Ripple effects from the war in the Ukraine

 I haven't commented on the war in the Ukraine because there is just too much propaganda out there.

The slowness of the west in helping them probably caused lives (one month before thye got their act together) In contrast, within a week Starlink was there helping provide much needed communication.

StrategyPage has an essay on what's going on and they say Russia is losing. Since they get things right about countries that I actually know something about, I would trust their opinion.

As to the Philippines: this part is important:

The older NATO members thought Russia would be rational while the East European NATO members, and Ukraine knew better. The United States has more incentive to solve its inadequate war reserve (of ammo) problem because they face a threat from China ...because (the Ukraine war) has already demonstrated that Russian military capabilities were highly overrated and the Chinese are openly concerned that they may have to be realistic in the Pacific.

Or maybe not. At a time when the US/NWO liberal elites are trying to undermine BBMarcos before he even takes office, you would think China would take advantage of this. But instead they are back to their old bullying traits:

From the Inquirer:

Its coast guard recently deployed at least two ships that sail around and guard Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal, warning Filipino supply boats against carrying construction materials to repair the Philippine Navy’s BRP Sierra Madre, a decrepit World War II-vintage landing ship tank that serves as a military station here...Ayungin is a low-tide elevation about 194 kilometers off Palawan province, well within the Philippines’ 370-kilometer exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

the problem is that it won't stop there: China is trying to get Pacific islands to let them build bases etc. that would surround the Philippines, and make it easy to stop shipping to other East Asian countries.

Austin Bay has all the details, so read the whole thing. in summary:: 

If communist China’s recent words and deeds reflect a calculated design and totalitarian intent, soon we will hear Beijing declare the entire western Pacific Ocean a sovereign Chinese sea, where Beijing rules — so-called international laws, treaties and U.N. resolutions be damned....

and of course the war in the Ukraine will affect a lot of poor countries: