There Are No Coincidences

| December 15, 2018

For a long time after the end of the war in Vietnam, the Communist Vietnamese government had a law in place that any US citizen who entered Vietnam would immediately be arrested.

In 1999, things changed when the British government returned ownership of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong to the mainland Chinese government. There was speculation that the city would become another Communist wasteland. Instead, the Chinese government had been watching how things worked in Hong Kong and in the business world outside of China and took the track of business. Instead of interfering with a successful economic model, they embraced it and began a new way of doing things. Construction of new buildings in Beijing and the irruption of the capitalist business model made many, many people prosperous. And China wanted money coming in. China’s plentiful coal resources spurred the construction of new coal-fired power generating stations, and began to provide power to provinces that had not had a reliable source before. China is now contracting to build coal-fired power plants in other countries.

With Vietnam being heavily influenced by the Chinese government, the capitalist business model was adopted and tourism grew. Americans can visit there, but do not speak out against the government unless you want to spend time in a re-education camp.

Ho Chi Minh started the French-Indochina war over the French presence in Indochina before World War II. He wanted money and the French colonials out of Indochina, period. His war with France began in 1946 just as Kim Il-Sung, the godlike grandfather of ND:tBF, started his own war in Korea in his attempt to unite the north and south of that peninsula. Grandpa Kim wanted power more than money.

Both Uncle Ho and Grandpa Kim got help from the Chinese in their quest. There were Chinese weapons and troops in both Korea and Indochina. When the French capitulated, Ho demanded a ransom for the 10,000 French POWs, but returned only 3,900 to the French. Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel, and Laos and Cambodia became independent states.. MacArthur, in Korea, stubbornly refused to end his trek into the north, demanded a nuclear weapon drop on the north, and was refused and recalled to the US by Pres. Truman. Saigon became the capital of South Vietnam, and Hanoi the capital of North Vietnam, and the Korean peninsula was permanently divided.

In the 1960s, the US sent advisers to South Vietnam. South Korea was still recovering from its own war, with a US base at the DMZ that marked the boundary between the north and south. Occasionally, people would slip through the cracks, into the South or across the Nork-Chinese border into China. Pres. Johnson decided that the US should get more heavily involved in Vietnam and sent in more troops to start a shooting war in 1965.

In 1987, two years before the USSR was dissolved and the war in the Balkans got underway, Donald Trump began to make trips to the Soviet Union for the purpose of making real estate deals. In 2013, the Miss Universe pageant was held in Moscow while Trump was there, negotiating a real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. That deal fell through and he returned to the USA. Robert Mueller was Director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013.

In 1989, after 10 years of futile warfare in Afghanistan, Gorbachev declared the Soviet Union bankrupt, dismissed the Politburo and sent everybody home. Shortly afterwards, the Berlin Wall was pulled down and the Balkan Wars began.

During this time, with Trump engaging in his business deals and going wherever he felt like going, the CIA paid the Chinese through a third party to make it appear that the Russians were interfering in the US elections. The third party go-between for this was a woman whose presence was so lowkey as to be almost nonexistent. She went by several names, including the Dragon Lady and Mah Jongg. She appears in a few photos, but very, very few. Her appearance is not completely Chinese, but seems to be something else. There has been speculation that she is part Chinese and part “other” such as Yakut or Vietnamese.

She was known for her ability to pick up languages quickly with the correct accent, especially important when speaking various Chinese dialects such as Mandarin or Yue or Hakka. If your accent is incorrect, no one will understand what you say. This made her a valuable asset for mischief.

She also seems to have been an expert code hacker. In 2016, hackers stole $100 million from the central bank of Bangladesh after obtaining payment-transfer codes and moving the money overseas in what information security experts say appears to be one of the largest bank heists in history. Anyone who can use these codes can also make transitions quickly and instantly once they are confirmed. But the bank reportedly managed to block a further transfer of $870 million initiated by the hacker group.

The destination for this large sum of stolen  money was never identified. The speculation was that the Dragon Lady sent it to North Korea, but attempts to trace it failed. Any account that received that money in the beginning was gone, period, with funds immediately transferred to other accounts to hide them. However, Mah Jongg did leave a mark behind, almost as a tease: $1.00 was left in the Bangladesh account.

Only part of the blackmail money that Obama sent to Iran was delivered there. Some of it was diverted to North Korea, and from there to China for the purpose of enhancing the deceit that Russia was involved in meddling in the affairs of other countries, especially the US elections. Remember that recent whine from the Ayatollahs that they were running out of money?

