Youtube comments of Blafonovision (@blafonovision4342).

  1. Wolves are crying that the sheep won’t reproduce.
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  2. “They love without limit, those they will soon hate without reason.”
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  3. You realize the USA invented hypersonics in the 60’s and 70’s? The USA has better ones than either the Russians or the Chinese. They just don’t publicize it.
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  4. I take care of old people for a living. Even the people with children have no one to care for them. It’s all depressing.
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  5. Far past time to call Putin’s bluff on nukes.
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  6. Why are they complaining? They voted for this.
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  7. Putin can declare the sky is yellow, too.
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  8. I don’t understand. Russia is using Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean weapons against Kiev. They need to expect that Ukraine is using American, British, and French weapons against Moscow.
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  9. Krasnov was always a Russian asset.
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  10. The irony of Europeans complaining about protectionism and subsidies.
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  11. The PRC is threatening the Philippines. Why is the PRC complaining about the Philippines taking action? More crybullying?
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  12. If you are a foreigner in the PRC, you need to be worried about being arrested and thrown in prison.
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  13. The Industrial Revolution made a mistake. It moved the nuclear family to the work, instead of the work to the extended family.
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  14. Indeed. We need to end freedom of navigation of the seas. It’s expensive, and the USA doesn’t need it.
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  15.  @georgehoffmann4148 but if the customer has no job, no income, low prices don’t really help him, do they?
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  16. The USA really needs to close the American consumer market to the PRC, and stop protecting Chinese shipping.
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  17. Young people in these countries can save money by not having children.
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  18. LOL. Putin is not going to have a choice in the matter.
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  19. They could just as well declare Alaska as their territory. Doesn’t make it so.
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  20. I still don’t understand why the Chinese think we should just give them our advanced technology. If they want it, they can develop it themselves.
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  21. The PRC is outraged that Japan is release treated, nuclear wastewater from Fukushima. The PRC discharges more untreated nuclear wastewater every day than Japan does once. It is outrageous that Japan would upstage the PRC this way.
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  22. This gives NATO nations the perfect justification to send their own troops to Ukraine.
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  23. Nobody serious thought of Trump as a good negotiator.
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  24.  @realnapster1522  I disagree. We need to make it more difficult for people to move. They need to build up their home countries.
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  25. Past time for the Danes to close the Skaagerak to Russian and Chinese shipping.
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  26. LOL. The CCP complaining about government subsidies to local industries.
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  27.  @patratgames4712  serious. If they want us to have kids, they need to make it easier, not harder.
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  28. The USA needs to stop being so nice to the Chinese.
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  29. The US Navy needs to accompany the Philippine Coast Guard on patrol. Let the Chinese think on that.
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  30. After what the PRC government did to Hong Kong, why would they complain about anti-PRC sentiment in London? What exactly do they expect?
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  31. Doesn’t the rest of NATO have anything to say about this?
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  32. So what if Western materiel is being used in Russia? The Russians are using Chinese and North Korean and Iranian weapons in Ukraine. Turnabout is always fair play.
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  33. There is no greater coward than a conservative.
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  34. In 1950, human population 2.3 billion. In 2024, 8.2 billion. A correction was inevitable. Global capitalism was always going to eat its own lunch.
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  35. The sooner the USA can decouple economically from the PRC, the better. The USA cannot build out its manufacturing plant too fast.
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  36. I admit I do not understand Taiwan “breakaway” concerns. The government in Taipei is the rightful government of all China. If the PRC wants unification of all China, all the CCP government needs to do is abdicate in favor of the government in Taipei. Problem solved.
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  37.  @05nautilus  the USA built its first hypersonic missile in 1949.
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  38. If the PRC doesn’t care about Moody’s, why are they mad?
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  39. One government cannot tell another government what its measure for its own national security is. The Chinese are crazy.
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  40. The Europeans are far more threatened by the Chinese than the Americans, but the Europeans are doing less.
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  41. The USA really needs to start banning many Chinese goods entirely.
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  42. India needs to step up.
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  43. Rich people terrified their slaves aren’t breeding.
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  44. Although I am anti-American Empire, I still voted for Harris. Trump is just a criminal idiot, decaying from neurosyphilis.
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  45. With all the weapons and financial aid the USA has given Israel over the years, they should be just fine.
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  46.  @akmon3490  less than 4% of the US economy exports outside of NAFTA. The USA will be fine if transoceanic trade shuts down. We will need to produce our own consumer goods. And that is also good outcome.
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  47. The PRC wants to have its cake, and eat it, too.
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  48.  @deanbryce8263  already have a war. Putin chose.
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  49. LOL. They can't bet Ukraine, let alone the UK.
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  50. Interesting how it's women having less kids. I thought kids took two to tango.
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  51. I fail to understand why the PRC is unhappy with the USA. The PRC declared itself a competitor with the USA. The USA is now treating the PRC like a competitor.
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  52. @EdgeSanityGamingthere is no taxpayer money going to abortions, sadly. We need to repeal the Hyde Amendment, and get abortion back in every hospital and clinic in this country.
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  53. A fool who sends his assets to the PRC will soon be separated from them.
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  54. Those Native American kids back in the day seldom had shoes. Their feet were like leather.
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  55. The South China Sea is international waters, and is shared by many nations. Notably, it is shared by the PRC, the ROC, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Why does the PRC insist that the sea is its territorial waters? Their actions towards their neighbors are really confrontational.
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  56. What is wrong with the USA gaining a competitive economic advantage? That is what we should be striving to do.
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  57. End the IMF, WB, UN, WTO, and UNCLOS.
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  58. Xi is a total autocrat. What’s wrong with calling a spade, a spade?
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  59. The complaining of the CCP is going from hilarious to pathetic.
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  60. The USA should change recognition from the PRC to the ROC.
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  61. The USA isn't an export-base economy, except in wartime for munitions. We consume what we make.
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  62. There will undoubtedly be some Westerners gullible enough to buy this debt.
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  63. Missile truck is what an F-15 is for.
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  64. What are the Chinese complaining about? The Chinese claim they can make more advanced chips than the USA. The export controls should be no problem for them.
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  65. The US Dollar as the world reserve currency is the effect, not the cause, of US economic power. As the USA withdraws from the world, economically and militarily, the dollar will naturally be used less as a reserve currency.
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  66. The security council doesn’t need to be reformed. The UN needs to be disbanded.
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  67. The USA subsidizes all the security for shipping for the PRC.
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  68. China is going to have a next generation?
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  69. I don’t see the problem. Chinese, North Korean, and Iranian weapons are being used by Russia against Ukraine. What is the problem using foreign weapons against Russia?
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  70. No surrender territory, no ceasefire.
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  71. “One country, two systems.” LMAO
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  72. The PRC needs to stop complaining about the internal affairs of NZ.
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  73. I do not understand why the Chinese are so angry. They chose to switch from being cooperators to competitors of the USA. What do they think being competitors implies?
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  74. I wish the USA would stop wasting our tax money with foreign military bases and foreign aid.
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  75.  @CorncropTv  local production of food is the only way many are going to get any food at all.
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  76. She is there to say we are not decoupling, while we are decoupling.
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  77. Blinken is just horrible. He ignores Ukraine and China, and sucks up to Israel. He’s revolting.
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  78. American here: I'm just so ashamed.
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  79. Anna is Ukraine’s lovely spokeswoman to the world!
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  80. Yank here: my fellow Yanks need to chill out about Tony’s “aluminium.” It’s his English, and he can speak it his way.
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  81. Ah, the Chinese: building super trains that ghost passengers ride to ghost cities.
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  82. But the CCP says the standard of living in the PRC is just as good as the standard of living in the USA!
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  83. Finally!
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  84. It’s totally comprehensible. Mango Mussolini was always going to do this.
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  85. It’s excellent that the PRC is doing its part to decouple from the USA. That gives us more incentive to work harder on our decoupling from the PRC.
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  86.  @s0ycapitan actually, the Taipei government is the legitimate government of all China, not the CCP.
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  87. Oh please! Let France leave the Bretton Woods system. That would break it, finally.
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  88.  @TWN321  if it starves the rich wolves? Yes.
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  89. The best China news channel anywhere.
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  90. Semper Fidelis, brother.
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  91. Huh?
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  92. If you are American, and you have assets in the PRC, you should have got them out years ago.
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  93. PRC: throws down the gauntlet USA: picks up the gauntlet PRC: whine gaslight
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  94. You and Sal Mercogliano need to debate the Jones Act. That would be very interesting.
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  95. I’m glad that personal relations between the USA and PRC are better. But the USA needs to continue decoupling from the PRC economically.
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  96. The USA really needs to get a move on and sever trade relations with China.
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  97. The Tofu Dreg Navy. I’m quaking in my boots.
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  98. I don’t understand why the European industrial complex hasn’t spun up yet. It’s been 2 years now.
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  99. Iowan here. Our ammunition plants have been running 24-7 for 1.5 years now, as well adding more lines. We are making artillery shells as fast as we can.
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  100. The Nordics need to just close the straits to all Russian shipping.
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  101. The Chinese would never steal other people’s IP. 😂
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  102. I do hope Biden can manage a peaceful, fast economic decoupling from the PRC.
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  103. It’s far past time the USA and the PRC should decouple economically.
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  104. So a PRC representative criticizes government involvement in the economy? Really?
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  105. Nielsen and Perun are the best.
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  106. Stop and think a moment: why should European security hinge on American elections?
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  107. Why does the PRC have anything to do with the IMF except as a donor? It’s the second richest country in the world. It doesn’t need any sort of help.
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  108. Shirley you must be joking!
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  109. Mother Nature doesn’t care if we want to play or not.
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  110. Would I trust my life to a Chinese plane or car? No.
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  111. Why not bypass the USA completely, and have European armies go into Ukraine?
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  112. It would be great to repeal the Reagan taxes on Social Security.
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  113. @ lol. Russia is too weak to do that.
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  114. It’s interesting: the Europeans are depending upon the USA to defend it from Russia. The PRC is helping Russia in its war against Europe. Europe finds it hard to back the USA against the PRC. Interesting times, indeed.
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  115. China can stop exporting to the USA any time. We’d love it.
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  116. The USA just needs a strategic withdrawal from the MIddle East completely.
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  117. Israel is highly subsidized by another country. That makes it unique. Withdraw that support, and their standard of living will fall precipitously.
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  118. The USA should change the laws to prefer its own shipping. And it should not disadvantage water shipping over road, rail, or air.
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  119. This is excellent news. Hopefully, relations with the USA will deteriorate further. This will further decoupling. This is a win for the USA.
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  120. he's not going to do that. He's just going to make Trump disappear one night.
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  121. The PRC will meet its goal. Beijing has announced what the goal is to be. The provinces will then announce that amount of growth. Fini.
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  122. For many of us, life is a curse to be endured.
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  123.  @Dendarang  It’s totally true. The EU came about because the USA provided strategic overwatch, and so put all Western European powers on the same side. As the USA withdraws that strategic overwatch, the Europeans will once again start fighting each other. Globalization is the American Order.
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  124. I’m an American. And generally opposed to US involvement in Africa and Eurasia. Even I support aid to Ukraine.
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  125.  @alfaeco15 fair enough. But can those zones support the current local population sans imports? Nope.
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  126. This is silly. This is like the USA will nuke Russia because Russia is using Iranian drones in Ukraine.
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  127. I work in a nursing home. I have an entire building full of people whose kids have abandoned them. I find this idea of children as a retirement plan rather naive.
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  128. I am an anti-NATO anti-interventionist, and I’m fairly happy with Harris.
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  129. Trump’s incompetence is truly staggering. I think he’s very demented, much more so than Biden.
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  130. Why not require job security for everyone currently employed, but then bring in automation as people quit or retire? Requiring that all automation is made in USA, of course.
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  131. @ if the Houthi can close off the Red Sea, sure the Danes, Swedes, and Norskes can do that to the Baltic.
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  132. Way post time for the USA to withdraw from the WTO.
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  133. Rather, we need to raise taxes on wealthy individuals and companies.
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  134. Generations. How many generations does China have left?
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  135. Considering how many foreign weapons Russia is using in Ukraine, why is Russia complaining about Ukraine using foreign weapons in Russia?
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  136. It's OK to have lots of kids. It's OK to have no kids. It's all good.
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  137.  @teejayman215  but they’ve never drained our tax dollars.
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  138. I wonder if Poland would counter by massing forces at the Belarusian border? This would make it impossible for Belarus to invade Ukraine.
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  139. I fail to see how civilian officials visiting any place is a provocative move.
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  140.  @rathelmmc3194  maybe true. But eventually, the wealthy will lose. And that is all that matters.
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  141. Why does American involvement in Ukraine even matter? Why isn’t Europe supplying all money and materiel to the Ukrainians? The Europeans have had 2 years now to spin up their military industrial complex.
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  142.  @jaydee6268  but she’s not talking war, in any case. She’s talking economics, of industrial policy. China certainly has a national industrial policy to protect and grow its industries. Why shouldn’t the USA? And why does she need to dissimulate about it?
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  143.  @ighdesigns  Not a problem. This can easily be automated. Medication can be made cheaper, and at higher quality, in the USA than the Chinese could ever hope to do.
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  144. Fewer individual rights has always been the conservative goal.
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  145. Complaining about geopolitical rivalry is like complaining about water being wet.
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  146.  @Dendarang  the intentions mean nothing. The EU could never have existed with American strategic overwatch. When the overwatch is withdrawn, as it is being right now, the EU will fracture. The USA cannot withdraw from Europe or NATO fast enough for my tastes.
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  147. Finns know how to shoot.
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  148. Trump was very clever, in building the borders roads without building the border wall.
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  149. For that, the PRC is going to need to make friends with the ROC, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia, Korea, and Aotearoa.
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  150. He got the call completely correct. He said Biden would win. Anybody else, it was unpredictable.
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  151.  @redshield3296 lol. The Russians wanted all of Ukraine. They are still way short of their goals.
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  152.  @confederatenationalist7283  Before Ukraine, Putin went into Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. Ukraine is only the halfway point.
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  153. All fueled with water!
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  154. Thankfully, US imperialism has almost run its course, and is dying.
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  155. But she’s a federal employee.
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  156.  @jerryrichardson2799  that will happen when you turn your patron into your enemy. The Chinese actions make no strategic sense.
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  157. Why is anybody putting money into Somalia? What is the possible hope of return on investment?
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  158. Social Security was paid up in the 80’s and 90’s by Boomers, who paid double, one for their own retirement, and one for the retirement of those who came before. Today’s elderly aren’t taking a cent from us. We are just paying for our own benefits later in life.
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  159. Yes, we do want to get rid of interdependence with the PRC.
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  160. But this is what they have been working on since Nixon.
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  161. Maybe this will discourage our involvement in the Middle East, especially Persian Gulf.
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  162. Globalization must end. Freedom of navigation of the seas must end. The UN, IMF, WTO, World Bank, NATO, must end.
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  163. I wonder what Elon is going to think when the PRC steals all his tech.
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  164. This is nauseating. Israel has been an independent country for 75 years and is still totally dependent upon the USA for its existence. How does that make them competent?
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  165. The USA needs to tell the PRC they can either access the Russian consumption market, or the American, but not both.
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  166.  @robgrey6183 It’s money we owe ourselves. It’s an accounting gimmick.
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  167. @ consider that Ukraine is a lot weaker than Sweden? Yes.
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  168. Eldest here. Being my brothers' keeper only made me hate my younger brothers. I want nothing to do with them as an adult.
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  169. Tony reports only on official US and PRC material.
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  170. Gratz on 200k! Yours is an excellent channel!
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  171. PRC: foreign CEO’s check in, but they don’t check out.
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  172. Why can’t the USA just strategically withdraw from the MIddle East? We have no interests there anymore. I don’t really care what happens there.
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  173. The purpose of the meeting was to give Trump a pretext to abandon the process.
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  174. A European country should be leading NATO in Europe. This is a no-brainer.
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  175. The South China Sea is international waters. The Chinese need to stop whining.
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  176. Urbanization means children no longer economically viable. Urbanization means the cost of housing goes up. This is not difficult to understand.
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  177. If the PRC imposes a complete maritime quarantine of the ROC, the USA needs to impose a complete maritime quarantine of the PRC. Simple.
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  178. He talks “three principles,” then does “wolf-warrior.” Nope.
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  179.  @reallue  my first serious GF was a borderline. I learned a lot from her.
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  180. I thought Zelenskyy did as good a job with Trump as possible.
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  181. Wealth is hoarded by the few. This is the result.
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  182. Well, there was and is no substance to Putin. So no harm done.
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  183. I think after the Cold War, the Europeans desperately wanted to believe they could put their violent, competitive past behind them. In some ways, I'm sad they could not. As an American, I simply can't even entertain the notion of putting our violent history in the past. We are not constrained by that ideal, and so it does not inhibit us.
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  184.  @chico9805 abortions are a very minor factor
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  185. Listening to Trump is like listening to an 8 year old.
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  186. The PRC is too helping. It is helping the Russians with weapons to use in Ukraine.
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  187. The Houthis are all high on khat.
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  188. Why are so many people so obsessed with the birth rate?
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  189. The PRC declared itself to be a strategic competitor of the USA. What are they complaining about?
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  190. @ There are 8+ billion people in the world. I’m not worried.
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  191.  @regwatson2017 Easy. They just order the Bureau of Statistics to state that value has been added to China. Problem solved.
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  192. That’s it. 100%
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  193. I thought BRI was just about product dumping and debt trapping.
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  194. Who cares about capacity? What is the actual power generation?
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  195.  @bryandimery6509  but we never called Putin’s bluff on Ukraine in NATO. That’s why he invaded Ukraine. We gave him an inch.
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  196.  @mulinzhan4167  Exactly. That’s why we need to get our manufacturing equipment out of Taiwan so the PRC can’t get its hands on it. The PRC has declared itself the enemy of the USA. So we need to rise to the challenge.
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  197. But does the PRC really want all foreign shipping and flights out of the space of the South China Sea? That would be kind of bad for their economy.
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  198. from Trump, that's a compliment.
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  199. Whenever countries do what is in their national interest, the PRC whines. They expect other countries to do what is in the PRC’s interests. Cry babies.
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  200. It doesn’t really matter how fast they pass, FDI is dying. This won’t help.
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  201. Prosperity Guardian is just USA window dressing. We no longer really care about the safety of oceanic shipping.
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  202. The USA needs to help the Philippines access the petroleum underneath the SCS. With American tech and skills, the Philippines can run rings around the PRC.
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  203. NAFTA and the EU need to work harder to close their consumer markets to the PRC.
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  204. Wow. This show did not age well.
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  205. World population was 2.4 billion in 1950. It’s 8.1 billion now. I think we’ll be fine.
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  206. The PRC should be “least favored nation.”
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  207.  @snapdragonzoroark  that's crazy. Deprived of American economic, military, and diplomatic support, Israel folds like a house of cards. And I am so looking forward to it.
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  208. The USA uses balloons? Really? Surely the Chinese can come up with better stuff than that.
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  209. LOL, Trump overplayed his hand. His tiny hand.
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  210.  @JohnJones-k9d  It’s called fiat currency. And ours is conservative compared to how Russia and China are printing money.
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  211. Listening to the PRC cry is music to my ears.
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  212. Trump has not talked about withdrawing from NAFTA, nor relinquishing control of the Western Hemisphere.
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  213.  @Dendarang  the EU would not exist but for globalization.
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  214. When they say “democracy,” they mean “direct democracy.” They don’t realize there are other forms of democracy.
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  215. Europe needs to spin up their armies, navies, and MIC’s.
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  216.  @williamalexander9485  It’s an options. The Europeans know that if Russia wins in Ukraine, that Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland are next. And then on to Sweden and Germany.. It’s the Europeans’ necks, not the Americans’.
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  217. The Nigerese should be able to make their choice of alliance. Let them see what Russia/China has to offer them.
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  218. Why would the USA want to talk to the PRC? We have nothing to say to one another.
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  219. What good does it do anyone to pretend the USA and PRC are not rivals and antagonists.
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  220. That is true. But even those stats are bad.
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  221.  @sportsfisher9677  So far, Putin has gone into Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbijan, and Ukraine. What makes you think he’ll stop now?
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  222. Shapiro would have categorically lost Michigan for the Dems.
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  223.  @Connor_Roush in the urban setting? Yes. Urbanization itself turn children from an economic asset to a liability. The cost of housing on top of that just adds fuel to the fire.
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  224. “De-risking” is just a decrease in trade between the trading blocs. This is not hard to understand.
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  225. Why are the Americans so chicken? The PRC has declared itself a rival and competitor to the USA. Why not decouple?
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  226. 2019 is not coming back in the lifetime of anybody alive today.
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  227. Why exactly must the USA work with the PRC? The PRC has declared itself to be a competitor to the USA. As for the ROC, the USA has been an ally of the ROC since before the PRC existed.
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  228. We really need to junk the WTO.
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  229. You would make a good journalist.
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  230. I for one am happy to see the end of the American Empire. I look forward to deglobalization, and competition between regional powers on the seas.
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  231.  @Roboticpycotic since Bretton Woods.
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  232. Why do foreigners even go to the PRC anymore?
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  233. The USA should just restrict North Carolina silicon from the PRC.
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  234. Why do the USA and PRC even talk anymore? We have nothing to say to one another.
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  235.  @ighdesigns  This is why the USA needs to restrict AI chip export to China. We need those chips to automate our own manufacturing, so cutting China out of the market.
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  236. I don’t see Tony as having anything to do with Zeihan. Tony is about hard numbers. Zeihan is about prognostication.
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  237. Finally. Other countries are stepping up and providing security on the high seas. The USA should not need to do it all.
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  238.  @skydragon23101979  There is no US dictatorship. And the USA is withdrawing economically from the rest of the world as fast as it can. It is withdrawing militarily, too, only not as fast. US troop deployments world wide are the lowest they’ve been in the post-WWII era, and getting smaller. This is according to al Jazeerah.
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  239. Get well soon!
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  240. I hope you are not surprised with Trump. We back in the States are not.
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  241.  @DK-ev9dg  exactly. The Chinese should defend their interests. And the USA should defend theirs. It is no longer advantageous for either country to work together. So decoupling from trade is the rational choice.
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  242.  @TacticalMayo  I think it would be better if they BRICS and Global South only trade within themselves, and economically decoupled from the G7 and the West.
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  243. And here I thought Chinese civil engineering was so superior to American. I remember the PRC rep taking pot shots at the USA during Katrina.
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  244. Gratz on 75k!
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  245. The PRC chose to support Russia against the EU. I don’t know what the PRC is complaining about.
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  246. Excellent news.
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  247. The international oil market is no longer a US interest.
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  248. They will never abandon wolf-warrior diplomacy.
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  249. Why can’t the illegitimate government in Beijing abdicate in favor of the legitimate government in Taipei?
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  250. Please do not feel you need to “make up” episodes on weekends. We are not working under 9-9-6, after all.
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  251. Anna is amazing. I love her vlog. I wish my fellow Americans weren’t so divided on foreign wars.
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  252. We can forgive any informality for your great China news.
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  253. Actually reading Zeihan, he predicted the fall of the PRC in the 20's. He seems on track with that prediction.
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  254. I’m sure Kissinger is not so loved in Laos and Cambodia.
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  255.  @rebym  not anymore. Their worker base is aging out. The cost of PRC labor is now double that of Mexican labor, and Mexican labor is more skilled. The PRC’s days as the world’s factory are over. Now, it’s just letting go of the sunk cost of physical plant, which the PRC will never let go. So corporations just need to cut their losses and abandon it.
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  256. Well, Pettis knows what he is talking about, and Tony knows this.
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  257. The EU is an export-led bloc. The PRC is an export-led bloc. Of course there is going to be some competition.
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  258.  @koiguidenishikigoi4972 because those weapons are almost out of date, and need to be used immediately.
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  259. He only really deals in official CCP statistics, just like Tony. They really have no cause to complain.
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  260. Square peg just will not fit in round hole, no matter how hard you push.
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  261. The Republican Party did this to the country. Good job.
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  262.  @brmnyc1984  exactly.
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  263. I think the iPhone getting banned in the PRC is hilarious. Apple deserves that knife in the back.
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  264.  @i6power30  the PRC is foolish enough.
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  265. Congratulations you two!
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  266. If the PRC is drowning, we need to throw it an anchor.
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  267. Yank here: we always knew Mango Mussolini was going to sell out Ukraine. That’s one of the reasons why so many of us opposed him. But we were not enough.
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  268. The amount of money we have given Israel is disgusting.
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  269. The Europeans need to step up with materiel deliveries. The Yanks can no longer be counted on.
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  270. The USA needs to get its chip fabrication factories out of Taiwan so we have no economic interests there.
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  271. This war was always going to happen, diplomacy or no.
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  272. Ah, the Chinese. The crybullies of the world.
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  273. We are only at the beginning of what surface drones are going to do to commercial shipping in the coming years.
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  274. I wonder when the Russians will start conscripting their young women?
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  275. I am making sure my portfolio has no China exposure these days.
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  276.  @russellspeed1693  yep
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  277. What possible reason is there for high-level visits between the USA and China? It's all been said.
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  278. Why not interrupt all their food exports as well?
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  279. Congrats on 70k! On to 75k!
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  280. The USA needs to stop supporting every country in the Middle East and strategically abandon the region.
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  281.  @trumpyla  when Putin is done with Ukraine, Moldova and Romania are next. Then on to Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.
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  282. The less globalization, the better.
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  283. Sounds like they need to restructure wealth and their economy.
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  284. This is a guy who did nothing but placate Putin. I’m not impressed.
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  285. If the ROC no longer wants to fight for its independence, I see no reason for the USA to do so.
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  286. I see no point in talking with the PRC. We have nothing to say to one another.
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  287. Let’s be honest: the vast majority of Americans do not know and do not care what happens beyond North America.
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  288. Why is there any need for high level communications between the USA and the PRC any longer? We really don’t have anything to talk about.
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  289. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. Why didn’t the Europeans spin up their armies and military manufacturing then?
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  290. Ukraine is not, and never has been, in NATO. No NATO nation has been attacked. Your thesis is invalid.
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  291. In a choice between demented Trump and demented Biden, I’ll take Biden.
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  292. China and the USA simply need to stop trading with each other, and a lot of this hostility will go away.
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  293. You don't really believe politicians can control inflation, do you? Please. This is structural. It doesn't matter who the politicians are.
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  294. Our politicians are just so massively stupid.
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  295. When we lived on the farm, children were an economic benefit. Now that we live in cities, they are an economic hindrance.
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  296. The sooner the USA and China can disentangle themselves economically, the better for all of us.
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  297. Is this man Germany’s answer to Donald Trump?
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  298. LOL. Her loyalty is to Putin.
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  299.  @fongponto  if that be the case, then they don’t need any of our stuff, anyway
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  300. I do not understand the PRC objections to :USA chip export controls. The PRC claims they are already ahead of the USA and Taiwan in chip design and manufacture. Why should USA chip exports matter to them?
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  301.  @SpyFromMarsZeus  no. Foolish enough to start one now.
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  302. If Belarus enters the war on the side of Russia, the war becomes an openly multilateral war. This would make it legitimate for other sides to enter the war. I don’t think Russia wants this.
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  303. If the CCP wants to be semi-conductor independent, why are they clamoring for imports?
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  304. The Chinese need Vietnam so much, they invade it.
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  305. The China can’t make its own chips? Hello?
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  306. Time to go French Revolution on the upper class, worldwide.
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  307. Yes. The end of the American Empire will be good for the world, good for the American people. World trade in commodities must end.
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  308. Blinken is an Israeli agent.
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  309. We need to pull everything back to the NAFTA system, including electronics. We need massive automation of manufacturing.
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  310. I thought we had nuclear subs all over the planet. I don’t see how this is news.
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  311. Israeli Iron Dome, provided by American taxpayers.
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  312. It is my hope the USA pulls the dollar as the global reserve currency. I also hope the IMF/WB are closed down. It would be beneficial if the US Navy stopped patrolling trade routes on the high seas.
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  313. Let’s assume the Chinese can surpass the USA/Japan/Holland/Taiwan/Korea in chip design and manufacture. Giggle. Where will they get the pure quartz needed for the chips?
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  314. The Joke-35 is totally detectable and will not fly, but is otherwise a great stealth aircraft.
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  315. We are living through the end of the post-WWII American Order.
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  316. Korea has made it too expensive to have kids. And the status of women is equally bad.
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  317. How about profit sharing?
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  318. India can be counted on to protect its interests. That is the only thing India can be counted upon.
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  319. What marijuana is Putin smoking?
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  320. More CCP crybullying.
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  321. The USA can always nationalize it.
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  322. We really need to openly give up on patrolling the global oceans.
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  323. Wagner v. SAS. Hmmmmm….no more Wagner.
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  324. 5 Eyes was always going to die under Krasnov.
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  325.  @noma5050  exactly.
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  326. It is far past time the American Empire ended.
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  327. Of course not. The CCP announces what growth should be, and the provinces then report those results. Simple.
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  328. Once a week sponsorships are fine. We all need to pay our bills.
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  329. Congratulations on 90k! On to 100k!
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  330. There are a record number of people in the world right now.
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  331. Once you start talking politics, you are talking opinion. That is no good. Tony is here to present the news, not to be a pundit.
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  332. The USA just needs to withdraw from the WTO.
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  333. How do their subpoenas have any authority outside their States?
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  334. Red Dawn was just ludicrous. Even us high school students laughed at it the time.
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  335. As a proud parent of 0 children, I am doing my part to contribute to the solution of the overpopulation problem.
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  336.  @frederickclause2694  they are going to have to go without. Cheap Chinese labor is over. Look at their demographics. Chinese labor is now twice the price of Mexican labor, and Mexican labor is more productive. China is just so over for the USA.
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  337. Every time the PRC eases capital controls, capital goes out of the PRC in a torrent, and they need to slam the door shut again.
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  338. I thought the PRC was self-sufficient, and did not need the USA for its development and enrichment.
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  339. I would like to see the cases against all other assisted reproductive technologies.
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  340. Russia is a massive exporter of food and fuel. China is the world's biggest importer of both. The USA does not need to engage China directly. All the USA needs to do is impose a complete naval blockade. And wait.
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  341. Shorter supply chains are essential to our survival.
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  342.  @mombaassa  point.
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  343.  antonystringfellow5152  also point.
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  344. India needs to start charging Chinese shipping in the Indian Ocean for safe passage.
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  345. Taft-Hartley needs to be repealed.
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  346. They should be building up their own countries.
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  347. You and Alina together are just hilarious. Thank you.
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  348. It’s true. If he built roads thru the desert for them, he did them a big solid.
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  349. Turnabout is always fair play. Cry more, PRC.
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  350. The USA has been in Europe since 1940. It’s past time we got out.
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  351. It is certainly going to be interesting. The PRC manufactures everything they are capable of manufacturing. The fact they they don’t make high end chips means that, at this time, they cannot. It will be interesting to see if they can copy that tech.
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  352. CIA employment contracts? Who knew? LOL
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  353. In other words: the American Empire, which has controlled the world since 1945, is ending. And the world is going back to normal. This is good.
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  354.  @thewingedhussar4188  prices will go up until we can build up the automated manufacturing here in the States, then they will go down. Textiles did that already. There is no supply chain in Asia that cannot be rebuilt in North America that is isn’t cheaper and higher quality than China.
