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Posted on 09/21/2025 5:54:22 AM PDT by jimjohn
...and this is not counting the increasing violence inside our 'democracies' (yeah yeah republics - I get it); soon to be come civil wars in some.
I know I'll probably get heat over this, but at some point should Congress get involved before we unilaterally wage wars (and rumors of wars)?
There's my $0.02 for the day. I'll bend over now and take my beatings - thank you.
Then again Trump is a master manipulator. Look here while I accomplish something else.
China has been waging “war” against us for at least 30 years. They call it “war by any means”.
They have a long term policy of displacing the U.S. as the dominant global power. An excellent book on this is The Hundred Years Marathon.
So, who is the aggressive power pushing toward war? It isn’t us.
Would you like to be battered first?
If so, do you prefer a traditional flour batter?
Perhaps a nice beer batter?
Although a tempura batter may be more to your flavor?
China was doing a lot of saber during the Biden administration.
‘Someone’ has setup invasions of illegals in all the Western democracies. Namely a the ruling socialist in their respective areas.
Congress does not get involved except to declare war.
- and which Congress critter?
- 50% of the Congress is lock-step against anything.
(they have to share their one brain cell.
Illogical statements my friend. China has clearly been at war with us for at least 20 years and using proxies, including drug gangs. Taiwan is a side issue in the overall attack but may be the way to cripple us quickly. Trump shows every sign of knowing this full well and has clearly been taking steps to protext our nation.
I believe a war against China over Taiwan would be justified.
China could use the boundaries of Taiwan to completely lock shipping throughout the region. And through that, overpower our allies there.
It would be a grave mistake to allow that to happen.
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I believe that to be the absolute truth. And if you use their narcotics, whether it be cocaine, marijuana or whatever, you're supporting the Chinese in the destruction of your own nation..
Yeah that’s right, Taiwan. If you don’t understand it’s importance, that’s on you.
Saudi Arabia went to the others because of BIDEN. Who hated Netanyahu.
No one is trying to attack Saudi Arabia.
Or Russia or China, for that matter.
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What you are seeing is China’s money and manufacturing, as well as new currency, attacking the United States at every opportunity. The US falls, so does the west, and China will rule all. This isn’t about Taiwan, it’s just a way station along the journey. China and its affiliates: interferes in elections, bought off the last POTUS, pumps drugs into the US, funds the Democrats (DEI, Global Warming, anti-fracking, Russian invasion of Ukraine, dollar destabilizing, Monetary debt of the Fed, job and industry loss, corporate and non corporate spying, Energy starvation, via ‘green’ and the list goes on).
They used to say that China was the hand and North Korea the Glove. Now, many other nations are now the glove of China. The war has been brought to the US from China, and you can’t stop a war that the enemy has been waging for 4 decades. Trump is trying to lead to awareness of the problem, and many are ‘never as blind as those that will not see’.
Which “new conflicts” which “pop up every week” are these?
And with which countries?
I can tell that you didn’t watch the video. You just make stuff up.
I responded to the comment.
Yes Taiwan is strategically important to us and to the rest of the Pacific.
By the way, you didn’t post a link to a video.
Good!
The assumption is that there are threats proportionate to that spending, and giving the President those kinds of assets gives him a free hand to use the military as he sees fit for quite a while.
The rub comes if the military ops are large enough to require more money. That was the bane of the English monarchy's military adventures in the 17th century and the model the Founders had when the Constitution was written. A lot people seem to confuse the power to declare war with the power to make war.
A declaration of war is an act passed by Congress that, like other acts, changes the legal powers of the United States' government. Foreign assets can be seized, foreigners interned, and -above all- Americans can then be charged with treason. Let's say, for example, Congress declared war on country X and the President refused to attack them. There's nothing the Congress can do to force him. And the reverse is also true: having given the President a huge military force, the President can use it as he sees fit.
When Britain gave Hong Kong back to China, the Chinese signed an agreement that there would be "two systems, one China." They were supposed to let Hong Kong become a democratic city-state in China.
If they had allowed that, it would have been proof of good faith and the Chinese flag would already be flying over Taipei.
But they didn't, and there's no way Taiwan will ever voluntarily put Beijing in control.
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