On the 17th local time, the UAE was attacked by two drone attacks, with 3 dead and 6 injured. The Houthi armed forces in Yemen announced their responsibility for the attack. US President Biden still focuses on putting diplomatic energy on putting pressure on Russia. After proposing that Russia will "invade" Ukraine in January, White House has once again increased its investment, claiming that it has been prepared for the "King of Ukraine". Japan's epidemic has completely broken down. While Japanese public opinion has gathered fire on the US military stationed in Japan, it also proposed that the " Japan-US Status Agreement " should be revised. However, the response of the US military perfectly demonstrates what the real relationship between Japan and the United States is like. On January 18, there are three things worth paying attention to.
The first thing: 3 deaths and 6 injuries, the capital of the UAE was attacked twice in a day, and the Houthi armed forces in Yemen announced their responsibility.
On January 17, local time, the capital of the UAE, Abu Dhabi was attacked twice in a day. Three oil tankers in the Mousafa area exploded, and a minor fire broke out in the new construction area of the international airport, and two accidents caused at least 3 deaths and 6 injuries.
Yemen's Houthi armed forces later said that they "a special military operation carried out in the heart of the UAE" and issued a statement saying that on that day they used 5 missiles and numerous drones to launch attacks on multiple targets in Abu Dhabi and Dubai .
Houthi armed forces said that the cross-border attack on the UAE was mainly retaliated against Saudi-led multinational coalition forces against their increasingly fierce air strikes. But ironically, the two attacks on that day caused limited harm to the UAE, with the three dead being one Pakistani and two Indians respectively.
House forces threaten that in the next period of time, they will also launch attacks on important places and facilities in the local UAE. According to media analysis, the important facilities mentioned by the Houthi armed forces mainly refer to airports, oil pipelines and related facilities. At present, Saudi Arabia and other countries have classified the attack on the 17th as a terrorist attack and threatened to launch retaliation.
The second thing is that the White House assumes that "Ukraine is destroyed", saying that CIA will train the rebel army for Ukraine.
Last week, after the three rounds of negotiations between Russia and the West ended, the two sides made no progress. The United States has increased its efforts to hype the "Russian threat", and the White House's caliber has also changed from the previous Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine in January to being prepared to deal with the "demise of Ukraine".
On January 17th local time, Bloomberg predicted that diplomatic contacts would last until a few hours before the war began, and then Russia would "occupy Ukraine like Germany annexed Austria in 1938." " New York Times " exaggerated that Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine may not be to take over the entire country, but to send troops into the separate areas around Donetsk and Lugansk , or extend all the way to Dnieper .
What is ridiculous is that while the New York Times said that Russia would not "take over" the entire Ukraine country, it also seriously revealed that Washington even assumed the situation of "Ukraine's demise". The newspaper also quoted a senior White House official as saying that if Russia "occupied" Ukraine, the US CIA will train Ukraine in Eastern European countries such as Poland , Romanian and Slovak . The United States and NATO are also preparing to provide Ukraine with weapons, medical equipment, and provide refugee asylum for Ukrainian citizens.
The White House released such news undoubtedly to defeat Russia as the evil side. More importantly, stabilize Ukraine and promise to Zelensky and other Ukrainian senior officials that the West will not abandon Ukraine. After the end of negotiations between Russia and the West last week, negative sentiment in Ukraine was very serious. They were disappointed that the West failed to put pressure on Moscow and obtained its guarantee that it would not "invade" Ukraine.
When the United States frequently creates an atmosphere of war, Russia also hinted that it is preparing to deal with the war. Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov said at a press conference on the 17th that the United States has responded to the escalation of the situation in Ukraine in 18, and Moscow is also considering different scenarios.
It is worth noting that Russia is trying to transfer the "battlefield" from the Russian-Ukrainian border to the US back garden. After the negotiations between the two sides last week, Russia stated that once the situation in deteriorates, it is not ruled out that it will conduct military deployments in Latin American countries such as Cuba , Venezuela , etc. The news attracted international attention as soon as it was released, and many people regarded it as "Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0". NATO, led by the United States, has always put pressure on Russia in Europe. Once Russia changes its thinking and causes trouble in South America, Americans will feel a real crisis.
The Biden administration is now in a ruling crisis. If the situation really escalates to the level of " Cuban missile crisis ", it will be a major failure of the Biden administration at the diplomatic level and will cause a huge blow to Biden and the ruling Democratic Party. Biden has been refusing to respond to the matter, claiming that he “will not respond to intimidation.” But looking back, the United States has actually been implementing tactical intimidation against Russia.
After the failed negotiations last week, the United States and Russia launched a "haired and blown" intimidation strategy, but it was obvious that neither side was scared by the opponent, but instead, EU , which has been left aside, was worried. At present, the foreign ministers of Germany and France are intervening in Ukraine affairs, but the problem is that Germany is now in power in the three parties, and its diplomatic strategy is still unclear. It is still difficult to say whether the EU plays a stabilizer or will add fuel to the fire.
The third thing is that the US military triggered the epidemic in Japan, and Japanese public opinion hotly discussed revising the "Japan-US Status Agreement".
Recently, the number of confirmed cases in a single day exceeded 20,000 for several consecutive days. The Japanese epidemic has completely lost control under the severity of the US military stationed in Japan. Japanese Foreign Minister Lin Fang said at a press conference that the collective infection of the new coronavirus in the U.S. military facilities in Japan may have led to the expansion of the epidemic in surrounding areas. After the official tone of
set, a large number of voices appeared in the Japanese public opinion field that regarded the US military stationed in Japan as the source of the epidemic. Soon, the focus of public opinion discussions changed from denying the US military stationed in Japan to dissatisfaction with the Japan-US Status Agreement. In the eyes of many Japanese, it is precisely because of the existence of the Japan-US Status Agreement that the Japanese government cannot control the US military stationed in Japan, which eventually led to Japan being dragged into the deep pit of the epidemic by the US military. Prime Minister Kishida's anger is worth nothing in front of Americans.
However, the US military stationed in Japan did not agree with the condemnation of the Japanese. According to the report of Japan's "Wenchun Online", an anonymous US military stationed in Japan responded: "Japan is extremely troublesome and has no energy to deal with Japanese public opinion." The report believes that this basically represents the mainstream voice of the US military stationed in Japan. they do not think they have caused trouble to the local area, but instead think that the Japanese are making trouble unreasonable.
"Wenchun online" report wrote that Japan gave the US military more than 1,000 square kilometers of vast land, paying more than 200 billion yen in residence fees every year, and also granting it privileged status through status agreements, but the truth of the US military has never changed. The report quickly attracted heated discussions on Japanese public opinion. Many people pointed out that the so-called "Japan-US Agreement on Colonial Status" is the "Japan-US Colonial Status Agreement" and is a symbol of the United States' "colonization" of Japan.
"Wenchun online" mentioned at the end of the report that for Japanese Foreign Minister Lin Fangzheng , the issue of the US military stationed in Japan will test its ability as a foreign minister. If he can open up the road to amend the Japan-US relations agreement, this achievement will likely help him as prime minister. However, "Wenchun Online" obviously ignores the United States' attitude in this matter. The United States has never sent a signal to modify Japan-US relations. Whoever dares to mention this may not have a good result. Looking back at Lin Fang's words at the press conference, the word "possible" really expresses the humility of Japanese politicians in front of American .