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  355.  @NewGuyTcan  Uh, no.  The American citizen actually prospered greatly from jobs being sent overseas to China." No. Only the American bourgeoisie benefitted. The proletariat in the USA had only downward mobility.
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  356. If we get to the point of Russia hitting the USA with hypersonic missiles, then that is The End.
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  357. The impact of China on USA small business and manufacturing has been terrible. The sooner we can reshore our manufacturing from China and Taiwan, the better for all countries involved. The USA really needs to decouple from China. And the USA needs to engage in serious trust busting.
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  358. The WTO should be disbanded.
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  359. No. Manufacturing goes back to the States and Europe and is automated.
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  360. The ROC and PRC governments have always been separate sovereigns.
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  361.  @amitkerai4880  lol. We knew they were never going into Ukraine in 2013, too. There is nothing the Russians will not dare. They are desperate. And desperate people do desperate things.
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  362. It's going to be a poorer, more hostile world. When the maritime trade in food, fertilizer, medicine, and petroleum shuts down, things are going to get really bad.
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  363. The USA should have been finished with multilateralism when the Soviet Bloc ended in 1992. But we hung on because of the greed of our elite. We are finally getting around to exiting. Late is better than never. I'm not impressed with Trump exiting the WHO. Exiting the WTO is far the more important, but he didn't do that.
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  364.  @doujinflip  the USA and the PRC are now competitors. The PRC wants it that way. Fine. Let’s compete.
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  365. They started attacking their sponsors, the Russians and the Chinese.
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  366. Who is the PRC to tell the USA what they will and will not sell them? And the PRC has never ruled Taiwan. That is not a completely internal affair.
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  367. How would he like Christian altars destroyed?
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  368. I’ll take Peter the CIA asset any day over Donald the FSB asset.
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  369. Europe needs to spend a lot more money on the military if it is going to be independent.
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  370.  @KJSvitko  Turnabout is always fair play.
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  371. It would be best if the Americans stayed in their own hemisphere, and did not involve themselves in the eastern hemisphere.
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  372.  @true_xander  Europe. All those wars. All those millennia. No military industrial complex? Please.
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  373.  @paulmetcalfe4054  I work in a nursing home. Nobody’s children will be looking after me.
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  374. The USA needs to withdraw from the IMF/WB and the WTO.
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  375. The American people need to be disciplined.
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  376. The USA fought a war for South Korea.
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  377.  @bobboby3567  those of us who are proper Marxists have a very specific definition of that term. They seem to be using in the Fox News sense.
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  378. How much actual combat data exists on the J-16?
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  379. Automation is fine. Just make sure all the money saved goes to increased wages and more time off for workers. Make sure shareholders and management get nothing.
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  380. As long as the PRC doesn't use it for military ships, I don't see a problem. Huge, containerized shipping is not long for this world.
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  381. Doomerism is an excellent means to convince people to be childfree.
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  382.  @annaa3772  You realize the world population in 1950 was 2.5 billion? We had a quick increase, now comes the quick decrease. We’re just going to have to deal with it.
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  383. Hopefully, Trump will lean hard into deglobalization.
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  384. So we are going to waste a bunch of resources on moon bases? Noice.
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  385.  @Cyrus_T_Laserpunch  so what? The Russians started this fight. All's fair in love and war.
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  386.  @i6power30  the PRC has only been around since 1949, and only with American protection from outside forces.
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  387. While I believe all assisted reproductive technology is morally revolting, it’s really none of my business if somebody else is utilizing it.
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  388. I think we should stop protecting our allies, too. When have ever come and protected us?
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  389.  @bonanzatime  entitlements are drop in the bucket. If we didn't have our military and trade obligations in the world, we could afford a good national pension and socialized medicine like the rest of the civilized world, and not have any debt.
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  390.  @Musikvidedo  how about the money they save from automation, goes to the workers who remain, increasing their pay?
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  391.  @jerryrichardson2799  then where has it been all this time? The PRC makes all its money from exports, not from domestic consumption. If they had their own consumer market, the PRC would not be terrified of the USA and Europe closing their markets to PRC goods.
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  392. LMAO
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  393. The PRC declared a rivalry with the USA. They are sovereign, and that is their right. But the USA has a right to respond. Free trade is an American creation and benefit. And that benefit can be withdrawn from rivals.
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  394. This is what Trump was always going to do. If he betrays his own country to Russia, he will certainly betray another.
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  395. I think we should go for complete decoupling from the PRC.
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  396. Hopefully, the USA will have all its semiconductor fabs out of Taiwan by 27.
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  397.  @pro-libertatibus  wish I could claim credit. ;-)
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  398.  @J_X999  it certainly is. The Chinese can't project naval power beyond their own coast. They cannot challenge the Indian Navy in the Indian Ocean.
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  399. Is the USA-PRC relationship even worth discussing any longer?
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  400. Europeans should be in control, and responsible for, European security.
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  401. Interesting that a “communist” country would be worried about these issues.
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  402. A country NOT full of babies. That is their problem.
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  403. You forgot the Doomers. The Doomers believe there is no solution, and our species is inevitably headed to extinction, regardless of what we do or don’t do.
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  404. I honestly don't know what you are all complaining about. Wolf-Warrior Diplomacy did what it was intended to do. As did the One Child Policy.
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  405. “Engineering troops.” LOL.
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  406. “Millennials have been placed in a far worse financial position than prior generations.” Generation X snickers.
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  407.  @badart3204  so we're giving them our tax money to give to our weapons manufacturers. We are privatizing public money. Still a bad deal.
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  408.  @death_parade  Good. Hopefully the USA can ignore the Indian Ocean completely, and leave security to the Indians.
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  409.  @TomTomicMic  that’s up to the Europeans.
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  410. The Saudis are the perfect partners for the Israelis. They are soul brothers.
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  411. I used to think the Ford Pinto was explodey. Well, it’s been blown away by Chinese EV’s.
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  412.  @skydragon23101979  How many foreign nations does the USA currently rule? Not one. As for the WTO, we should withdraw from that, in any event. And what new bases in SE Asia are you talking about, specifically?
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  413.  @ArariaKAgelessTraveller  Interesting how the PRC doesn’t allow journalists to film outside the tier cities. I wonder why?
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  414. Why not just raise tariffs on Chinese EV’s such that they cannot compete in the European or American markets?
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  415. Kathleen Kennedy is a public figure. Good luck on any lawsuit.
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  416. I am an American. Rittenhouse is definitely a vigilante. He wasn't defending himself in his home. He was going out and hunting other people.
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  417. Elon is doing his best for China.
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  418. Religion is a mental disease.
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  419.  @Dariusz_1.618  1. The US dollar being the global currency is a drag on the American economy. The sooner that stops, the better. 2. The Red Sea may not be. But the Indian Ocean certainly is.
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  420.  @horridohobbies  everything you just wrote is wrong.
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  421.  @SnowmanTF2  It’s not going to happen over night. But we are moving it back to North America, Central America, and parts of South America.
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  422. I’m sure most Americans would be more than happy to go back to the pre-1945 world, too. I’m surprised the Chinese want to go back to the pre-1945 world. It was not favorable to them.
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  423. You report. I have not heard you include your views, ever. And I appreciate that.
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  424. Truth.
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  425. Capitalists got greedy. So people stopped having kids. Now capitalists are crying because they don’t have any cattle.
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  426. Hong Kong is toast.
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  427. The PRC has a good name to tarnish?
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  428. How well does the Chinese Air Force perform in combat?
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  429. We really need to exit the IMF and the WB. The sooner we can exit the Bretton Woods policies, the better.
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  430. Tony really is excellent.
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  431. No Eastern Hemisphere armed forces are allowed in the Western Hemisphere without permission from the USA.
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  432. Everybody missed how Ukraine would last. Peter said they would last longer than any other the other geos did.
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  433. How much of Iraq is the USA currently occupying?
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  434. Democratic Party.
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  435. He’s correct. Europe is a cesspool, and always has been. OTOH, if he wants his nation to trade with the USA, he must care. Realpolitik.
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  436. The PRC claims it is a developing country?
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  437. With the end to the international trade in medicine, food, fertilizer, and pesticides, the population of Africa is going to shrink considerably.
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  438. Why would anybody attack Dolly Parton?
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  439. There is no reason for the USA and the PRC to meet. The best thing that can happen is decoupling, and the USA to recognize the ROC.
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  440. But if she picked Shapiro, she would lose Michigan. WIth Walz, he will get MI, and might get PA.
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  441.  @SpartasEdge  Indeed, but it must be done, sooner or later. Might as well get it over with.
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  442. @ Ukraine was supposed to be completely conquered in 2 weeks of the special military operation.
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  443. I think this is one of those circumstances in which it should be illegal to contract. That would make all such contracts unenforceable.
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  444. Silly. The American Civil War just went from a hot war to a cold war. There has been no change since 1865.
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  445. How is asking a woman a risk? The first time I propositioned a girl, I was 12.
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  446. Think you are giving Trump too much credit
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  447.  @henli-rw5dw  they all go together.
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  448.  @blazer9547  Anatomically, yes. Behaviorally, no.
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  449. I think we should demand negotiations once Russia withdraws from Ukraine. We need a negotiated settlement to this war.
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  450. The Chinese whine neverendingly about other countries doing to them what they routinely do to those other countries.
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  451. The USA needs to complete a strategic withdrawal from the entire region, including the Levant, Arabia, Egypt, and Persia. The USA should stop all financial, military, and diplomatic support for all factions in the region. It no longer matters to the USA if oil flows from the Persian Gulf. Not our problem.
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  452. The USA just needs to give up on being the guarantor of ocean transport. It’s too expensive, and we don’t have the fleet configured for it anymore.
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  453.  @oskartheme5233  No, that’s repatriating stolen wealth.
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  454. LOL.
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  455.  @I_am_not_a_bot-s6i  Russia is a sovereign. It can insure its own grain shipments. The agreement was over physical security, not financial infrastructure. Since that’s off, the USA can now start physically interrupting Russian shipments of grain. Fair is fair.
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  456. If you have only 63% of the market, you do not have a monopoly.
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  457. I know I’m sounding like a broken record, but was the UN just a part of the American post-WWII Empire? Now that the American Empire is falling apart, why would we expect it to function?
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  458.  @EdwardThatch-ee7yx  Also, it is Russia that has invaded Ukraine, and not NATO that has invaded Russia. So if you’re worried about Doomsday, you need to complain to Putin.
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  459. @ the Budapest Memorandum wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on. Ukraine should never have given up its nukes.
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  460. China: “the West wants to maintain its wealth and power.” The West: “well, duh!”
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  461. Tony sounds like a Kiwi to me.
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  462. I think the USA-PRC relationship would improve if we did not have so many clashes over trade. I think ending the trade relationship would bring less conflict.
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  463. The USA really needs to withdraw from the WTO.
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  464. To my northern Michigan ears, you do not have an accent.
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  465. As long as they don’t build any fab facilities in the PRC, I’m good with it.
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  466. Decoupling from Europe and the States may well send those economies into depression. But it would totally destroy the PRC as a viable nation state.
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  467. We need to stop exporting food beyond North America.
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  468.  @patrickdoherty4527  All. If it’s not natural, it’s not meant to be. I think. It’s kind of like the modern Frankenstein. But again, this is only my opinion. I have no intention to use the law to impose my morals on other people.
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  469.  @FlukasGuru  Yes. Violence by a paramilitary group against a civilian population to affect political change.
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  470.  @tonysu8860  But it’s not the USA’s job to solve internal Chinese problems, especially now that China is demanding the USA not intervene in internal affairs. So I think the best solution for both countries is to break off the global trade.
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  471. Blinken is such a timid tool.
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  472. The PRC has a consumer market?
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  473. The infrastructure to make our own rare earths is already built out in the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany, and Mexico. The PRC tried the rare earth embargo back in 2010. So all these countries built out the infrastructure, but just didn’t start using it, as the PRC backed off. They do the embargo, and it will have 0 effect. I think the idiot Chinese forget that the West invented this tech in the first place.
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  474. “The quality will improve.” I’ve heard that about China before.
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  475. Her prescriptions sound like prescriptions for divorce to me.
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  476. The skipper’s career may or may not have ended. It depends upon whether or not he spiffed POTUS.
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  477.  @aclearlight  psychiatry professor
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  478. Good heavens, man. Rest your voice! We will still be here.
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  479. Excellent! I learned about the White Rose in high school in Iowa in the 80’s.
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  480. Tofu dreg nuclear reactors. What could possibly go wrong?
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  481. The sooner we can get out of involvement in Israel/Palestine, the better.
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  482. I wish the BRICS luck. I would very much like to see the end of the American Order. This would include an end to freedom of navigation of the seas, of course. But I don't think the BRICS nations would like not being able to send or receive commodities (especially petroleum) via the ocean. So I don't understand why the BRICS nations would like to see the end of the American Order.
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  483. @ I don’t think any place sane wants the Israelis, any more than the Palestinians.
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  484. Separating sex from reproduction is one of the greatest advances in humanity.
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  485. Abrahamic religion doesn’t work if women aren’t subservient.
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  486. Wolf-Warrior Diplomacy. It’s OK. China has said it wants competition with the USA. And the USA is responding appropriately. I do not see the problem.
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  487. If Russia torpedos Ukrainian grain exports, the USA should torpedo Russian grain exports.
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  488.  @scipion34  not quite what I mean. If you have children is profoundly personal. I’m just surprised people talk about other people having children, similar with aborting pregnancies. It’s a supremely personal decision.
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  489. Eroding globalization is something the USA should work toward.
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  490. Just let the Houthis have the Red Sea. Let Egypt deal with them.
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  491. You both spent decades supporting the Republican Party. Why are you complaining now?
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  492. Trump won by lying, as always. But lies have a way of destroying you in the end. And even though it has just begun, Trump’s second term is already crashing.
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  493.  @Headonwriter  OK. But China does not agree with the existence of international law.
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  494. @hieveryone2003 well then, if they would rather die than lose face, I say we help them along to that end.
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  495. Look at these guys carrying water for capitalists. It’s disgusting.
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  496. Now there is a contradiction in terms.
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  497. Why does the PRC need ASML need to service its machines? The PRC is so smart, and says they can do everything themselves, anyway.
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  498. All US goods and services involving prison labor should be banned.
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  499. Work is good. You can get a job. Your employer can make you a schlemazel. You can be used and abused. Your employer gets rich off your work.
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  500. I do not understand the objections to pornography, from either direction. If people wish to make it, and others want to view it, it’s their business. As long as you don’t seek it out, it’s not intrusive.
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  501. But the breaking of the G20 is good. The end of world trade is good. Why complain about it?
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  502. Wow. This is a load of “both sides” reporting.
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  503. If TSMC wants to keep using American technology, then it needs to accede to American security rules.
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  504. Religion? Do we really need fairy tales for anything but entertainment?
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  505.  @Leshic2  all good points. I think time will resolve the China question. There is no need to force it. The PRC is no condition to force anybody to do anything. As the Taiwanese make closer alliance with Japan, I think it will be well. The demography of the PRC is terminal. And with the end of globalized trade, the PRC will be deprived of fuel for its economic engine, both literally and figuratively. So I think we can just wait, and allow to to solve this conflict.
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  506. There are two such factories in my state of Iowa. There might be more.
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  507. How many "you knows" is an interviewer allowed in an interview?
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  508. I wonder how they would have done with no USA help.
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  509. The Danes need to close their straits to Russian and Chinese shipping.
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  510.  @guens01  everything but low-end consumer goods. We need to make those again. We’ve found a way to make textiles again with only 2 staff, from raw fibers to finished article. Cheaper than China, and better quality. We need to do that for all other consumer goods.
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  511. The PRC is already lost as an American export market. Time to break off trade relations with the PRC. It would be nice if the USA withdrew from the WTO as well. It’s way past time we closed the USA consumer market to all but our best allies.
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  512. The Pill wasn't adopted in Japan until the 90's. Still had a sexual revolution in the 60's.
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  513. The Europeans can make their own choices as to where their interests lie.
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  514. We need to start FICA taxes on the assets of rich people and corporations.
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  515. @ it’s not a question of “harkening.” That’s just the world as it was, as it operated for most of human history. The past 75 years have been an aberration, and are not sustainable. At least the pre-American system was sustainable.
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  516. @ The opposite of rainbows and unicorns. When freedom of navigation of the sea shuts down, and the global trade international trade in commodities ends, it’s going to be mass starvation. World population at the beginning of the American Empire in 1950 was 2.4 billion. The structures supporting our population growth since then are about to go away.
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  517. Look I’m happy the USA is providing military aid to Ukraine, but the look here is like we owe it to them. Where are the European arms manufacturers?
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  518.  @sadfasde3108  it's worth it.
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  519.  @redstonerelic  they have been moving back since 2015. But you don’t move $35 trillion in manufacturing plant over night.
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  520. If this happens every year, why isn’t the infrastructure built with it in mind?
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  521. The PRC has never included the ROC.
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  522. We need more of this. We need a lot more piracy on the high seas. We need to shut down global shipping for all but those who have the navies to guard their own shipping.
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  523. If Biden gets the USA into another Mideast war, I’m not voting tor them.
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  524. Russia needs to give up Crimea plus for a ceasefire.
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  525. Republicans must be so proud right now.
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  526. Our borders are plenty secure. I went to Texas last year. There was no invading army that I could see.
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  527. I think we should strategically withdraw all aid from all countries and all peoples in the Middle East. Let them figure things out with our interference.
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  528. This is good news. The world is so overpopulated.
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  529. Peter is from Iowa. You know, Iowa, the Land Between the Rivers. We have water coming out our ears.
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  530. Looks like a job for American attack submarines.
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  531.  @carlosdelvalle5417 how are they going to trade with them in case of a war?
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  532. Trump is finally starting to get his just desserts.
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  533. Watching the USA withdraw from protecting shipping in real time is very cool.
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  534. People getting Trumped.
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  535. The Atlantic coast of the USA is not under threat. The Pacific territories of the USA are under threat. NATO helps the USA not at all right now with its current threat.
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  536. It’s about urbanization and there is no economic incentive to have children.
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  537. Israel is only able to maintain their birth rate from US subsidization.
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  538.  @ytterbium2764  so what? Let somebody else police the place for a change. It’s on the other side of the planet. Not our circus, not our monkeys.
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  539. If you have nuclear weapons, you are not a “developing nation.”
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  540. I remember the end of the Trump presidency. Everybody out of work and everything shut down and worrying about dying of COVID. No thank you.
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  541. Why were those troops on the ground in the Middle East in the first place? Why weren’t they long out of there?
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  542. The USA needs to work harder on decoupling with China.
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  543.  @susieare  for many people, it is an insurmountable barrier. Until we reorganize our economy, so that jobs come to families, and not families to jobs, we will continue to have broken families.
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  544.  @jaydee6268  by that reasoning, all countries are developing countries. So they don’t need any concessions from the World Bank/IMF or WTO, do they?
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  545.  @jakemocci3953  our border is fine. I’ve live on the north border, and visit the south border frequently. There is no “invasion” at either border. That is fake news by Trump and his followers.
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  546. The PRC wants to see shipping costs go up? How about the US Navy start preying on international shipping? That will show them costs going up.
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  547. I think the PRC has made itself understood quite clearly.
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  548. We already know they are going to blame the pilot.
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  549. Can't have a global market without global consumers. Producers are only half the story, and the easy half at that.
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  550.  @mortenvanlinden567  exactly. Putin forced the issue. And Russian demographics force Putin. It’s a tragedy. But there it is.
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  551.  @tann_man  but none of those are anti-natalism in the strict, philosophical sense. These are practical sentimentalities. These can be changed through improving the conditions of life. A strict, philosophical anti-natalism is impervious to any sort of external conditions or arguments.
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  552. Who signs a contract without having their own lawyer vet it?
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  553.  @ruweidak3158  we do stupid things when we act in desperation. It is true.
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  554.  @true_xander  the USA never should have got involved in the World Wars. See what we have as a result of it.
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  555. The PRC is getting desperate.
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  556. When the USA fully backs everything you do: economically, socially, politically, militarily, and diplomatically, it’s not hard at all to be successful.
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  557. Exactly.
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  558. LOL. They can go after it all they want. With the end of secure, cheap transoceanic shipping, it won’t matter.
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  559.  @zhanjas  why would I need to? I know the quality and reliability of other Chinese products. The cars can’t be any different.
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  560.  @zhanjas  the less the PRC and USA have to do with one another, the better.
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  561. De-dollarization will be great for the States. It will hasten economic decoupling from the PRC which is good.
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  562. Yes. The West can more than keep up. All the West needs to do close its import and export markets to China. The West will experience some pain. But China will deindustrialize and starve in the cold and dark.
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  563. It depends upon what you mean by “freedom.”
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  564. I dated a woman with BPD. The lesson I learned: don’t.
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  565. UBI is the way to go. Take from the thieves (capitalists) and give to the people.
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  566. Gingrich went to Taiwan in 97. I fail to see how this is any different.
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  567. Decoupling is the way to go for the USA. The PRC are just parasites and competitors.
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  568. @ that may be. But talk to the Europeans. This is a war for their safety. I don’t know why they aren’t taking it seriously. They’ve had 2 years to spin up their military industrial complex, and recruit and train new armies. They haven’t done it.
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  569. Who does the PRC think it is to tell the USA who it can get close to, and how much? What is the PRC going to do, stop exporting products to the USA?
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  570.  @thomasherrin6798  well then, that is their problem.
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  571.  @mohamedali2858  Israel still exists. That’s a successful investment.
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  572. Shapiro would have guaranteed the loss of Michigan’s senate seat and its electoral votes.
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  573. The USA really needs to stop policing the world, especially the sea lanes. It needs to pull out of Europe and the Middle East, and concentrate on its territories in East Asia.
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  574.  @minavanderleest9493  Yes, I did. “Overpopulation” depends upon the metric you utilize. By the metric of food in mouthes, and roofs over heads, this planet is way overpopulated.
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  575. He has only himself to blame.
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  576. No need for mass abortion or euthanasia. Just make abortion, contraception, and sterilization freely and easily available from adolescence on up. Make having and raising children very expensive. Cut social services for children. The problem will take care of itself.
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  577. Why don't the Houthis just charge for safe passage like a normal country?
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  578. Why would the US use its navy to directly combat the Chinese? The point of a navy is you attack the enemy when and where you wish. Rather than attack China directly, the US what shut down all shipping into and out of China, and China could do nothing about it.
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  579.  @bonanzatime  we have debt because we’ve been protecting our allies.
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  580.  @juskis01  why were we in Africa in the first place, hmmmm?
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  581.  @birdgirl1516  the PRC could never be a power, let alone a superpower, sans American sponsorship.
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  582.  @bwarre2884  We got little sympathy and no help after 9/11. And we got 9/11 because we were guaranteeing European oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. No involvement in the Middle-east, no attacks. That simple.
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  583. Why doesn’t the PRC just put up capital controls, and stop all foreigners from removing any assets from the PRC?
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  584. Why are the navies of the local nations in the area not policing their own seas?
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  585. Why do all these Europeans think the USA has a duty to interfere in European wars? We really don’t like being dragged into European wars. I wish we would leave NATO.
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  586. I hope some day the Chinese people can get out from under the CCP. They deserve so much better.
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  587. Yeah, so?
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  588. Unions represent the interests of the workers. Shippers represent the interests of the shippers. What’s the problem with that?
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  589.  @jeffreyschnedar8020  but given Chinese demography, the days of corporations using cheap Chinese labor are over. It doesn’t matter what the corporations do or don’t want.
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  590. Conservatism has led to Trump.
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  591. Lesson: the USA needs a complete strategic withdrawal from the Middle East .
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  592. This is an excellent opportunity for the USA to end its strategic overwatch of the Middle-east. We have no interests there anymore.
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  593. What goes around, comes around.
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  594. But he didn’t need to take all of Georgia. He just need to control the access way into the Russian heartland. That’s what all those wars are about.
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  595. Lol
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  596. Americans were never going to pay for Europe’s defense indefinitely. We have our own territory in the Pacific, which is about to be invaded by the Chinese. We need our forces over there. And Europe made it quite clear it would not help us in Pacific. So we are doing what we must.
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  597. @ we think that was always going to be the case. So nothing lost.
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  598. If the CCP wants to have people consume more, it needs to raise incomes so that people have money to spend. This is not complicated.
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  599. They unsubscribed me to your channel! So I just resubbed!
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  600.  @dcc70  USA needs to leave the WTO, too.
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  601. So much this.
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  602. Exactly how does Brazil import or export anything without at least the tacit assent of the USA?
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  603.  @Shikuesi  nothing we can really do about that.
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  604. Trump is going to give the American people what they deserve.
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  605.  @SpruceWood-NEG  It might. But think of what a law like this would do to Europe and China. Their economies are export based. And the USA is the single biggest export market. A law like this would give some negotiating power to bring back our ship building industry, no?
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  606. Did Xi then have all the foreign execs jailed for espionage?
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  607. National shame and disgrace
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  608. If you buy oil from the Persian Gulf, you deserve to lose everything.
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  609. Because cheese is good?
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  610. The USA would like to disregard the Eastern Hemisphere. We are trying.
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  611. There really is no point to the USA trying to engage with China diplomatically. They will not be happy until they have their hands on all our best chips. So it is best we just get our stuff out of the PRC and ROC as quickly as possible, and be gone.
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  612. New Braunfels!
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  613. The USA needs to withdraw from the WTO.
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  614. “Aid” won’t help the industrial scale famine brought about by the end of commercial shipments of food and fertilizer.
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  615. Tony, you realize you are committing intentional acts of journalism?
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  616. The USA didn’t colonize North America. The Europeans colonized North America.
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  617. Stores are located where they can turn a profit. No profit, no store.
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  618. Human life kind of sucks, generally.
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  619. It will be interesting when the PRC moves to seize eastern Siberia.
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  620. The CCP China make the high end on its own, that it doesn’t need Western equipment. So why doesn’t it just do it?
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  621. Israel gives the USA nothing. In fact, they act against us. Why we support them, I don’t know.
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  622. Capitalism assumes an ever-increasing labor force and access to resources. Neither is the case anymore.
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  623. Why does Israel get Western support?
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  624. Why do people care so much about this?
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  625. WW3 started when Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  626.  @960john  post WWII, Europe desperately needed free trade. It needed to be able to export to the US consumer market, in order to export its way back to wealth.
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  627. I still laugh when they leave out Australia and New Zealand as members for the global south.
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  628. Two can play at that game.
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  629. I know this vlog wasn’t intended to be comedy, but it is comedy gold.
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  630. Congratulations!
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  631. Men are too dangerous right now. We need to become less dangerous.
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  632. Why should individuals think on a macro level?
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  633.  @RCCarDude  I’m sure that may be true for some people. But for me, it’s not important at all.
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  634.  @Ariel-x1x  they are public transport. They aren’t supposed to make a profit.
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  635. They also don’t pay taxes or consume.
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  636. Auckland International is a lovely airport. I love it.
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  637. Lol. I wish them the best of luck.
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  638. Why buy bonds that will never be paid?
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  639. We need to get rid of this “freedom of navigation” nonsense. The seas are free to those strong enough to sail them. Ultimately, this means the Americans and their allies can sail the seas. Others need not apply.
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  640. Why do these “allies” want to make China a stronger military power?
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  641. I still use my iPhone 13 mini. And I love it.
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  642. Wow. I didn’t know Dalio rambled like that in interviews.
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  643.  @rebym  I don’t as if the USA is actually undermining China. China openly challenged the US for supremacy, and the US is answering that challenge.
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  644. Socialism with Chinese characteristics: state capitalism with lots of foreign capital from capitalist countries
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  645. @ Everything. The designs all come from the States. The lithographs come from Holland. The Taiwanese operate the machines.
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  646. Boeing needs to be run by engineers, not bean counters. Bean counters will always fail at this.
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  647. I am so ready for the post-WWII American Order to be over with, and everything that goes with it.
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  648.  @Zei33  it’s still a civilian.
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  649.  @skydragon23101979  but there is no longer any American exceptionalism. That is the point. There is nobody who can guarantee the safety of world trade, not the USA, and nobody has an interest to do so. So nobody will. So the world will return to regionalized trade, which it should. Global trade is a bad idea, and it always was. The Americans imposed it on the planet, and I’m glad it’s dying.
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  650. Israel has a generous social safety net funded by the USA. They are a parasitic society.
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  651.  @米空軍パイロット  afford does not matter. Food as a weapon matters.
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  652.  @stephenhowes6509  LOL
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  653. The USA should just drop providing security in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. Let the locals do it.
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  654. If they don’t need Western modernization, then they really don’t need Western tech imports and Western consumer markets for exports.
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  655.  @homewall744  it should. But it's going to have consequences, as above.
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  656.  @David-cj8wv  the grandparents cannot take care of the grandchildren when they are severely demented.
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  657. It’s going to be interesting when the subcontinent goes dry.
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  658. It would be useful if you would point out how the American Empire is fundamentally different than any empire that has come before, in both military and economic terms. And, therefore, how its fall is different than the fall of any empire that has come before.
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  659. The IMF and WB should be disbanded, and all the debt cancelled.
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  660. We can counter that by increasing tariffs on all Chinese goods.
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  661. I used to support this nonsense. But nothing we do works. It keeps going on and on.
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  662. The PRC needs to switch from an export-led economy to a consumption-led economy.
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  663.  @randar9884  excellent! If the USA has no say in this, we can just leave.
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  664.  @TacticalMayo  also important is ending freedom of navigation of the seas for commodities like food, fertilizer, and petroleum.
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  665. @we’ve had constant wars since WWII
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  666.  @rathelmmc3194  no. The wolves need sheep to eat.
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  667.  @bakedpotato420  if you grew up with younger siblings, you know what it’s like to have kids.
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  668. @ Harris is infinitely more competent than Trump.
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  669. I find Peter solidly Right wing.
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  670. Nobody is going to lose a nature instilled in them by billions of years of evolution.
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  671. What is this obsession with happiness?
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  672.  @cinemaclassica492  no, but happiness is way overrated.
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  673.  @cinemaclassica492  why not? Most of life is just the struggle to keep living. Happiness happens once in awhile. That’s plenty.
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  674. Once global shipping shuts down, all the high-growth countries will experience a large population correction.
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  675. We must be ready to combat the Chinese. And we should stop trading with them.
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  676. The PRC still has way too large a trade surplus. We need to whittle that down to 0.
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  677.  @spartancrown who cares if the CCP goes or not?
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  678.  @realnapster1522  of course it can. It is the rule of might makes right. The European colonization of the world happened because they had the power to do it. People from the Third World may want to move to the lands of colonizers, but they lack the power to do it.
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  679. @ There are already North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine. It’s already a world war. Russia started this war. They have no cause to complain when their opponents counterattack.
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  680. The very idea of buying a Chinese car is laughable. It would kill me, and others.
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  681. Wow! You found a moment on the Route Burn Track when it was not raining!
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  682. Because Putin controls the Republican Party.
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  683. Employers have been ghosting employees for generations. Past time for them to get ghosted.
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  684. I think all the Bretton Woods institutions, the American World Order, need to go. The UN, NATO, the WTO, the WB, the IMF, the WHO, UNCLOS, all these multilateral institutions, need to go. We need to go back to the world as it was before the Americans mucked it up in 1945. We need to go back to a system of regional powers and exclusive, regional, trading blocs.
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  685. Please just stop the gold BS
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  686. I would like to see the USA out of NATO and the WTO.
