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The United States has a history of putting rivals on the world stage in a corner economically, obligating them to make the first moves to war.


1 posted on 10/16/2022 4:18:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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It sounds like Biden wants China to invade Taiwan.


2 posted on 10/16/2022 4:23:30 PM PDT by LVS1
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Nuclear war against Russia and China at the same time would be double-plus good.


3 posted on 10/16/2022 4:27:48 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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So we’re at fault in World War 2?

Japan was already in a world war, aligned with Hitler, attacked us across the Pacific, and launched attacks throughout the region. Vicious racist soldiers who loved to torture and rape.

But yeah we “caused” it.

And we caused Hitler to declare war in us the same day.

Not.

Yeah let China have advanced technology because they aren’t threatening to use it against us.

/s


6 posted on 10/16/2022 4:36:07 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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ya well where are all the kids gonna get their toys this christmas!!?? Santa is gonna be a basket case!


8 posted on 10/16/2022 4:39:08 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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I should probably take myself out if the running to be the next Secretary of State. Because I’m really confused here (not an unusual thing). It’s bad when we give high-tech stuff to China.

And now it’s bad when we don’t give high-tech stuff to China.

Nope, I just don’t get it.


9 posted on 10/16/2022 4:40:02 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Funny China carried out a heck of a world War for years without all that oil it couldn’t do without.

The people posting here accepting this claptrap, and advocating that we should further fuel China’s military, are out of their Fing minds.

I keep posting that these wack jobs side with Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, and they keep confirming it.


10 posted on 10/16/2022 4:40:14 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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Now the pu maos are saying it was the US’s fault Japan attacked.


11 posted on 10/16/2022 4:42:09 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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“ The United States has a history of putting rivals on the world stage in a corner economically, obligating them to make the first moves to war.”

This has been the Marxist communist line for a century.


13 posted on 10/16/2022 4:43:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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The United States has a history of putting rivals on the world stage in a corner economically, obligating them to make the first moves to war.

Interestingly, Ancient Rome used the same strategy. Technically, they would never declare war on a foreign country unless attacked, but they would do everything in their power to harass a foreign power, such as Carthage, until they attacked, then Rome would self-righteously declare war.


15 posted on 10/16/2022 4:46:30 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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I just love these propaganda articles.

“Japan had little choice but to declare war on the US.”

Sure. Passing off rationalization as justification. Gimme an effing break.

My God its as bad as anything being printed today.

“Putin has little choice but to nuke europe and America.”


18 posted on 10/16/2022 4:49:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Yes indeed!
I was eight years old when that fellow traveler, FDR, threw the gauntlet down to the japs... I remember it well...

FDR and the communists that heavily infiltrated his cabinet were determined to assist the Soviets in getting the U.S. into a war that the overwhelming public opinion was dead set against...

FDR knew the jap response would generate the support he needed to go to war against Germany, thereby bailing out the Soviet Union...

Sort of like when the 9/11 raghead attack on the towers and the pentagon plunged us into a series of wars that are still nibbling away...

Democrat presidents always get us into wars...
They always will...


21 posted on 10/16/2022 4:57:35 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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So we supposed to just leave our electronics supply chain firmly in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, after all the threats and the Wu Flu?


24 posted on 10/16/2022 5:02:22 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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We export semiconductor chips to China? I thought it was the other way around.


27 posted on 10/16/2022 5:06:03 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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Another hilarious aspect of this article is that China has been STEALING our technology for decades and most definitely for military use.

Now it will be “provocative” if we don’t allow them to have more and more of it as they keep announcing they’re going to attack Taiwan, Australia and Japan. As well as us.


29 posted on 10/16/2022 5:06:15 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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Needing oil to maintain its military might, Japan had little choice but to declare war on the West and mobilize its imperial fleet against the United States less than five months later.

they don’t have any oil

According to CNBC, the United States now appears to be utilizing the same strategy against China in the form of heavily restricting chip and semiconductor exports to the country.

so this is because the Chins can’t produce chips inhouse...


34 posted on 10/16/2022 5:13:24 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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America has a dual personality, kind of like Jekyll and Hyde. America with Reagan and Trump is not like America with Obama and Biden.

Party identity is not perfect, but it is a start. Just about every person I know who shames/blames America has voted Democrat. You know the story, slavery, segregation, Indian genocide, etc.. And where were the Democrats on these topics? When it counted, Democrats were pro-slavery, in both the north and the south. Segregation? Democrats, not America, segregated the races. Indian genocide? What about Indian removal (Trail of Tears)? President Jackson, founder of the Democratic party, was responsible.

I’m beginning to appreciate an old quote that is sometimes attributed to Everett Dirksen: “There are two parties, and two parties only, the evil party and the stupid party.” With Democrats blaming America for the many sins of the Democrats, and Republicans going along, it’s not hard to see who is who.

So America has a history of forcing others into war? Who says? A Democrat perhaps. What is the example? FDR and Japan? FDR was a Democrat. Now if Biden, another Democrat, pushes China or Russia into war, who do we blame? America?

I’m tired of reflexively defending America for the sins of Democrats. America has an evil party that does evil things.


39 posted on 10/16/2022 5:49:52 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Dem mandates: slavery, segregation, Indian removal, experimental vaccines)
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One of the most famous examples of this strategy came on July 26, 1941. On that date, President Franklin Roosevelt introduced sweeping economic sanctions and asset seizures against Japan.

Only because Uncle Joe suddenly found himself needing help to protect his eastern flank.

41 posted on 10/16/2022 6:07:32 PM PDT by fso301
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Does anyone believe this? The Biden Crime Family is compromised by China. Judge Biden by his actions, not his words. Biden is helping China, not putting us on a path of no return.


46 posted on 10/16/2022 7:55:24 PM PDT by kabar
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Ping


48 posted on 10/16/2022 8:40:33 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2022, 2023 AND 2024!)
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“On that date, President Franklin Roosevelt introduced sweeping economic sanctions and asset seizures against Japan.

As a result of those sanctions, “Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil,” according to History.”

compete bullshit ...

Needing oil to maintain its military might, Japan had little choice but to declare war on the West and mobilize its imperial fleet against the United States less than five months later.”

A. the U.S. sanctioned Japan for invading and occupying half of China ...

B. Japan could always have BOUGHT the oil they needed from Asian countries that did NOT sanction Japan ...


50 posted on 10/16/2022 10:41:26 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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