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Europe committed suicide.
Chinese assention is a collection of policies. Those policies are European and American as well as Chinese. Those policies, for the US and Europe, are temporary, provisional, and the results of leaders views of the best course at a particular place and time.
China cannot dictate how the US or Europe must continue policies that help China even after Those policies damage the US and Europe. "Cannot" as in "unable" and "unadviseable".
I believe Trump will end the ongoing one-way technology transfer from US to China.
I believe Trump will change the policy where the US does not Tarriff Chinese goods while China has a 60% Tarriff on US goods.
The US best interest is in reshoring US companies.
Chip production was sent from the US to geopolitically vulnerable Taiwan.
Chip production is geostrategically critical to the US. And US policies must protect that production through its return.
Much manufacturing was off-shored from the US to China in the 1990s. The US will set whatever policies are necessary to facilitate the return of US companies with mostly US customers to the US. Supply and transport disruptions have shown that allowing internal commerce in the US to be captive to international shipping and transport is both inefficient and unreliable, and we will bring them home by changing both US internal regulations and foreign trade agreements.
Before any of that is relevant or possible, the debt-based currency, and hence debt, must be fixed.
And that cannot happen with the largest government in the history of the world.
I hope those who vote on fear of being called names have learned their lessons.
But I doubt it.
Those who wish destruction will ALWAYS lie about their opposition.
If a person's character is so weak that they will support evil for fear of name calling, then our species' survival rests on weak reeds.
They dont have the votes to approve even one of them because the Rs will not play, and neither will Manchin or Sinema.
And the Ds cannot approve them without cooperation from at least two.
No.
I and many others have known those Generals for decades. One of us, or one of their current subordinates, either one, have a duty to ensure they have serious accidents first.
There will be no G.O. rebellion against the elected Presidency.
Will. Not. Happen.
Biden decides nothing.
This is a collection of un-elected senior officers of the US Govt responding to the desires of foreign potentates, such as the WEF, to tie Trump's Geopolitical hands before he takes office by means of taking existential risks with the United States that no bureaucrat or President is constitutionally authorized to unilaterally take under any circumstances.
This is wrong, illegal, and treasonous on many levels.
Wrong to takes existential risks without Congressional Declaration of War.
Wrong (and in fact treasonous) to take existential risks in loyal response to the desires of foreign Potentates (The Globalists).
Wrong for bureaucrats to be attempting to tie the President-Elect's geopolitical hands under any circumstances. It is a Disloyal Act for a government employee to place his policy before the policy of Democratically Elected Leaders.
What to do about it?
Show the foreign interest pulling their strings, try them for Treason.
Execute them.
To allow impunity for treasonous acts to those under allegiance to the Constitution (i.e. who have taken an oath to the Constitution pursuant to employment) is itself national suicide. It means a total lack of national volition and rule-of-law because the elected volition has been wholly usurped by whoever pulls the strings. And if those puppet masters are foreigners, then they are your real government.
The US does not have a parliamentary system.
This act would be viewed exactly as if a Euro parliamentary party set up a governing Shura, or a Caliph, Emir, or Supreme Soviet within a parliamentary European government to issue alternative laws, courts, etc.
It is a direct challenge to the prevailing source of political legitimacy, ergo sedition or treason.
To be fair, it is exactly what Democrats have wanted for decades and have had for the past four years:
The unelected hold all the reigns of power under an impotent figurehead.
Psst.
Secret info here.
The definition of "obesity" is not biologically consistent from one nation to the next.
Pro-Tip: Make them define it. Or the same dual citizenship guy could be counted as not obese when he is in one country, and obese when he crosses the border, without gaining a single pound.
You have to look beyond the headlines, because this type of statistic is often intentionally malformed for propaganda purposes.
Well, that happened.
Import the third world.
Become the third world.
Importing the third world has been a core pillar of Left policy for 60+ years.
Pardon the prominent-but-politically inconsequential.
Prosecute the Consequential but not prominent.
Biden has only a handful of years left. He is prominent, but inconsequential.
Who controls a Nation's access to energy controls the Nation.
That is why Hitler betrayed the Von Ribbentrop Pact.
That is why Eurocrats promote Globull Warming.
No design or construct, social or physical, is possible while its required materials list includes imaginary or unobtainable items.
No perfect candidates have ever been available on any ballot or job application, ever.
Choose the flaws you can live with, in human affairs.
Humans NEVER like change.
The "good change" you are waiting for does not exist because it cannot exist.
Use the materials you have.
Progressives are not captained by radical Marxist intellectuals.
Progressives are captained by banking Dynasties, Plutocrats, and Aristocrats who have paid Marxist Academic Intellectuals for over a century to overturn The Enlightenment in order to restore Serfdom.
Only useful idiots actually believe that equality or the other Utopian ideas of Marxists are real intentions of the Marxist movement. The tools and institutions of Marxism are unsuitable to produce the ends they claim to aim for. Those institutions and tools are suitable only to produce a permanent Tyrannical Regime of abuse for abuse's sake.
Only idiots are unable to see that if the tools are unsuitable for the stated ends, that the real ends are the ones that the tools are suitable for.
You don't write novels with a gun, or a hammer. If someone's tools are a hammer and a gun then their claims that these tools are for writing novels are lies. Their true aims are the ones that can be accomplished with hammers and guns.
Of course there is such a thing as Hate Speech.
They hate you. You are speaking. And they will jail or kill you for it.
For the last 80 years people have been taught that the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi's) were not "Leftist Radicals" but "Far-Right", were "Capitalist" not Socialist.
But you can look at the German Green Party and see for yourself who they are.
The Nazi's did not arrest pensioners for saying Goebbels was stupid. But they would arrest the media who printed it.
The Nazi's preferred race was white Nordic or Anglo-Saxon. The Greens prefer Africans.
But their written policies on race are essentially identical.
China's administrative districts get money from the Central Government based on population.
Each inflates their population for money.
Everyone knows it.
Chinas actual population is 1/2- 2/3's of estimates.
The real population is between 700M-1Billion.
Sure.
The pipeline only needs to cross hundreds of miles of Siberian swamp land and the Himalayas.
Should be a piece of cake.