"Ukraine will win." -V. Zelensky
MIDWEEK.
You heard it hear first.
“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.” Winston Churchill
Word of the day: To Strike, frapper, golpear, schlagen, lööma, ударити, ударить, 打
Black smoke = incomplete combustion = target hit. There were at least 2 good hits, maybe as many as 4.
“Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' -Winston Churchill
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“Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.” Sun Tzu
Maybe go read “Why is it that Red Political Power can Exist in China?” by Mao Zedong
Russia-quickly-depleting-fleet-warplanes-overuse-expert-ukraine-f16-worsen
By the way… “everyone else is lying to you”. This too is a secret of American power. Who do you trust?
Lunch time!
Here’s your decrypts (known plain text attack) and cribs for key recovery and brute force attacks. Good luck, this episode seems focused on tactics and East Asia.
precise,prepared 准
modest 谦
happy 喜
印度煎饼 roti (indian flat bread) (looks like India will be in focus this week!)
麻雀 sparrows (one type of spy is called a "sparrow")
麻雀虽小五脏俱全 (Although the "sparrow" is small, it has everything it needs. This is a reference to one of Singapore's spies, modestly but completely equipped, independant, operational)
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%BA%BB%E9%9B%80%E8%99%BD%E5%B0%8F%EF%BC%8C%E4%BA%94%E8%84%8F%E4%BF%B1%E5%85%A8/4519522
走廊 corridor, hallyway
杀虫剂shachongji insecticide (a nasty way to kill anyone)
汤圆 lit. soup balls i.e. sticky rice balls
端午节 dragon boat festival (lit. end noon festival)
ROUND 2
糙米brown rice, rough rich, unpolished rice
吝啬 stingy
芭蕾ballet (loanword) <3
流血liuxie flowing blood <33
粗狂boorish <333
挑拨离间 drive a wedge between [this refers to efforts to split Russia and China]
一尘不染spotless
一五一十 to narrate systematically and in detail. lit. one five for every ten. but homophone to 以无疑是 there is no doubt. 1510, AEAI
传染病communicable disease [These are about China’s bioweapon that leaked]
病从口入disease entering via the throat (oral pharyngial disease entry point)
口是心非 lit. mouth says yes heart says no i.e. duplicitous.
非常 lit not often i.e. very much, extraordinarily
胡言乱语 talk nonsense
欺善{良}怕恶{心}bully
指南针 compass, lit. south pointing needle. China invented it.
泼水节Thailand's festival, new year cleaning, purification; Songkran festival
复制人 clone [This is relevant to AI somehow]
互联网 internet (lit mutually linked net)
七嘴八舌 lit. 7 mouths 8 tongues. ordinarily means: cacophony, dissonant voices, much disputation, but in our context it means 7 trust partners and an 8th one who is not trusted. [FVEYE]
https://mindworks.altervista.org/
https://news.yahoo.com/china-appears-building-airstrip-disputed-115603069.html