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  687. @ can you?
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  688. How about we raise wages so that 1 parent can provide for the children completely, and the other one can stay home with the children?
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  689.  @zzbeasley  well then, let’s get out of the debt trap business.
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  690. Thank you Finland, from the USA.
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  691. I think the Levant is the most dangerous flash point in the world.
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  692. Poor guy. :-(
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  693. The wolves are furious because the sheep are not reproducing.
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  694. Should the USA really involve itself in Eastern Hemispheric wars anymore?
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  695. I don’t understand. The PRC is the second largest economy in the world, with a purchasing power parity greater than the USA. It’s almost as if the PRC is lying about the size of its economy and the standard of living of its people…
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  696. Nobody takes the piss out of Trump like Zeihan. And he does it without being at all partisan.
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  697. But this is a case of constitutional law, not criminal law.
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  698. @ I have a lot of colleagues in the federal civil service. Everything he is saying is based.
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  699. @ NATO should have been disbanded in 1992.
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  700. LOL. He imports North Korean Army, and the West is escalating?
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  701.  @paison812  yes. And we need to keep those high wages, and keep cheaply manufactured foreign products out.
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  702. I am glad the Senate has not ratified UNCLOS. I want to see the end of freedom of navigation of the seas, and a return to regionalism and to state piracy. That will do more to end globalization than anything else.
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  703. The Deep State is just old money.
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  704. Russia is getting help from China, N Korea, and Iran. They are using those weapons in Ukraine. Why can’t Ukraine use its allies weapons in Russia?
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  705. The first time kids did not do as well as their parents was Gen X.
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  706. Why not just abandon the Red Sea? It’s too much trouble.
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  707. Trust my life to a Chinese built aircraft? Nope.
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  708. The period between WWII and now is very atypical for the world. The USA was left as the world’s only global navy. And we made a point of guarding all the sea lanes with our ships at our expense. Hopefully, we are past that now. Our tax dollars need to go to protecting our shipping, and interfering with our competitors’ shipping. The world needs to get back to a more normal maritime transport environment.
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  709.  @nunyabusiness863  for some of us, we want to see trade between the USA and the PRC shut down. We want to see the USA withdraw protection for PRC shipping. Indeed, some of us would not complain if the US Navy starting preying on PRC commercial shipping.
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  710. Russia claims it downed ATACMS before they were launched!
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  711. Why Putin encouraged Finland and Sweden to join NATO, I don’t understand.
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  712.  @inbb510  not talking about political incentives. Talking about physical space to raise children, cost of raising children, and opportunity cost of raising children. I am speaking of physical geography and the structure of the political economy.
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  713. Men are the biggest winners in the Sexual Revolution. Now I've heard everything.
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  714. Both Trump and Biden have dementia. What do we do?
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  715. Does Putin not know that the USA has nukes as well as Russia?
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  716. Think of what will happen if the USN goes from protecting global shipping, to preying upon it.
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  717. Things will be much better once the world is deglobalized.
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  718. All members of AIPAC should be compelled to register of foreign agents.
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  719. You realize most Americans can't stand LA. They are not representative of the rest of us.
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  720. We need to pass the Jones Act for our roads and highways, too.
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  721. Practically, how do you help relatives with small children, if you are living hundreds of miles from them?
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  722. How many countries can the USA rely upon for its national security? Turnabout is always fair play.
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  723. Biden needs to impound all aid to Israel until the Republicans let Ukraine aid flow.
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  724. Swedish Marines are also known as Vikings.
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  725. The USA needs to abandon the Middle East and focus on China and Ukraine.
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  726. How can any province miss its growth target? Xi announces what growth he wants, and the bureaucrats in the provinces duly report that growth, plus some extra. It’s always been that way with CCP government.
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  727. Yes. This is a problem. My solution would be for the US to largely withdraw from global affairs.
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  728.  @Barnaby33YT but that’s the thing. There will not be a new boss.
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  729. This guest needs to lay off the caffeine.
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  730. Congratulations!
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  731.  @KarlaKloppstock  in a nuclear exchange, everybody is suffering the consequences. There are no bystanders.
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  732. Your headline is silly.
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  733. I thought Texas wasn’t in to formal education to begin with.
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  734.  @catinbootsnow4267  they can try. But the monetary policy talks, and bullshit walks.
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  735. What isolationism, indeed. We still have 700+ military bases all over the world.
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  736. Zeihan never sad any such thing. You got evidence?
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  737. I think this hilarious. Men drop out of college. Then they complain when college-educated women won't mate with them.
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  738. Zeihan said Trump would lose to Biden. If Biden wasn’t the Dem candidate, all bets were off.
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  739. We need to make sterilization more available to young men and women. Monkeying around with the hormones is bad.
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  740.  @skylinefever  they would. Took me 14 years of doctor shopping to get mine.
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  741. I don't know why they let Trump run either.
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  742. The sooner we withdraw from NATO, the better.
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  743. Mexicans produce the consumer products, Yanks grow the food. Win-win
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  744. Yes. I can’t wait until the USA withdraws its protection of the sea lanes. I can’t wait till the USA closes all its overseas bases. I can’t wait till the USA on shores all manufacturing to North America.
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  745. Regarding TikTok, the Chinese are such a loathsome, cry bully people. Shame.
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  746. Modern PRC was entire built with Western capital and Western security guarantees. The Communists are delusional, as always.
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  747. The PRC crybullies.
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  748.  @frankcrozier2592  actually no. China does not have the right to do business with any they are welcome. They have a right to do business with any country the USA approves of.
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  749.  @gettinglucky  exactly
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  750. We are working hard to push against Trump and his Russian agents here in the States. You have our deepest sympathies.
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  751. They can’t sell anything if US ships torpedo the Russian ships.
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  752.  @NullHand  that, too.
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  753.  @mrwpg the transistor was invented in the USA, and should have stayed in the USA.
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  754. Touché.
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  755. Like everything Chinese, they are flimsy, and don’t last.
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  756. @ It’s certainly better than the PRC government, which has 1 person determine how 1.4 billion people are governed.
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  757. Putin is just being pathetic now.
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  758. You can choose the PRC all you want. Not a penny of my money goes there.
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  759. Trump is a showman and an idiot. He is not a serious politician or statesman.
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  760. The USA staying neutral in WWI. That is what should have happened. Then we never would have needed bother with WWII.
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  761. Americans think about other countries?
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  762. All that needs to happen is Russia withdraws from Ukraine completely. That would make peace easy.
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  763. Well, this is disappointing news. I was hoping for more USA/PRC disconnect, not less. When the USA and PRC talk, American workers suffer.
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  764. Withdrawing the dollar as the world currency would be good for the USA. And it would do more for deglobalization than anything I think.
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  765. Trump is a clod. And anybody with half a brain knew it.
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  766. Yes, Ukraine is being destroyed. Who is destroying Ukraine?
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  767. South Carolina is a giant sphincter and it shows.
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  768.  @queenj.8i895  Nonsense. Sex can totally be causal. You may or may not invest anything “spiritual” into it. Different strokes for different folks.
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  769.  @sabin97  those are fighting words. We certainly are 50 separate States, with separate sovereignty. It will interesting to see these Southern filth try to enforce their subpoenas across State lines.
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  770. You do a wonderful job, Tony!
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  771. Happy Birthday!
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  772. “Stealth” fighters
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  773. The US just needs to giver up playing world police. We don’t need it.
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  774. The environmentalists want there to be no commodity or industrial shipping at all.
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  775. Anyone who is or was a Republican since Nixon took over is contaminated by MAGA. They are not trustworthy.
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  776. The UN is just an American security ploy. It needs to be disbanded.
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  777. Hopefully, this will convince the USA to end its involvement in the Middle-east entirely.
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  778. You are great! Thank you for this!
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  779. The USA needs to focus on making goods and food and fuel for North America only.
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  780.  @uberman6023  lol
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  781. White people really shouldn’t travel to the Bahamas on vacation.
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  782. The Baby Boomers paid double SS. But it was borrowed by Repubs to pay for tax cuts and Iraq. Tax that money back, and SS is fine.
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  783. The population of Africa in 1950 was 220 million. With the American Empire and the Green Revolution, it has surged to 1.5 billion. With the end of the Green Revolution, and the freedom of the seas it is built upon, the population of Africa will go back to being 220 million in short order. :-(
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  784. Regionalization, yes!
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  785. Not if Biden just disappears Trump.
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  786. The Russians are so whiny.
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  787. How about we just get rid of the global economy completely?
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  788. The EU and the USA really need to sever trade relations with the PRC, no matter how much it hurts.
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  789. Colonial Apologism Lite
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  790.  @patriciasanderson2171  There is no way to balance outright evil.
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  791.  @black-aliss  that would depend upon why and how long it is being used. If it's for temporary, like for surgery, no problem. But in a persistent vegetative state? No. I think that's abominable as well.
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  792.  @s9josh778  I think we paid that one off 10x.
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  793.  @henrytep8884  our “allies” and global trade impoverished us, rather.
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  794.  @dearmas9068  "Last 80 year of general peacefulness?" I think the Vietnamese and the Iraqis would beg to differ. The USA is a disaster, and needs to be out of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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  795.  @henrytep8884  yes, by getting involved in foreign affairs.
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  796.  @s9josh778  Lost what in 2020? Not the presidential election. Biden has doubled down on all of Trump’s trade policies, and I am here for them.
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  797.  @chris8612  not on a different planet, but the Atlantic and Pacific are really good moats.
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  798. Every Yankee with a brain right now is dying of shame.
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  799.  @henlostinky273  that may be true, but in our new regionalized world, it should be up to the locals, not the American or European taxpayer.
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  800.  @quintrankid8045  fine. Those nations that have navies can use those navies to guard their own shipping. That is their primary purpose, after all.
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  801. I am glad to see the Europeans taking responsibility for their own security. The USA should be relegated to a supporting role only, if it has any role at all.
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  802. Peterson always drones on and on about breeding.
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  803. The Europeans are just crying that the USA has an industrial policy once again. Cry moar.
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  804. Making the PRC the world’s factory was a big mistake.
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  805.  @gtw4546  True. That was never going to happen in China.
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  806. This is what we all knew what happened with Trump's second term.
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  807. China’s naval buildup is a bunch of speed boats and fishing boats. These are not a challenge.
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  808. @ It’s all due to demographic forces. I’m just glad it isn’t worse than what it is.
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  809. Any American or Canadian citizen that travels to the PRC these days is just stupid.
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  810. Has he looked at the demography.
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  811. We need higher tariffs on Chinese goods. The USA needs to withdraw from the WTO.
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  812. Religion is categorically garbage. It is superstition not worthy of rational humans.
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  813. There are medications for that.
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  814. And us small towns are crying crocodile tears.
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  815. As soon as the USA gets all its chip fab tech out of the ROC, the PRC can have it.
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  816. Marriage and divorce are really expensive.
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  817. Why any non-Sudanese go to Sudan, is beyond me.
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  818. It’s past time the world deglobalize.
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  819. So just let the Russians exterminate them?
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  820. Exactly.
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  821. Withdrawal and anal actually work fairly well as birth control.
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  822. Globalization can’t die fast enough.
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  823.  @Leshic2  there will always be some global trade, but not on the scale that we have been used to. With the demographic aging of so many countries, there simply isn’t the demand for it. It’s about scale.
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  824. A surgeon of any kind is too valuable to be in combat.
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  825.  @theglobalgambit  trade is not necessary for diplomacy. They are two separate things.
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  826.  @pro-libertatibus  true.
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  827. The US government needs to step up to the plate. Maybe put the Jones Act on steroids. No ship that isn’t American build can dock at any American port. Since we will have the last consumer market left standing in the world, we could do this.
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  828. On to 125k!
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  829. Multiculturalism in a unitary society is always a horrible idea. Denmark is a nation for Danes. It is not a settler society like the USA.
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  830. Wealth is accumulated by theft, not work and sacrifice.
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  831.  @dcc70  which is very stupid. The RMB is not a hard currency.
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  832. @user-hc8ki1rl4t The USA and PRC have nothing to say to one another.
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  833. Of course, Xi declared that the PRC was out to compete with the USA. Why is he whining about the USA taking up the challenge?
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  834. This is a long screed against Bretton Woods and post-WWII order. And I approve.
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  835. Good. We need global energy security to collapse.
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  836. The USA really needs to decouple from the PRC.
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  837. The secret to Israel’s birth rate is American subsidy.
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  838. Hopefully, Xi will lead China to a new Great Leap Forward, and Cultural Revolution.
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  839.  @pablosskates7067  we export our food from them to process, and send it back to us. China imports 80% of its food and food inputs.
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  840. All these people crying about the low birthrate. But they don't cry about child care, housing, food, transportation, education,medical care, and recreation.
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  841.  @emiliavenka  at this point, they can’t do anything about inflating temps or prices.
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  842. As long as their are Russian soldiers in Ukraine, I don’t see how there can be any negotiations.
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  843. We need to get out of our dependence on world commerce. Forget the rest of the planet.
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  844.  @xn85d2  you are making a lot of assumptions about a lot of people’s state of mind.
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  845. The Israelis are actively trying to install a Trump government. Far from our allies, they are our enemies.
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  846. What young people? Have you looked at the demographics?
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  847. Religion makes you poor. The more religious you are, the more poor you are.
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  848. Abrahamic religion has taught us that humans are evil in nature. Therefore, creating humans is evil.
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  849. I would love to see the West just not trade with the BRICS at all.
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  850. I fail to understand why the CCP cares what foreign news organizations are saying about them. The Great Fire Wall of China effectively keeps foreign news out of the hands of PRC citizens. The CCP government no longer desires foreign tourists or business or investment in the country. So what does the foreign news matter to them?
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  851. What does “fair” have to do with international politics?
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  852. I was born and raised and educated in Iowa. Unless you have friends and family in Iowa, there is no reason to move to Iowa. Ever.
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  853. We need to get rid of the international rules based system, thus ridding ourselves of the WTO and freedom of navigation of the seas.
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  854.  @IR0N-b6y  seeing as how Russia invaded Ukraine, they have no cause to complain
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  855. Sounds like Xi is taking some lessons from Putin.
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  856. When exactly did NATO invade Russia?
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  857. It only worked with American sponsorship.
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  858. Putin says anything he wants. Who cares?
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  859. LMAO
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  860. I can’t believe the USA just gave them that tech. We should keep that kind of tech for ourselves.
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  861. Not body bags. Prices on those went through the roof.
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  862. Oh, there’s going to be a lot less humans in the future. But it’s not due to low birth rates. LOL.
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  863. Like most Americans, I would love for the USA to withdraw from involvement in Europe and Asia.
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  864. Geography isolates them. That's OK.
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  865. Free trade and freedom of navigation of the seas must be ended. There is no other way to destroy neoliberalism.
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  866. How about we leave the people of the Mideast alone to come up with their own solution?
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  867.  @seamusoflatcap  Lebanon is part of the region. And stuff outside the region can be handled on a case-by-case basis. The amount of wasted money and resources going into the Middle East is just atrocious, and needs to stop.
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  868. Why should women mate with losers?
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  869. If the Chinese don’t like the West, why do they trade with us?
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  870. The USA should just flat out leave the WTO.
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  871. The USA really needs to loose it hackers on the PRC’s critical infrastructure: power, health, transport, and food. I’m sure we could really bring the pain to the PRC.
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  872. It’s pretty simple: when you invade someone, you’re the bad guy. It doesn’t matter who you are.
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  873. If you want to talk de-dollarization, fine. But exactly which currency is going to replace it?
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  874. What is the value of sexual exclusivity with somebody?
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  875. @ well then, we have a problem.
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  876. Why should the USA care about the Middle East at all?
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  877. The Europeans had two good years to spin up their military industrial complex. So what’s up?
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  878.  @yt.damian  all these roads went across the Sonoran Desert. They are nice paths into the interior of the USA. Trump was nice enough to make them for drug traffickers and illegal migrants. I think it’s hilarious. Trump says he’s against dope and illegal migrants. He makes both worse. LOL.
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  879.  @fazdoll  but if you are POTUS, you need to think about eventualities, like the walls not being finished. Besides, Trump had 2 years of all-Republican government to get all the funding for his walls he wanted, and he failed.
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  880.  @atomicsmith  yes. Trump built roads through the desert for them.
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  881. The white world needs to stop intervening in African affairs. We need to stop dumping contraceptives, vaccines, other medications, food, fertilizer, and pesticides on African countries. Let them develop on their own, without European interference.
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  882. Why don’t foreigners just write off all their assets in China, and move on? They are never going to get them out with Xi. This is the end.
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  883.  @Andy-P  I"m a Yank. I'm being sarcastic here.
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  884.  @Andy-P  no worries.
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  885.  @Andy-P  sarcasm is very very hard to get thru text, regardless.
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  886.  @Shenzhou.  probably because American diplomats have never styled themselves as “Wolf Warrior” diplomats.
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  887.  @Shenzhou.  What I do not understand: the PRC issued a challenge to the USA for global supremacy. And that is fair. Now the USA is answering that challenge, and the PRC is complaining.
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  888. No American wants to get involved in yet another European war.
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  889. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. I was shocked that Europe did not start to spin up its military industrial complex right then.
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  890. The Chinese want challenge the Western system, but they still want to trade with it. Sorry, Charlie, but it’s a package deal.
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  891. In the debate, I thought Trump appeared far more demented than Biden.
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  892.  @Headonwriter  Where do you think most of the oil from the Persian Gulf goes nowadays? Hint: it’s not the USA.
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  893. It’s interesting that so many people who are opposed to abortion, are completely in favor of assisted fertility.
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  894. The Minneapolis light rail is great. The Denver light rail is OK.
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  895.  @josephgriffin2388  how you do something is as important as what you do.
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  896. The USA should leave the WTO.
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  897. The PRC is a convenience for the USA. The USA does not need the PRC.
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  898. Exactly what does the Blood Libel have to do with the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty?
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  899. The USA no longer defending freedom of navigation outside the Western Hemisphere? Excellent! The rest of the world getting what it deserves. No more welfare from the American taxpayer.
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  900. The USA needs a complete strategic withdrawal from the Middle East. We no longer need anything there. Once we do that, we could go from protecting trade lanes in the Indian Ocean, to preying upon them.
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  901.  @skylinefever  The dating game is hard work?
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  902. I look at undermining US credibility is a good thing. This chips away at globalization in one more avenue. Ending globalization is the ultimate geopolitical goal. Ending the global shipment and trade in goods.
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  903. The USA doesn’t have to do anything. The Europeans need to get off their butts and raise their own armies.
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  904. You cannot reason with that lying sack of filth. He has the understanding of an 8 year old.
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  905.  @lassepeterson2740  probably them, too
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  906. USA out of NATO, and Europe.
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  907.  @seantrevathan3041  all the more reason the US Navy should stop guaranteeing security on the oceans
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  908.  @arnodobler1096  in order to fix it, we need data. If we are in the dark, we have no way of knowing if we are making progress. And that's what conservatives want: hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
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  909. Rent control is bad idea. Rather, have the government take over all apartment housing, and rent it out at cost, or subsidized for low-income families.
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  910. Well, we have Chinese and Korean troops on the ground in Ukraine, fighting for Moscow. No problem with having French, Polish, and Finnish troops on the ground in Ukraine fighting for Kiev.
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  911.  @ihmpall  it’s our stuff. We need to get our chip making off that island as soon as possible. We need to disengage from the PRC and the ROC.
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  912.  @trelane88  I say let them figure it out for themselves. Asia is on the other side of the planet, and not really any of our business. We should have learned our lesson with Europe.
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  913. LOL. The Chinese can’t even project power to their own back yard, let alone the Western Hemisphere.
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  914. Easy to put your money into India. Difficult to get your money out again.
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  915.  @kimcole948  ja, but whether the tanks roll across Poland should be up to the Europeans, not us.
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  916. Just do what other people do? Conformism and conventionality much?
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  917.  @patrickt49  Not to mention the Wolf-Warrior Diplomacy.
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  918. The phenomenon of the PRC was created by the USA.
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  919. World demographics guarantee it.
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  920. @ they can have their Samsung. I’ll take my iPhone. And the sooner Apple re-shores the manufacturing, the less they will be punished.
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  921. @ of course. TSMC was built with American technology and designs. That’s why we need to reshore it. And while we are at it, we need to stop protecting Chinese commercial shipping all over the world.
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  922.  @riverblack123  lol
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  923. This has always been the plan. Trump has been a Russian asset since the 90's. Why is there any surprise?
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  924.  @Coumei2009  NATO never made an agreement not to expand
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  925. @Tainted-RN well then, all Russia had to do was make friends with those countries, and convince them Russia would never invade them. Simple.
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  926.  @comradeLucienne  all you need to do is get on YouTube and watch travel vloggers who are traveling all over the USA. Not many travel vloggers going around all rural PRC. They are probably afraid they’ll be shot.
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  927.  @privacyhelp  now that is shite
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  928.  @a5cent  why no longer matters. There is a time and a place for everything. The time for the American Empire has passed.
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  929. @ how about putting Putin, the oligarchs, and their families on the front lines, seeing as how they started it, and they maintain it?
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  930. Ehrlich was correct. Once globalization goes away, and so the Green Revolution goes away, Ehrlich’s predictions will come true.
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  931.  @skylinefever  it’s all about cheap, global trade. The inventions are irrelevant.
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  932. Any policy that Trump advocates should be assumed corrupt, and opposed, unless proven otherwise.
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  933. Nobody truly needs air conditioning to live.
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  934. Is this podcast intended for kindergartners?
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  935.  @skydragon23101979  by that standard, the US has never had a one China policy. And there is also the issue that the CCP government in Beijing has never been in control of Taiwan at any point in history.
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  936. Talking about wealth in a global context ignores the fact that some geographies generate capital at much greater rates than others.
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  937. This guy is just all pushy all the time.
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  938. Hillary Clinton was part of the Clinton machine. She was the Clinton machine. A lot of us didn’t like that.
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  939. An end to international trade in bulk commodities via the seas would be a great thing.
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  940. The era of globally traded commodities: food, fertilizer, and petroleum, must end.
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  941. We need to pay them to grow only so much food as to feed North America. We should not be feeding the rest of the world. There should be no intercontinental shipping of bulk food.
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  942. The Oval Office meeting went just as Trump wanted it to.
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  943. The United Nations is a product of the American Order. Does the PRC want to end the UN as well?
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  944. Americans need to get it through their heads that the Chinese are their enemies, and they need to act accordingly.
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  945. I hope all these developing countries drop all their reserves in the yuan. Particularly, I hope they put all their agricultural credit in the yuan.
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  946. I blame globalism and capitalism.
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  947.  @dagon99  the “mob” actually lived there, and they were protesting. Rittenhouse should have kept himself at home. He was just hunting people.
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  948.  @southpole4776  the PRC can make singing coffee makers, but they can’t make midlevel chips, and certainly not the high end chips in aircraft. Else, why are they crying about US export controls?
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  949.  @kevinu.k.7042  indeed. The machines used to make such chips are some of the most advanced in the world. Made by the Americans and the Dutch. Those machines are at least as advanced as the chips themselves.
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  950.  @bobwatson8754  maybe. But can they make mid range chips? Can they do better than Thailand and Malaysia? Not so far.
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  951.  @kevinu.k.7042  all the high end chip fab machines are made in the USA and Holland, and are of American design. TSMC gets its fab machines from USA/Holland. The USA is so defensive about Taiwan because of all the fab machines that are there. Once those machines are removed, things will cool down over the Taiwan Strait a bit.
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  952.  @sunshineglow5579  you do realize the USA is the great agricultural powerhouse on the planet?
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  953. Why should Australia conduct its foreign affairs by Chinese orders?
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  954. Biden needs to stop offering and olive branch to China. We just need to go for straight decoupling, and ditch the One China Policy.
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  955. if the rules-based world order goes away, that means free trade and free navigation of the seas goes away. How is this to the advantage of Russia and China, whose economies are very export dependent?
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  956. As long as the American chip manufacturing machines are on Taiwan, the PRC is not going to get Taiwan. I hope the Americans will remove their chip manufacturing facilities so the PRC can finally have Taiwan.
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  957. So the Chinese want to be both a developing country and a rival to the USA, simultaneously?
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  958. Can it actually fly? Comac C919.
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  959.  @straussbolkonsky  Fuck yeah!
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  960. We always knew he was this idiotic.
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  961. What we need is an active, progressive UBI for all citizens. Take from the wealthy, and give to the poor.
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  962. We need to spend as much money on our waterways as on our highways.
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  963. The Left fear religious people because religious people have surrendered their reason.
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  964. It will be very interesting if the yuan is allowed to float freely, and the PRC has no capital controls.
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  965. So sad.
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  966. I see no reason to fob this life off on some other poor sucker.
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  967. The PRC wanted an end to US hegemony. They are getting it. Now they are crying about it.
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  968. Why are there Russian civilians in Crimea? Crimea is a war zone.
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  969.  @ThomasVWorm  remember, we're talking about international debt here.
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  970. Why did it take so long? Putin has his assets in the Congress. And Trump is Putin’s biggest asset.
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  971. Nuke threats are made from weakness. The West has just as much right to put troops in Ukraine as Russia does.
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  972. Globalization: the transfer of wealth from the poorest people in rich countries, to the richest people in poor countries.
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  973. These law firms are for profit companies. Their only duty is to their bottom line. Your whining idealism sickens me.
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  974. Everybody wants everything. But we don’t get it all.
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  975. NATO has nothing to do with this. A few member states of NATO are supplying Ukraine with weapons. Again, if Russia is using foreign weapons against Kiev, they cannot complain if Ukraine uses foreign weapons against Moscow.
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  976.  @PriestandtemplE  there are no NATO soldiers in Ukraine. Some member states may have soldiers there, but they are not under NATO command.
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  977.  @humoursque8447  Americans can walk and chew bubble gum
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  978. China threw down the gauntlet, saying they wanted to compete with the USA for supremacy. That’s fine. But they need to not complain when the USA responds. They need to not be whiners.
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  979. Billionaires in a communist country are an obscenity.
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  980. @DonaldDeBerry-gc6rx nope.
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  981.  @bakedpotato420  are you kidding me? I was the oldest of several. Having change diapers all the time. Getting up in the middle of the night warm the bottle, feed baby, then try to get back to sleep, then going to school tired. It sucked all those years. I asked my pediatrician for a vasectomy when I was 14.
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  982. Marxist here. I can in no wise call Biden, Left wing.
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  983.  @redstonerelic  wrong. The Soviet Bloc collapsed because the USA contained and strangled it. The USA is working on doing the same thing to the PRC right now. They asked for it.
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  984.  @C-Farsene_5  local production of food is the only sane option. Take care that population does not exceed carrying capacity
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  985.  @navinvent  the US doesn’t really sell to Asia or Europe. American exports out of the NAFTA system are only 4% of GDP. That’s not really substantial.
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  986.  @thewingedhussar4188  actually no. Everybody who has restored to the USA from China has found labor costs lower, manufacturing more efficient, and product quality higher. Textiles is an excellent example of this.
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  987.  @GHMRoding  the USA exports dollars because the USA imports a lot. Time to reshore manufacturing and fix that.
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  988.  @GHMRoding  and be taken hostage to trade for a criminal held in the USA? Nope.
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  989.  @EbonySaints  wow what a bunch of malarkey. Gas costs will go down if we keep all petroleum products in North America. North America is second biggest manufacturing block, after China. We'll be fine. Clothes have already moved back.
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  990. China has an overpopulation of elderly. Considering how lethal COVID is for the elderly, opening up may help liquidate the excess elderly population.
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  991. The thing conservatives want to conserve is inherited wealth and power. They want to keep WASPs on top, and everybody else crushed underneath.
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  992. The US Navy needs to go from protector of the sea lanes to the predator upon them.
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  993. Trump is an idiot. We know that.
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  994. Does the AUR want Romania to be digested by Russia?
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  995. The US taxpayer has been paying for Europe’s security since WWII. Why should we just keep on paying?
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  996.  @jypapiiiii  “Life is pain, Your Highness. Anybody who tells you anything else is selling something.”
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  997. Indeed. I see no need for any US official to visit China in the indefinite future. I just wish Yellen would be honest about the USA decoupling from the PRC.
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  998.  @horridohobbies  you realize you didn’t support your statement with any facts, either?
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  999. Yes, it “beat” the USA by being a beneficiary of American capital and designs and tech and free trade policies.
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  1000. We can move food into Ukraine from the west overland. This is not a big deal.
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  1001.  @NTraveller  they may be impossible, but they are also necessary. I am not excusing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They had to do it. The Ukrainians also had to defend themselves. The tragedy here was that this war had to happen.
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  1002. But do you remember that many of us in the USA greatly resent our involvement in Europe at all? The involvement of the USA in European affairs has been nothing but bad for the USA.
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  1003.  @kkpenney444  wrong. Becoming a superpower has cost the USA prosperity. We were wealthier before Bretton Woods, and the globalization it brought. In becoming a superpower, we traded prosperity for security.
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  1004.  @kkpenney444  we were at the height of our wealth and strength before WWI. We started pissing our wealth away, wasting blood and treasure in Europe and Asia, after that.
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  1005.  @dankurth4232  if the American government stops guaranteeing American investments in China, I assure you American-based corporations will leave.
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  1006. World population in 1950 was 2.4 billion. Now it is 8.1 billion. In only 75 years. How is that sustainable?
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  1007. I’m a 54 year old man in the States. Married for 27 years. I do not understand this. The social milieu must have completely changed since I was young.
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  1008. Because Putin owns Trump.
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  1009.  @chrisstrawn4108  no, we aren’t. We get out, and we stay out. No matter what they do to each other. It’s not our problem.
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  1010.  @realnapster1522  power can totally dictate the rules of the new world order. What do you think is going on right now?
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  1011.  @georgehoffmann4148  I see only risks. We saw the ultimate downside to globalization with COVID, then with China and Russia using their exports as weapons. We need to take their weapons from them. We need to go to a regionalized world, with local sourcing of fuel, food, fertilizer, and manufacturing. It might cost a bit more, but it will be more secure. Not getting the newest iPhone is one thing. Not getting food and water and medicine is another. End globalization.
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  1012. Since Trump betrayed the USA, no doubt he will betray anyone else.
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  1013. Ukraine never shelled Russia.
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  1014. Good. Outside of the Americas and Oceania, nobody should count on us.
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  1015. Israel does not need the USA for its security. Israel would be better off without the USA and the UK, because they would have an unfettered hand in dealing with the Palestinians. And Israel could easily deal with the Iranians themselves.
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  1016. War would be stupid. We can disengage without killing each other.
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  1017. Free trade also makes for much more insecure supply lines.
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  1018. Russia wants Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Finland. I think he’ll be happy once he has those.
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  1019. That’s nice. But Gen X exposed the Boomers a generation ago.
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  1020. I hope the USA just stops patrolling the high seas completely.
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  1021. @ Progressive-minded people are all for large families: paid work leave, socialized child care, socialized education, socialized housing, socialized medical care. All of these things help offset the cost of having children. Conservatives are opposed to all of them.
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  1022. Are these two defrosted Nazis from WWII?
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  1023. Did Ukraine invade Russia?
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  1024. Mearsheimer is just a Putin and Xi surrogate.
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  1025. I think the USA should just abandon the rules-based order. Abandon freedom of the seas for everybody but ourselves and our allies. We should allow China's enemies to interfere in their commercial shipping. We abandon Europe and the Middle East categorically, and concentrate on building up our allies and territories in the Pacific. It's far past time for the Pivot to Asia.
