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Is Blinken lying?

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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)

On January 17th at the World Economic Forum of billionaires and their representatives, in Davos Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was interviewed by the New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, and here were highlights (with links to facts that are contrary to given allegations or that place the given allegation into a far less favorable light):

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https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-conversation-with-thomas-friedman/

https://archive.is/XYi5x

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-2967.8-2967.291

SECRETARY BLINKEN: In areas like the Middle East, where we have this profound and in many ways gut-wrenching challenge right now, here’s what I’m hearing.  I’m hearing from virtually every country that they want the United States, they want us present, they want us at the table, they want us leading.

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-2981.0-2983.370

MR FRIEDMAN:  So one of the things that really strikes me from the outside as a challenge you have right now is that if you don’t respond to something like the attacks of the Houthis on international shipping, international shipping gets completely disrupted, creating inflation all over the world.  If you do respond, it enmeshes you and us in a very messy kind of Middle East war. …

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-3063.474-3071.135

Why is Ukraine joining the EU, which for me is just hugely important – why is Ukraine joining the West so important, as important as you’ve already described Israel joining the East?

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, look, I think I like that equation.  But fundamentally why is it so important for Ukraine?  Because it’s what its people want.

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-3099.0-3099.532

And the other thing that I think is less visible is that Ukraine has been a profound strategic failure for Vladimir Putin and for Russia.  In so many ways, Putin has precipitated virtually everything he sought to prevent.  You now have a Russia that overall is weaker militarily, it’s weaker economically, it’s weaker diplomatically.  Europe has severed its energy dependence on Russia.  Ukrainians are more united than they’ve ever been.  The NATO Alliance it stronger, it’s larger, and it will get larger still in the weeks ahead. …

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-3107.160-3107.385

And Putin continues to be willing to put his young men into a meat grinder of his own making to try to advance his interests.  That’s a profound tragedy for Russia.  It’s a profound tragedy for so many who are affected by it. …

https://archive.is/XYi5x#selection-3253.0-3263.125

MR FRIEDMAN:  A country [Even the U.S. Government says that Taiwan is NOT a country but only a province of China] that’s obviously in the news because of a recent election is Taiwan. Taiwan is one of my favorite countries – barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea that has amassed these incredible reserves, the world’s best chip companies.  So much has changed there, Mr. Secretary, over the 40 years I’ve been visiting.  There’s just one thing that hasn’t changed, and it’s geography.  It’s still a tiny island off mainland China.  People who forget their geography sometimes get in trouble, and that wrestling inside Taiwan over that we see in every election, including the last one.  How do you see the results of the last election?  Because it was a certain balanced result with the KMT maintaining the majority in the parliament, the DPP winning the presidency.  How do you see it and how do you hope the U.S. Congress responds to it?

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, I think what we see in Taiwan on one level is very straightforward.  We see a very powerful affirmation of [manipulated] democracy. …

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.

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penrose
penrose
January 18, 2024

Is Blinken a liar? Is the Pope a Catholic? Are the Bidens crooks? Did Iraq have weapons of Mass Destruction in 2003? Oh wait, the last question doesn’t fit in with the others. 🙂

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LillyGreenwood
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January 18, 2024

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Irmtraut
Irmtraut
Reply to  penrose
January 19, 2024

Yes indeed. I wonder if anything Blinken said publicly was not a lie.

Eddie
Eddie
January 18, 2024

Are his lips moving? If “yes”, then he is lying.

Bob Valdez
Bob Valdez
January 18, 2024

How do we know a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.

Brokenspine66
Reply to  Bob Valdez
January 18, 2024

Even their Posture & Body Language are full of Lies, they don’t need to move their lips.

Last edited 2 years ago by Brokenspine66
penrose
penrose
Reply to  Brokenspine66
January 18, 2024

Which helps if they’re also a ventriloquist. 🙂

Jarno P
Jarno P
Reply to  penrose
January 18, 2024

Blinken is clearly that jewish ventriloquist’s jew puppet, the jewish dummy.

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steve
January 18, 2024

Why the question mark in the title? Practically every word the man utters is a lie, an inversion of reality. What he says leaves the reader wondering whether he lies knowingly, in which case he is a whore, or really believes what he says, in which case he is a clueless moron. — Most countries want the U.S to lead — Name five. — Houthis — What the situation would require is called diplomacy, the art of compromises. Any great power with interests extending beyond its own borders has learned this, except the U.S that has long forgotten how to… Read more »

steve
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
January 18, 2024

Thank you very much. What I didn’t know was that you need to be at a specific site (archive.is or archive.vn) for it to work.
Amazing, simple, natural. The best way to create a link to a fragment, and nobody seems to know about it.
Thanks again.

Jarno P
Jarno P
Reply to  Eric Zuesse
January 18, 2024

On PC, “Right click” “Copy” the new address, right ?

RogerB
RogerB
January 19, 2024

MY GOD . . . . Blinken, how can you lie so blatantly?!

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