Posted on 01/29/2025 12:05:25 AM PST by buwaya
There can only be one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooN9xdAgi5w
and yet you keep on replying..
The Pax Americana requires a preponderance of power.
Even in the Cold War the US controlled and “licensed” world trade, finance, etc. The Soviets were a very junior annoyance. And yet they managed to ruin a few nations within their limited scope.
If there are two it is critically unstable. China will be vastly greater than the Soviets.
And as I said, if one side blinks, it wont be two, it will be one, very very quickly.
It is what it is.
To see it all, well most. You’d have to follow the money going into the treasury to see all of the sources. A lot of things are hidden in receipts from like state or local government that collects the tax/fee and forwards it as if it’s from them.
Yeah so why go out and start new diplomatic fires. To China putting that weapon system there will be just like Ukraine, the slow build up then the proxy attack. They are not going to respond like the Russians did.
“You’d have to follow the money going into the treasury” -
that’s what they do in these macro things, that’s the point.
“A lot of things are hidden in receipts from like state or local government that collects the tax/fee and forwards it as if it’s from them.”
That would be captured under revenues. This is SOP. Some Euro countries for instance have their sub-units (like provinces/regions) collect income, excise and other taxes, almost all taxes, which are forwarded to their Finance ministries. Spain is like that.
They have been taking Filipino territory and attacking Filipino shipping. They have been overflying Taiwan and practicing invasion drills. They have been practicing blockades of Taiwan ports.
At some point it becomes absurd. That’s where it is now.
Ref a great novel on being a disingenuous bully (ref Nazis in the 1930’s) - Karel Capek, “War Against the Newts” btw Capek invented our meaning of “robot”.
Yup. And they were quiet until the US started making Taiwan an issue. The Chinese can see how the western “democracy” works in practice and it’s every bit as corrupt as communism. They see the US making power moves because it needs stuff it doesn’t have, be it labor made possible by lax environmental regulations so they can make stuff they can’t in the US. Rare earths so they can be all green energy. Do illegal research into gain of function while being signatory to The Biological Weapons Convention.
Most of the latest hostile stuff started after the Taiwan election of Jan 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Taiwanese_presidential_election
The Taiwan nationalists (DPP) took a decisive lead. Xi was (very) mad about that.
On the Philippine front they were NOT quiet.
This has been going on for years and started escalating even more under the current Philippine government (Marcos).
Remember Pelosi going there and creating an incident?
Yeah that’s about fishing. China sees the solution as bringing all of the east Asia countries under it’s umbrella.
Its about territorial claims (which includes fishing), but its mostly about rights of passage. The Chinese claims exploited in full would cut off Manila Bay from shipping traffic without every ship being cleared by China. Just one item.
Irrelevant.
They have been dredging islands into military bases since the Bush administration.
Yeah and eroding Taiwan. I mean the actual land masses is what they want to rule all of the oriental and mold into a super trading bloc.
Which is what all the neighbors DONT want. Neither does the US. Japan, SK, Taiwan, Phils, etc. will have to become vassal states.
Nope, no bueno.
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