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  1026.  @bradenchurch552 exactly. And we need to stop providing security to any ships but our own.
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  1027. Washington nor Jefferson were gods. Lee was a traitor. There should be no statue of traitors in their honor.
    2
  1028. Drumpf and Vance are idiots.
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  1029. Exactly what do Biden and Xi have to talk about? Each side knows where the other side is on all the issues.
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  1030.  @rosa9865  that's fine, too.
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  1031.  @OkTxSheepLady  depends upon what you mean by "lowered expectations."
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  1032. Hopefully, Israel, nor the entire Middle-east, won’t matter to the USA for much longer. We no longer need the oil, and the land is no longer strategic. Time to leave it.
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  1033. The IMF and WB should be dissolved.
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  1034.  @taiwanisacountry  They have outlived their usefulness. They were there as part of the Bretton Woods system to help Europe rebuild after WWII. They have succeeded, and well as the rest of the Bretton Woods system. That system is no longer needed. It’s a drag on the USA.
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  1035.  @taiwanisacountry  I think the USA should withdraw from these institutions. The other nations can stay in, their choice.
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  1036.  @zzbeasley  the “Economic Hitman?”
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  1037. It really shouldn’t depend upon the USA. This is a European problem. And the Europeans should be solving it themselves. We should be pulling out of Europe and the Mideast. Instead we are going back in. It’s very disappointing.
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  1038. No one defending the American Empire. The Americans are abandoning it.
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  1039. Why so much concern about the US-PRC relationship? How about we don't have a relationship, then there won't be any problems.
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  1040. Get well soon!
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  1041. This is just the latest battle in the Chinese Civil War, which never ended. The USA cannot stop the PRC from invading the ROC. But the PRC cannot stop the USA from blockading it. So, it’s a stalemate.
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  1042. American here. I have wanted the USA out of Europe since the end of the Cold War. Indeed, I don't think the USA should ever have fought the Cold War in Europe. The USA fighting in the European theatre in WWII was a mistake. The Pacific theatre was definitely our fight. But not Europe. That said, I don't agree with the way Trump is withdrawing us from Europe. There is a competent way to do this. And Trump is anything but competent.
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  1043.  @angelkar5132  mmmm…no. An oligarchy is rule by a small number of individuals, who have no mandate from the masses. They are usually there by wealth. An oligarch represents his interests only.
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  1044.  @josueveguilla9069  no, it's not. It has real meaning. But dictators all over the world would prefer it had no meaning.
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  1045.  @willywonka4340  we are going to pay more our goods and services. Employers are going to pay more in wages. Corporations are going to pay less in dividends. This is structural, and there is no way around it.
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  1046.  @willywonka4340  with the population crashes in East Asia and Europe coming, we aren’t really going to have a choice. There are only 3 manufacturing blocs on Earth: North America, Europe, and East Asia. Neither has a stable population structure. Neither has reliable access to fuel.
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  1047. A bunch of junkies are offing themselves. This is bad because?
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  1048.  @Andy-P  Of course it could. But automation happens where the consumer market is located. There is no point to automating in a cheap labor market.
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  1049. I would like the Chinese to seize all Elon Musk’s assets in China.
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  1050. Americans can actually compete with the French in terms of self-regard.
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  1051. The lower birth rate is a natural result of changing from a rural to an urban population. There is no conspiracy here.
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  1052. I wish I could understand why the Brits went for Brexit.
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  1053. That depends upon how nice you are.
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  1054. We have a massive worker shortage in the USA. We need all the immigrants we can get.
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  1055.  @leegrant100  no need for illegals. We just legalize them and give them all citizenship. We can do that.
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  1056. The USA just needs to withdraw from the Middle East completely: economically, socially, militarily.
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  1057. If they are backfiring, why are China and Russia complaining about them so much?
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  1058. Why not segregate athletics by sex, not gender?
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  1059. You do know that US “allies” won’t actually fight?
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  1060.  @david3549tw  true. The Marshalls, Saipan, Guam, and Midway.
    2
  1061. But Trump and the Republican Party wish to end democracy in America.
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  1062. All these young people, going to college, and learning to question their betters. It's just a tragedy.
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  1063. It’s happening right now.
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  1064. lol
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  1065. For once I do agree with the CCP. The post-WWII American Order needs to end. Freedom of navigation of the seas needs to end. Every nation needs to guard its own shipping with its own navy, or that shipping should not be safe or secure. The price of shipping overland and overseas needs to go up to real market value, at prices factoring in the price of security.
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  1066. But owning Norway does nothing to preserve Russian security.
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  1067. Glad the French are on the job. We need help. Ammo factory in my home town in Iowa is running 24-7, and adding lines.
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  1068. If she was not doing it on school time, it was none of her employer’s business.
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  1069. Russia has really been waging grey zone warfare against the West. I wonder if these ship sinkings are the West’s answer.
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  1070. Because the USA gives them everything?
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  1071. It’s like the entire planet believes the USA owes them a security blanket.
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  1072. Wow. Peterson loves straw man arguments.
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  1073. The Bretton Woods accords had to die at some point.
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  1074. LOL. If you don’t have the navy to hold it, you control nothing. Chinese fail.
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  1075. The only proven groomers are the clergy.
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  1076. If the PRC blockades the ROC, the USA should blockade the PRC at the Straits of Malacca.
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  1077. American here: when I was a boy, we had marksmanship in our public school. We had a shooting range in the basement. But of course, this is America.
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  1078. I just hope America tells the rest of the world to piss off, and keeps to itself.
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  1079. The tariffs may not stop the Chinese cars, but the fires will.
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  1080. The PRC declared itself to be a threat to the USA. They issued the challenge. So, yes.
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  1081.  @starfall9400  Lord Hastings Lionel Ismay was NATO’s first Secretary General, a position he was initially reluctant to accept. By the end of his tenure however, Ismay had become the biggest advocate of the organisation he had famously said earlier on in his political career, was created to “keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
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  1082.  @grantsmith505  Nonsense. NATO was formed to stop the Soviet Bloc. The Soviet Bloc died in 92. NATO should have disbanded then. Or, at least, the USA should have left. The USA has its own hemisphere to police, and its own territories in the Pacific. But 92, we had ruined Europe enough. We really should never have involved ourselves in the European theatre to begin with. We had enough in the Pacific.
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  1083. @ you realize that NATO never promised not to move one inch eastward?
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  1084.  @ThatOpalGuy  for workers, executives, stockholders, and consumers?
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  1085. The USA needs to revoke any trade privileges China enjoys with the USA, and the USA needs to leave the WTO.
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  1086. Mearsheimer is totally correct.
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  1087.  @tomriley5790  true. But ratifying UNCLOS could be a barrier to destroying globalization in the future.
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  1088. @ I never heard him say that. He said only Biden was a lock to beat Trump. Anybody else, it’s gamer’s luck.
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  1089.  @LD-Orbs  Befelt ist Befelt.
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  1090. India is going to be in Myanmar, not the PRC.
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  1091. Trump is a Russian asset.
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  1092. How is it you lot are still talking about stimulus checks? That was years ago.
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  1093. Is Lavrov drunk?
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  1094. Everybody? Really?
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  1095.  @george2113  Sherman is a national hero. It’s so sad that Lincoln didn’t take the gloves off Sherman. We’d have a much better country today.
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  1096. The West colonized the planet, and get all butthurt when people complain about it.
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  1097.  @inbb510  your point?
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  1098. I don’t know why the Europeans are dragging their feet on this.
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  1099. The collapse of the American Empire, and the closure of the sea lanes, cannot happen fast enough.
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  1100. Have your stats been independently verified?
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  1101.  @jerryrichardson2799  if it’s no longer a domestic priority, why should it interest us?
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  1102. Caveat: this is only true if freedom of navigation of the seas continues. If it doesn’t, all bets are off.
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  1103.  @hikashia.halfiah3582  point
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  1104.  @shundi4264  The PRC believes it is a win-lose scenario. The USA is answering the challenge.
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  1105.  @nocturnaljoe9543 I did. Her attempt at nuance is fatuous.
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  1106. With all the anti-American and anti-Japanese propaganda the CCP is putting out, why would you go to China?
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  1107.  @jonathanaustinstern1  why should we expend capital of any kind for Israel? What can they do for us?
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  1108. The Israelis are able to have a high birth rate because of American welfare.
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  1109. I’m a doomer. I’m just enjoying myself until I die. Nothing more, nothing less.
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  1110.  @whatabouttheearth  why bother? The Earth will be fine. The biosphere will radically change. Humans will vanish. But that’s OK.
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  1111.  @whatabouttheearth  nah. We all have different interests. Only so much time for life.
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  1112. The world is overpopulated. Fertility collapse is a good thing.
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  1113. If she truly believes that women should not be seen, not be heard, why is she writing books and doing this show?
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  1114. Just because you like Tolkien’s writings does not guarantee you’ll like their transcription to video.
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  1115. Tariffs are about making America poor.
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  1116. Russia is using weapons from Iran, China, and North Korea to strike in Ukraine. What's wrong with Ukraine using foreign weapons to strike in Russia?
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  1117. @ he bankrupted 3 casinos. His incompetence is legendary.
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  1118. On a good day, the CCP prints 3x as much money the USA on its worst day. Plus, the CCP maintains capital controls. The PRC purchased billions in oil from Russia, then refused to take them back when the Russians went to purchase from the PRC.
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  1119. It’s so hilarious. Trump said he was against drug smuggling and illegal immigrants. He then goes and builds roads into the USA for both. Fantastic!
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  1120. This is pretty simple. The USA stopped the European colonial powers from picking China apart. Allowed Mao to consolidate the territory under 1 government. Nixon convinced Mao to open China to USA manufacturing, putting hundreds of millions of cheap labor at the hands of USA industries. USA then exported its manufacturing plant to China. Profit. China now rich.
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  1121. Weakness? Ukraine should have fallen 1 week into this war. This fellow is an idiot.
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  1122. Israel has the USA paying for its safety, security, and social welfare net. No wonder why they have a high birth rate.
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  1123. I don’t know why any of the Brits voted for Brexit. From the States, it looked like economic suicide.
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  1124.  @Celis.C  we can work on that once the American Empire is destroyed. And that will only happen with deglobalization. The American Empire is globalization.
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  1125. Wow. Some hard truths. But we all need to hear them.
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  1126. The USN just needs to leave. We have no interests in the Red Sea or Suez.
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  1127. What does shaving have to do with whether or not a woman is attractive?
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  1128. Cry more from the British Empire.
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  1129. Gen X are the original, modern nihilists.
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  1130. The PRC accuses the USA of overreaching under the guise of national security. The pot calls the kettle black.
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  1131. I laughed along with Peter. It was hilarious.
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  1132.  @platoplombo15  that kind of stuff is very hard to predict. I appreciate his guesses. They were better than mine.
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  1133. The pier was a hare-brained idea to begin with.
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  1134. Russia started a big land war in Europe. The Europeans see WWI and WWII. They are trying to contain the war before it spreads to the rest of Europe. The USA is involved to pay off the Russians for pointing nukes at them for the past 60 years. The USA would rather not be involved in more European BS. The USA would have a much better time if the entire continent just sank into the ocean. Russia is a major producer of food and fuel. Nobody thought Russia would collapse overnight.
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  1135.  @kennethli8  Oh, that’s correct! My bad. Sorry!
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  1136. Happy Birthday!
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  1137. Religion has long told us that humans were evil and beneath God. So people are taking religion seriously, and not having children. Congratulations on your win, religion.
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  1138. It’s just BS.
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  1139.  @BartAnderson_writer  the decline in the Bretton Woods Order favors the lower classes. The upper class might do some things, but it will be limited. Since the cheap Chinese labor is going away, it is in their interest to move the means of production into the NAFTA/CAFTA system, and abandon the WTO as well.
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  1140.  @BartAnderson_writer  my biggest fear: since 1945 the American Navy has patrolled all the world's trade routes, making shipping cheap and safe for all. That is going away. What happens to the poorer countries when the US Navy switches from being the protector of the seas, to the predator? Most Americans won't know, or won't care. The starvation in many parts of the world that could result would be catastrophic.
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  1141. The US needs to get its chip fabs out of Taiwan so we can just leave it.
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  1142.  @jamiered2659  All wealth is produced by workers.
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  1143. I really worry about Prof. Pettis’ safety.
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  1144.  @LD-Orbs  Very good. But we can do better than that. Embargo exports to them, especially food. Then stop protecting their petroleum shipping with our navy.
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  1145.  @susieare  yes, if you have money.
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  1146. The US support of Israel was and is a mistake. The Israelis only stab us in the back.
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  1147. The USA should never have involved itself in WWI, WWII, or Bretton Woods.
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  1148. Who cares about “development?” China is already developed. So is Europe.
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  1149. Did anybody believe that the CCP would not kill HK?
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  1150. So let me get this straight: the PRC is complaining about the USA using national security as a rationale? Really?
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  1151. The USA and EU need to categorize all imports and exports with the PRC as threats to National security. Because they are.
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  1152. There really shouldn't have been student loans in the first place. All education in the States should be free to whoever wants it.
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  1153. Did he need a wheelbarrow in order to carry his scrotum?
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  1154. Peter is a Never Trump Republican. I can respect that.
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  1155.  @hg2.  He’s from Marshalltown, Iowa. He simply cannot be that out of touch. You ever been to Marshalltown? Yes, even if they would kick our asses at Academic Decathlon every year.
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  1156. The poor go into the military, and get killed. The rich benefit from military protection, but don't go into the military.
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  1157.  @theglobalgambit  I would say close all foreign Air Force and Army bases. The Naval bases are OK. They preceded the American Order of 1945.
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  1158.  @theglobalgambit  please note: the USA has territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Those are fine. We must defend our own.
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  1159. I think Harris was an excellent candidate and campaigner. There was no way she was going to beat the economic malaise in the USA.
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  1160. If you are a member of the well-regulated militia, your right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Seems clear to me.
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  1161.  @alexbasshead  Not really. The Founders laid out in the Militia Acts of 1792 what they thought constituted a “well-regulated militia.”
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  1162. There is no power struggle in the USA. Harris and the Dems conceded the election.
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  1163.  @Interlocutor67 lol
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  1164. Biden is weak on confrontation with the PRC.
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  1165. As capital gets more scarce, interest rates will naturally go up. Supply and demand. Why is anybody surprised?
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  1166. Trump is a coward who dodged the draft. Why the surprise?
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  1167. Multipolarity = mutually exclusive trading blocs. Xi needs to make up his mind.
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  1168. The PRC will not be like Japan. The PRC will not be so lucky.
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  1169. Free trade is one of the worst things to come out of the post-WWII world.
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  1170. We are going to get even more “reckless.” The Russians can pound sand.
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  1171. The data that come out of China is totally unverifiable. What do they expect?
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  1172. The USA really needs to withdraw from protecting shipping in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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  1173.  @johngillespie3409  using the USN to protect our shipping, and disrupt our enemies’ shipping. That’s fine. But to protect everybody’s shipping? Nope.
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  1174.  @MissAlissaxX  why would that happen? The USA is an exporter of petroleum. Any nation that wants to trade on the seas should field their own navy to protect their own shipping. I’m tired of my tax money going to protect other countries’ commerce.
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  1175.  @jimreilly917  I do. It will be bad in the USA, at first. But it will be far, far worse for everybody else. Think of what will happen when international shipments of food and fertilizer shut down.
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  1176.  @ricestrike7937  not with export controls. Any regulation outside of the NAFTA system is fair game. We should definitely take the USA out of the WTO.
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  1177. Our species is better off extinct. Better for us, better for all other species on the planet. Really. We would all be better off had we never been born.
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  1178. The very idea of driving a Chinese car. Talk about a death wish.
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  1179. The man who told us of the infinite rise of the PRC.
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  1180. Gratz on 1000!!!
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  1181. Zelenskyy was ambushed. USA now aligns with Russia/China
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  1182. How could the USA hold the PRC’s development back, even if they wanted to do so?
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  1183. The USA needs to stop policing the world. The USA needs to return to the Eisenhower tax rates on wealthy individuals and companies. The USA needs to withdraw from “free trade” agreements. That is the path for the USA to return to strength.
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  1184. The USA secures its continental. We secure our entire hemisphere. Why should we secure more? Why can’t other countries on other continents secure their region?
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  1185. Why bother? There are so few antinatalists, they aren’t worth the discussion.
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  1186.  @skylinefever  That is a good question. Why feed the system cannon fodder? Unless you were born to wealth and power, we are cannon fodder.
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  1187. The PRC needs to impose tighter capital controls, so foreign investors cannot get their assets out of the country.
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  1188.  @harmless6813  exactly. I don’t wish China and its investors well.
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  1189.  @thomasherrin6798  again, exactly.
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  1190. Israel is not a democracy, any more than Saudi Arabia. In Israel, like Saudi, only half the population can vote.
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  1191. Religion is just horrible.
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  1192. The fellation was probably unbelievable.
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  1193. I wonder if the Chinese are behind this.
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  1194. The USSR was just the Russian Empire under new management.
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  1195. Governments in the west are overleveraged? Governments in the west are overleveraged?
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  1196. Chinese internal affairs in the UK????? Are the Chinese mental?
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  1197. The CCP China make the high end on its own, that it doesn’t need Western equipment. So why doesn’t it just do it?
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  1198. @ you’re leaving out the “To Biden” part. He said that if Biden wasn’t the opponent, all bets were off. Nice try.
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  1199. Boeing made the mistake of outsourcing engineering from China and India. So now we have doors falling off planes.
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  1200. Globalization needs to collapse, and with it, the Green Revolution.
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  1201. Do these figures not include military ships?
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  1202. Europeans don't go to flyover country. They see LA, NYC, and Miami, and they think they've seen the country.
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  1203. Israel’s success on fertility is due to American subsidy.
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  1204. Looking like a professional news anchor! Excellent!
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  1205. I agree. Time to end the US Order. That means ending free trade, freedom of the seas, and the WTO. Time to restore import tariffs to all consumer markets of size.
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  1206. The greatest lie ever told is religion.
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  1207. The PRC decided to challenge the USA for supremacy in the Pacific. They threw down the gauntlet. The USA has risen to the challenge. I do not understand why the PRC are complaining.
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  1208.  @umjackd  still, why should American taxpayers be doing anything for this?
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  1209.  @RayCharound  Fine. Let the Europeans send their navies to guard their shipping and have their taxpayers pay for it.
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  1210. China and Russia are out to destroy the USA.
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  1211.  @Cn-nb-D-01-106  When you are the global policeman, that’s what you must do.
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  1212.  @Alan-ms3kp  Not buying it. They are “ahead” of us by using components that only we make. Sure.
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  1213. I wonder how well those Russian LNG ships will stand up to American torpedoes?
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  1214. What Chad would go for a post-menopausal woman?
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  1215. The only people who date borderlines are those who don’t know about borderlines.
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  1216. People have a right to live according to their own values.
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  1217. I wish we would stop guarding commercial shipping the world over, but especially in the Persian Gulf. Let them all fight!
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  1218.  @surojeetchatterjee  that would be nice, but it’s going to horrible for the world. :-(
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  1219. If China is superior to the USA in microchips as it claims, why does it want to buy American microchips?
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  1220. Biden needs to use his new immunity to make Trump and his backers just disappear.
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  1221. Please. Nothing of quality comes out of the PRC.
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  1222.  @carrotsandrunning  not if we just ignore whatever is happening in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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  1223. Congratulations!
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  1224. It’s past time for the USA to withdraw from the WTO.
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  1225. LMAO. I’m a genuine Marxist, and the Democratic Party is anything but.
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  1226. yes, Qin Lee.
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  1227. Politicians are representatives of rich people. Fixed.
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  1228. Neither China nor Russia are great powers. They are regional powers.
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  1229. Free trade benefits the 1%.
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  1230.  @EconLessons  there are many manufacturing workers in the USA who lost their jobs due to “free trade.” Now, I’d be happy with free trade if free trade goods had the same labor cost, labor standards, environmental standards, and safety standards as locally made goods.
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  1231. The US Navy needs to accompany the Filipinos on the re-supply missions. That should settle it.
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  1232. If you invest in the PRC, you deserve to lose everything.
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  1233. Exactly how do you define a “Leftist?”
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  1234. It’s hard to feel sorry for the ROC. They’ve been double dealing with the PRC the whole time.
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  1235. Woman parties. Shocking. International news. Whoever heard of such a thing?!
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  1236. @adrianjohnson7920 but Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. Didn’t the Europeans start rebuilding their armies and navies at that point?
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  1237. GZERO world sounds great to me.
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  1238. Because Putin has lots of kompromat on Trump?
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  1239. Forgot the Welsh.
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  1240. On American Gun Culture, from Kraut: https://youtu.be/L1iQUF1gQmI
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  1241. Life’s not fair, is it?
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  1242.  @happyskippy  I have no desire to make life more fair for the Chinese.
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  1243. You realize China prints money at 3-5x the rate of the USA? Standard Asia monetary policy.
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  1244. Nuclear >>> coal
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  1245. Yes. The USA needs to stop acting like an empire, and start acting like a normal country. It needs to protect the interests of its own citizens.
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  1246.  @soreeyez  Not hostile. It’s just an option. The framing of the conversation irked me. “Can the West keep up with China?” Well, yes. They are totally trade dependent with the rest of the world for consumption markets, food, fertilizer, manufacturing inputs, and petroleum.
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  1247.  @soreeyez  well, consider the PRC’s “Wolf Warrior” diplomacy. Hostility needs to be met with hostility often times.
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  1248.  @richardparker1338  and it’s certainly the PRC’s right to assert itself, and seek to replace the USA. But it’s also the USA’s right to respond to that challenge.
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  1249.  @soreeyez  of course. Russia is just doing what it thinks is necessary to ensure its security. NATO is doing what it thinks is necessary to ensure its security.
    2
  1250. What the USA really needs to do is shut down freedom of navigation of the seas. No more globally traded commodities like food, fertilizer, medicine, and fossil fuels. That will cause the planet a hard reset.
    2
  1251. What’s wrong with attacking Donetsk? There is a war on.
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  1252. Hopefully, Trump will fully economically decouple the USA from the PRC. And then work to destroy the global economy and end freedom of navigation of the seas, ending petroleum as an internationally traded commodity.
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  1253. @Степан Рыбаков I think it was Putin that ordered the Russian Army to invade Ukraine, not Zelenskyy.
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  1254. Last I checked, no NATO militaries have deployed in Ukraine. So Ukraine is fighting alone as well.
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  1255.  @joedeleon1189  lol
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  1256. The best ammo is the one you can get your hands on.
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  1257.  @s0ycapitan  the USA can always change its mind as to who is the “legitimate government of all China.” It used to be the ROC. Then it was the PRC. But they can easily switch it back to the ROC again.
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  1258. The USA has no business intervening militarily in Europe or Asia. Involvement in WWI, and every war since, has been a mistake.
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  1259.  @SiliconCurtain  Involvement in the Eastern Hemisphere has only been misery for the Western Hemisphere.
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  1260. I bought my S1 some 20 years ago. It's still going strong. My sheath is very different. It is much better than the standard one nowadays.
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  1261. LMAO
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  1262. Meal Ready to Eat
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  1263. Please do not talk about politics. We all know what is going on. We all like watching your channel. I'm from the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. There is nothing you can doing about it. So please be careful of what you say. You can't do anything about it, and if you say anything critical, your channel will be taken down by the government. So please don't.
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  1264. @ point.
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  1265. Congratulations on your upcoming marriage! May you have a long and happy life together.
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  1266. Just think if the small nations had to protect their own borders, and field their own navies to protect their commerce.
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  1267. I wonder how much longer until the CCP institutes mandatory impregnation?
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  1268.  @gumpyoldbugger6944  because the world is not fair?
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  1269. He is a monster. He promoted overpopulation in countries all over the world. When the shipment of machines, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides shuts down, billions will starve to death.
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  1270. Exactly why should the USA be the world leader?
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  1271. No sane Westerner goes to China. Why become a political hostage?
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  1272. Yes. We need the rates of children brought into married couples like Japan and Korea and China.
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  1273. I don’t think the USA would defend Taiwan directly. Rather, they would stop any shipping into or out of the PRC. They would also destroy the pipelines from Russia.
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  1274. Has the PRC ever ruled Taiwan?
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  1275. There is a very easy way to end the war. Withdraw all Russian soldiers from Ukrainian territory.
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  1276. I can't wait for the end of free trade, and of mass oceanic commerce.
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  1277.  @davidaustrian9455  The Israelis paid us compensation with our own money we gave them.
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  1278. Just make sterilization much more easily available for young men and women. End the hormones.
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  1279.  @tonysu8860  Nonsense. The PRC has an internal consumption market far larger than either the EU or the USA. Why don’t the Chinese just start selling all their consumer goods to their own population? The USA could not wreck that. And why should the USA care about the China’s internal politics or the status of its people? That’s none of our business.
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  1280.  @gravityissues5210  not about conflict. About demographics.
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  1281. Optimistic twaddle.
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  1282. I think she is great. This is very educational. She's done a great public service.
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  1283. Why would the PRC complain about being barred from the US market, from buying or selling in the US market? This has nothing to do with their internal development or politics or economics.
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  1284.  @tonysu8860  but exports are an externality, not an internality. If China truly wishes to become a master of its own destiny, then it must become internally self-sufficient in food, water, and energy, as well as production and consumption. So I fail to see how US decoupling is an internal matter for China.
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  1285. Why is NATO still in Kosovo? Should have been out of there decades ago.
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  1286. If you’re dead, cost doesn’t matter. So you fight for your freedom first, and worry about your economy first.
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  1287. If you are an American in the PRC, you deserve to be arrested for stupidity alone.
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  1288. Weak. What does Iran have worth destroying but its oil and nuclear facilities?
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  1289. Yes, they did vote for all that stuff.
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  1290. Americans need to stop buying fentanyl from China and cocaine from Mexico. The PRC can never be counted on to do anything to help the USA. Our two nations really need to go our separate ways.
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  1291. Unions disagree with the idea of Elon Musk.
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  1292. The BRI is already broken. It’s just capital flight, after all.
    1
  1293. This vlog is defeatist tripe.
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  1294. Horsepucky. Sex can and often is casual.
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  1295.  @sabin97  who is one, single State?
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  1296. It would be poetic justice if Israel cratered into a fascist dictatorship.
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  1297. China is not going to put a military base on Greenland. That is insane.
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  1298. The IMF and the World Bank just need to be dissolved.
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  1299. I’m surprised the CCP is allowing people to take their assets out of the PRC. What are they thinking?
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  1300. We really need to kick the Turks and the Huns out of NATO. Either that, or we just leave NATO, which would be my preference.
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  1301. American businessmen only think of exploiting their workers. I don’t think they can do this.
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  1302. This is excellent news. The USA withdraws from the world, and curtails its imports and exports. It is particularly important the US withdraws from exporting food.
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  1303. We need to start interrupting Russian exports.
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  1304. The Second Amendment is all about putting down slave rebellions.
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  1305. Putin owns the Republican Party.
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  1306. Excellent vlog, Feli!
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  1307. If the USA does get itself involved in another Middle East war, Biden will lose the election.
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  1308. Dedollarization will be good for the USA, and the rest of the world doesn’t matter.
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  1309. Dismantle the American Empire, and stop America from patrolling the oceanic trade routes.
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  1310. It’s not easy. Many of us hate it.
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  1311. the moment the Chinese build military assets in the Western Hemisphere, those assets will be toast. See Cuban Missile Crisis.
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  1312. No.
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  1313. Apple bet the farm on the PRC. Apple is going to lose the farm.
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  1314. Trump is more demented than Biden.
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  1315. Hopefully, relatively soon, there will no longer be a global economy.
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  1316. Yes. The collapse of the PRC has begun.
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  1317. USA needs to continue decoupling from the PRC.
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  1318. @ lol. Globalization is an economic sacrifice for the USA, not a benefit. It was designed that way after WWII.
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  1319.  @somedesertdude1308  how is it different?
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  1320. The “developing world” is about to get the anti-American dream they’ve been wishing for. Hope they enjoy it.
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  1321. How about no food for the PRC at all?
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  1322. Doctors. Medical reasoning is easy. We replace all the doctors with AI.
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  1323. Unlike Germany, the USA can actually make use of those PV’s.
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  1324.  @jamesdallas1493  all good points.
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  1325.  @tonysu8860  again, internal political barriers. And we are going to have to overcome them, preferably before the PRC implodes.
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  1326. Those people who want to be in Russia could always just move there.
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  1327.  @tonyriddle5491  true. But to somebody whose English is heavily influenced by Scandinavian languages, we won’t hear it.
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  1328. Be a tourist, and get locked up, to trade for some Chinese spy in your country? No thanks.
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  1329. The USA really needs to pull out of the WTO and UNCLOS.
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  1330. As long as the USA stays out of it.
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  1331. This American general talks out of both sides of his mouth, and he whines like a Monday morning quarterback, and he expects the USA to do everything all over the world. Tell this little whiner to shut it.
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  1332.  @goarmysleepinthemud.  he probably is. But he's not sounding like it right now.
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  1333. I can’t tell if you are serious or funny.
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  1334. Don’t need to sell Tik Tok. Just get it out of the USA.
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  1335.  @mickey1849  does a wise man send his assets to the PRC?
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  1336. We need to stop those food and energy exports.
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  1337. I drive a station wagon. An Outback.
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  1338.  @theglobalgambit  much better. If countries do not depend upon each other, they will have less chance of conflict. Globalization has only brought more points of conflict.
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  1339. I think the USA should just torpedo Russian grain exports.
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  1340. @ The Western Hemisphere should be fine.
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  1341. Israel is bankrolled by the American taxpayer.
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  1342. How much does the CCP pay Prof. Wolff to spew propaganda for them?
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  1343. This was where conservatism was always going to lead us. We have arrived.
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  1344. The PRC claims they can make more advanced chips than the ROC or the USA. So why are they complaining about export sanctions?
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  1345. Trump can’t fix anything. All he can do is break.
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  1346. Trump cares only about Trump.
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  1347.  @josephpadula2283  but they aren’t attacking USA shipping. Why should we care?
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  1348. I hope Trump just ignores the Russo-Ukraine War, the Middle Eastern wars, and focuses on East Asia. That is where the threat to American territory and security exists. Let the Europeans solve their own problems. Let the MIddle Easterners solve their own problems.
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  1349. @ really? My grandfathers never mentioned the European fleets during WWII. I wonder why?
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  1350. @ it’s interesting: both Europeans and Americans are sick of each other. The solution is obvious.
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  1351. The hats! 😀 Love them!
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  1352. How is the pill any different than the condom?
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  1353.  @conservativedemocracyenjoyer  that would be hilarious. The Chinese navy can't get beyond the first island chain. Their aircraft carrier used to be a casino in Ukraine.
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  1354.  @toto-yf8tc  The PRC gets 85% of its food and food inputs by sea. It imports 80% of its fuel, the bulk of that by sea. The pipelines from Russia can be taken out easily.
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  1355.  @conservativedemocracyenjoyer  in the face of a total shipping blockade beyond its navy's reach, a billion PRC die cold, in the dark, of starvation in 1 year, tops.
