China is the biggest threat to America?!

[Politruk]

Project 2025 says, "By far the most significant danger to Americans’ security, freedoms, and prosperity is China."

What kind of idiots are these?!

Clinton in 1992 talked like he was going to end China's Most Favored Nation trading status because of human-rights abuses. (Not end trade with China, only the MFN status.) As president he found himself helpless to do that, because American business interests would not allow it.

That was in the '90s. China cannot possibly be less important to the American economy now.

And we cannot treat the PRC as an enemy, and trade with it at the same time. If the PRC invades Taiwan, the Taiwanese are on their own.

 

[Politruk]

Also, Trump admires strongman dictators too much ever to go against Xi Jinping.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Also, shut the fuck up and stop making so many threads.

 

[jhenry922]

Also, shut the fuck up and stop making so many threads.

And just because you have an opinion doesn't mean that it's a worthwhile one or one worth listening to

 

[Politruk]

And just because you have an opinion doesn't mean that it's a worthwhile one or one worth listening to

Around here it does.

 

[Rightguide]

Project 2025 says, "By far the most significant danger to Americans’ security, freedoms, and prosperity is China."

What kind of idiots are these?!

People who are much smarter and more informed than you are.

 

[Politruk]

People who are much smarter and more informed than you are.

Nobody at the Heritage Foundation meets that description.

 

[rainsol]

Also, Trump admires strongman dictators too much ever to go against Xi Jinping.

Your parsing words like your bot buddy

 

[Politruk]

Your parsing words like your bot buddy

?????

 

[Deleted member 6353684]

I would have thought America's biggest threat to its self was America.

 

[Politruk]

I would have thought America's biggest threat to its self was America.

Heritage doesn't seem to get that.

 

[LLCox]

China will be back to planting rice for a living in ten years or so. They are going down the tubes in many ways. Same with Russia. There is no one to replace the oil production maintenance engineers when the old dudes retire for one example.

 

[Politruk]

There is no one to replace the oil production maintenance engineers when the old dudes retire for one example.

With sufficient enticements, they probably could find foreigners for that.

 

[Saint_Ann]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/14/china-peru-port-latin-america/

China opens huge port in Peru to extend its reach in Latin America.

 

[SavannaT]

Someone needs to tell Project 2025 thats where they make all of those MAGA hats for Trump lol

 

[Politruk]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/14/china-peru-port-latin-america/

China opens huge port in Peru to extend its reach in Latin America.

Is that something to do with Belt and Road?

 

[Saint_Ann]

Is that something to do with Belt and Road?

That didn't translate well from the Russian.

 

[LLCox]

With sufficient enticements, they probably could find foreigners for that.

I believe they are spending their "enhancements" on North Koren cannon fodder.

 

[Politruk]

I believe they are spending their "enhancements" on North Koren cannon fodder.

Nah, that's Russia.

 

[BAstoicguy]

In conclusion:

The stark fact of life in international politics today is that the Sino-American relationship is broken because Beijing has declared war, explicitly declaring a “People’s War” against the U.S. in 2019—although it has been at war with the U.S. since 1949—and has chosen to target and supplant the U.S. Indeed, Wohlstetter would recognize the problem and would no doubt be—in equal measures—flummoxed and saddened that despite the great expansion of the national security community, Washington cannot identify an overt threat. Even one that proclaims that it is and by its actions shows that it is. The U.S. national security community assessment of the PRC threat remains clouded by the “fog of peace.” It is time for a new administration that can detect the signal from the noise and prepare this nation for the coming conflict… and prepare it to win.

Farrell & Thayer, American Greatness


https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/15/...ard-war-separating-the-signal-from-the-noise/

 

[Politruk]

China will be back to planting rice for a living in ten years or so. They are going down the tubes in many ways. Same with Russia. There is no one to replace the oil production maintenance engineers when the old dudes retire for one example.

The Belt and Road Initiative is the kind of massive investment only a government with enormous confidence in the future would make.

 

[BAstoicguy]

Every dictator and tyrant that ever was had their most ardent fans in the United States right up until the time they made war on us. We see a microcosm of this in the CEO murder. It is amazing that the same pair of eyes that see every wart and blemish permissible under the umbrella of liberty can then turn and see the façade of peace which emerges from the outlaw of every human imperfection amazes me greatly. I guess being raised in a tight, orthodox religious structure and community will do that to you. This is also why some of the most fervent supporters of the Republicans in the Hispanic community are those who fled the peace and tranquility of the hero down south...

 

[Bn2f]

Every dictator and tyrant that ever was had their most ardent fans in the United States right up until the time they made war on us. We see a microcosm of this in the CEO murder. It is amazing that the same pair of eyes that see every wart and blemish permissible under the umbrella of liberty can then turn and see the façade of peace which emerges from the outlaw of every human imperfection amazes me greatly. I guess being raised in a tight, orthodox religious structure and community will do that to you. This is also why some of the most fervent supporters of the Republicans in the Hispanic community are those who fled the peace and tranquility of the hero down south...

OMG! FINALLY!
You just don't know how long I've been waiting for someone to see the direct links to UHC's CEO being murdered and foreign policy in relation to Castro!
Please, everyone, feel free to now jump in as well.

 

[Politruk]

Every dictator and tyrant that ever was had their most ardent fans in the United States right up until the time they made war on us

Is Xi going to make war on us?

 

[Politruk]

Is Xi going to make war on us?