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To: buwaya
Perhaps this is news to you, but we are all in this together.

No we aren't. We are polar opposites, and I despise your country. Great Britain has done far more damage to American politics since 2015 than Putin has. From Christopher Steele and Russia Gate to Boris Johnson and his sabotage of the March 2021 Ukraine peace initiative, you are your countryman are not to be trusted. So no, we aren't in this together and patriotic Americans should identify you, mock you and in the end, ignore you.

30 posted on 03/13/2023 4:44:36 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

I am not British in any way but a degree of acculturation, as much of my family worked for British “Hongs” in Asia, back when that was a thing. I am Spanish, with long residence in Asia. Or you can call me a professional expat, or as I like to call myself, an international man of mystery.

And it doesn’t matter who you despise, for whatever weird personal reasons you may have. They are not only irrelevant, they are bizarre.

the world exists, it is interconnected, there are other peoples treading the earth, they matter to each other and they matter to you, regardless of your feelings or opinions.

Historical example - and this is based on classical analysis from, say, Milton Friedman - the collapse of the Austrian bank Creditanstalt (1931) led to knock on effects in Europe that led to:Britain abandoning the Gold standard, which led to capital flight from the US, which led to the Fed raising interest rates (in the middle of the Depression), which led to a worsening of the Depression in the US and hundreds (more) bank failures. And that was in 1931. We are way more interconnected today.

Just on the latest current events, note that the collapse of the SVB has had a knock-on effect outside the US, so far contained. What your Janet Yellen does is going to have global consequences for good or ill.


34 posted on 03/13/2023 5:09:12 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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