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1 posted on 04/09/2025 4:44:31 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Cool. Now Germany, the UK, and France can fight Russia and China.


2 posted on 04/09/2025 4:48:14 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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Bob Ireland incisively posted earlier: Most countries are
wisely choosing to renegotiate with the US over tariffs.

So why is the market going super nova?

The key is CHINA! ! ! China maintains high tariffs against us PLUS they do currency manipulation, devaluing the yuan against the dollar. China brags about its status as a world power... but China depends heavily on plundering our country. During the Clinton Admin our deficit was a little less than $50 billion a year. Now it is about $1/2 trillion a year.

Add to that the theft of intellectual property, capturing U.S. patents, pirating U.S. business secrets; some estimate that our current trade deficit is probably about $1 trillion a year.

They have the world’s largest navy; they have perhaps 1/4 - 1/2 million troops. Those troops have to be fed and supplied. Those ships need fuel, parts and regular maintenance. Ammunition and rockets and missiles are regular ongoing expenses.

China is still heavily dependent on collecting dollars to maintain its world power status. They are putting undue pressure on all their ‘allies’ in this country to make Trump look like he is in a losing position. China raised its tariffs and fees on U.S. property. It is all out: defeat Trump’s tariffs! China has undue influence on the U.S. Senate - who has just tried to pass a bill to override Trump’s tariff agenda. They have avenues to attempt at least some stock market manipulation.

It is all out for China for one simple reason: THEY MUST PLUNDER THE U.S. ECONOMY in order to maintain their elevated world status. On the present path China would become the ONLY world power and the U.S. would be economically reduced to Guatemala, etc. - a banana republic.

Will President Trump blink, falter?

China is taking that gamble.

Stand fast, Don.


3 posted on 04/09/2025 4:51:34 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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And just exactly what do you think Putin should have said? Please explain.

A Zeeper explanation should be enlightening.


4 posted on 04/09/2025 4:52:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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5 posted on 04/09/2025 4:53:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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They are North Koreans....


6 posted on 04/09/2025 4:55:08 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (I sure am getting what I voted for!)
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Oil for soldiers. Russia and China would probably both be happy with that.


7 posted on 04/09/2025 4:55:34 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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So, the latest Zeeper fantasy is that this claim is going to prompt Trump to put US troops on the ground and risk American lives in Ukraine?
10 posted on 04/09/2025 4:57:51 PM PDT by Kazan
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Who cares? Both sides are lying about who is participating.


11 posted on 04/09/2025 5:02:01 PM PDT by dforest
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You order take out?


15 posted on 04/09/2025 5:14:50 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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“Zelensky demanded an official response from Beijing after claiming that Kyiv captured two Chinese nationals fighting in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

What Beijing should do is bring in thousands of Chinese troops to back the Russians in Ukraine.
Zellensky is in no position to order China about.
China will tell Zellensky the thief where he gets off.

17 posted on 04/09/2025 5:18:52 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Cuba exposes Russian human trafficking ring for military recruitment
Politico ^ | 5 sept 2023 | LAURA HÜLSEMANN
Posted on 9/5/2023, 10:49:47 AM by DUMBGRUNT

The Cuban government has exposed a Russian trafficking operation used to lure Cubans into the war against Ukraine, Cuban authorities announced Monday.

“The Ministry of the Interior has detected and is working to neutralize and dismantle a human trafficking network operating from Russia to incorporate Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba, into the military forces participating in war operations in Ukraine,” the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday....


19 posted on 04/09/2025 5:29:41 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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When there done they gonna probe your Momz.😂


24 posted on 04/09/2025 6:38:54 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
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Putin is silent because he is apparently down with a bad cold and has not been seen in public for several weeks.


28 posted on 04/10/2025 6:09:46 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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