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  1356.  @toto-yf8tc  LOL. The West can totally do sans cheap Chinese labor. It's going to have to. That cheap Chinese labor is aging out. The PRC is demographically terminal. That's why the USA has been decoupling from the PRC for the past 4 years, and will continue to do so. The PRC is a demographic and economic death case.
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  1357.  @conservativedemocracyenjoyer  it's not about competence. It's about geography and status of forces.
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  1358. The PRC is going to attempt to finally defeat the ROC. And the Americans will be forced to respond with a naval blockade of the PRC.
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  1359. @ I think demographics and the Chinese economy will force Xi’s hand. Have you seen the construction of the new amphibious landing boats in Fujian?
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  1360.  @bwarre2884  we should close all our military bases not on American soil. The Western Hemisphere will be quite safe as the Eastern Hemisphere goes down in flames.
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  1361.  @s9josh778  OK, maybe 20x. We've rescued the French in both WWI and WWII. Debt more than repaid. Close the military bases. Yankee go home.
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  1362.  @henrytep8884  our debt is due to our unfavorable trade balance we have run as part of our Bretton Woods guarantees. No foreign entanglements, no debt.
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  1363.  @bwarre2884  yes. It’s way past time to stop being an economically, politically, and culturally dominant world power. Way past time to go back to pre-WWI days, and stop sending our troops all over the world.
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  1364.  @dougsmith5690  the USA never should have been in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was the Saudis who attacked us on 9/11. Yet we didn’t bomb them to oblivion. Hmmmm…..
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  1365.  @Mr.mysterious76  no. I’m talking isolationist like pre-WWI, but even more so.
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  1366.  @Frenchcrop  heard of it. Giant mistake.
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  1367.  @Mr.mysterious76  nobody in internet comments is smart.
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  1368.  @bwarre2884  Cyberattacks are meh. The USA created the Internet, and we still have all the hard keys. And online insults only go so far. There is no substitute, and nothing better than, hard physical barriers. Which we have.
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  1369.  @bwarre2884  I want American soldiers only in the Western Hemisphere. That’s the best way to keep them out of harm’s way.
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  1370.  @quintrankid8045  Exactly. Every country’s navy should patrol its own waters. No navy, no patrol. But countries with navies can send theirs to protect their shipping.
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  1371.  @quintrankid8045 they can. If the country doing the patrolling finds advantage in doing so. So, the country receiving the patrolling needs to have something of value to offer the country doing the patrolling.
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  1372.  @quintrankid8045  and that is something of value on offer. All this freebie of guarding the seaways the USA has been doing the world since 1945 has got to go.
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  1373.  @quintrankid8045  of course. And for decades, we did. But once the Soviet system collapsed, its benefit dropped off considerably. It’s been going on autopilot for decades, because of the sunk cost of industrial plant. And it’s just getting too costly and too unwieldy. Past time to end it.
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  1374.  @quintrankid8045  There are global challenges on the horizon. But not for the USA. We can practice autarky, alongside Canada and Mexico. And we will be fine.
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  1375.  @quintrankid8045  The world is already united against us. Hello?
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  1376.  @quintrankid8045  I have been on every continent but Antarctica. I have never been to any country that is pro-American.
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  1377. ​ @quintrankid8045  they are neither our friends nor our allies. The USA has only enemies and supplicants.
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  1378. I think a Chinese invasion of the USA is inevitable. But Europe has already said they will not help. It’s the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North Pacific Treaty Organization.
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  1379. Anybody born on American soil is automatically a citizen of the USA.
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  1380. The cities are very, very dirty.
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  1381. Bringing North Korea into the Russo-Ukraine War made it a world war in principle, if not in fact. Putin calling anything the West does an “escalation” is, after this, complete hogwash.
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  1382. Why create another high birth rate society? This planet is horribly overpopulated.
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  1383. I am looking forward to the end of the American Empire. America will be fine, and our enemies will be totally fucked. And I'll love to watch.
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  1384.  @HughJaxident67  the USA had no business getting involved in either of the World Wars, save to help France out a bit. And the sooner we cut our trade relations, the better.
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  1385. Where are the European armies in all this?
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  1386. Learn from DiFi how to defend the Confederacy.
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  1387. I don’t see how a CCP seizure of Taiwan would work. The PLA may be able to seize it. But then the US Navy would impose a total naval blockade of the mainland out of reach of PLA assets. The PRC would soon be without food, fertilizer, raw materials, and energy.
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  1388. LMAO. You people are all high on cocaine.
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  1389. Not really worried about US ports can’t accept the biggest bulkers. As freedom of navigation fails, we will need smaller, faster, more agile ships, in order to avoid attack.
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  1390.  @DruidHark  I’m not holding my breath for that one.
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  1391. There is no such thing as a good empire.
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  1392.  @i6power30  Xi is an autocrat. There will be no concessions.
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  1393. Reagan was beyond disgusting.
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  1394. Taiwan has hypersonics, which will make the air defenses useless.
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  1395. How will Peru and Columbia get stuff to the Chinese?
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  1396. Let's brutalize every multimillionaire and billionaire with massive tax increases.
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  1397. Have you kept up on the news from the PRC lately? The PRC as it exists now, will be lucky to still be around, come 2030.
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  1398. We need more kitty!
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  1399. Why does this guest think the USA cares about oil as an international commodity anymore?
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  1400. As the USA reshores its manufacturing system, it will produce inflation. But the USA will need the rest of the world less and less.
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  1401. Having Russia and the PRC go down as producers and exporters will not be easy, I admit. Fortunately, the PRC has nothing of value. The resources in Russia will still be there after the Russians are all dead of old age.
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  1402. A Republican talks about democracy and freedom of speech, after an attempted coup and gag orders. LMAO.
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  1403. If we want to cap the Russians, we are going to need to cancel freedom of navigation, and return to regional/national regulation of international shipping.
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  1404.  @KingGeorgeV1914  the “aircraft carrier” that can’t carry out combat operations? That one?
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  1405. There is no radical Left on the Democratic Party.
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  1406. An America run by the Amish? Okay……
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  1407.  @benlubbers4943  I am very dubious as to just how much effect political policies and politicians can be on this. Demography and geography are nearly insurmountable forces. Politicians can maybe nibble at the margins, but that is all.
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  1408. @ meh. On a good day, the PRC prints 3x as much money as the USA. And usually it’s more like 5x. The Euro was sunk when they used insured bank deposits to fund the bailouts of Greece and others. The Japanese are tapped out. The pound is too small a circulation. Same with the krona, and the Canuck and Kiwi dollars.
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  1409. @ there is no way to mitigate inflation when the factors are a shrinking workforce and growing economy and foreigners are buying up our currency. Well, I suppose there would be, if we put on stringent export and capital controls. You want to go there?
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  1410. @ and please don’t use the words “always” and “never” in the context of economics or medicine.
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  1411. @ you do realize the dollar has been fiat currency since 1972?
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  1412. @ not since 72. The government can create and destroy dollars instantly.
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  1413. The Chinese are pathetic.
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  1414. Trump was President. He’s totally a politician.
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  1415. Yank here: I wish I had never heard of “The Sound of Music.”
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  1416. Won’t the Chinese just quit trading with the USA instead, and stick with the Russians?
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  1417. Hungary needs to return to alliance with Russia.
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  1418.  @jerryrichardson2799  the PRC are claiming that they are in charge of the world now, not the USA. Fine. Game on. Let’s see them do without export of goods, nor import of food and fuel.
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  1419. Trump is moron.
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  1420. True
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  1421. Trump has already abandoned them. Trump does not have the guts to fight Xi.
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  1422. The are moving back the USA, and automating the manufacturing.
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  1423. The world doesn’t need to understand anything. The rest of the world needs to butt out of the Middle East to let the people there settle their differences without international meddling.
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  1424.  @illegalsmirf  back to the 70’s my man!
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  1425. It would be more accurate if they included a mass shooting in the video.
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  1426. If the PRC is not happy with this, why is the PRC trying to take over the South China Sea?
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  1427. The Russians chose to invade Ukraine. Nobody forced them.
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  1428. Peter Thiel wants a totalitarian corporate world government.
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  1429. OP: exactly. We need manufacturing jobs in this country.
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  1430.  @GMK189-f2k  even so, why share any of our prosperity with the PRC?
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  1431.  @doujinflip  but it should.
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  1432. What a bunch of BS. Isis is not and never has been a threat to the USA. This is nuts.
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  1433. There is no fight. The USA could sink all Chinese shipping to and from Africa. No way the Chinese can protect their supply lines. That, and if Africa wants food imports from the Eurasian Steppes, Brazil, and North America, it's going to have to play ball with the USA.
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  1434. The usual Mearsheimer answer: give them everything they want.
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  1435. The only way to deal with the PRC is to stop trading with them. Complete economic decoupling is the way to go for everybody.
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  1436. Hungary is a Trojan horse in NATO and the EU, and has got to go.
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  1437. If the Russians stop at Ukraine, what does that get them? They still have what, 4 strategic gaps into the Russian heartland unsecured? The Besarabian, Polish, Baltic Littoral, and Finnish gaps?
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  1438. What are you smoking?
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  1439.  @jaydee6268  we could do with a bit more nationalization and socialization in the USA.
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  1440.  @alexanderSydneyOz  I don’t criticize China for directing the management of companies. I think it’s something we should do much more of in the USA.
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  1441.  @brucetownsend691  since when has China ever obeyed WTO? Besides, it’s past time to junk the WTO in any event.
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  1442.  @doujinflip  Better inefficient production than no production. The Chinese cannot be relied upon, in any case. When they embargoed the export of medical products during COVID, we saw them for whom they always were. So, we need to decouple from them completely. The goal of the PRC is the total destruction of the USA. It always has been.
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  1443. NIger is totally not the business of the USA. We should not care.
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  1444. Possible???? Possible???
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  1445. We need to end globalization as fast as we can. We need to stop the free trade in food, fertilizer, medicine, fuel, and technology. This will return the human population to it's 1945 level.
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  1446. Feli, listening to you, I could swear you are from the Midwest.
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  1447. Is this video supposed to be funny?
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  1448. The US should not tariff European goods any more than Europe tariffs American goods.
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  1449. Does Wolff realize that the PRC and India are enemies?
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  1450. BYD is all CCP subsidies and IP theft.
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  1451. Texas is ruled by the American Taliban. It’s more like the American nightmare.
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  1452. You can thank Reagan and his Bretton Woods monkeys for the gutting of American manufacturing.
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  1453. That’s not the way it works under Trump. Under Trump, nobody is welcome, skilled or unskilled.
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  1454.  @catmonarchist8920  It matters not. There is no way to square Abrahamic religion with homosexuality. One of them has to go. I vote Abrahamic religion has to go.
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  1455. Interesting. The PRC wants to end the American “rules-based order.” Why would the PRC complain about the USA undermining itself?
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  1456.  @DK-ev9dg  but in its current form, it’s only been around for 75 years. Indeed, that’s about how long a particular form of China has lasted, historically.
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  1457.  @doujinflip  which is fine. But the USA needs to withdraw from the Eastern Hemisphere, and allow the locals to solve their differences amongst themselves.
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  1458.  @StephenGillie  Bingo.
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  1459. Why does it take so long for these Republican states to count their votes?
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  1460. Well, everybody knows that. India is not a unified system, unlike China.
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  1461.  @ChinaUpdate  I wonder if the PRC does not like your channel. Every time I listen to your channel, I think of having a cold Speights in Dunedin!
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  1462.  @kenneth9874  no need to run anywhere. The USA will do better as a republic, not an empire. The American Empire has been a drain on America.
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  1463.  @ATS_i_piss_on_G00gle  no need. We can just go home, and leave the rest of the world.
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  1464. Do you honestly think the USA would sit still while the PRC attacks our ships and satellites?
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  1465. We had best help them. We need to stop them in Ukraine, because next is Romania and Poland.
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  1466. We need to go back to water and rail.
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  1467.  @HanBoonLee-n7f  and that is an excellent reason to withdraw American personnel and investment from the PRC.
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  1468. The sooner the USA can withdraw from the madness that is Europe, the better.
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  1469.  @pikachus5m166  Oh no. Trade with Taiwan is quite good. They trade on a level playing field.
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  1470. Just-in-time is dead. I wish businesses would get their heads out of their asses.
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  1471. Jobless youth implies the birth rate is too high. The PRC needs to cut its birth rate, not stimulate it.
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  1472. I don’t care for Peterson or his message. But this interviewer is terrible.
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  1473.  @martavdz4972  issues of cost and volume. And land transport is much easier to target. If PRC invades ROC, first thing to die will be pipelines from Russia to PRC.
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  1474.  @antixocialman  the only people getting laughed at is the Americans, for allowing the Chinese to cheat them.
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  1475.  @i6power30  the USA will survive its depression. The PRC will not.
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  1476.  @The136th  lol
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  1477.  @i6power30  if the PRC goes farther into depression, that is their business.
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  1478. FAFO America!
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  1479. This guy is a Putin asset.
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  1480. This house of cards cannot stand. This is a great lesson in why our current model of international shipping must die.
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  1481. The only refineries that can process Venezuela’s crude oil are in the USA.
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  1482. The Chinese are not competitors in anything. Everything they do is subsidized by their government and by the American government.
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  1483. I actually look forward to the end of freedom of navigation of the seas. Freedom of navigation was an aberration the Americans forced on the planet. It's past time it ended.
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  1484.  @McCarthy1996  That may not be possible. But it would certainly be possible to decouple the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere. I would settle for that.
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  1485. Probably because PRC is very food insecure
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  1486. USV’s are going to a major problem to commercial shipping.
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  1487. Why don’t Americans just pick up the slack and get into the water shipping business?
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  1488. This woman is a Trump supporter.
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  1489. Hello, demographics?
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  1490. The US military plans wars with everybody.
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  1491. I am a world traveler. I think the presenter is all wet. Life is indeed a journey. And journeys don’t really have an end, until your end. The journey is the thing.
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  1492.  @Leshic2  whether you like it or not, without demand, it is going away. And the USA is getting tired of footing the bill for global trade.
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  1493.  @daomingjin  When you’re talking Taiwan, you’re talking the 10nm and smaller. That’s what the US needs out of Taiwan. The PRC does the 90nm and larger stuff. We will need to rebuild that someplace else. The 10-90nm range is already distributed all over the place, so the crash of China will not affect it.
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  1494. Good. Let this part of the world just crater. Good riddance to it.
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  1495. There greater the quantity you make of a plane, the cheaper it gets, because the development cost is shared over the total number of planes made
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  1496. “Chinese aircraft carrier is comparable to a US aircraft carrier.” LMAO
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  1497. Does India have the geography to allow it to become a superpower?
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  1498. Doomers don’t breed. Capitalism hates Doomers.
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  1499. This is funny. Venezuela is about to crater. The PRC can trade with South America all it wants. The Monroe Doctrine does not prevent this. Should the PRC base military assets in the Western Hemisphere, they will be destroyed.
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  1500.  @TomTomicMic  Noah Webster FTW. Making English just a little more logical and consistent.
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  1501.  @AlfredKriman  no. That’s what other English speakers call me. I’m happy with being called a Yankee. It has the nice double meaning of being the good side of the American Civil War, as opposed to a Rebel or Southerner.
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  1502.  @AlfredKriman  well, we are kind of jerks. That’s why we need to withdraw from the world, particularly our involvement in Europe.
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  1503. Lol
    1
  1504. The American World Order gutted the standard of living of the lower classes in America. So we gutted it, with Trump.
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  1505. It’s about urbanization.
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  1506. There needs to be a radical redistribution of wealth in this country.
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  1507. The WTO needs to be abolished
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  1508.  @breft3416  The USA was not involved in the Middle East until the post-WWII era. We can get out of there, and leave those people to their fate.
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  1509. No. Expense.
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  1510. Taiwan is selling USA chip tech to the PRC, and then hoping the USA will help them when the PRC invades them.
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  1511. LOL. In the Euro crisis, Europe confiscated private bank deposits to pay help its banks and governments. Nobody sane puts their assets in the Euro.
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  1512. All this just so they can ban abortion and make sundown towns?
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  1513.  @akhripasta2670  have fun with the Chinese on your border, giving Pakistan weapons.
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  1514.  @ItsmeMail  by interdicting Chinese shipping if they don’t pay for safe passage.
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  1515.  @akhripasta2670  but they could.
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  1516. “We want our Christian nationalist state.” Sorry fools.
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  1517.  @KitLee698  no, they are diseased.
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  1518.  @navinbhatia9936  those are supposed to be the same thing.
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  1519.  @dcc70  I was not being critical. Rather, I was agreeing with you.
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  1520.  @DragnEYE  I wouldn’t a problem with any of the Middle Eastern countries, if they didn’t sponge off the USA. Once we are no longer involved in the region, I can forget about all of them.
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  1521. They need to go back to being an impoverished country.
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  1522.  @jackx4311  processed cheese is terrible. Yes. Everybody knows that.
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  1523. Trump can’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag.
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  1524. We are getting the Europeans off our tit. Now the Middle Easterners need to get off our tit.
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  1525. Migration is a form of invasion. Nobody wants to be invaded.
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  1526. Lol. Not happening. We don’t need bigots to consolidate.
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  1527. The BRICS bloc was founded by a banker at Goldman Sachs.
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  1528. Nobody should be prescribing marriage to anybody else. It should be your own choice. You shouldn’t be coercing other people into doing it.
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  1529.  @clairbear1234  if that was all, that would be fine. But we know that is not all.
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  1530. The USA needs to ban PRC investment in the USA.
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  1531. But we are decoupling from China. Yes, there is the sunk cost of manufacturing plant in China. But it’s useless without workers. The Chinese are running out of them. The past 10 years have seen a huge buildout in manufacturing plant in North America. The Chinese are certainly loudly complaining about the decoupling.
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  1532. The USA has no troops in theatre. It should be between Putin and Zelenskyy. Once there is no more fighting, the USA will not be able to supply any more weapons.
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  1533. There have been no vaccination mandates.
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  1534. I caught the Ren &Stimply reference
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  1535. Israel is only able to maintain such a high birth rate due to American subsidy.
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  1536. If Israel got no subsidies from the USA, in the military, economic, and diplomatic sectors, there is no way it could maintain that birth rate and feed its population.
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  1537. Wow. What a pack of lies.
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  1538. Putin played with fire by invading Ukraine. Putin said he invaded Ukraine because it wasn’t a country, and was part of Russia.
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  1539.  @bighands69  I don’t. But then I don’t want people born.
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  1540. The Russians are going to need to conscript their young women soon.
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  1541. Any politician that says they can do anything about inflation is lying.
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  1542. CNN way to the Left? Not once, not once, have I seen opinion on CNN call for a Leninist end to the upper class.
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  1543.  @wiolettapagowski5590  True, but also a non-sequitur.
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  1544. Ok. Math. You talk about debt. Are you willing to raise taxes on the rich to pay it off?
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  1545. Congratulations on 100k!
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  1546.  @JudyStroyer-bk6fb  LOL. This was Reagan's idea. Republicans own all taxes on Social Security income.
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  1547.  @charlesmullen3539  Biden was president in 83? Really? You must be demented too.
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  1548.  @charlesmullen3539  Biden was President in 93 too? You are demented.
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  1549. @ Depends upon what you mean by sanctions. In a multipolar world, there will be no freedom of the seas, and countries will be able to trade only within their particular chosen trading block. So in that sense, sanctions would become much worse.
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  1550. @ all the shipping does not need to be sunk. Sinking just 1 random ship here and there jacks up the price so much.
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  1551.  @AlexKen-zv8mm  oh yes. For long. This was the way of things from 1500 to 1945. The BRICS nations have never known the oceans sans American guarantees of safety. When the US Navy turns from guarantor of safety on the waves, to predator, that will change the economics for all.
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  1552. @ outside of NAFTA, the USA’s exports are only 4% of GDP, and getting smaller. The USA won’t hardly notice the fall off in global trade. And now that the Russians, the Houthis, the Iranians, the Somalis are pirating commercial shipping, it will only get worse. When the USA starts doing it again, that really will be the end of freedom of the seas. Think of what will happen to China when it cannot import or export anything.
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  1553. @ so much much yet to do. End the UN. Countries should be allowed to use their navies to interrupt the commercial shipping of other their adversaries. The USA keeps a lid on that still. Hopefully, not for much longer.
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  1554. The only way for us to improve the Middle East is for us to wash our hands of it completely.
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  1555.  @xn85d2  how so?
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  1556.  @xn85d2  but all these things are good. Religion is a mental plague.
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  1557.  @xn85d2  you can never totally separate sex from consequence. But we can now narrow down the consequences to make casual sex much more enjoyable and available. This is a good thing. We are also suppressing the birth rate, which we desperately need on this overcrowded planet. In spite of all the sex with all the women I’ve had, I’ve not sired a single bastard, nor got a single STD. Win.
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  1558.  @xn85d2  What? Christianity is the greatest pro-slavery religion on this planet, and by a large margin.
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  1559.  @xn85d2  what is the crumbling and decay of society you keep talking about? I don’t see it.
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  1560.  @xn85d2  I certainly view casual sex in a positive light. And?
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  1561.  @xn85d2  Actually, I know too much of history for your comfort.
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  1562.  @xn85d2  The West and capitalism’s use of slavery is quite atrocious. Yes. And its continued use.
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  1563.  @xn85d2  are you familiar at all with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
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  1564.  @xn85d2  "The past isn't over. It's not even past."
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  1565.  @xn85d2  of course, I consider for-profit employment to be wage slavery, being the good Marxist I am.
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  1566.  @xn85d2  No, I'm upset about it all: past, present, and future.
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  1567. When the US Navy starts torpedoing international commercial shipping, the fertilizer and the food will no longer flow.
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  1568. Foreigners really need to get out of the PRC.
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  1569. “illegal” sanctions? I thought it was the policy of the PRC that all countries had the right to determine their own trade laws.
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  1570. Is this a pro-Russia channel?
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  1571. Africa will not become a powerhouse. Its geography is horrible. And they don’t have enough arable to grow food. Think about the famine that is going to hit once cheap, secure global trade shuts down.
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  1572. Lol. Pathetic
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  1573.  @Zei33  the CIA is the most incompetent spy agency in the world, you mean. They are pathetic.
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  1574. I don’t think many Europeans understand just how tired the Americans are with being involved in Europe. We’ve got territories in Asia that we need to protect.
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  1575. @ Samoa. Saipan. Guam. Wake. The USA has citizens and territory in the Pacific it does not have in Europe, Africa, or the Middle East. The USA needs to get out of those areas, and defend its territories from the PRC.
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  1576. @ Much more than bases. Those are our islands, and our people. We don’t need to act in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa. Not our problem.
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  1577. @ good. The Pax Americana should never have been in the first place. American involvement in WW2 and Bretton Woods system was a mistake.
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  1578. This is old news.
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  1579. War profiteering is a real thing.
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  1580. It is only the wealthy that are lamenting the birth dearth.
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  1581.  @wishmaster82 lol. You don’t know about the Russian Empire?
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  1582.  @wishmaster82  Russian Empire was totally a colonial empire. There are no non-colonial empires.
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  1583.  @wishmaster82  yes. Having colonies to exploit is the purpose of an empire.
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  1584.  @wishmaster82  no colonies, no empire.
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  1585.  @wishmaster82  no, it doesn't. There is no empire without an imperial center and its colonies.
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  1586. What percentage of abortions are third trimester?
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  1587. Excellent. The sooner the USA pulls out from the Middle-east, the better for everybody.
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  1588. China can easily achieve reunification if the CCP government in Beijing abdicates.
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  1589. How do island nations allow their navies to decay? If you are an island, your ships are you lifeblood.
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  1590. This is nothing. What the Democrats really need to do is top recognzing the legitimacy of Marbury v. Madison. That would put the federal courts back in their place.
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  1591. The petrodollar is an effect of America’s economic and military power, not a cause. Once the USA stops importing goods, the petrodollar will die. And good riddance.
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  1592. The USA and Europe really need to decouple from China, economically.
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  1593. Since you are a citizen now, and you've been in the military, you should be eligible to buy an M1 Garand from the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
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  1594. Taipei and Beijing are separate governments for the same territory.
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  1595. Please. Trump is demented and is very mercurial. Trump doesn’t even know what he is doing next. How can the rest of us?
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  1596. Geography
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  1597. @ nope. The USA did not invade Canada. Although Canada did invade the USA in 1812
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  1598. @ already had this in Cuba. We know how that worked out.
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  1599. Many of us Americans who join the military have been shooting firearms since we were small children.
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  1600. Why would the USA overthrow a Western-friendly government?
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  1601.  Harloadshekelbondsteinberg  Saddam, Ghadaffi, and Noriega were compliant Western allies? Really?
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  1602.  @darcycolborne2565  The solution is obvious: Abrahamic religion needs to be thrown out.
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  1603. The PRC will say globalization had nothing to do with lifting people out of poverty. It was all CCP policy that did it.
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  1604. The only thing wrong with the Middle-east is the USA’s involvement in it.
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  1605.  @jaydee6268  I’ll let them worry about their own weather. My only concern is getting the USA out of it. The USA has no business in the Middle-east.
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  1606. I hope Starbucks loses its shirt in China. It deserves to.
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  1607. Congratulations!
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  1608.  @realsouljaboy3927  Nope.
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  1609. If you innovate in China, you step on the revenue stream of some communist oligarch. Then you go to prison.
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  1610. If Belarus also attacks Ukraine, this is no longer a limited European war to to 2 nations. It becomes multinational, and we’re off to the races.
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  1611.  @BTx933  Really? Who did the USSR sponsor the way the Americans have sponsored the Israelis?
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  1612. I sincerely hope they would do it. I would love to cut off trade with the PRC. It would be painful, but manufacturing would relocate.
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  1613. The non-aligned nations will never be free of the USA until they stop importing American food and food inputs and medicines.
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  1614. I hope she realizes all the highest quality silicon comes from the USA.
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  1615. If Yellowstone goes into full eruption, that is an extinction-level event for the entire planet.
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  1616. LOL. Europe's consumption market is even worse than China's. This is hilarious.
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  1617.  @JSK010  there absolutely needs to be immigration restrictions on Muslims
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  1618. The Slipper Slope fallacy.
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  1619. Strike is always good. Wages need to go up.
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  1620. Trump cannot be trusted.
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  1621. @ Satan.
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  1622. Galloway is at least honest about being a horrible human.
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  1623. The notions of some nations being "good" and others being "evil" is just pathetic. There is only power. Who has it. Who does not. The USA only did what any other country would do, given the same circumstances.
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  1624.  @robertsteele474  revenge feels good.
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  1625.  @robertsteele474  revenge for the aggravation of the Cold War. The USA had to drum up the Bretton Woods system, and involve itself in world affairs for decades, to contain the Soviet Bloc. Everybody knows Americans hate the rest of the world, and wish it would go away. Just the decades of aggravation of being forced to police the Middle-east so Europe could have the oil is enough to justify giving the Russians some grief in Ukraine.
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  1626. I hate to say it, but the UK is going to need to join the NAFTA block. Sigh.
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  1627. What a horrible plane. What a waste of money.
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  1628.  @Genguman7430  they don’t have the workforce or the raw materials.
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  1629. Why is any American semiconductor company doing business in the PRC still? Idiots.
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  1630. Go to Korea. Foreigners should not go to Korea.
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  1631. They aren’t going to have a choice.
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  1632. Yes. Hopefully, the USA will withdraw from west Asia entirely. We no longer need any oil from them. The USA has fewer troops abroad than any time since before WWII. We no longer have a naval presence in the Persian Gulf or Arabia Sea. Hopefully, privateers can start preying on shipping in the area.
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  1633. Does anybody care what Mr. Brexit has to say?
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  1634. Trump is a Russian asset.
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  1635. Peter Zeihan must watch this.
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  1636. Excellent!!! Go Biden!!!
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  1637. Of course we can. The USA did it from 1945 to 1981.
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  1638. Nuclear non-proliferation is dead.
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  1639.  @Ofasia777  because as the USA withdraws from the world, nations will want nukes to protect them from total takeover invasion. If Ukraine had kept its nukes, Russia would never have dared to try to take its territory.
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  1640. India and China hate each other. Why would they have social ties?
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  1641. Why build something only to have the local government seize it?
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  1642. The Jones Act is economic sabotage on the interior by the coasts. I have a great deal of anger against people on the coasts over this.
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  1643. Trump has always been an imperialist.
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  1644.  @tidbit1877  when income from rents dominates income from growth, capitalism inevitably striates into 2 classes: the vast majority with very little wealth, and a small minority with very much of the wealth. This is unstable, and results in revolution.
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  1645.  @seamusoflatcap  then that is on them.
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  1646.  @seamusoflatcap  and it doesn’t affect anyone else. It’s for the people who live there to decide.
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  1647. Listening to your first guest roast the USA makes me sympathize with Trump. USA out of Europe. USA out of NATO. This isn’t our fight. The Russians invaded Ukraine in 14. The Europeans had 8 years to spin up their armed forces and materiel manufacturing. They didn’t. And now they criticize us for not doing so. Nice.
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  1648. They did? China just asked African nations for payments on their BRI “loans” and the African just laughed them out of the room; all of them.
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  1649.  @Motorhead264  The West needs to pull out of the Middle East completely: militarily, financially, and diplomatically. Leave the people of the region alone to solve their own problems.
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  1650. The paras had the M1 Carbine.
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  1651. I think it is horrible that the USA still has military bases in Europe, all these decades after WWII.
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  1652. Our best ally is Australia.
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  1653. I am looking forward to the end of the American Empire. I am looking forward to the end of free trade, as well as the end of cheap, secure trade over the seas. I think it will be great.
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  1654. As long as you don’t make stuff, you will always be subordinate to those who do.
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  1655. Seriously, if somebody shows up at your door with a firearm, they don’t mean you well.
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  1656. Religion is a cancer, no matter what kind or where it is.
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  1657. The USA is abandoning the Bretton Woods system. Free trade is part of the Bretton Woods system.
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  1658. He’s writing presidential fanfic now?
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  1659. We also never made them pay for 9/11. Just like we never made Israel pay for the USS Liberty.
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  1660.  @thaen25  he's throwing a LOT of money away. He's giving huge government contracts for his friends, and letting white collar criminals getting away with it.
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  1661. China is still totally dependent upon the USA to maintain freedom of navigation. That can be revoked.
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  1662. We really need to constrain the free market. This is an excellent argument against the free market.
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  1663.  @litesp  The Chinese system has no market, to begin with. The only things that have any real permanence are whatever is in the Great Leader’s head. No real property or civil rights. So that’s a “no thank you” to the Chinese system.
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  1664. The Confucian society and you think it doesn’t have a bloated bureaucracy?
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  1665. The WTO failed everyone but the rich. Time to get rid of it. Time to stop international trade.
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  1666.  @ValMartinIreland  Putin is crying over the shale revolution. Try again.
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  1667. No excuses. They are all horrible people.
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  1668. With the end of Bretton Woods and the American Empire, Detroit will come back.
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  1669. The moment you called Social Security a “pyramid scheme” instead of social insurance, which it is, you outed yourself as a Republican. You need to review what is a pyramid scheme. You also need to review your history. During the 80’s and 90’s, Boomers paid double FICA, to pay for the SS of past generations, and to pay for themselves. SS hasn’t been pay-as-you go since that time.
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  1670. If we cannot repeal the Jones Act, why not expand it to include road, raid, and air transport? Make it fair among modes of transport.
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  1671. If he’s so pissed off, why did he start this war in the first place?
