It will derange your thinking, if you give ear to it. Admiral Rob Bauer, the morally blind head of the NATO military committee, said publicly that NATO has changed. It is no longer the defense organization that its charter defines it to be. It has become a first-strike force. “It is more competent," he says, "not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first.”
He has listened to slander about a fictional Putin with a finger on the red button. Bauer is now so immoral he will violate the covenants of the NATO agreements. He is now controlled by fear that Putin will suddenly become aggressive when Putin has never gone on the defensive for over twenty years. Bauer is so unstable that he actually believes a first strike can blow up all the trucks which carry Putin's hypersonic missiles. NATO isn't able to find or track even one of those camouflaged trucks. Therefore the new NATO strategy is this: attack Russia with Ukraine, and when Russia defends herself, then "shotgun" nuclear weapons in the general direction of Moscow, hoping you might hit something before it is launched Westward.
Greece’s Minister of Migration and Asylum, Thanos Plevris, has announced a new legislative framework targeting the operation of illegal places of worship, emphasizing that non-compliance will lead to the immediate revocation of residency permits. In Agios Nikolaos, a Mosque was sealed and the alleged imam had his residency permit revoked and faces deportation.
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
—Matthew 11:28-30
That's China's vision, objective and immediate goal. They have the leverage to make it happen.
Summary of Xi's January 2026 announcement:
"It's a sweeping vision for building a global financial power organized around socialist principles, without the greed and without a financialization of the economy (what Xi calls 脱实向虚, “drifting from the real economy into the virtual”).
-- Arnaud Bertrand