The discovery of Maria Butina’s inept and silly efforts to meddle in things, after she came to the USA in 2016, was also a distraction meant to enhance the notion that Russia was interfering in US politics. She was what Stalin used to call a “useful idiot” – the perfect plant to distract attention from what was really going on.

In addition, the Chinese persuaded Fatty Kim da T’ird and his Nork bombmakers to create a distraction with his 25 kiloton test in September 2016, near the time of US election debates. He’s had plenty of assistance from China in return for distracting outsiders like the US government from their activities. The second test, the half-megaton underground test in September 2017, was a secondary distraction meant to draw attention away from the Chinese and put it on the Russians even though Trump was long since sworn in.

All those missile tests going on in Norkiland, and the posturing and threats by Fatty Kim da T’ird, were distractions right up until the ballots were counted and recounted with more Trump votes being found, and the electoral college had cast its votes. The activities from North Korea abruptly ceased when Trump, in November 2017, got the two Koreas to work together, made business deals with Xi JinPing in China, visited Vietnam, and has watched while every ridiculous effort possible has been dragged into existence to try to unseat him, including the Circus of Trolls called Supreme Court justice hearings.

The effort is still going on. And China is now negotiating for contracts to build coal-fired power plants in countries outside their borders, while now openly demanding that the USA give them more cash.

Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Category: "Teh Stoopid", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", China, Korea, Politics

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AW1Ed

You’ve outdone yourself, Ex. When is the movie deal, and more importantly, who plays you?
*grin*

LC

Can you post some sources for the Mah Jongg angles? That’s the first I’ve heard of that.

I believe you’ve also got some of the details wrong on the Bangladesh Bank hack – the transfers were for $951M in total, most of which didn’t go through, and the BB has a value of ~$30B. It’s an interesting story, though, and Reuters has a pretty good write-up here:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/cyber-heist-federal/

My favorite bit? The hackers were clever enough to disable the printer that automatically prints logs of transactions of this kind. Paranoid people use a combination of remote logging and line printers that don’t have a direct network connection for this very reason.

LC

Actually, LC, the source I used for the numbers came from the Bank of Bangladesh.

So hackers left $1 in an account that they tried to transfer $951M out of, but only successfully transferred $100M out of? That is, they did all this due diligence, but failed to notice the accounts only had $100M (plus one dollar), not the $951M they tried to transfer? Once again, a source would be pretty good on that, and on this Mah Jongg character too.

The Norks had a building in South Korea in which a large group of people did nothing but try to hack bank codes all day long. I did an article on this when this original theft took place.

Care to post the original article or a reputable source? There are obviously some Nork agents in SK, but most of their hackers go anywhere but SK. The Korean spoken in the North is, to native speakers, easily distinguishable from that in the south. It’s like putting someone from Boston in the middle of London – sure, it’s the same language, but it doesn’t sound that way. A building full of NK hackers in the middle of Seoul would attract a fair amount of attention from SK’s NIS.

desert

I just watched a new movie thats out on dvd, its called Air Strike with Bruce Willis, its a chinese company made movie and is about the atrocities the Japs did to the Chinese at the beginning of WWII…no problem there remembering what the japs did to them..but what is amazing…and WITHOUT HONOR is how the scumbags don’t seem to remember what America did FOR THEM, that saved their asses from the japs!! If the idiots are going to remember their history, REMEMBER IT ALL! and stop trying to shyt on the country that saved your worthless asses….imho!!

W2

The price of aluminum just spiked. Hats.

W2

I am totally down with that. Although the spouse may get mad, I am going to get her foil turkey roasting pan out and place it on my melon. That covers a lot of surface area right there.

SFC D

Talk to Skippy. He had some copper hats that really work. Grounding can be a pain, though.

Ret_25X

I still have my M1 style helmet…

5th/77th FA

Good Post Ex-PH2. Sometimes you are the windshield, sometimes you are the bug. The US Taxpayers, because of ineptness of our government “leaders” has been the bug for way too long. It is time we became the windshield of an unstoppable freight train barreling thru the enemies that would do us harm. Sadly, our “useful idiots” are the elected and appointed officials who are only idiots and that are useful to our enemies advantage.. Nikita K. was correct when he said he would use our own laws and our own people to destroy us from with in without firing a shot. Many of the heavy weapons captured by the NKs in the early part of that war were transferred to Uncle Ho and used against the French, and later, our troops in Viet Nam. Uncle Ho had copped an attitude towards the US (Truman’s admin) when we refused to help throw the French out, and started rebuilding Japan in spite of the atrocities that the Japanese did in SEA/China. Mao had the same problem. Folks forget that Mao and Ho were big allies of ours during WWII. Mao was also a little peeved caused we backed Chiang Chi Shek when the commies wanted to take over China. I regress, let me get this puppy back to tracking. Everything in the world revolves around either the money or the poontang. Appears to be, in this case, the poontang made off with the money. No one could ever convince me that this type of operations can only be carried out at the highest levels. dTrumpster needs to put down his tweeter phone, ignore the demonrats and continue with the mission. Drain the swamp, start investigations of all the crap that the Bitch of Benghazi and her minions have done, and hope that enough of the American People wake up to continue the whole MAGA Program. Time is slipping away, won’t be long before the whole re-election thing starts up again. The free shit army is getting stronger and shriller every day. We need to quit giving away resources to those who want… Read more »