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  1672. The CCP is just a bunch of whiners.
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  1673. @ I think we should up the ante. If the world wants to use the USA as an export market, they should be forced to use our shipping.
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  1674.  @dmitripogosian5084  if they are willing to. Never underestimate the power of a cult.
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  1675. Where are the studies that prove these claims?
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  1676. Why do you have a green, cartoon chicken on your show?
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  1677. We need to make sure if Ukraine gets no assistance, neither does Israel.
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  1678. Good. NATO has no place in the Pacific. By extension, NATO member has any place in the Persian Gulf, either.
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  1679. All the USA has to do kill China is cut off their imports of fossil fuels and food. China is not a threat to the USA.
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  1680. We just let the Houthis have the Red Sea. Let the local nations take care of it. Not our circus, not our monkeys.
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  1681. LOL. Mark Cuban is Donald Trump.
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  1682. So is every politician an CEO. What is your point?
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  1683. You left out their neighbor would be in a bed sheet and hood, and burning a cross on their lawn.
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  1684.  @Simmo_AU  LOL. Zeihan is totally a capitalist.
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  1685.  @here_for_the  Talk about delusion. Zeihan is a Republican. Next you are going to tell me FOX is a Left wing channel. LOL. You are just butthurt that Trump did the cartels a real solid with those roads, even if unintentionally.
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  1686.  @here_for_the  LOL. Peter is a Republican. No Republican is a hero of mine.
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  1687.  @yt.damian  what a bunch of garbage. Trump could easily have funded and built his wall in 2 years, had he prioritized it. He didn't. And nobody was building any wall before Trump, nor building any roads to nowhere along the border before Trump. Trump is totally pathetic and compromised our security.
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  1688.  @yt.damian  why was there unspent Trump wall money?
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  1689.  @yt.damian  Obama was too smart to build a wall. Walls don't work. Ask Trump's Chinese business partners and bankers about that.
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  1690. This is Trump, a Russian asset. Do you think he is capable of shame?
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  1691. Let’s go back to the Eisenhower tax rates.
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  1692. Because the PRC can’t build anything of quality. And we should always build our own weapons.
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  1693. With what ships is Russia going to do this?
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  1694. Israel survives off USA welfare.
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  1695. How does China have rentiers?
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  1696. The fossil fuels that go into making an EV makes them worthless in terms of saving on liberated carbon.
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  1697. Taco Tuesday has been Taco John’s marketing campaign since I was a kid. They’ve always been doing it. It’s OK to Taco Bell to use Taco Tuesday, so long as they pay Taco John’s their due.
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  1698.  @ex7ermin874  well, it was. And has been since 89. The time to challenge this was in 89. Taco Bell missed the boat.
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  1699.  @ex7ermin874  OK, so if it’s been common usage since the 60’s, why is it only being challenged now? Taco Bell wants the trademark eliminated, because they want to use it themselves to make money, not because they are being good citizens fighting for common usage sayings to be free for all.
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  1700. Inflation is not due to demand. It’s due to supply.
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  1701. We need to protect all human life from before the moment of conception.
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  1702. Well conservatives have been working o. The Trump project since Goldwater and Nixon. I will leave it to you to fix.
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  1703. Germans speak English just fine. I can always understand them. Germans work so hard to get all the grammar correct. It's really a waste. Americans generally don't care. And once you live here long enough, you'll get it. So don't worry.
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  1704. The tears of commercial real estate owners nourish me, them, and their banks.
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  1705. There is no room for negotiation here, on either side.
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  1706. Dedollarization has been happening since 1972. It's just taking a while. LOL.
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  1707. National disgrace.
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  1708. We need a multi-polar world of mutually exclusive trading blocs.
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  1709. Foreign investors often misunderstand the CCP government. They expect to get their money out of China.
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  1710. I so want you and Sam Mercogliano to talk shipping together! I would learn so much from that!!! Please!
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  1711. How can you have a real estate sector in a communist country?
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  1712.  @valenrn8657  the whole world could do with higher trade barriers, as well as dissolve the WTO.
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  1713.  @Shenzhou.  well whatever the USA is doing on trade barriers, it needs higher ones.
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  1714.  @whatswhite110  for the cheap labor. Fortunately for all of us, that is going away. So the USA really won’t have a reason to go there.
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  1715.  @henrycory8229  You are correct. This ambiguity is bad. I think the USA should just abandon the One China Policy. Remember that it was the PRC that shifted the USA-PRC relationship from cooperation to competition.
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  1716. Russia, Red China, and Israel: America’s greatest threats.
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  1717. As fish food?
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  1718.  @Headonwriter  lol; Shale Revolution has made USA oil independent for nearly a decade now. The Chinese are the biggest customer of the Persian Gulf.
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  1719. Maybe because Marx never had any real power?
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  1720. I'm just sick of the USA involving itself in European wars. What is Europe to Americans, but a giant meat grinder into which we send our young men?
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  1721. Modern piracy. It will only get worse.
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  1722. I am looking for an American government that recognizes Israel as an enemy of the USA, and treats it as such.
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  1723. Wow. This is capitalist propaganda.
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  1724. It’s what they’ve been since Nixon took over. Too bad the old people just can’t see that.
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  1725. They have been saying this for ages.
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  1726. The USA is just rich, and Israel is just the USA’s welfare state.
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  1727. Yes. The West is in decline. And the end of freedom of the seas that comes with it will be glorious. The end of global trade will be great.
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  1728.  @jaydee6268  public transport is public infrastructure. It is properly subsidized by taxes on income and assets.
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  1729. Why should the USA even have a strategy towards Ukraine? We are happy to help them, but ultimately this is a European problem. It’s going on 3 years now, and the Europeans still haven’t spun up their military industrial complex. The USA does not have territories in Europe. We have territories in the Pacific to mind. The USA is not a land power. It never has been. The Russo-Ukraine War is a land war. This is a European problem, not an American problem.
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  1730.  @nigelgarrett7970  It was. The USA should never have involved itself in WWI, WWII, or the Cold War. Those were all mistakes. I am totally ready for the USA to stop exporting weapons and ammunition to the rest of the world. We make too much death.
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  1731.  @qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5  lol. You are singing the same old globalist song. The USA is abandoning globalization, 30 years too late, but we are abandoning it. American exports outside of NAFTA are only 4% of GDP. Our exports don’t justify the headache. The EU is not a consumption market. They are too old. Same with the PRC and Japan.
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  1732.  @qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5  What happens in the rest of the world really doesn’t concern me.
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  1733.  @qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5  yeah, yeah, the same old globalist song. The USA is the primary market for American goods. America’s #1 foreign trade partner is Mexico. Only 4% of American GDP involves exports outside of NAFTA. Try again. The USA will finish reshoring its manufacturing, and then it can close itself to European and Chinese goods. The USA is not about to cede a square inch of its territory to the Chinese. We fought very hard for those islands.
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  1734.  @got2bharmony  The world is neither smaller nor larger than it ever was. The only problem is the connections. Severing those connections is the work of today and tomorrow. We were told globalism would bring us peace. It has failed in this. And it’s expensive. Past time to abandon it.
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  1735.  @qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 you realize that foreign trade, outside of that with Canada and Mexico, is only 3% of American GDP?
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  1736. @ regardless of how you count, this is the of the USA in Europe. I can’t say I’m sorry to see us go. We have more pressing threats in the Pacific.
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  1737. Actually, the USA does not want to continue the Bretton Woods world order. We are bowing out, and that’s what’s causing the chaos.
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  1738. Geography matters. It matters where the means of production are located. It matters to workers. And where the weapons and ammunition and ships and airplanes are made matters very much.
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  1739. The USA should withdraw from the WTO.
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  1740. Ron Johnson is a Putin puppet. Putin has kompromat on him. His is also a Putin-appeasing chicken.
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  1741. There is really no need to invest in developing countries. New supply chains will be very short, and manufacturing will be done close as possible to the consumer. We really need to stop exporting food, fuel, and weapons. We need to stop meddling in the affairs of developing countries. The shipping by the PRC and Russia to other countries can easily be sunk by the US, UK, and Japanese navies.
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  1742.  @itsallminor6133  that was normal, standard operating behavior before 1945. The whole point in having a navy, historically, is to protect your own commercial shipping, and interfere in that of your rivals. I think it will be good going back to that.
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  1743.  @minhloi4536  meh, that is just propaganda. It was a mistake for the Americans to help the Han unify China into one nation. Now that they have seen that mistake, they are going to tear it apart, and leave the Han sputtering on the North China Plain.
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  1744.  @zacksmith5644  lol
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  1745. What hot spots in South America?
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  1746.  @Leshic2  The sooner the USA cuts the PRC off at the knees, the better for all.
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  1747.  @GamerShowdown-h8j  indeed. So we need to stop it.
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  1748.  @jaydee6268  everywhere
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  1749.  @beachcomber2328  compulsory labor is bad. How is that?
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  1750. @ Excellent! Then let’s the USA strategically withdraw from the Middle East and Europe. Let’s save some money, build up the USA for a change, and go protect our actual territories in the East Pacific.
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  1751. OTOH, since native English speakers generally do not speak or write the language well, it's totally OK when a non-native doesn't, either. As long as you can communicate what you need to communicate, it's all good.
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  1752.  @windcold4532  in the PRC, they are totally the same. The PRC doesn’t separate the two in its reactors.
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  1753. What happens to the pirates? They die, that's what.
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  1754. Many Americans do not want the USA to get involved in yet another foreign war. We are also angry about the USA getting involved in the Arab-Israeli War again. The USA has done far more for Ukraine than I expected. The imperial ambition of American politicians is at odds with the anti-imperial ambitions of the American people.
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  1755. The Chinese can only catch up with the West if they can copy it.
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  1756. Yes, the American Empire is over. But the USA never invested its economy in the imperial economy. So the end of the American Empire will be good for Americans.
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  1757. But not like the Wolf Warrior.
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  1758. We really need to stop exporting food and fertilizer to China.
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  1759. The sooner the USA withdraws from protecting shipping in the Eastern Hemisphere, the better.
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  1760. Trump is a Russian asset.
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  1761.  @SuperEdge67  true. But that's because the Europeans weren't prepared for this. What did they think Putin was going to do? He has said for decades now he wants the old Soviet borders back. And who can blame him? The Russians were much more secure then.
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  1762. Deglobalization will drive this. Soon there will be several reserve currencies, as we move to regionalization.
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  1763. Look, Trump has been a Russian asset since the Russians bailed him out in the early 90’s. Since Trump now controls the Republican Party, Putin now controls the House.
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  1764. Happy Birthday, Amy Goodman!
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  1765. Poor people don’t own cars in NYC.
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  1766. You go to FL for retirement, for the beaches, and for Disneyworld. And that is it.
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  1767. There would have been no shut down. The Republicans simply would have Nuclear option the filibuster and that would have been it.
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  1768. This was a setup by Trump and Vance. Stop criticizing Zelenskyy. You carry water for Putin.
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  1769. Since Wagner is Russia now, an attack on Poland by Russia would trigger Article V.
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  1770.  @GreenBlueWalkthrough  doesn't matter. I'd rather give my tax money to American dogs than foreigners.
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  1771. The end to the war is quite simple. Russia withdraws from its invasion of Ukraine. War ends.
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  1772.  @michelegosse7116  Meh. Ukraine is having is war of independence from the Russian Empire. There will be loyalists. They can either forswear their loyalty to Russia, or go back to Russia.
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  1773. Let’s see, Russia is using Chinese, Korean, and Iranian weapons on the territory of Ukraine. Turnabout is always fair play.
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  1774. The Poles are quite admirable.
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  1775.  @tristanmoller9498  actually, we are harmed by the dollar as the world currency. That’s why I want it to end, among other reasons.
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  1776. What kind of Chinese propaganda is this?
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  1777. Wow. This is really a pro-Russia channel.
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  1778. The racial information is collected to see where the money is going, who is getting the money, and how much. This information is crucial in determining if populations of people are being discriminated against or underpaid or underfunded. With our sad history of discriminatory policies like Redlining, this information is very necessary, especially in the Southern States.
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  1779.  @arnodobler1096  True. But the poor are disproportionately racial minorities, again because of our colonial history.
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  1780.  @jodylq3476  hopefully since the Yanks are no longer allies, the Europeans will stop intelligence sharing as well.
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  1781. Tariffs certainly worked for the CCP to build up their economy.
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  1782.  @Ganiscol  lol. Only people behind the curve are the world. USA has been patrolling trans-oceanic commerce since 45. Time the rest of the planet caught up.
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  1783.  @WALTERBROADDUS  indeed. So let's trash freedom of the seas, and go back to imperial naval competition on the seas.
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  1784.  @WALTERBROADDUS  so the USA should guard its own shipping, and attack the shipping of its rivals.
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  1785.  @WALTERBROADDUS  yes. And the USA should withdraw from that role of world sea cop, and let the world fall where it may.
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  1786.  @Love_N_Let_Live  that’s our stuff, thru shell companies. And being that close to the PRC, it’s an American national security risk. We need to deny the PRC any chance of getting their hands on that tech.
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  1787. The PRC wants competition, not cooperation.
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  1788. PRC: Japan never had a high tech industrial policy. Japan: LOL
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  1789. Also, the PRC is the world's second largest economy. Why does it need FDI?
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  1790. Love the Cotopaxi! They are my fav.
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  1791. The USA is not an export-led economy.
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  1792. I love Peter. But I also love how you take the piss out of him.
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  1793. American businessmen are just so weak and pathetic.
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  1794. The USA just needs to get out of China. And China needs to get out of the USA.
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  1795.  ArtyFactual_Intelligence  Putin is the Europeans’ problem, not ours.
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  1796.  @momszycat4148  how many times have these “allies” ever saved our bacon? How many times have they given us money and materials to rebuild? What have they done for us?
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  1797.  @momszycat4148  The idea that the Germans or the Russians could have made a successful amphibious assault on the Western Hemisphere is laughable.
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  1798.  @owlcowl  that’s a fair point.
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  1799.  @rcpmac  I’m fine with helping them out, so long as no American troops are involved. We need to pay the Russians off for 75 years of antagonism.
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  1800.  @donnagal569  If we weren't involved over there, why would we need their intelligence. And the rest of the world has never provided the USA with money. Please.
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  1801.  @mshepard2264  No. I don't think the Russians can project power over here. They have nukes, but so do we. I know what the Russians did in Ukraine, but that is just not our problem.
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  1802.  @donnagal569  who pro-NATO? If weren't involved in the Eastern Hemisphere, why would we need to bother?
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  1803.  @RitaH-Norway  LOL. Russia does not have the power to carry out an amphibious invasion of North America. Please put the marijuana down.
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  1804.  @RitaH-Norway  what makes you think I want American troops on Eastern Hemisphere soil? That's what I want to stop.
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  1805.  @RitaH-Norway  last I checked, no other nation has committed troops to prevent the invasion of North America.
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  1806.  @cassieo4337  We fought those wars to safeguard cheap petroleum for you lot. If not for globalism, and the US Navy patrolling all the world sea lanes, the USA would never have needed any oil beyond North America.
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  1807. It's interesting: all these Europeans scream about how much they hate the USA. When Americans say, "OK, we'll go home," they lose their minds.
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  1808.  @czechmate784  I really rather doubt it. I don’t think the USA sees any benefit from NATO. We see only cost.
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  1809.  @cassieo4337  I’m too informed, you mean. American interests are in the Americas and East Asia. Old Europe and the Middle East are nothing but money and blood sinks to the USA at this point.
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  1810.  @czechmate784  obviously somebody does.
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  1811.  @czechmate784  not yet. But the USA is slowly withdrawing from the world. And this is a good thing for the USA and the world.
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  1812.  @czechmate784  the days of the USA providing strategic overwatch for everyone, and getting nothing in return for it, are over. We are tired of the bloated military budget, and need to start spending that money on our social safety net.
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  1813.  @kimcole948  A maritime border with Russia in which they have no population centers and no ports. We have far more maritime infrastructure in Alaska than the Russians could ever dream of in Yakutia.
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  1814. We all know Putin has kompromat on Trump, and Trump does whatever Putin says. Trump has been a Russian asset since they bailed him out of his bankruptcy in the 90’s.
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  1815.  @skydragon23101979  Well, we can both agree that the “rules based order” is shite, and should be abandoned. The UN is just a relic of the Bretton Woods order, as well. It should die.
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  1816.  @skydragon23101979  The UN is a creature of the Bretton Woods Accords. Since Bretton Woods is dying, so is the UN. And it should. And the UN has nothing to do with democracy.
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  1817.  @rebym  LOL. China has totally challenged the USA for world supremacy. And that is fine. That's natural. But once they do that, they can't complain when the USA takes up the challenge.
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  1818. I would like to see a competition between the USN and PLAN to see who can disrupt global commercial shipping the most.
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  1819. LMAO!
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  1820. Europe is only an export market. A free trade deal would be only to Europe’s advantage, not the USA’s.
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  1821. We are right now at record population. This talk of extinction is ridiculous.
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  1822. This is some idiot Republican Representative. He has no power in foreign relations.
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  1823. As long as the PRC does not invade the ROC, there will be no conventional war.
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  1824.  @grouchypatch9185  the One China Policy was a mistake. The PRC has never controlled Taiwan.
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  1825.  @grouchypatch9185  Total fact. The PRC has never ruled Taiwan.
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  1826. AIPAC has bought almost all of them.
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  1827. USA dominance is ending. But it is ending because the USA wants it to end. There is no longer any profit to be had in globalization for the USA.
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  1828. Wrong. It was the smartest thing the USA could have done. Ending the USD as world currency will help the US economy. Deglobalzation and end of freedom of the seas will be the best thing for the USA and the world.
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  1829. More like China marching into the grave.
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  1830. Israeli R&D investment: spends lots of resources on industrial espionage, especially against the USA. The Americans are such suckers, thinking the Israelis are their allies.
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  1831. Trump has just taken conservatism to its logical endpoint.
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  1832. Most people inside the US think he’s not a force for good
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  1833. I don’t understand why the USA is even involved in the Red Sea. We really don’t have any interests there. The Europeans and the Chinese should be taking care of this.
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  1834. This some kind of joke?
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  1835. The eye of the Beholder.
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  1836. If the PRC wants to end the Chinese civil war, CCP government could just abdicate, and allow the government in Taipei to take over the country. Then the civil war would end.
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  1837. BP is Russian propaganda.
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  1838. Who said it was unthinkable?
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  1839. It’s hard to have sympathy for Trump voters.
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  1840. The end of globalization is going to deadly to many. But is must be done.
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  1841. "Natural Immunity" is also known as "death."
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  1842. Many American voters simply aren’t interested in events outside of the Western Hemisphere, and consider the Eastern Hemisphere another planet.
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  1843.  @jmhorange  Exactly. The Bretton Woods system should never have been.
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  1844. Ukraine is Russia’s what? 9th? post-Soviet invasion. This fellow is a Putin apologist. Czarina Catherine said, “to defend her borders, Russia must expand her borders.” These wars were always going to happen, no matter what the West said or did.
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  1845. This is anti-Chinese propaganda. The standard of living in all of China is second only to that of the USA. Their standard of living is above the average European. Xi Xing Ping says so.
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  1846.  @Coumei2009  I remind you of the 7 agreements before the Minsk that Russia broke.
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  1847. The USA is a sea power, not a land power. We don’t fight wars the way Ukraine and Russia do.
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  1848.  @i6power30  we shall see how much they love the Chinese people when the Chinese people come for their land.
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  1849. She is totally awesome.
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  1850. If the BRICS wants to dethrone the dollar, they need to stop exporting to the USA.
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  1851. Hilleberg is my only tent.
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  1852. That's not a serious question. I get the giggles just reading it.
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  1853. I wonder what the effect of allowing men no rights and no responsibilities, in any case, for children would be?
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  1854. We do?
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  1855.  @RantTheRetort  It's money we owe ourselves. And if it is owed to people outside the USA, how can they compel repayment?
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  1856. Trump was the one sleeping in court.
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  1857. Coming out takes courage. We love you for who you are.
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  1858. There is nothing positive about Trump. He failed his first 4 years. He’ll fail his second.
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  1859. LOL.
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  1860. @ the American Empire has lasted long enough, don’t you think?
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  1861. @ because it is wrong for the USA to lord it over the world
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  1862. America was never the hero. LMAO.
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  1863. But China grew entirely due to American sponsorship. The Americans provided the shipping security for imports and exports. The Americans just exploited their cheap labor.
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  1864. Pay more, get more workers. Executives and shareholders are going to need to take a bath. Too bad.
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  1865. Well, we voted for Trump. He won the popular vote. We deserve him.
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  1866. The government in Taipei is the legitimate government of all China.
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  1867. @ the UN is just a facet of American imperialism, and should be disbanded.
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  1868. This vlog was actually funny.
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  1869. Another good reason not to be a tourist in the PRC.
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  1870. I’m sure the stats will be whatever the CCP wants them to be.
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  1871. How much bang do you really get for your buck with hypersonics? Are they really economically feasible?
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  1872. Oh please please please. We need to redeploy all those military assets to the Pacific to defend our territories there.
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  1873. The USD as a world reserve currency is an effect of US power, not a cause.
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  1874.  @Zei33  If it were military deployments, I would believe it then. But not civilians officials visiting.
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  1875.  @skydragon23101979  nations only abide by rules and treaties when it is in their interest. “International law” is toothless. And the American world order is breaking up, which we can all be happy about. The US Navy is no longer large enough to patrol the global oceans, even if it desired to do so. Gllobalized commerce will die soon as other nations with navies realize the US will no longer prevent them from acts of piracy, and the world will return to regional powers and commerce that existed pre-1945.
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  1876.  @skydragon23101979  what is naive is to believe in globalized trade in the absence of globalized security. Regional security leads to regional trade. That is only reasonable. I think the USA will consciously withdraw from world trade, and limit itself to the Western Hemisphere, and its chosen partners in the Eastern Hemisphere. The end of the American Empire will be good for everyone.
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  1877. He’s not my first choice, but he’s better than Trump.
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  1878. The ROC government is the rightful government of all China.
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  1879. I'm a medical doctor. It's bad, very bad. This is what happens when a society experiences a fall in standard of living. Globalization and free trade brought up the standard of living of many countries, but it brought down the standard of living in the USA.
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  1880. It’s interesting, watching the end of freedom of the oceans in real time. Soon, only countries with armed navies are going to be able to import or export over the ocean. And that is the way it should be.
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  1881. This debt would be easy to pay off with tax increases on wealthy individuals and corporations.
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  1882. LOL. PRC strikes USA. USA strikes PRC.
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  1883. Anybody who thought “history is finished” is an idiot.
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  1884. Trump has failed at everything else he’s done. How can he succeed here?
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  1885. The Marshall Plan, along with the rest of the Bretton Woods System, was a great success for the people of Europe and the American elite, but was a disaster for ordinary Americans.
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  1886. I don’t see a problem here. The BRICS declared economic war on the USA. The USA responds. It’s all good. If the G7 and BRICS sever trade relations, I don’t see the problem.
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  1887. First BrExit, now BelEnd! LMAO!
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  1888. We need to end the transoceanic trade in commodities. We need to keep our oil and our food to ourselves. We need to use our navy to interfere in the commercial shipping of our enemies.
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  1889. @ American farmers need to get over exporting beyond the Western Hemisphere. It’s bad for other countries, and immoral for us to do. We are ruining farmers all over the world.
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  1890. How about just get rid of the UN?
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  1891. I agree with you. There is a lot we need to improve.
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  1892. I hope he does abandon the Middle East.
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  1893. He makes a good argument that every American who voted for Trump is in fact a traitor to the USA, a stooge for Putin.
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  1894.  @idleray1  ignorance is no excuse. If they voted for Trump, they are traitors, and should be dealt with accordingly.
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  1895. The USA really needs to remove its chip making facilities from Taiwan, so it will have no vested interests there.
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  1896. Life sucks. People suck. These kids need to learn to deal.
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  1897. Biden is a gutless wonder, and Trump is even worse.
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  1898. I just don’t understand. The Europeans don’t want Americans in Europe. The Americans don’t want to be in Europe. But Americans are still there.
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  1899.  @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044  bingo. Firearms have no edges, but yet are double-edged.
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  1900. @ The US security overwatch was never a carte Blanche guarantee. It was just supposed to be a shield so the Europeans could rebuilt their defense capability. The US taxpayer was never supposed to foot all the bill for the alliance’s defense needs. But the Europeans never rebuilt their defense, even after Russia broke the peace of Europe by invading Ukraine in 2014.
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  1901. We’ve known Trump was getting demented for a couple decades now.
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  1902. Capitalism is still capitalism, no matter who does it.
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  1903. @ we then, we need to stop importing finished goods, particularly from China, since they are determined to destroy us.
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  1904. @ True. We need to break up the agricorps and get back to small family farms. Pay them to grown only enough food for North America..
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  1905. @ we need to pay farmers not to grow so much; keep more land fallow so it can regenerate. But definitely grow enough to feed everybody in North America comfortably,
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  1906. @ that’s why you pay farmers to not grow food.
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  1907. @ did you even read my OP?
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  1908. We thought about you while we were in the Twin Cities this weekend.
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  1909. The ROC and the PRC have never been unified.
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  1910.  @inkbold8511  The ROC cannot invade Taiwan. They are the rightful government of all China. You cannot invade your own territory. And before Taiwan belonged to the ROC, it was conquered by Japan. So really Taiwan belongs to Japan, not China.
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  1911.  @tigading2177  There has been no peace treaty in the Chinese Civil War. It’s a frozen conflict. If the PRC thaws that war, the USA should come to the aid of its old ally the ROC.
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  1912.  @tigading2177  The PRC has never rules the ROC. The PRC cannot regain control of the ROC, because it has never gained control of the ROC in the first place.
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  1913. Big chunks of China and India are Islamic. Hello?
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  1914. Anything the Chinese do, does not recommend anything. Besides, the Chinese quit socialism in 1978. All the Chinese growth has been due to American subsidy.
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  1915. @ because too many of us suffered too much from globalization and post-WWII American Order.
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  1916. If you are entrepreneuring with small kids depending on you, you are irresponsible.
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  1917. So, China was selling American chips to the Iranians, who were selling them to Russia, to attack Ukraine. Cut them off.
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  1918. The PRC controls the South China Sea. I fail to understand why they don’t sink all Western shipping there.
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  1919.  @ihikebc only the are not historically Russian lands. Historically colonized by Russia, yes. And those Russian colonists need to swear allegiance to their new countries, or go back to Russia.
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  1920. On average, a woman’s fertility starts to fall off after 28 years. So naturally, her value for breeding goes down.
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  1921.  @Dakyta252  these are the facts of life.
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  1922. It’s common knowledge of people in the States who know about Trump that he’s been compromised by the Russians since he was bailed out of his bankruptcies by them in the early 90’s.
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  1923. Does anybody really want the Chinese Civil War to go hot again?
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  1924. The USA built globalization. Now we need to tear it down.
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  1925.  @kennyjacobs867  how far away from home was he again? Defending a friend’s business? That’s a job for the police. He’s a vigilante. And he should be punished like one.
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  1926.  @chico9805  No. But Rittenhouse needed to keep his nose out. Not his business.
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  1927.  @kennyjacobs867  unless it was on his block, it was far.
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  1928. Why have “meaning” in the first place?
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  1929. Trump has been a Russian asset since they bailed him out in the 90’s. Those of us Americans who pay attention all know this.
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  1930. Trump didn’t even get a simple majority of the vote. That’s not a mandate.
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  1931. Let’s just get rid of the debt ceiling. Theatre should be in theatre, not politics.
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  1932. The USA has guarded Europe since 1945. That’s too long for anybody.😊
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  1933. Read about the Replicator Initiative yet?
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  1934.  @incipidsigninsetup global trade is over
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  1935. The American Empire is ending because it’s way past time it ended. The American Empire was a security empire, not a trade or financial empire, aimed at the Soviets. It has long since outlived it’s usefulness to America. It should have ended 30 years ago.
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  1936. White Claw is like drinking piss.
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  1937. This is hilarious!
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  1938. LOL. Harris as “Left.”
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  1939. I do not understand why the Chinese object to the semiconductor ban. They claim they can manufacture anything the USA can manufacture, but better.
    1
  1940. The lack of fully automatic firearms crime put the lie to this vlog.
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  1941. Trump is actually helping the Chinese.
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  1942. Excellent. The shut down of all commodities from the Black Sea. This will motivate things.
    1
  1943. AOC dares to represent her constituents
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  1944. Nope.
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  1945. Jack Ma got what he deserved.
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  1946. If this weren’t true, the CCP would not being trying to compel marriage and childbirth.
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  1947.  @pugilist102  Let’s just leave the Arabs and Israelis on their own, and get our assets out of there.
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  1948. I really don’t want to be kidnapped by the CCP and held for ransom. So, no thank you.
    1
  1949. All nations want to maintain and increase their own power. Why the objection? Every nation does that.
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  1950. LOL. De-dollarization. Has been going on every year since 1972.
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  1951. Huh? Trump is taking Russia’s side.
    1
  1952. If Russia wins in Ukraine, then next target will be Moldova. Then the next is Poland. Then the next are the Baltics. Then the next is Finland.
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  1953. Is Russia risking nuclear war by invading Ukraine?
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  1954. If you invested in the PRC, you deserve to lose it all.
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  1955. The Republicans think all Latinos are rapists, murderers, thieves, and drug dealers. Why would anybody vote for people who think that of them?
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  1956.  @ARR409  don't know. Don't know Mary Harrington.
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  1957. And our infrastructure and institutions are controlled by for-profit corporations and churches. Thus, the problem we have.
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  1958.  @rogerstarkey5390  which is great. If we can decrease our exports and take the load off our soil, that will be the best.
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  1959.  @adriansaw8329  You are aware. But how can anybody be unaware of this? Do they think the USA became superpower by chance?
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  1960.  @roberts2697  lol, China can’t do high tech. That’s why they are foundering. You go to China for cheap knock-offs and mass manufacturing, not quality and high tech.
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  1961.  @roberts2697  No. New textile factories are in North America. They are completely automated with 1 mechanic and 1 programmer for staff.
    1
  1962. The triumph of capitalism.
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  1963. The USA just needs to stop buying from, and selling to, the PRC. The PRC has a terminal demography. Anyone who bet the farm on China, will lose the farm.
    1
  1964. Putin with his nuclear threats is going to make all sorts of nations go nuclear.
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  1965. If Ukraine had not given up its nukes, Russia would not have invaded.
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  1966. Henson razors are just awesome. I love mine. Much better shave than cartridge razors.
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  1967. The end of globalization and global trade is something to be celebrated.
    1
  1968. Consider that Trump was confabulating. Yes, Biden is mildly demented. But Trump's dementia is far worse.
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  1969.  @gustavalexander8676  what you say may be true, but your example is bad. Gaza is strategically worthless to the USA and its allies.
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  1970. The media are biased in favor of Trump. Trump is even more demented than Biden. And they don’t cover it. Trump is now a convicted felon, and they don’t point it out every time.
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  1971. You are leaving out the cheese. Never, ever, forget NZ cheese.
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  1972.  @mulinzhan4167  That’s fine. Let the Taiwanese and the mainland settle that between themselves. I just want the USA out.
    1
  1973. Porn is to sex as Star Wars is to space travel. Porn is all special effects, like all other movies.
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  1974. Please Hungary, go back to the Russians.
