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Robert Billyard's avatar

Meanwhile the spiteful West wallows in the ruins of neoliberalism pursuing poverty digging its own grave, waging war and genocide when it should be waging peace and prosperity for all. The West must now lift itself out of both moral and fiscal poverty. The "white man's burden" has now become the white man's burden come home to roost.

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Shambo Clandestino's avatar

In 2004 I was in Nashville at a Chamber of Commerce meeting full of mostly Republican, conservative, business owners. The subject of China.. There were presentations by guys who were active in China, and Everyone was gushing and pushing the line "You HAVE to have a China Strategy!!!".... by this, they meant that if you want to make money and stay competitive you have to invest in production facilities in China.

No one talked about strategic political and military concerns. No one questioned whether it might be dangerous to transfer all our technology to China, including airplaines and high tech stuff like Boeing and computers and communications.

I remember I talked to my father at the time, who had invited me to the event, which he was hosting in his capacity as US Dept. of Commerce Director for the state, and I told him that if we were really strategic, that was the point in time when we could still bomb and attack China and bring it under our hegemony. I was not seriously suggesting an attack; It was just a point I was making. But instead of consider geopolitical strategy, they all greedily thought of their own profit margins, and they All went to China without any restriction or limitation, in their natural desire to enrich themselves.

Those were the same Republicans, same people that today will be convinced we have to be on a competitive war footing with China.. and they will all pour their money into "safe" investments in Us military infrasturcture investments to have a big war with China .

Frankly they are either stupid or insane or both.

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