风萧萧_Frank
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Is Soros misinforming us, or being misinformed?
Watch a video of this on Youtube: https://youtu.be/T96kC8AqM_4
George Soros made a speech last week to the Munich Security Conference; his speech was worrying. Personally, I don’t like his politics but I accept that he’s hugely influential, he’s also 92 years old and sadly, this reflected in his performance — I’m not going to criticise a 92-year-old who gets on the global stage but I will criticise the people who care for him for allowing him to do so.
He was not shown approaching the desk where the speech was made. Normally he would have made a speech standing but this time he was sitting. He shows clear signs of very poor health and stumbling with words and his actions show there are cognitive and motor sensory issues. People who care about him should be concerned!
The first half of the video is great, he talked about seeding the clouds to return the polar ice caps and how it could be achieved. But in the second half, there is some clear misinformation and that really worries me.
It is impossible to know if Soros is misinforming his audience, or if he has been misinformed. Much of the information given in this 48-minute speech is misinformation but Soros may be telling the truth as he believes it — in which case, he is being used. His extensive influence and large following could cause others to give him false information which appears to be accurately verified, then he can pass that information to a large audience who accept it as true: classic misinformation tactic.
The other alternative is that Soros knows he is misinforming and chooses to do so in order to obtain some financial gain. Who knows!
As expected, Soros covered some major global issues: Erdogan’s Turkey and the possibility of his loss in the coming Elections as well as the recent earthquake there.
He predicted Modi, in India will also struggle in the Elections in 2024 and he suggests that, although it is a democracy, India is not managed democratically. Which is probably true, its not the only democracy to be governed undemocratically though!
The Ukraine war, according to Soros was being won by Ukraine until Iran provided drone technology and, in all honesty, this seems like a line given to him straight from a CIA playbook — to criticise one enemy for helping another enemy. Realistically, if Iran is helping Russia while the entire “international community” and NATO are helping Ukraine then the addition of 3,500 drones would surely not significantly affect the direction of the war.
Soros seems to have a view of the Ukraine conflict that matches most western media outlets. Overall, Russia is losing and Ukraine is winning. Defeats for Ukraine are considered strategic withdrawals and preparation for counter attacks and wins for Russia are at great cost and not at all important.
Soros discloses that, due to Republican concerns, another large package of funding for Ukraine is unlikely to be approved by Congress — this is interesting in that it’s the first time anyone has publicly indicated there is not 100% bipartisan support for Ukraine. Perhaps Soros know something that no media outlets know.
He also stated that the Wagner Group have been pushed by Putin to produce a victory before 24th February. Which didn’t happen, so it seems as if there are some misunderstandings
When he turns to China, Soros comments that the collapse of the “Russian Empire”: “that would be a big loss to China” and that Xi Jinping would be the obvious loser as his “close association with Putin would hurt him”.
The clear interpretation of this statement is that he believes one of the key factors in keeping Xi in power is the strength he derives from his relationship with Putin and that China’s people, or the people in power, would rise up against the leadership seeking change.
This interpretation is common but always wrongly held. People who are classified as “experts” on China have limited views of what Chinese people think, only what they would think if they were Chinese: which they’re not.
To quote Soros: “China may already be undergoing a revolution” If it is, it’s a very quiet one. Life goes on as normal and, despite travelling greatly over the last few weeks, and meeting with many people, there’s no evidence in China of this mysterious revolution people outside China keep talking about.
Soros is another one who believes, or wants his audience to believe that China, under Xi’s leadership is blundering towards a collapse. Presumably, he has some money wagered on this, as he did in Hong Kong where he lost heavily, and London where he won billions.
China’s Covid Zero policies got a lot of attention from Soros: in a direct contradiction of the “authoritarian state he claims China is, he say Xi responded to “popular pressure” abandoning the Dynamic Zero Covid policy.
Apparently these policies brought people in China to the verge of open rebellion. Where he gets this from I have no idea but it sounds like CIA stuff which helps people to believe and constantly repeat a very old worn-out mantra: “I love China and the Chinese people, but I hate the CCP”.
It would take any analyst just minutes of research inside China to realise that this is wrong. However, it is useful to the military machine to continue to describe China as some kind of hell-hole where poor Chinese people are forced to live under oppression in order to make it easier to “invade” them later with a view to freeing them.
I don’t know what he means by this but Soros says Xi is not likely to lose control soon because he has all the “instruments of repression” under his control. If this is repression, bring it on!
In another CIA style misinformation line and one I had to laugh at, he says that Biden isn’t interested in regime change, he only wants to “re-establish the status quo” in Taiwan. What? Is my favourite 1970s band touring Taiwan? But seriously, this statement alone indicates that Soros is either completely misinformed or is deliberately misinforming.
One aspect of the speech I liked was a reference to the dysfunctional state of democracy in the United States.
Soros believes a real threat was made to democracy when Trump was elected. We know Soros dislikes Trump intensely; he calls him a narcissist and a deeply flawed confidence trickster who threatened democracy, built a powerbase and pandered to the needs and wishes of the mega-rich. Which maybe he did — but he was elected to do it. Unfortunately, what Soros can’t accept is that the very process he claims to support so strongly: gave him a president he dislikes intensely.
Democracy isn’t threatened when the people select a person Soros doesn’t like, it’s threatened when that person used the instruments of governance to challenge and change the process that put them there, this is really something Soros is an expert in.
An important lesson to be taken from this is that democracy works when the people approve of the process, not when George Soros approves of the candidate.