The Other Whitey

Mao was a “big ally” who collaborated with the japs every chance he got, then manufactured a bullshit story about his “heroic resistance” once the war was over and he needed to stay on Stalin’s good side (speaking of worthless allies). Chiang’s KMT, as bad as they were, actually fought for their homeland. Hardly a shot was ever fired between the Japanese and the commies.

5th/77th FA

True all that T.O.W., my rambling point was we have spent too much of our blood and treasure in too many places where we really shoulda just finished the job and got the hell out. We have been used by these other governments for too long. Ho and Mao did play both sides against the middle re the Japanese.

The Japs did get away with the rape of Nanking and using 20,000 + Chinese and Korean comfort women who serviced their troops 35 – 70 times a day each. Each girl got 1 day a month off to be checked by the Japanese Army docs for STDs. We also let let slide the atrocities of ChiChi Iwo and other places, ie execution and canalabalism of American troops.

We are still steadily draining away our resources, trying to be the world’s policeman, while our enemies are steadily plotting our demise.

On Stalin, well we know how that worthless bastard plotted with FDR to divide the world.

W2

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

11B-Mailclerk

Might want to check dates there.

desert

Agreed! the bugs are the dumocraps and the illegals stealing across our border imho! The wall is the windshield against BOTH! imo

Hussar

Complete BS from the first paragraph.

I would take it apart, piece by piece, but the mods here are too chickenshit to allow even this post.

AW1Ed

Says the man, full of sound and fury.
This is Ex’s post- what she does with it is entirely up to her, even to letting your comment stand. Who’s the chickenshit now, Hussar?

AW1Ed

Damn girl! I know that wasn’t directed at me, but it burned when it went by. Give a guy a chance to set Condition Zebra next time, please?
*grin*

LC

And finally, the woman in the photograph has been frequently referred to as the Dragon Lady. Vicious as a cottonmouth snake, too.

That woman? That’s your Dragon Lady? Your Mah Jongg? Because yes, she was known as the Dragon Lady … when she was South Vietnam’s unofficial First Lady, Tran Le Xuan. She also died in 2011, so her hacking skills are evidently world-class if she’s doing it from beyond the grave:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dragon-lady-madame-ngo-dinh-nhu-dies-in-rome/

If you don’t think that’s the same person, a reverse-image-search of the photo you uploaded should do the trick, too.

So tell us, oh Great Brainiac, just WHICH parts are incorrect??????

That bit, for sure.

A Proud Infidel®™

Hey Ex-PH2, ‘ol Babbles McButthead had just used most of his weekly allowance for an oil change on and gas for his 1995 Volvo to go to someplace with free WiFi to post that bit of his latest brilliance!

Hussar

“Representatives of two American banks—the Bank of America and First National City Bank—were invited to discuss trade possibilities, and American oil companies were informed that they were welcome to apply for concessions to search for oil in offshore Vietnamese waters.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Vietnam_relations

Took about 5 seconds to find.

You going to allow this post, mods? Or block it so your little forum princess doesn’t look like an idiot?

Hussar

As I said, you couldn’t even get the first paragraph of your nonsense correct.

No need to waste time tearing apart the rest.

A Proud Infidel®™️

You ENJOY being about ten thousand times more dense than Uranium, don’t you?

Hussar

She wrote:
“Is it that opening sentence about the Communist Vietnamese government barring US citizens from entering Vietnam on pain of arrest? That was in place in the 1970s and 1980s, so how is that “fake news”, Sport? It was part of a news report on the radio in 1977 during the Carter administration.”

Absolutely false. And now she is trying to say her original post on the subject was a prank.

Who is the dense one again?

Hussar

Please explain how diplomats and leaders of business were invited to, and visited Vietnam at the request and invitation of the Communist government, if they were barred?

I’ll wait….

SFC D

It’s a prank, you stupid fuck. You’re the victim. Get it now? Do I need to get out the crayons, draw you a picture?

Waste of skin.

Hussar

Sure, ok. If that’s how you want to spin it so you dont look like and idiot…go for it.

