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1·10 hours agoAnd you consider that a ‘reputable source’? I bet you believe the populist tabloid National Enquirer a reputable source as well.
This is not about Trump. Trump is the symptom, the poster boy, not the cause. There are deeper powers than Trump that are causing the American collapse. These powers are just giving Trump the room to maneuver, and letting him rip. Trump is just the lose cannon they are using to destroy everything. They don’t care what he does, as long as he keeps destroying things.
What you missed was the difference between lower case ‘c’ conservative instead of the Capital ‘C’ Conservative. We need to conserve our environment, that is what lower case ‘c’ conservative is all about.
I would not even say ‘better’ and ‘worse’. It is actually shaping up to be ‘worse’ and ‘less worse’. The middle countries, in their own self-interest, will seek the choice of ‘less worse’ and depend on their own population for ‘better’.
Being selfish and self-centered is not always a bad thing, as a philosopher will tell you. It does not restrict one from being a philanthropist, if your goal is fame and glory.
Unfortunately, your viewpoint is a result of Western propaganda, not the actual reality. There is a reason why African nations now seek Chinese investment money instead of American. The Chinese lend the locals the money to build and own their own productivity, leaving the profits with the local owners. The Americans built and kept ownership of the productivity and returned all the profits to America. The Chinese are doing the same thing in Cuba. The goal of the Americans was to suck the wealth out of the world. The goal of the Chinese is to raise the standard of living of the rest of the world so there will be a market for their exports.
Those who ignore history do so at their own peril, as it is bound to repeat itself.
To a good history student, they will go well beyond the whitewashing and seek the true history. It is the whitewashing that you should object to, not the history itself.
That little panhandle is what created the Uighur problem for China. The Americans dropped their most powerful bomb on the Taliban terrorist camps in the panhandle, who wanted to create a Uighur ISIS homeland in the panhandle independent of Afghanistan. So the Uighur ISIS terrorists fled to China, and the rest is history. The terrorists tried to make the Chinese side their own homeland, and used a ruthless terror campaign of bombings and killings to terrorize the local population, so they could make it an ISIS state. Unfortunately for them, the Chinese government had different ideas about them taking over the area. Mind you, Western news tells the story slightly differently, although the American bombing of innocent civilians in the panhandle is well documented.
And what, exactly, is wrong with that?
The New World Order. It’s not just about creating a trading bloc of 1.5 billion people. it is about creating a trading bloc of 1.5 billion people who are at the same standard of living as the average American. (And that does not even include the Indian or Chinese market). It is that last bit - the fact that the standard of living of ‘the rest of the world’ is now equivalent to the average American standard of living, PPP. America just has not got the memo - Americans are no longer the ONLY middle-income consumers, there are now billions of people in the world that are at the same level as the average American, in spending power PPP. In the last three decades or so, America has shifted from ‘the ONLY market’ to ‘just a part of the global market’.
An interesting historical note is that Nestle has survived and prospered despite American sanctions against it. Nestle products were widely available in Cuba when I visited - about the only ice cream novelties that were available. That’s why you will not see Smarties in an American store.
However, this may soon be a moot discussion, based on what China does next.
“China will support Cuba “in the best way possible” as the island grapples with an energy crisis following tougher measures imposed by US President Donald Trump’s administration, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.”
Apparently, China is very eager to replace the Russian influence in Cuba with a Chinese influence.
It would be ironic, and perhaps even strategic, if Canada were to team up with China in a humanitarian effort to divert oil to Cuba. Canadian oil shipped to Cuba under a Chinese navy escort? Wouldn’t that shake up the 'New World Order"!!!
The Law of Unintended Consequences - the more America tries to push its weight around in Latin American countries, the more he pushes them towards China.
And while these two hegemons battle it out, Canada, as a middle power, skates right down the middle and scores. The opportunities and openings for Canada have never been greater.
Afghanistan also shares a border with China. Do you consider that a ‘colony borders made by racist white people in history’?
Quantum computers and communication is probabilistic, not digital calculations. Even though the particles are entangled, one still does not know what state they are in until they are read. They may both be in the same state, but you do not know which state. It is all random probabilities.
“Air Transat said it made the choice in order to make full use of its resources.”
In other words, Air Transat needed the planes to fulfill stronger demand on other routes.
And in other news - Hong Kong and mainland Chinese diaspora groups are terrorizing Chinese Canadians in extortion rings.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10333849/extortion-scams-chinese-community-york-region/
I actually got a message involving a Chinese immigration scam, in Chinese, even though I have never had any connection to China nor do I speak Chinese. It was allegedly from the Chinese embassy in Canada. How they got my text number, or expected me to speak Chinese, I will never know.
But, apparently, some posters here want the RCMP to reveal in detail the methods they intend to use to clamp down on these rings. Exactly the type of information these rings need to avoid prosecution.
In Canada? Of course we will still have elections and by-elections. Wait - you mean the Americans? They still have a few years before they cancel their elections. I think Vance wants to be formally elected. Looks good in the history books.
We are also going an ‘any country but America’ in our trade deals, and Europe is looking really. really good aa an alternative to America. Europe is finally getting their manufacturing mojo back again from the devastation of the Wars and their reliance on American manufacturing…
If the mid-terms drastically go against Trump, this ‘no confidence’ could be easily reformulated as a means for impeachment.
So we go from MAGA (Make America Great Again) to LELA (Let Europe Lead Again).
Unfortunately for your position China has the resources and the wealth to build faster than America can destroy it. Look at what China has accomplished in their own country in just the last two decades. Whatever America destroys, China can rebuild ten times over. That is what the ‘other countries’ are beginning to realize, and why they are not really afraid of Trump. What China wants to do in the rest of the world is to raise the world standard of living in order to produce a larger market for Chinese exports. Yes, that is ‘selfish’, but yes, that is beneficial to the other countries. America wanted to keep the other countries impoverished, and to make really cheap goods for the American market. That is ‘selfish’, but also self-destructive. They now realize they have no export market, they do not make anything to export, now that the rest of the world has the money to buy stuff.
The Chinese make stuff, and also have the entire African market to export it to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_China