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  1975. It is way past time to withdraw the dollar from widespread trade and close the American consumer market to foreign exports. It’s also way past time to stop American food exports.
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  1976.  @josepablolunasanchez1283  more like capitalism ripped extended families apart.
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  1977.  @interstellarsurfer  no there isn't
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  1978.  @caralho5237  Ah, but these people sow, but do not reap.
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  1979. Why don’t the Germans make their own solar panels?
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  1980.  @tonysu8860  with enough trade barriers, all the Chinese advantages can be overcome. Besides, soon China will be unable to make solar panels, at all. We need the manufacturing infrastructure over here before China falls.
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  1981. The PRC are the world champion gaslighters.
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  1982. I would like to see the USA reign in its agricultural sector. Pay farmers not to grow everything. Don't export beyond North America.
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  1983.  @helenkessler6012  that’s the point: we need to not feed the world. Only ourselves. The planet is overpopulated. We should get rid of the agricorps, have only family farms, and pay farmers not to grow more food than necessary.
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  1984.  @helenkessler6012  if we stopped the international trade in food, fertilizer, and pesticides, we could probably reduce global population by 3-4 billion.
    1
  1985. Why would any socialist or communist object to the public seizure of assets?
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  1986. What does it even mean for sex to have intrinsic value?
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  1987. Sanctions are certainly better than dropping bombs. It’s far more civilized.
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  1988. The PRC has some of highest most effective tariffs in the world. There is no right to goods or services outside your own nation. If those goods or services are essential and strategic, then they must be protected.
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  1989. I agree with Napoleon.
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  1990.  @joefin5900  Railroads in the States are privately owned. Nationalize them, then we can talk.
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  1991. Multipolarity will be a great thing. We need to return to the world of pre-WWII, with different regions of the world hived off from one another, particularly in terms of trade.
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  1992. I think the USA is doing pretty well. We are working on banishing Christianity from our political and social spheres. We need to work harder on obliterating billionaires and inherited wealth.
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  1993. This will be great. Get the USA out of the Middle East completely. We don’t need their oil. It’s past time we washed our hands of the whole region.
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  1994. There has always been an arms race on the seas, much more so than the lands.
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  1995. Getting involved in WWI was the greatest mistake in American history.
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  1996. Trump is demented.
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  1997.  @NickGodwin you mean they helped attack countries that did not attack the USA.
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  1998. @ USAID is American soft power that counters Chinese influence in the world. It’s a negligible part of the budget, and nixing it is incredibly helpful for China.
    1
  1999. Xi showing chinks in his armor? Really?
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  2000.  @flowersmakemehappy834  true
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  2001. So the Republican Party could get 2 more electoral votes and 2 more senators.
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  2002. North Koreans are fighting in Ukraine. WWIII has already started.
    1
  2003. So what? Putin caused this.
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  2004. Chinese unification is actually quite simple. The CCP government abdicates, and the Taipei government rules all of China.
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  2005. Patrolling all the oceans with our navy, and keeping the Europeans from killing each other with our army costs money. I’m glad we’re stopping.
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  2006. NATO did not go into Libya. Some NATO countries, but that’s their business. But the entire NATO alliance did not go into Libya.
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  2007. No, he couldn’t. Only the political nutters are worked up about this. The majority of us are going about our lives.
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  2008. I really wish the USA would close all those military bases overseas. It's just not nice to occupy other people's countries.
    1
  2009. The actions of DOGE are just conservatism.
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  2010. Comac has an even worse safety record than Boeing.
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  2011.  @user-bw3fl7fj9w  nobody gives loans for free
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  2012. The Left has known she was a DINO ever since she was elected. It's the moderate and conservative Dems that are freaking out.
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  2013. Indeed. Anybody who was so stupid as to invest in China deserves to lose everything.
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  2014. The solution to this: stop international trade. No trade, no debt.
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  2015.  @ThomasVWorm  the USA is a net exporter of food and fuel. I’m not worried.
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  2016.  @greghenke5527  all international trade bad, except for some nicknacks. Nothing necessary should be internationally traded.
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  2017. The USA just needs to withdraw completely from the Middle East. Let those people fight it out for themselves. We have no strategic interests there any longer. The Bretton Woods order is dead, thankfully.
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  2018. One country cannot depend upon other countries for its food and water. That is a guarantee a future failure.
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  2019. Who did he think he was to challenge her to a debate in the first place? Was he her Republican challenger to that seat?
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  2020. No, we need to end global order. Global order got us into this mess.
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  2021. The US just needs to stop patrolling the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Stop wasting our taxpayer money. We don't need the oil or container thru there, so why should we pay for it? If a lot of planet starves because shipping shuts down, so what? They hate us anyway. Let them guard their own food shipments.
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  2022. @militant_pacifist Uh, no. Outside of NAFTA, USA exports amount to only 6% of GDP. That’s not nothing. But other countries depend upon the Suez much, much more than the USA. They should be sending their navies to deal with this, not the USA.
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  2023. @militant_pacifist The USA has been a net exporter of fossil fuels for 15 years now. Are you up to date? We are a net exporter of food as well. And NAFTA is a solid second to the Asian manufacturing complex. And the NAFTA complex is only expanding. The USA does not need the Red Sea/Persian Gulf corridor. The Europeans and the Chinese do. Let them police. The USA should stop wasting its money.
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  2024. @militant_pacifist If that's true, why aren't these other countries you list shouldering the lion's share of the expense of guarding the Straits and Gulf?
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  2025. @militant_pacifist The USA is the major economy least dependent upon global, oceanic trade. Therefore, the other economies should be shouldering the bulk of policing the sea lanes.
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  2026. The OP here must be Russian propaganda. I am unsubbing.
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  2027.  @johnc1873  the Chinese cannot build quality to save their own lives. See "submarine."
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  2028.  @wearebecomedeathstar2658  lol. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? The difference that makes no difference is no difference.
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  2029. There is a Left in the USA? I was not aware.
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  2030.  Alex  too bad. They are going to have to rely on themselves.
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  2031. I’m fine with automation, so long as the savings go to the workers in the form of more pay and less hours worked, and not the shareholders.
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  2032. Nobody likes Chinese product dumping, tariff barriers, and IP theft.
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  2033.  @yomanyo327  but not its employment contracts.
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  2034. She makes music. They pay for it. Simple.
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  2035. Traveling to China, you always need to worry your food is poisoned.
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  2036.  @ednammansfield8553  the Russians need combatants, not non-combatants.
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  2037. I don’t know about declining. I would say withdrawing. Either one is good. The less USA involvement in the world, economically, socially, politically, militarily, the better.
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  2038.  @randar9884  after two World Wars and the Cold War, the USA is tired and would like a cold beer and rest from this incessant bullshit. Thank you.
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  2039. It is immoral for the USA to be the world policeman. It’s wrong for any one nation to be the world policeman.
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  2040.  @TacticalMayo  huh?
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  2041. The USA’s alliance with Israel screws it again.
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  2042. We really need to make vasectomy easily and freely available at 12 years old. That should go a long way to stopping neglected children in 1 parent homes.
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  2043.  @neric37  the Ukrainians are capable of using any military equipment. Indeed, they can use Russian equipment better than the Russians.
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  2044.  @ChristiansAgainstGenocide  lol
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  2045.  @saikrishna8211  no one is taking about NATO invading Russia. This is about Russia invading Ukraine.
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  2046.  @angosaley8724  this is war. The Russians are using everything up to nukes. So should the Ukrainians. If the Russia are using outside weapons, so should the Ukrainians.
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  2047.  @FabiusPolis  Assuming this is true, and I do not think it is, Russia is already employing foreigners in its armed forces. Again, turnabout is always fair play.
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  2048.  @Ed19601  I don’t believe that foreign soldiers are using Ukraine’s weapons for it.
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  2049.  @Ed19601  Russia uses foreign weapons to bomb Kiev. Why does Putin object to Ukraine using foreign weapons to bomb Moscow?
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  2050. @but America has no desire to lead. We’re exhausted. The past 75 years of expenditures policing the world has broken us. We need retrench to the Western Hemisphere and our territories in the Pacific.
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  2051. @ are you not aware of all the wars American has started since 1945, all to keep their empire together? The overthrows of so many legitimate governments? The American Empire has been a vehicle of injustice for the entire planet.
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  2052.  @andreimustata5922  well, yes. That is the pre-American condition.
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  2053.  @andreimustata5922  also the planet grew fat and terribly overpopulated during the American Empire. Its end should cause a major correction in world population, what with food, fertilizer, and petroleum no longer being traded in bulk across the oceans.
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  2054.  @Pajune  well, they are welcome to step up any day now. They’ve had 2 years already.
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  2055. Peter really lays it out. This is our species. It’s best that nobody has any children, and we go extinct. We are too stupid and cruel to keep on existing.
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  2056. This is a state matter, not a federal one. Biden and Co. should have nothing to stay about this.
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  2057. Europe has good reasons not to decouple from China. The USA, not so much.
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  2058.  @brasidas2011  1) Europe doesn’t have North America. 2) Europe and China are both demographic basket cases, although Europe less than China. 3) Europe has its former colonies in Asia and Africa to call on. The USA has all its people, steel, petroleum, and food internally. 4) Europe doesn’t have much of its armies and navies left. They need to work on that.
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  2059.  @brasidas2011  thus, my point, agreeing with Macron, that Europe should not decouple from China. The USA really has much less to loose. Indeed, since China has positioned itself as an antagonist to the USA, the USA now has reason to torpedo (literally and figuratively) trade into and out of China.
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  2060.  @brasidas2011  of course the USA does not trust the PRC. That is why it is decoupling from it, and reshoring its manufacturing base. The difficult part is taking all that chip fabrication back from Taiwan. Macron and Europe can throw in with the PRC, but that’s their business. I think it’s unwise, but that is Macron & Company’s business.
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  2061.  @brasidas2011  I think we are cross-talking here. The USA does not desire to maintain world hegemony. Rather, it’s interested in regional hegemony with the Western Hemisphere and its close allies in the Atlantic and Pacific. The problem is the withdrawal, which is a pain in the ass.
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  2062.  @bakedpotato420  I wouldn’t call it rough. It’s what firstborn are expected to do. But it teaches you what it’s like to be a parent.
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  2063.  @edheldude  if you aren’t a billionaire you are sheep
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  2064.  Dracula-m2k  making the babies is the easy part. The hard part is raising them.
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  2065. One of us! We are honored to have you!
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  2066. American globalization is ending. Soon the entire planet will be carved up into regional rivalries. So what?
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  2067.  @C-Farsene_5  with changes in demographics, inflation is baked in
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  2068.  @albachera90albachera51  since the Chinese destroyed UNCLOS, there no longer is crime on the seas
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  2069.  @Freyia935  if a land cannot support human life, then humans shouldn’t live on that land. If they do, they at their own risk.
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  2070.  @Justin-rm6su  that’s the nature of capitalism. Next question.
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  2071.  @GHMRoding  there is no such thing as the free world
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  2072.  @Zetler  It was the state of the world before 1945. Freedom of navigation is an aberration, not the norm.
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  2073.  @Alehinn  The USA just isn’t export dependent economy. It never was. We could walk away and be fine within the Western Hemisphere, largely. I think the USA needs to go from protecting to trade lanes, to preying about them, interrupting the commerce of its geostrategic competitions. Can you imagine the USN preying on Russian and Chinese shipping across the world? Turn the Seawolves loose on the commercial mariners. We could shut down food and fuel imports to China. The Russians and Chinese want to play hardball with the USA? Game on.
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  2074.  @burnitalldownnow  what statement is that?
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  2075.  @thewingedhussar4188  ending globalization will take care of that.
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  2076.  @theformalmooshroom9147  wrong. The USA’s debt is now 100% of GDP. The PRC’s is 300% of GDP. Japan’s is 500% of GDP. What’s more, the US dollar as global currency is a disadvantage to the USA. Only 4% of US GDP is exports out of North America. By making the dollar as a medium of exchange globally, we are fueling the business of our competitors.
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  2077.  @jtofgc  having the dollar as the international currency is a burden on the US economy. Supporting a reserve currency may make imports cheaper, but it wrecks local production. The USA will be better off once the USA is no longer the world currency, and foreigners need to compete to invest in the USA.
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  2078. Globalization was the USA’s greatest mistake.
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  2079. @Ali Lamar Read “Sociobiology,” by E.O. Wilson
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  2080. Your commentary on the “benefits” of USD as world reserve currency are fatuous. In order to be a world currency, that sovereign must run a trade deficit. Trade deficit is bad. World currency may be great for the elite of a country, but it is bad for the common people. Ending the dollar as world reserve currency would be great for America.
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  2081. I think we should offer free and easy sterilization to all pubertal boys and girls. Get rid of the pills.
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  2082. Trump is a giant middle finger to the Bretton Woods establishment. That’s why we love him.
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  2083. Prohibiting rent hikes just means no more rental property.
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  2084. I hope you are not surprised with Trump.
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  2085. Why are people always worried about other people’s sex lives?
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  2086. China really isn’t a viable option. Their demographic structure is terminal at this point.
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  2087.  @maeily1  and we need to stop exporting our poisoned food to the world.
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  2088.  @ferdinandm9504  Biden is an internationalist. I doubt he will listen to me.
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  2089. Doing our best to help you out from the USA. Trump is a Russian agent.
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  2090. The USA has no need to contain the PRC. All we need to do is to stop trading with them.
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  2091.  @jypapiiiii  Bingo.
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  2092. American here. I don’t understand why the Europeans need the USA to be involved in this. It’s been going on for a couple of years now. Shouldn’t Europe’s industrial planet and armies mobilized by now?
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  2093. There are no Leftist American politics of size.
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  2094. Trump is an idiot. Those that voted for him knew it.
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  2095. China has no power projection and cannot guard its own shipping.
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  2096. There was this little thing called the Civil War. It went from a hot war to a cold war. And it’s been a cold war ever since.
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  2097. If you want to understand Christianity, all you need to study is the Inquisition, the conquest of the New World, and the Third Reich.
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  2098. I wish the USA would retool its refineries to run off American crude, and separate the American oil market from the rest of the world. I think ending petroleum as a globally traded commodity would be the best thing for the USA and the environment.
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  2099. It’s been a decade for a decade now. Just don’t put dates on things you can’t.
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  2100. But it will be a Western Hemisphere manufacturing power house!
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  2101. I would like to see us go back to the world pre-1945. You used your navy to trade with, and protect the trade of, your friends and allies. You used your navy to interrupt the trade of your competitors and enemies. Only high-value goods get traded at all.
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  2102.  @tube.brasil  the world go do with a lot less American “care” for its affairs.
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  2103. The Israelis deliberately attacked the Liberty in an attempt to false flag the USA into attacking Egypt. That is plain.
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  2104.  @genuinennessbefitting4734  LMAO
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  2105.  @NTraveller  the sooner Russia completes its withdrawal from Ukraine, the sooner things will get back to normal.
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  2106.  @NTraveller  I just don’t see NATO declaring war on Russia unless Russia attacks a NATO country. Now, that is certainly Putin’s long term plan. After he digests Ukraine and Moldova, he will move on to Poland or Romania. That is where the NATO war will come from.
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  2107.  @NTraveller  Putin cannot stop at Ukraine for Russia’s security. He must control all the gaps that allow access to the Russian plains. There are 9 of them. 2 of them are on the border of Ukraine. He already controls the ones in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. He needs the ones in Romania, Poland, the Baltic Republics, and Finland. The two in Ukraine he is currently working on. Whether or not those countries are in or out of NATO is irrelevant. This war was going to happen, regardless.
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  2108. I hope the USA just stops patrolling the high seas completely.
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  2109. If we want to get Medicaid and Medicare under control, we need to socialize the medical sector.
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  2110. PRC can grab it if it has the power to do so.
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  2111. If there is war between USA and PRC, there will be little if any direct contact between the forces. The USA will blockade the PRC from the Indian Ocean, and the PRC does not have that range.
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  2112. Wrong. At this moment, the West should work harder on decoupling.
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  2113. Please, all this talk of human rights and rule of law. Nobody believes in that. And nation-states certainly don’t believe in it amongst themselves.
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  2114. LOL
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  2115. The faster the USA can decouple from China, the better.
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  2116. No barriers to invasion. No security.
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  2117. I don't want the USN protecting non-USA vessels, anywhere or anyhow. The rest of the planet is sponging off us.
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  2118.  @Ganiscol  fine. We pay for ours. They pay for theirs. Fair enough.
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  2119. they can.
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  2120. I simply cannot take a green cartoon chicken seriously on geopolitics.
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  2121. Ever since Tucker admitted to being a propagandist for Russia in the teens, everybody should have been ignoring him.
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  2122. The USA caused the war. From the other side of the planet. Sounds legit.
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  2123.  @jensstergard9380  The USA does not care about democracy and never has. Anything else is fantasy.
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  2124.  @cxar71  all things had to begin somehow. The USA had to settle things down in Europe with troops, keep everybody from fighting each other, capital to rebuild the place, then open its consumer market to European exports so the various factions could export their way back to wealth, and guard the sea lanes so they could do it in safety. I am a non-interventionist myself. The USA should never have involved itself in European wars, beginning with WW1, and everything since. Bretton Woods was also a mistake.
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  2125.  @richardalvarado-ik9br  my pointe: globalization must end. The global American Order must end. And we should return to the era of regional powers with regional spheres of influence. End the UN, and the WTO.
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  2126. @ we already have a new war. Next.
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  2127.  @PavelMiller-k8r  cry more, Russian troll
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  2128. Interesting. I wonder why he didn’t say something like, “all Taiwanese shall bow to the Communist Party?”
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  2129. Globalization can’t die too fast.
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  2130. The USA invented hypersonics in the late 60’s. They were found generally not worth the money.
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  2131. NATO needs to end, and be replace with something else. The USA needs to withdraw from NATO unilaterally. Give Orban and Erdogan what they think they want.
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  2132. Globalization lifted up the few, and impoverished the many. That’s why.
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  2133. All of us get depressed from time to time. Nothing to be ashamed of, it’s like any other illness. Go to the clinic, and get treated.
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  2134. The bottom line: demographic bust. The workers they want aren’t there.
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  2135.  @Prufrock888  so what exactly do these “allies” do for us? I don’t see any tangible benefits.
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  2136. What sanctions has the USA imposed on China again?
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  2137. Are 5 year olds the audience of this podcast?
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  2138. Trump is an idiot and a terrible negotiator.
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  2139. The PRC under Deng was ruled by committee. It was Xi that made it an autocracy.
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  2140. No. They were just servicing the Bretton Woods system.
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  2141. LOL. Expense of land v. Water. And then the security of that road.
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  2142. Of course it will end. The USA just needs to get its act together and completely decouple from China.
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  2143. Happy Birthday!
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  2144. How did the Chinese become so pathetic?
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  2145. Trump is an idiot.
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  2146. Europeans have a much better social safety net than Americans.
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  2147.  @rafikkandxorov3668  well then, Russia can just remove its colonists from its former colonies
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  2148. Trump is all the Right ever was.
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  2149.  @Stoneitful  employing large groups of workers is tough everywhere, and getting tougher. China’s demographic dividend is over. The USA’s is long over.
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  2150.  @WANDERER0070  I tried. He seems to think China has a right to dump its crap in the USA.
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  2151. I fail to see why the USA should spend on European defense if the Europeans refuse to spend on European defense.
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  2152. Because France is a colonial power?
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  2153.  @jungbolosse3034  Correct. Point?
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  2154.  @jungbolosse3034  still a colonial power. And is only going to be more so in the near future, as the American Empire winds down.
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  2155.  @firecreeper2249  you mean China is getting weaker relative to the USA. But that has nothing to do with France re-engaging with its former colonies.
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  2156.  @firecreeper2249  well, France has kind of been contained since 45. Reference the Suez Crisis in the 50's. As the USA pulls out of European security, the old imperial powers are going to need to reassert themselves.
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  2157.  @firecreeper2249  No worries. All debate is appreciated.
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  2158. Ending the global trade in commodities would be excellent.
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  2159. US can’t pay its debt? What a bunch of BS.
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  2160. Religion is just magical thinking, which is ridiculous.
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  2161. Why do you care so much about these losers?
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  2162. Tariffs: bad for shareholder dividends, good for worker wages.
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  2163.  @LakesideTrey  a manufacturing job pays infinitely more than no manufacturing job.
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  2164.  @goodfortunetoyou  costs increase, executive compensation and dividends go down.
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  2165. Here we are. Trump and his coterie are fascists.
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  2166. She's paying for blue collar workers' Social Security, so I think it's fair.
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  2167. If Russia is doing so well in Ukraine, why is the war still going on?
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  2168. He is so demented.
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  2169. National humiliation for the USA. Half of the nation is hanging our heads in shame.
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  2170.  @whitesoxMLB  no they aren't. Germany is not the USA and our norms would not work there.
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  2171.  @whitesoxMLB  wow, you presume much. But no, the US idea of "free speech" is foundation right of a functional democracy. There are other ideas of free speech, other than the American one.
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  2172.  @michaeldeierhoi4096  you should always assume nuclear subs are sitting right off your coast.
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  2173.  @bighands69  all those companies that bet the farm on China are going to lose the farm. And they deserve it.
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  2174.  @cookml  not necessarily. Stockholders and executive could take a financial haircut.
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  2175.  @robertmartin6800  depends upon the individual father and mother
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  2176.  @therealgrimreaper68  already debunked above. And yet, prices have spiraling out of control even without rise in employee compensation. Almost as if prices have nothing to do with employee compensation, rather shareholder greed.
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  2177. I’m from Burlington. I don’t go home often, either.
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  2178. The PRC still hasn’t learned that central planning doesn’t work. We learned that in the 20th century.
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  2179. Exactly.
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  2180. For being born into this world, your parents owe you a wereguild. You owe them nothing.
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  2181. Why aren’t the Europeans seeing to their own security?
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  2182.  @Pauli-tm2zt  the USA has never started a war in Europe.
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  2183.  @taiwanisacountry  I understand the Bretton Woods system quite well. It has outlived its usefulness, and should end.
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  2184.  @taiwanisacountry  I see you didn’t like my investopedia link, and so deleted it. Too bad.
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  2185. Instead of families moving to service industry, why not force industry to move to service families?
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  2186. Why should marriage should increase or decrease your taxes? Why should it have any effect on your taxes?
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  2187. The USA needs to start torpedoing Russian food exports.
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  2188. The end of globalization can’t come too fast. The USA and China need to separate.
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  2189. The USA joins the Axis. National disgrace.
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  2190.  @frakismaximus3052  being a superpower was one of the worst things that happened to the USA. This is not a good argument for you.
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  2191.  @PlanofBattle  there was never the threat of amphibious invasion of the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern. D-Day was nearly impossible over 30 miles of sea. Over thousands of miles? I think not.
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  2192.  @enbonj5842  Europeans only see Americans as cannon fodder. That’s all we have ever been to Europeans.
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  2193.  @davidhowse884  that may have been true. But we had our own war to fight in the Pacific. Fighting on two fronts was a huge mistake.
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  2194. @ so you see why the US involvement in the European theatre was a bad thing for us. It led to this.
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  2195. @ yes so we had to deal with it. And we dealt with it alone.
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  2196.  @knowz2367  peace is only possible when Russia withdraws from Ukraine.
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  2197.  @angelkar5132  so “representative democracy” is accurate and appropriate.
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  2198.  @reinhard8053  we could do with some French-style wealth redistribution in this country.
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  2199. China’s “navy” of runabouts and fishing boats you mean?
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  2200. The US needs to stop its involvement in the world so much.
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  2201. It's not difficult to clean in the field. And it can fire when very dirty.
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  2202. And sadly, the USA has a very poorly informed and poorly educated citizenry.
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  2203. Bibi totally knew. He just let it happen. Just like W let 9/11 happen.
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  2204. China is an ascending power? LOL. China is an ethnic Han empire that has success only because of American subsidies.
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  2205. Their first problem is their religious belief. Religious belief is just psychologically unhealthy.
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  2206. What did you expect Trump to do?
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  2207. I don't get it. She's pretty.
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  2208. At this point, it doesn’t matter if the Saudis use the dollar or not.
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  2209. So this "no sex" thing is a problem for younger men? I've been wondering about that. I'm 53, and never had a problem getting sex since I was 14. Have computers and mass media really done this? Are women just no longer interested?
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  2210.  @larss176  Weird. I wonder why?
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  2211. Whoever wins, I hope they work to kill globalization, especially freedom of the seas.
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  2212. @ No. I just think the world was better pre-American Empire.
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  2213. The PRC is the second largest economy in the world, with a standard of living second only to the USA. It is NOT a developing economy.
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  2214. I have never visited Israel/Palestine because I think it is an active war zone. It has been since 1945. Tourists go there at their own risk.
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  2215. If the BRICS are serious about dethroning the dollar, they need to stop exporting to the USA.
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  2216. The USA does have the cheapest electricity in the world.
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  2217. The American election system haven’t fundamentally changed since 1783.
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  2218. Can there be peace until Russia stops invading Ukraine?
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  2219. OK, now do the Republican Party 2020 platform. Oh, wait...
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  2220.  @PanzerkampwagenVItigerAusf.E  LOL
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  2221. The Americans facilitated the rise of China. They are idiots.
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  2222.  @thanasis-_-  To facilitate the rise of your challenger? Idiotic.
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  2223. Ronald Reagan was a disaster for the USA, and greatly diminished our standard of living.
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  2224. The West stopped picking them apart. It guarded all their shipping. And built all the industrial plant. Easy.
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  2225. A multipolar world would be great. An important criterion is that the various poles not be allowed to trade amongst themselves.
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  2226. Everything the Republicans accused the Democrats of back in the day, the Republican now are.
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  2227. I also do not want a global order. I would like to see the world hived off into exclusive trading blocs.
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  2228. Sounds to me like the PRC needs to halt all capital flight. Xi should seize all foreign-owned assets in the PRC.
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  2229. Tony only reports on official government stats. They can’t ding him for that.
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  2230. I think promiscuity is wonderful.
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  2231.  @toddjohnson271  having sex with your wife is not promiscuity.
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  2232. There is more to food than just growing it. You need to get the inputs to grow it. You need to tend it. You need to harvest it. You need to transport it. Delocalizing food supplies under the "Green Revolution" was a disaster.
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  2233. Excitement is disturbing.
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  2234. They need to keep building them, because they keep sinking.
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  2235. Demographics. Finished.
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  2236. In the case of the PRC invading the ROC, I think that will be done handily. However, I think the USA will destroy all the chip fabs. It will then impose a complete naval blockade of all ships in and out of the PRC. I don’t see how they overcome that.
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  2237. OK, so with the Right, we have the Nazi death camps, the Age of Exploration and Colonization, and the Trans-atlantic Slave Trade. So the point is?
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  2238. This thing called deglobalization, I’ll take my USA passport, thank you.
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  2239. The PRC wants Europe for product-dumping. Fini.
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  2240.  @DeAnnaParisRN  we certainly do. And anybody who works in a hospital should know that. After COVID, all the Boomers retired from medicine and nursing. It’s a disaster.
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  2241.  @DeAnnaParisRN  where do you think the skilled people come from (eventually)? And we need “unskilled” people as well. The people on the dole are not the immigrants, legal or otherwise. It’s the people who were born here.
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  2242.  @DeAnnaParisRN  why not give everybody who is here free food,shelter, clothing, education, and medical care?
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  2243.  @DeAnnaParisRN  the USA has not been invaded since 1848,
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  2244.  @DeAnnaParisRN  here's a more strict one: the military of one nation seizing the territory of another by force.
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  2245.  @DeAnnaParisRN  but there haven't been any foreign invaders since 1848.
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  2246.  @lisalapoint7022  um, no. We don’t have enough staff in the restaurants, the stores, the mines, or the hospitals. Businesses and government services are dying for lack of people.
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  2247.  @DeAnnaParisRN  lol. And they can do what outside of China? Well, they can cook dinner. I will give them that.
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  2248. Why don’t the Danes just close the straits to all Russian shipping?
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  2249. @ so let’s end freedom of navigation of the seas. Russia wants grey zone warfare, let’s give it to them.
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  2250. The Russian invasion was going to disrupt the supply chains no matter what. 60 billion is a drop in the bucket for the US.
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  2251. The USA really needs to stop trading with PRC. The two do not get along, and should not be trading.
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  2252. It’s OK. The USA spies on the PRC. The PRC spies on the USA. Fair is fair.
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  2253. One could only hope the Europeans would ally with China. They have been a millstone around the neck of the USA for more than a century.
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  2254. This is not going to hurt the USA. Wishful thinking.
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  2255. I agree with your points, but you take a lot of time to make your points.
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  2256.  @jeromebarry1741  LOL. Good point.
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  2257. He wants Alaska back.
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  2258. We need to stop with the ethanol. Stop with the field corn. Start growing corn to feed people.
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  2259. Best of luck, public figure.
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  2260.  @agnescraig2912  True.
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  2261.  @aao449  Sadly, we can’t extricate ourselves overnight.
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  2262. I hope we don’t. I’m sick of the USA being world policeman.
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  2263. Why are young men nowadays such wimps?
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  2264. Not many executives want to be subjected to an anal swab.
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  2265. OP: you cannot be this stupid. Criminals buy firearms in easy-to-purchase areas, and then bring them to the cities.
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  2266. Because the ROC is traditionally allied with Japan and the USA. The PRC has never controlled the ROC. It’s a frozen civil war.
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  2267.  @gbcb8853 doesn’t matter if the USA is isolationist or not. We will always fight alone.
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  2268.  @merlebarney  Well, I have no idea why those countries fell for Bush’s bullshit. I wish their governments had pointed out that neither Afghanistan nor Iraq attacked the USA on 9/11, and so stayed out of it.
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  2269. What is the matter with the CCP? Why aren’t they slamming up capital controls so that no investor can get their assets out of the PRC?
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  2270.  @gtw4546  Yes. It’s excellent. They need to keep it up!
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  2271. We need to disintegrate world trade, not encourage it.
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  2272.  @markcalhoun8219  True. But mass migration can be stopped.
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  2273.  @bobkoure  I don’t worry about that in the States. But in Europe, they are going to have to get serious about it. Think about what is going to happen when the maritime shipping of food, fertilizer, pesticides, and equipment becomes too expensive.
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  2274.  @david3549tw  Possession is 9/10 of the law. Nice try.
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  2275. Lol. Industrial capacity is a part of a nation’s wealth.
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  2276. The USD has been losing its status as the world’s reserve currency for 40 years now.
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  2277. Not about net worth or income or assets. Poor class: owns no real property, has no steady income. Working class: owns no real property, mostly has a steady earned income. Middle class: owns real property, has steady earned income. Upper class: owns real property, has necessary investment income.
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  2278. @ The USA has no way to stop the Russians invading Ukraine. Indeed, Trump has encouraged the Russians to invade other European countries.
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  2279. It is important that the ROC not lose the Chinese civil war to the PRC. Having two poles of power within China is important to many foreign interests.
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  2280.  @JohnCSmith-lp1qr  desperate for what?
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  2281.  @ZelenskyTheMadClown  won't need luck.
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  2282.  @Joshua-wp2ci  doesn't mean they won't try. They tried this, after all.
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  2283.  @timthetiny7538  France and Poland and Sweden and Finland and Türkiye do.
