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Thanks for the response Olog-hai. I agree with your take on the beginnings of adventurism in our own hemisphere.

Folks are sleep-walking into a buz-saw with regard to China.

I can sure identify with people who saw Hitler for what he was in the mid 1930s.

If you follow the logic trail around here, you note that the people we have right here on this forum would have been arguing that trade with Germany would have prevented WWII.

nice segue opportunity for me.. I just finished sourcing most of this..

"The state-owned Chinese mining group Chinalco . . . in the remote Central Highlands . . . will be ruinous to the environment, displace ethnic minority populations and threaten national security with an influx of Chinese workers and economic leverage," warned General Giap and other opponents of the Chinese operations. Here That was a couple of years ago now VN vis-a-vis China is more like.. Anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam as South China Sea tensions rise

Yes, I believe that there will be war. I remember W.W.II but I do not remember the 1930s. However I know we had U.S. businesses experiencing "free trade" in the 1930s; for example, prominent Democrat W. Averell Harriman and many U.S. corporations. I bet there was a lot of praise for that German economy.

No appoligies for my pessimism.. I remember every Chi-Com attrocity against the Chinese people.. at least the ones that were reported here at the time. The Party is no good.

RE: "If you follow the logic trail around here, you note that the people we have right here on this forum would have been arguing that trade with Germany would have prevented WWII."

You do not have to go that far back.. I remember the liberals and the internationalist Rockefeller Republicans demanding that we help build the Soviet economy.

If we refuse to help the Soviets we'll be playing into the hands of the hard-liners in the Kremlin, there will be war, and it will be our fault.

In those days there were enough left from the Greatest Generation who knew better and they said, No.

If you follow the logic trail around here, you note that the people we have right here on this forum would have been arguing that trade with Germany would have prevented WWII.

Hop on board, everyone! Let's take the logic trail to the strawman!