dog food
Therefore, it is not important to make money or not, nor is life good. What matters is values.
And one of the so-called core values of the western world is the western set of freedom, democracy and human rights.
The logic of Europe is that if natural gas is purchased from Russia, because Russia is an autocratic country, it violates European values, and this kind of energy is unclean and sinful.
How can we turn unclean energy into clean energy?
In fact, it’s not difficult, just one hand.
In August, the media in Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States reported that on August 24, Chinese suppliers provided energy lifelines for Europe through spot resale of liquefied natural gas. Europe’s concern about natural gas shortage entering winter may have been alleviated, thanks to an unexpected knight in white… That is, China.
It can be seen from the data released by SCMP that in 2022, Sinopec sold a total of 45 batches of more than 3.15 million tons of liquefied natural gas to Europe, accounting for about 7% of the total import of liquefied natural gas in Europe.
China’s petroleum gas exports to Europe mainly come from two directions.
The first is the United States. According to the natural gas agreement between China and the United States, the United States provides energy to China stably, using the contract signed at last year’s price, and the United States gives China the CIF price. China directly calls the American energy merchant, asking the American energy merchant to drag the natural gas to Europe and then deliver it to the Europeans. We did nothing and earned a 30% price difference
The second main source is Russia. Now Europe does not buy Russian natural gas, but Russia has an exploration plan. What if it does not buy it, Russia will not use it up. Then Russia will sell it to China. China will take a big turn and drag it to Europe, and sell it to Europe at an increase of 30%
Every ship going to Europe can earn 100 million dollars
The 30% price increase mentioned here is only an approximate figure. The marine liquefied natural gas, which used to cost only $60 million, is now priced between $150 million and $250 million in Europe.
In other words, in order to maintain its own values, Europe would rather spend more money on expensive energy.
In fact, the origin of many natural gas is still in Russia, but after China’s hand, the so-called dirty energy has become holy energy.
Europeans are doing this happily. This scene is really funny. Since the era of great navigation, Europeans have sold drugs and slaves, killed and set fire to make money, which has violated all the bottom lines of human society. Now, they prefer to starve and suffer for their values.
Do you think Europeans are stupid? Really not. This scene is a bit like when I just graduated from university 20 years ago, there was an indisputable saying that was known to be politically correct at that time: human rights are higher than sovereignty.
If a country does not respect human rights, its sovereignty is not worthy of respect, and it deserves to be invaded by the United States and its allies.
Of course, this sentence is the consensus of the international community. Human rights should indeed be higher than sovereignty. There is no problem.
But what is human rights?
The United States is the grandfather of human rights. Whether there are human rights or not is the final say of the United States.
The most obvious one is Iraq. Before and after the Iran Iraq war, in order to compete with the Soviet Union for Iraq, the United States and Saddam were so good that they could not help but wear the same pants and desperately provide arms to Iraq. They were proper “allies” of the United States and “free and democratic” countries. But in the later period, they saw that Saddam had an unyielding heart and was too ambitious. In the end, they actually began to use euros to settle oil. So the United States invaded Iraq, At this time, they became enemies.
After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the whole country was in ruins, 200000 civilians died, and 11 million people became refugees. But the U.S. goal was achieved: although they lost their lives, they gained democracy.
What if China has high-speed rail and people’s life is better? What if the Beidou networking is successful? What about the global industrial hegemony? Do you have democracy and freedom in Iraq?
Aren’t you ashamed to see Iraq?
Therefore, the so-called values are whether we have listened to the United States.
You think it’s ridiculous? However, if you are over 35 years old like me, we should have experienced this scene 20 years ago. When we talk on online forums or chat, we are ashamed to talk about national interests and want to talk about freedom, democracy and human rights
Therefore, what is human rights is:
The epidemic killed 1.1 million people in the United States, but after two black children were rescued, the United States is worthy of being a beacon of human rights
China has successfully fought the epidemic, but there are pregnant women who have miscarried, and girls have no sanitary napkins. This is a proper autocratic country with no human rights
Anyway, according to this logic, the United States has the final say in deciding whether there are human rights or not.
If the United States does not recognize it, it will not be possible to eliminate the virus to 0. If the United States recognizes it, it will be a good country if it dies.
Don’t think it’s ridiculous. 20 years ago, a group of university professors recognized it like this.
Whether a novel is well written or not depends on whether it wins a Nobel Prize;
Whether a film is made well or not depends on whether it wins an Oscar;
Whether the economy is doing well or not depends on how much US debt it has bought;
Whether society is well governed or not depends on whether freedom and democracy are practised;
……..
Twenty years ago, it was ridiculous to talk about the economic growth rate in Chinese university campuses or academic circles. Even if the annual growth rate exceeded 10%, it would be useless. As long as you don’t follow the western economics, you will collapse sooner or later.
In Europe, it is this group of people who have a high degree of faith in this. Of course, most of them are people who talk about doctrine and are business minded. They have become the center of power and continue to take this as their value.
So, don’t think Europe is stupid. Europe is still a colony of the United States. Strictly speaking, it is a defeated country in World War II. There are American military bases everywhere and it is controlled by the United States.
But just 20 years ago, 30 years ago, we did not have an American garrison. As many scholars know, it was not the “American values” as the only criterion for judging whether a country was advanced or not?
The United States today is robbing Europe in several ways.
First, the United States frequently provokes wars around Europe, either in the Middle East or in Eastern Europe, and stubbornly seizes the opportunities for economic development in the euro and Europe;
The second is the direct robbery, from the Bank of France to the Bank of Paris, with fines of 10 billion US dollars;
Third, block free trade in Europe. Russia is in the East and Iran is in the south. But even if you can’t buy oil or natural gas, where can you buy it? From India, China and the United States
Europe was plundered by the United States, but it doesn’t matter, because they finally defended their values.
Tesla should declare on behalf of the UK:
Even though we died of cold and hunger, we defended our values, supported Ukraine, and scolded China.
This is what the British Prime Minister should do. You sunak want to improve the economy?
Do you know why you can’t be Prime Minister?
It’s smaller, the pattern is smaller!
However, we have reason to believe that after truss takes office, he will try every means to incite the Russian Ukrainian war, for fear that the war will not be fierce enough, because this is also related to the national character of the United States.
How to solve the energy crisis? Truss would have said:
Are you complaining that there is no gas? It’s OK. I’ll give Ukraine more arms and incite them every day. The war between Russia and Ukraine is getting fiercer and fiercer. At that time, the whole Europe will be at war. We are the farthest away from the European continent. Look at the ruins across the street. There is no food to eat. Will you still feel that there is no gas? What’s that?
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