Posted on 10/16/2022 4:18:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
While access to petroleum was crucial to militaries in the 1940s, access to semiconductors is crucial for any modern military to maintain its formidability on the global stage. According to CNBC, the U.S. Department of Commerce recently introduced strict rules and licensing requirements for chip exportation to China with the apparent goal of cutting the country off from access to chips used in supercomputers.
CNBC implied that the justification for these sweeping regulations relies heavily on the belief that semiconductors can and will be used for “advanced military capabilities.”
Abishur Prakash, co-founder of the Center for Innovating the Future, told CNBC, “With the latest action, the chasm between the U.S. and China has now expanded to the point of no return.”
“The latest chip rules are a sign that Washington is not trying to rebuild relations with Beijing. Instead, the U.S. is making it clear...”
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It sounds like Biden wants China to invade Taiwan.
Nuclear war against Russia and China at the same time would be double-plus good.
There’s a dozen retards here that think that is just peachy…
China will not gain any chip capacity by invading Taiwan. Plans are already in place to sabotage the facilities before evacuating. But that doesn’t mean China wouldn’t use it as a pretense to invade.
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
Well, that's just stupid with two "oo"s. Any nuclear war would be catastrophic. It will bring about world wide economic collapse and famine, just for starters. I'm against out intervention in the Ukraine. It's none of our business. It started with Biden pushing Zelensky to join NATO. No NATO, no war. But the deep state wanted war. The future does not bode well under this regime.
ya well where are all the kids gonna get their toys this christmas!!?? Santa is gonna be a basket case!
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.
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.
Now the pu maos are saying it was the US’s fault Japan attacked.
One stated he would rather have a nuclear war then let Putin maintain control of the annexed regions.
“ 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.
A lot of people here are nuts.
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.
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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.
They’ve been saying it all along.
After all imagine the great world we would have had if only we didn’t fight Hitler and Hirohito.
And why didn’t we just give them our technology so they could have built atom bombs and ICBM’s?
It was “none of our business” and they would have left us alone.
After all they were anti gay. Isn’t that all that matters?
That God Damn United States! Caused poor Hitler to fight.
/s These people are the dregs of the dregs on American national security. They are straight up nuts.
So we’re at fault in World War 2?
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The events that lead to WW2 were actually set in motion with Woodrow Wilson’s absurd League of Nations and the putative reparations which were placed on Germany following WW1.
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.”
You’re speaking the Left’s language. Either this is incompetent arrogance or intentional malice. Both are fatal however.
“Nuclear war against Russia and China at the same time would be double-plus good.”
Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm, Barrack Hussein O’biden....
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