I’m sure the little echo chamber you have here will ignore your mental deficiency.

Have a great weekend.

11B-Mailclerk

Ahem

When I first saw that post, I started to respond “Troll Bait”. I deleted it, because why spoil their fun.

You are just so terribly predictable, unable to keep your hands off a Tar Baby.

Hussar

Sure, ok.

11B-Mailclerk

Ahem.

Drag Racing Maniac

“I would take it apart, piece by piece, but the mods here are too chickenshit to allow even this post.”

Give it a shot…you might be surprised.

Or laughed at.

SFC D

We’re waiting… enlighten us, Hussar?

Fyrfighter

The jackass has multiple personalities, and not one of them has a freaking clue….

Cameron Kingsley

That’s not Lars is it?

A Proud Infidel®™

I bet you a shot and a beer it is!

Cameron Kingsley

What is it with this guy? It’s like he goes out of his way to be annoying.

Hussar

Umm, wrong.

Hussar

Sorry, lady. I’m not this other poster.

I know you and your white knights want me to be, because you can’t fathom that someone else might actually deal in logic and reason, but yeah.

Stick to taking photos. You’re out of your league here, pogue.

Reverend Pointyhead

It’s POG you fucking student.

Bubble Soldier

The one with the magic twanger?

26Limabeans

Hard to realize I have lived through all of this and can go back in time for another look before it all fades in the rear view mirror.

Dustoff

No denying Kim Il Sung received loads of support from the DPRC, (including copious amounts of peasants for human wave attacks during the war) but the Russians (think Stalin) was the one that molded him.

A Proud Infidel®™

I’d bet on that, Kim Il Sung fled to Russia during the Japanese Occupation during WWII and guess who Stalin installed as the Puppet Dictator after Russia liberated Korea North of the 38th Parallel?

Reddevil

This is not speculation or even new information. It is a well documented and widely known fact that China and the Soviets intervened in Korea- The battle of the Chosin Reservoir an the heroic stand of the 31st RCT/TF Faith being one of the most publicized battles of the war.

Other than the infiltration of these troops to achieve surprise at the tactical through strategic level (McArthur told Truman during the infamous Wake Island meeting in October) that there was no way the Chinese would intervene), China made no attempts to hide or deny that they were fighting in Korea, and they flew under air cover provided by Soviet Pilots flying aircraft with Chinese and North Korean markings.

26Limabeans

Is that one of those new heliocopters you wrote about a while back?
Had extra blades and no tail rotor.

Reddevil

I’m not the quickest study, and I am admitedly slower than normal this morning after a late night Christmas party that involved wayyy too many Manhattans, but I am very confused by this piece.

Is it meant to be a synopsis of the last 70 years or so, or is it the plot of a novel or screenplay you are writing?

I ask because while most of it is simply a slightly colored version of known facts, you added not only the Dragon Lady/Mah Jong bit but also the “CIA paid China to frame the Russians’ angle.

I am aware of just about everything else you mentioned, although I think you either oversimplified or over speculated in a few spots, but I have to admit I’ve never heard of the Dragon Lady or the alleged CIA plot. Could you cite a link or reference that would get me up to speed? I’ve searched online and come up with nothing.

Roger in Republic

Does it not strike you as strange that Madam Jongn bears a striking resemblance to the illusive Elaine Rickie?

ex-OS2

Hussar is Chesty who posts gems like this:

It’s funny how much you all complain about this current situation in Germany when it was your parents who created it.

Be easy on Hussar, English is not his first language.

Perry Gaskill

Ex, I’ll see your Madame Nhu moonbat conspiracy and raise you this:

President Donald Trump and European Council President Donald Tusk both have the same first name and last initial. They’ve also never been photographed together in the same room at the same time.

Think about it…

AnotherPat

Ex-PH2:

You commented that your post was humor, i.e. a joke, that you were kidding (satire?).

Were you kidding on these two comments or did I miss something?

“It’s more likely that Woodrow Wilson had some deal going with Stalin (re: what you’re referring to) at the Treaty of Versailles conference, Paris 1919, than anything Roosevelt did.”

“Stalin was at both Paris post WWI and at Yalta post WWII.”

I thought Representatives of the Bolshevik Goverment were not invited to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 by the Allied Powers.

Lenin was head of the Bolshevik Government.

Am I missing something?

Thank You.

Hussar

You aren’t missing anything. She’s a moron.

Poetrooper

But compared to Imelda she was a piker when it came to buying shoes…

AnotherPat

Ex-PH2:

Was crushed that you left out Skinny and Injun, two “Ghost Walkers”, from your story…

😉

rtr🐘