Posted on 11/08/2023 8:52:49 PM PST by george76
“They saw how we talked about American values like capitalism and God, but sent our manufacturing, technology, and money to a communist nation that oppresses the church just to save a few pennies”
There was a period where we thought that the Chinese were going to slowly transition away from authoritarianism and be more like postwar Germany, Japan and South Korea. So it wasn’t only about cost, it was about opportunities.
We’re in the same position now with the middle east and Russia.
It’s obvious that Putin has for 15 years been far more interested in creating an authoritarian gangsterist empire on the Warsaw Pact and USSR footprint through conquest, than in coming in from the cold.
The EU tried for fifteen years to look the other way and downplay Russian aggression in the hope of a change of heart, but Europe now needs to accept that currently any peace with Russia utterly depends on western Europe screwing over far more reliable allies further east.
Anyone reading the Russian demands to NATO from December 2021 can see the intention; Russia wanted NATO to leave all countries east of Germany open to Russian interference if not outright invasion. The Kremlin reiterated these demands in the spring 2022 negotiations. Yes, Boris Johnson told Zelenskyy these terms were unacceptable but only a Russian stooge cannot see that he was speaking for all of EU NATO members and its Nordic partners when he said it.
The USA needs to think like that too and get out of the bad habit of thinking NATO is ONLY there for the benefit of the USA. The USA remains the only NATO country to invoke Article 5, and when it called, EU NATO answered. The EU NATO countries need to pick up their share of the tab, Trump was right on that, but EU NATO keeps Russia looking at “enemies” westward instead of turning its attention fully eastward.
There’s no point the USA getting directly involved in cultural conflicts with Russia, the Middle East or China, but if Five Eyes and NATO don’t stand firm together, sooner or later Russia and China will attack us through our weakest links. Hoping they attack Europe instead of the USA is poor strategy.
The McCarthy referred to as being right - Senator Joe McCarthy - was never Speaker:
“College professors and regime media hacks are complaining that we have a new McCarthyism. Good! McCarthy was right. The American government was riddled with communists, and there should be a giant statue of ‘Tail Gunner Joe’ in DC with flowers strewn upon it.”
“..., but I’m not going to bother because I am totally indifferent to anything leftists tell me.
That is a bottom line statement for me. “
If I performed a service for these people, they get charged more, an un-discount, and never never explain why or reason with them about anything. A. Waste. Of. Time.
McCarthy was Wrong. That’s why he is no longer Speaker.....
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That’s true, but we both know that THAT McCarthy is the wrong McCarthy.
The former Speaker was a True Kevin; isn’t that a Karen/ Ken brother?
I don’t know why this is so hard to understand. islam is evil. It’s a kind of mass delusion centered on murder, rape, lies, theft, genocide and deep, deep racism.
It’s not a religion, it’s a war plan. There is no such thing as moderate or benevolent islam. ALL islam is evil. The founder was evil incarnate; a drunken, murderous pedophile with delusions of grandeur and serious anger issue.
It is cultural cancer. One does not willingly compromise with cancer, one destroys it or is destroyed by it. This is the choosing time.
No he was right and history has proved it time and again. Do try and keep up Pal.
I suspect your internet provider is a loonie leftest organization as well, maybe even your electric provider but here you are still using them. We don't choose to support them we are forced to use them because no conservative had the foresight to create Amazon. WalMart was created by a conservative that raised a bunch of leftest kids, which seems an almost inevitable outcome in our society today.
I use Amazon because the items I purchase there are unavailable to me any other way.
I hope you are joking...
Just in case though...
Wrong McCarthy.
My take—we live in enemy occupied territory.
We need to act as people have done throughout history in such situations.
Be polite, live well below your means—and do the best you can to boycott what works for you.
You don’t need to justify what you do because you stopped caring what anybody thinks anymore.
You are in enemy territory—and nobody in power cares what you think anyway.
But, they live among us and there seems to be enough of them to wreak havoc by their votes or by rigging elections, i.e., Virginia’s legislative and Kentucky’s governor results.
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Yes, my comment was not intended as a defense for how those people think or behave. They pose a danger to all of us and need to be dealt with in whatever way is necessary to eliminate that threat.
Yes we do. When you get to feeling down, just listening too the Goodmans sing "This Place is Not My Nome" cheers me up. I have been here about long enough anyway, took my first Oath to the Constitution in 1954 at age 16 I still honor it, sadly most politicians don't anymore. It was a great ride.
“ McCarthy was Wrong. That’s why he is no longer Speaker.”
Wrong McCarthy.
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Unreadable. Stop posting this shit.
Maybe. I need electricity and the Internet, but I don't need their TV service. I agree with your point that we can't get away from them entirely, but I only need the Internet and electricity. I don't need their TV service or the leftist media that I would be paying for with it, so I cut it out. I don't miss it.
I use Amazon because the items I purchase there are unavailable to me any other way.
I have no idea what you get from them that you can't get from someone else, and I won't ask you to give out any personal information, so I'll take your word for it. Everything I need I get from other sources.
The problem with that is that Bush and the GOP gave them permanent MFN status AFTER they had stolen our technology during the Clinton years. We knew what they were up to, but we sent our manufacturing, technology, and money over there anyway.
Hoping they (Russia and China) attack Europe instead of the USA is poor strategy.
Sending our manufacturing, technology, and money to China was an even worse strategy. The American tax payers that were paying into our infrastructure and military were replaced by Chinese workers that are paying into their infrastructure and military. Meanwhile, we have to borrow to keep our economy from crashing and raise our debt ceiling just to pay the interest on our debt. What kind of a strategy is that?
I’m so glad I looked at ‘replies’ to your post before I repeated everything. HAHA!
Interesting take. I like his writing. Why is it BS?
100%, FRiend, 100%!
Even in the metaphorical sense they need to "pay more" in any interaction in whatever way it can be extracted from them.
Ignore them, pretend to not speak English, pretend not to understand them and make them repeat themselves, speak to them like they are children, whatever comes to mind. "and never explain why"
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