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  2284.  @glennbateman4483  just because they can’t does not imply they won’t try. They are Russians, after all,
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  2285.  @lawrencemusana8425  let’s see: back in 2022, Russia was to have conquered all of Ukraine in 2 weeks. Putin is indeed all talk.
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  2286. McDonald’s is now so depressing.
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  2287.  @jointy33  “Any” is a very unrealistic word. Presently, the USA exports only 8% of its goods out of the NAFTA system. And that is set to shrink. The USA no longer needs to patrol the world’s oceans, and no longer needs all those overseas military bases. So why continue them?
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  2288.  @jointy33  no doubt the rest of the globe will continue to trade. But that trade will be much more geographically limited, much less reliable, and much more expensive. That is what is meant by deglobalization. For decades, the entire planet has called for the USA not to involve itself in the rest of the world. Many Americans would love the US to close all its foreign bases and deployment of its navy, myself being one. So this is good news for all of us.
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  2289. Will become? That boat already sailed. They declared themselves are enemies a couple decades ago.
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  2290. The USA has actual territory and citizens in east Asia and Oceania. Is that not clear?
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  2291. We need to massively increase taxes on the wealthy to pay off the debt.
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  2292. You two can slam on the West all you want. Fine. Go somewhere else for help.
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  2293. China is “poor?” They claim to be richer than the USA. WTF?
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  2294. I think this is BS. I was born and raised in the American Midwest on the border between North and South in 1970. This division in the country is no different than what I experienced in the 1970's.
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  2295. It never stopped being Trump’s party. Every Republican since Nixon took over is a fascist.
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  2296. Trump will totally get us into another Mideast war.
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  2297. The USA is now a net petroleum exporter. The Saudis have nothing with which to threaten the USA.
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  2298. Chinese don’t consume. They can’t. They have no assets, particularly with the crash in land values.
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  2299. how about measuring military spending in terms of actual capabilities that a nation’s military has?
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  2300. The Harris Admin? There has been a Harris Admin?
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  2301. The USA does not need to nuke anybody. If somebody nukes us, we can certainly retaliate. But there will be no first nuclear strike from the USA.
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  2302. As for peace between Saudi and Iran, I’ll believe it when I see it.
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  2303. American here. Wow. I just met my wife at school.
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  2304. Social insurance does not meet the criteria for a Ponzi scheme. That is an outright lie.
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  2305. That’s going to add such a cost, that many of the goods shipped will no longer be worth the expense.
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  2306. The Republican Party has finally got the America. It always wanted.
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  2307. The Americans invented hypersonics. They abandoned hypersonics because they weren’t cost effective. Think about that. A weapon system so wasteful even the Americans won’t fund it.
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  2308. The CCP is killing HK, as we always knew it would.
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  2309. The Middle East is totally no longer significant to the USA, strategically speaking.
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  2310. Marbury is an unconstitutional power grab. It should be ignored by both executive and the legislature.
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  2311. Trump is going to lose. He's going to die in prison.
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  2312. Why isn’t the USN sinking Iranian oil tankers on the high seas? Why isn’t the USN sinking Chinese commercial shipping on the high seas?
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  2313.  @waynezw  what else could they do? They needed the USA as a place to dump their manufactured goods. If they USA imploded, so would China. This is another reason the USA and China need to decouple.
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  2314. Is Peter Darth Sidious?
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  2315. Lol
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  2316. The fertilizers and pesticides we use are petroleum-based. We need to stop making those.
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  2317. Lol
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  2318. Why would anybody want to work at that company? Good luck getting workers.
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  2319. Good. Once the USA and the PRC see each other as adversaries, things will be on a more honest footing. The USA needs to decouple from trade with the PRC.
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  2320. Should there be an invasion of the ROC, I hope the USAF will use bunker buster bombs to destroy all the chip fabs on the island, so that all the PRC gets is rubble.
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  2321. Trump is an idiot.
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  2322. Would anybody trust their safety to a Chinese vehicle?
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  2323. Do business with China? Get screwed. It also sounds like Trump is going soft on China.
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  2324. Demographics?
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  2325. I don’t understand the objection. Women have for decades now demanded men leave them alone. I think they would welcome to advance of sex robots.
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  2326. It's way past time to stop oil from being an international commodity.
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  2327. Please. The Americans sank it as part of grey zone warfare. One ill turn deserves another.
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  2328. I think it’s fascinating how the Third World is lining up to support a brutal colonizer.
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  2329. It’s our national sport!
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  2330. Why not just close the stores?
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  2331. The planet is absolutely overpopulated. But it’s more overpopulated in the rich countries than the poor countries. People in rich countries should be allowed 0 children. People in poor countries should be allowed 1 or 2 children.
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  2332. @TSDamiano not if we tax the wealthy more
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  2333. @ exactly and we live in a slave state
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  2334. I think being a nihilist is rather enjoyable.
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  2335. Trump is an idiot. We’ve had strategic control of Greenland for more than a century.
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  2336. Oil as a commodity is not long for this Earth.
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  2337. Trump is still in office. No backfire yet.
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  2338.  @milesnixon9554  no need to stop other countries from being in alliances. The need is for the USA to leave the NATO alliance so we can devote our resources to the Pacific, where the threat to our territory is. Europe has said that in a war with the PRC, they will not help the USA. So we need to go our own way to protect our territory. We must devote our finite resources to combat the Chinese.
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  2339.  @grantsmith505  Russia is a threat to Europe, not the USA. China is a threat to the USA, but not Europe. The Europeans have said they will not help us against China. So we need to go our own way.
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  2340. @ and you haven't answered mine.
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  2341.  @grantsmith505  The Russians broke the peace of Europe in 2014. The Europeans have had 10 years to spin up their materiel manufacturing and armed forces. They should be ready to deal with this themselves by now. We've got the Chinese to fight.
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  2342. @ exactly
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  2343. The USA will never allow any other power to have a strategic presence in Greenland, or anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere.
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  2344. Yes. The Bretton Woods Order (American Empire) is dying. The USA is done with it. Good for the USA. Good and bad for the rest of the world.
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  2345. anything to keep the demented old Trump out of the WH!
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  2346. Infrastructure that falls apart in 5 years. Nice.
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  2347. Why should the USA “manage” any other part of the world?
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  2348. Israel is a democracy? Only half the population can vote. Israel is no more a democracy than Saudi Arabia.
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  2349. Past time to petroleum as an internationally traded commodity. Past time to stop the transoceanic trade in food and fertilizers.
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  2350.  @MrNatsuka  Exactly. The Americans’ globalization of trade was the worst for humanity.
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  2351. It looks like the BRI is going nowhere.
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  2352. The USA should withdraw all aid and just ignore the entire region. It is nothing to us now.
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  2353. LOL
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  2354. Listening to these globalists cry that the USA needs to be a better policemen of the world makes me sick.
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  2355. More Chinese crybullying. The build up their military, threaten their neighbors, then cry when those neighbors build up their own militaries.
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  2356. The best relationship between the USA and the PRC is no relationship. We need a complete trade decoupling from the PRC. Keep our embassies, but that is it.
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  2357.  @Alnivol666  economics is what drives most people to have children, throughout human history. It certainly isn’t love.
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  2358. If they, that opens the door for other nations to directly enter the fight. Does Russia really want that?
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  2359. Globalization killed the American lower classes.
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  2360.  @richardscathouse  uh, no. Our exports are also food, fuel, and high tech. Every tech the Chinese export, they stole from us. And we even protected their shipping while we did so. How stupid is that?
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  2361.  @richardscathouse  We are far far more productive than any other workforce on the planet. Just make the other exporters pay our labor costs, our environmental regulations, and provide security for their own shipping, and we will wipe the flood with the competition.
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  2362.  @harmless6813  my German spelling is terrible.
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  2363. I do not see a direct confrontation between USA and PRC in the event of an invasion of the ROC. For that to happen, the PRC would need to directly attack the USA’s military assets in the Pacific. Rather, I think the USA will target all commercial shipping going to and coming from the PRC.
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  2364.  @abhijeetsingh1755  I think China is too weak to do it. I don't think China can compete with India.
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  2365.  @Truffle_Young_Jr  they need to make a choice: are they friends with Russia/China, or the West? They can’t be friends with both.
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  2366.  @Truffle_Young_Jr  how about they grow their own food?
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  2367. De-dollarization would mean the USA can no longer be an export market. This would be great for the USA.
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  2368. Listening to your point of view, I find it very interesting. The world lost all respect for the USA at the end of the Cold War. Since that time, the world has just been taking the USA for an easy mark. And that's fair. Because we have been pretty stupid and gullible since 92.
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  2369. Hopefully, he will take a long drop off a short rope.😊
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  2370. American here. I want to see the USA out of Eurasia
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  2371.  @WALTERBROADDUS  time to make it a lot less interconnected with shorter supply chains, and making flags mean something again.
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  2372.  @jakewillits4678  It’s past time to apply the Jones Act to international as well as intranational shipping.
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  2373.  @WALTERBROADDUS  it’s coming our way. We no longer have the naval structure, and the world no longer has the population structure to support it.
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  2374. I can’t believe the USA accepted pandas again. Stupid. The pandas are just Chinese influence peddling.
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  2375. Nobody has any sympathy for Trump. He’s a crooked New York con man who should have at least been in prison decades ago.
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  2376. Globalization was a mistake to begin with. The notion of commodities flowing on the seas without being taxed or hijacked is ridiculous.
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  2377. We need to stop subsidizing the highways.
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  2378. Yes, but the quality of their more advanced products is terrible. It’s all tofu dreg.
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  2379. Moldova is on the way to Romania. Russia needs to control the Besarabian Gap.
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  2380. Mexico is the USA’s biggest trading partner.
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  2381. Dedollarization is a good thing!
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  2382. Possibly because Russia has switched over to a war economy? Possibly because the USA does not fight ground, tank and artillery wars, so doesn’t make that materiel at scale anymore?
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  2383. If repealing the Jones Act is not possible, why not just apply the requirements of the Jones Act to other modes of transportation, like trucks, trains, and airplanes? Make it all even.
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  2384.  @rogerk6180  no. That is not already the case. Not at all. Where I live in the States, all trains are Canadian, not American.
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  2385.  @rogerk6180  The Canadian provinces trade more with the States directly south of them, than they do with each other.
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  2386.  @neilkurzman4907  because I think all modes of transport should be treated the same. Water should not be disadvantaged in contrast to air, road, and rail.
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  2387. Religion is the psychological Black Death.
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  2388. President Krasnov can only lie.
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  2389. There is nothing secret about the Powell Memo. Everybody who cares to know about it, knows.
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  2390. Another good reason to dismantle the American empire and stop exporting our food and fertilizer.
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  2391. You left out the Klan and cross burnings.
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  2392.  @lulc4694  what consumer market?
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  2393. Apple bet the farm on the PRC. Now Apple is going to lose the farm.
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  2394. He knew how to deal with Southerners.
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  2395.  @george2113  exactly. Which is why Lincoln should have given Sherman a free hand. And the Radical Republicans should have been in charge of Reconstruction.
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  2396.  @marseldagistani1989  Don’t tease!
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  2397. So the USA should be cheering the Houthi on, not trying to stop them.
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  2398. Wow. This is already dated.
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  2399. The mental health of my children is perfect. I don’t have any.
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  2400. The standard of living in Italy is less that the PRC? Really? That’s crazy.
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  2401. Globalization was just so horrible for everybody. It will be great with de-dollarization and the end to the trade of commodities on the seas.
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  2402. Cancel all tax cuts since Eisenhower, then get back to me.
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  2403. Religion is dying. World over. And good riddance.
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  2404. Your guest does not seem to realize the USA is not a land power, and never has been.
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  2405.  @thornados4969  Nations don’t get “permission” to do anything. They just do it. And either they can bear the consequences, or not. Since the 1800’s, the USA has not allowed any Eastern Hemispheric power to gain a strategic foothold in the Western Hemisphere. Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? The USA nearly nuked Cuba over the Soviets trying to place nukes in Cuba. The USA is not about to start allowing that to happen now. And certainly not by the likes of the Chinese.
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  2406. Why sell anything to the Chinese? They’ll just steal your tech and make it themselves.
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  2407. Past time to increase taxes on businesses.
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  2408.  @jerryrichardson2799  screw the allies. They’ve never helped us, anyway. They can go get their own cheap gas.
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  2409.  @jaydee6268  nope. They were doing their thing in West Africa, and we were doing ours. And that’s the way it should be.
    1
  2410. Forget international law. Past time to end freedom of navigation of the seas.
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  2411. Prince is a fascist.
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  2412.  @shanghaiffgg  lol didn't you watch Trump debate? He confabulated the whole thing.
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  2413.  @cynthiapon610  lol
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  2414.  @robertofernandez7773  are there any other numbers to take?
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  2415. China's going to need to pay for security of its overseas shipments.
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  2416. Ah, the South.
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  2417. So China wants to end the American Order? It wants an end to safe, secure oceanic shipping? The end of free trade? Really?
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  2418. Why not just increase taxes on rich individuals and corporations, and start building stuff here in the States to lower the trade deficit?
    1
  2419. Oh, and stop paying for everybody else’s defense.
    1
  2420. Ask yourselves why should American politics matter in a European war? Why should North America figure in a European war? What has gone wrong such that this is the case?
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  2421. @ Nonsense. Seas are great barriers. We should not meddle in the affairs of others. The USA had no business fighting in Europe in WWII. And it had no business fighting the Cold War.
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  2422. If the PRC did invade the ROC, I doubt the USA would fight the PRC over the ROC directly. They would destroy the chip fabs on the island, but that is all. After that, I think the USA would place a naval blockade of the PRC, so that no goods could get in or out by sea. It would also destroy the pipelines for petroleum from Russia.
    1
  2423. We can't all be like Israel, with unlimited welfare allowance from the USA.
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  2424. With a name like “Lehto” how would you not be of Finnish ancestry?
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  2425.  @tommyboss4067  in the history of the world, state piracy is the norm, not the exception. Nations had navies to protect their own shipping, and prey upon other nations’ shipping.
    1
  2426.  @tommyboss4067  it happened prior to 1945. What do you think caused WWI and WWII? Imperial competition. And it’s coming back with a vengeance. Globalization is over.
    1
  2427. There is no need for the USA to go to war with China. If we wanted to, we could just cut off their shipping in the Indian Ocean, and that would be the end of them. No need to attack China itself.
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  2428.  @joeybulford5266  exactly.
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  2429.  @BertyF  it's also true.
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  2430. Puritans
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  2431. Why is childless at 30 a bad thing?
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  2432.  @GabrielEddy  why is that bad?
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  2433. LOL. The Chinese go around declaring their rivalry with other nations, then get mad when other nations treat them like rivals.
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  2434. Life is the greatest curse of all.
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  2435. The only thing the PRC is going to dominate is the elderly care home.
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  2436. Wait a minute: all PRC EV tech is stolen from Europe and North America in the first place.
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  2437.  @Joker-yw9hl  So? Let the rest of the world look to it. They need it. We don’t.
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  2438.  @Joker-yw9hl  I’m not talking about isolationism. We’ll still trade and exchange ambassadors and tourists and have immigrants. We just withdraw our military to the Western Hemisphere, and keep it here. The USA involvement in WWI and WWII were mistakes. So was Bretton Woods.
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  2439.  @luyenpham6933  costing us much more than it gets us.
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  2440. If it’s not replicable, it’s not science.
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  2441. The PRC is totally dependent upon the American Bretton Woods Order for its very existence. When that order disintegrates, and that disintegration is coming in the next 2 decades, the PRC will not continue to exist.
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  2442. Roberts needs to be impeached and removed for this garbage. That and presidential immunity.
    1
  2443. We are already seeing it come back in Michigan.
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  2444. This is hilarious. The “radical Left” in big cities in which real estate and the means of production are in private hands.
    1
  2445. NATO forces are not on the ground in Ukraine.
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  2446.  @patbyrneme007  in other words, they are issued by the CCP.
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  2447. PWT
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  2448. if the Chinese don’t like our food exports, let’s just stop exporting food and fertilizer to them.
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  2449. Globalization did not bring the collective security and peace it promised.
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  2450. Rich people want to keep their money and power.
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  2451. Many of us in the States have been saying Trump has been a Russian asset since the early 90’s. And everybody says we are crazy conspiracy theorists.
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  2452. The USA needs to stop patrolling the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
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  2453. Since the USA is withdrawing from the Bretton Woods system, it no longer needs to be the world currency. A regional currency will do, particularly in a deglobalized world.
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  2454. The PRC needs to start sinking Western oil and food shipments.
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  2455.  @joshlewis575  But it would do so much to get the BRICS off of dependency on Western goods.
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  2456. Russia claims it is part of the “Global South.” LMAO.
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  2457.  @dameongeppetto  how is "third world" derogatory?
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  2458. Israel’s continuing target is the USA. I wish more Yanks would wake up to this.
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  2459. I'm not terribly worried. The second Trump Admin will implode just like the first did.
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  2460. Not a single American soldier in Ukraine. We need to get out of Europe, not more into it.
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  2461. Trump is a Russian asset. The Europeans are going to need step up with troops in Ukraine.
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  2462. If the targets of those sanctions are asking them to be ended, then they are not failing.
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  2463.  @Celis.C  we just tried that with the American Empire. It didn’t work out. If you rely on another country, they only exploit you. Every nation has to be self-sufficient.
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  2464. Look at what Trump led America into last time. Net job loss over his 4 years. Trump raised taxes on the middle class (me). Trump build roads across the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts for illegals to follow into America.
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  2465. No nation state has a right to move people, goods, or capital into or out of other nation states. The Chinese need to stop whining.
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  2466. Is this guy arguing the USA is not spending enough on its military?
    1
  2467. Once the Americans go from being a patron of the PRC to an actual enemy, the PRC’s national unity will dissolve, and it will break apart again.
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  2468.  @ZhenYae  The PRC has made enemies of all its neighbors.
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  2469. I hope the 5 Eyes is now the 4 Eyes. Anything that goes to Gabbard goes directly to Putin and Modi. Muskrat is a CCP asset.
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  2470. I do wish people would not bring up the UN, or international law, or any of that rubbish. The "rules based international order" was something the USA made up out of whole cloth in 1944. It's imaginary, and should just be abandon to the dust bin of history.
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  2471.  @cragnamorra  meh. We don’t need it. The Suez is there to link Europe and East Asia. We need to shorten our supply lines, regardless. The Suez is the Egyptians’ property. Let them sort it out. Or let the Europeans sort it out. Or the Chinese. The can afford to take some of the cost off our shoulders.
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  2472.  @cragnamorra  Furthermore, I think the USA could increase its influence as a great power by acting as a disruptor of international trade. But not even I am pushing that far.
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  2473. I hope Mexico and Canada allow the PRC to build air bases, with planes carrying hypersonic nuclear tipped warheads, patrolling the skies along their borders.
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  2474. Trump is an idiot. Short of a Chinese military base on Greenland, and can’t see any reason for military action.
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  2475. Ah, the noblis oblige of the conservative upper class.
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  2476.  @ffarmchicken  Yep.
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  2477.  @Domogled  all true. And?
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  2478. As Europe pulls away from the USA, this will hasten the end of the Bretton Woods order. This is good for everybody. “Free Trade” is dying. Hopefully, the USA will withdraw from the WTO in the near future.
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  2479. This is why we must decouple from China.
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  2480.  @midwestairway  the USA definitely has access to more and better resources than China. China cannot even feed or fuel itself. And American demographics are far superior. But regardless, we China and the USA cannot get along, so it’s better we sever relations than step on each others’ toes. The whole argument for globalization was that there would be no more wars and no more national competition. That turned out to be totally wrong, as we see now.
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  2481. Trump is too chicken to fight anybody. He will abandon Taiwan.
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  2482. Mr. Warburg, your outlook seems to one in which the human race is all one nationality at this point. That some of us no longer seek to exterminate others of us. That geography does not matter.
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  2483. It was the "Green Revolution" that encouraged countries to become dependent upon other countries for food. Now the world network of transport is breaking down. Looks more and more like Ehrlich was correct.
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  2484. I’m going to get a Patreon account and pay you and Denys Davydov.
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  2485. There is no difference between Trump and Reagan
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  2486.  @Kuldirongaze1  good point
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  2487. Excellent interviews!
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  2488. Say good-bye to Bretton Woods. Say hello to Fortress Western Hemisphere.
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  2489. Shoigu can flap his gums however he wants.
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  2490. I’m sure the USA has some kit specifically designed to take out 3 Gorges.
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  2491. I am tired of this BS saying Putin is a strategic genius. The mess he made in Ukraine refutes that. I used to respect Putin. But he revealed himself an idiot.
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  2492. Obama was a terrible president. Trump was worse, but Obama was still bad.
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  2493. LOL. Most of us are looking forward to it. We can accept it just fine.
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  2494.  @BartAnderson_writer  As for authoritarianism, we've already got that. As for wars, all the wars the USA has engaged in post-WWII has been for the benefit of the various allies behind the Bretton Woods security shield, with the exception being Iraq/Afghanistan. With the end of Bretton Woods, the USA will have no need to engage in foreign wars, and said wars will not be profitable. The only one I can see is if the PRC invades the ROC to get the chip fabs before the USA can take them away.
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  2495. The Chinese are the greatest IP thieves on the planet. They make the Europeans blush, they are so shameless.
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  2496.  @LuciFeric137  that’s all USA tech in there. I hope that should there be a Chinese invasion, the USA will just level the chip fabs and leave.
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  2497. Russia is fighting for its existence. The demographic structure of Russia is terminal. For their own security, they must control all the geographic access points to Russia. Unfortunately, only one of those access points is in Russian territory. So, to secure the rest, they need to invade a bunch of surrounding countries. Which they have been doing, since 2000. Ukraine is only the latest step.
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  2498. The PRC cannot make anything they did not copy.
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  2499. China declared they wanted to compete with the USA for supremacy. Competition is good. The USA is good at competition.
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  2500. Journalists are just propagandists. They add no value to the public. Harris has no obligation to talk to the press.
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  2501. The credit ratings agencies need to go, as well. There should be no internationally available capital. It should be done one lender to one borrower.
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  2502. All this developing world debt is just a debt trap instrument. All the debts need to cancelled, and the losses written off.
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  2503. I would not vote on a voting machine. Ever.
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  2504. Of course we are one step behind. We are far removed from the problem.
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  2505.  @donttryitjohn364  lol. Not our circus, not our monkeys.
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  2506.  @donttryitjohn364  uh, no. These interventions were an American economic sacrifice.
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  2507.  @donttryitjohn364  the USA does not have an empire. We sacrificed economic vitality for security via influence. We don't actually control much land. Can you read a globe? Projecting power between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere is nearly impossible. That's why US power is nearly all naval, and we have only tiny land footprints. We have all that naval power because we don't need to defend our land. Eastern Hemisphere powers always need to guard their land borders, save the UK and Japan. North America is effectively an island.
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  2508.  @donttryitjohn364  but we never had unfettered access to consumer markets in Europe and Asia. They were always allowed to maintain their trade barriers higher than us. That was part of the bribe to get them to join the American Order. And now those markets are going away with demographic change. The American Order was meant to economically disadvantage Americans, both in terms of trade and in terms of the military budgets. We need to let it go, and take care of ourselves for a change.
    1
  2509. But the Russian war in Ukraine is colonialism.
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  2510. We need to put up barriers to Chinese ships. We need to block Chinese ships from docking at any American port.
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  2511. Biden should just re-impose the crude oil export ban, and end petroleum as a global commodity.
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  2512.  @nathanhazlehurst484  wars are about resources and national interests
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  2513.  @nathanhazlehurst484  “Large” to the USA is insignificant. Maybe the Israelis want it. The Israelis can do what they want, as long as the USA breaks off relations with them.
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  2514. The tech behind rare earths has been known for a couple centuries. This is no secret. The Chinese are pathetic. The “rare” earths are not rare, and can be got by any mining operation.
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  2515. LMAO. No.
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  2516. I wonder what Biden is going to do with his newfound immunity from prosecution.
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  2517. I doubt China regards Britain all, nowadays.
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  2518. Kursk isn’t all that important.
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  2519. I hope Prof Wolff realizes that Biden is doing his best to collapse the US empire. Trump, for all his evil, did a good job at pulling down Bretton Woods. We can only hope they continue to do more.
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  2520. Feminism cannot exist in Abrahamic religion.
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  2521. America's farmers support Trump. And so they are going to get what they deserve.
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  2522. The USA has no territory in Europe. The USA does have territory in the East Pacific and Oceania. The USA needs to redeploy its forces to the Pacific, not Europe.
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  2523. @ really? Do tell.
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  2524. @ the first job of any military is to defend what territory you have. Ours is under threat from the Chinese. That’s pretty basic stuff.
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  2525. The South is full of religion degenerates; unschooled and with bad hygiene.
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  2526. I would love to see free trade and freedom of the seas demolished. They are both creations of the American post-WWII world order.
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  2527.  @theglobalgambit  yes. If it means getting rid of the American Order, no price is too high. The American Empire has been a disaster for our species, other species, and the biosphere.
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  2528. I'm not understanding. China is the #2 economy in the world. Why does it need FDI and export markets? The USA does not.
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  2529.  @SpeedfreakUK  A lot of us are. I’m on the Far Left, and I totally support Trump’s trade policies.
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  2530.  @hg2.  actually, no. Peter is about where most of us are. Not opposed to the social safety net, but not big on expansion of that safety net, either. He’s a moderate, like most Iowans.
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  2531.  @hg2.  It has shifted Right since Peter and I were kids. A lot of filth from Arkansas and Missouri have moved in, displacing the real Iowans. It’s quite sad, actually.
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  2532.  @MB-em9ek  that is sad.
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  2533. It’s the death of globalization, and I love it!
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  2534. The USA was supposed to be a republic, not an empire. We need to get out of all these foreign entanglements, especially NATO.
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  2535.  @TheTraveller20081  the Europeans have got really good at stopping migration. And Oceania and the Western Hemisphere are out of the question.
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  2536. The Republican Party has finally got the America. It always wanted.
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  2537. Buy a tofu dreg Chinese car? No thank you.
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  2538. Iowa. Sneakers.
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  2539. We call Trump, (Russian) Agent Orange for a reason.
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  2540. Trump borrows trouble. It gets returned to him, and then he cries about it.
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  2541. Good. The more the USA and PRC decouple, the better for us.
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  2542. This election can’t be over fast enough.
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  2543. The Clintons were free traders, and anti-labor. Biden is anti-free trade and pro labor.
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  2544. Why are the Chinese complaining about tech transfers? They claim their tech is superior, anyway.
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  2545. Schumer and Pelosi are old conservatives. They are yesterday's news. AOC is where it's at. ICE and CBP should be shut down, and their personnel all investigated and tried for crimes against humanity. Bring back the INS.
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  2546.  @uss-dh7909  I thought Biden did a decent job. He followed the policy as Congress passed, and Trump signed. He got us out with minimal casualties.
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  2547. The PRC government could abdicate, and let the ROC government rule the country.
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  2548. I’d be fine with keeping the Jones Act if the same rules applied to land and air transport.
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  2549. The USA is just fine at manufacturing 155mm shells. It’s Europe that is lagging.
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  2550.  @fixpontt  meh. Contrast with European production.
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  2551.  @FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL odd thing: of all the rights in the Bill of Rights, the right to own firearms is the only one where the government is given an affirmative duty to regulate it.
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  2552. I don’t see SDF’s anywhere in the Constitution. The 2nd Amendment speaks of the Militia, not a militia.
    1
  2553.  @alexbasshead  Nope. The Militia Acts govern the Militia at all times. The federal government says what kind of firearm you should have, how much ammo you should have, how often you should drill, and under whose command you should drill. Signed by none other than George Washington. These members are the ones with the right to keep and bear arms. For the rest, it’s a privilege.
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  2554. Trumpism is fascistic with a cult of personality layered on top.
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  2555. All the more reason for the USA to close its market to the PRC. It will harm us, but it will harm the PRC far more.
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  2556. Hong Kong is already gone. The CCP destroyed it.
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  2557. This is an important part of decoupling with the PRC. It must be done.
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  2558. Would humans going extinct really be a bad thing?
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  2559.  @tonywilson4713  Indeed. Rupert Murdoch, with his influence on American media and politics, is wearing very thin. The Trump presidency that Murdoch gave us was no bueno.
    1
  2560. The Prosecutor v. The Criminal. I’ll take it.
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  2561. The only groomers out there are pastors and priests.
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  2562.  @michaelhaywood8262  proven in case after case
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  2563. The counter to this is birth strike.
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  2564.  @Katsura-San124  machine guns cancel mass migration.
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  2565. No, it’s not shocking. Not to people who know Trump.
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  2566. China has no means to invade Australia.
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  2567. Why would anybody want to conquer China?
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  2568. The PRC is the second biggest economy in the world. It does not need any help.
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  2569. Free trade doesn’t work.
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  2570.  @DreamyCheshire-up9rf  yes. Free trade doesn’t work for the USA. That’s why we should withdraw from it.
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  2571.  @xinbozhang7206 the ROC has never been part of the PRC.
    1
  2572.  @xinbozhang7206  that remains to be seen. The PRC can try. They’ve been trying for decades. So far, they have failed.
    1
  2573. Why are conservatives so worried about dating and marriage?
    1
  2574. We need to reverse all the tax cuts since JFK, and add more on. All those tax cuts were paid for with IOU’s from Social Security. Time for rich individuals and corporations to pay it back with interest.
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  2575.  @SandfordSmythe  yes. And then conservatives immediately borrow against it for tax cuts for the wealthy. They’ve been doing it since Reagan.
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  2576. North Korean troops are fighting in Europe. It’s already WW3.
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  2577.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  which is fine. The USA needs to keep this in mind when dealing with India. Just so long as we never count on them, and negotiate everything on a case-by-case basis, it should be fine.
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  2578. Why should the USA pay for everything, particularly for stuff on the other side of the planet?
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  2579.  @PROLIFIC_TRAVELS  we need to get out of owning everything.
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  2580.  @Rogue-7.62  petroleum production has increased under Biden. What are you talking about?
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  2581.  @KneedsItsGat  we protect our shipping, everybody else protects theirs. Fair is fair.
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  2582.  @KneedsItsGat  Actually, the USA only exports 5% of GDP outside of the NAFTA shipping. So we are only a small part of global shipping.
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  2583.  @KneedsItsGat  the exporter is responsible for the security of their exports, not the importer. Outside of NAFTA, the USA exports very little. That’s why when oceanic shipping crashes, the USA will be inconvenienced, but not threatened. The PRC, OTOH, will go down the tubes, where it belongs.
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  2584.  @GunfighterOne  The USA has been working on reshoring that manufacturing plant to North America since 2017, and that effort accelerated in 2021. We must do it regardless, because the PRC is fast running out of cheap labor. All that plant has to be moved to North America, and what’s left to Vietnam and Thailand and Indonesia and Malaysia. We need to work faster. The PRC is probably going to implode before 2030. We are right now in the twilight of the PRC.
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  2585.  @agelessrebellion8271  that’s OK. More motivation for us to reshore our manufacturing at a faster pace. I’ll gladly pay higher prices for shorter supply chains. Stuff that arrives at a higher price is far better than stuff that never arrives at a lower price.
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  2586.  @agelessrebellion8271  then let the whole world look to it, particularly the Egyptians, whose bread and butter the Suez is.
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  2587.  @agelessrebellion8271  American made >>>>>> Chinese made. Chinese made is all tofu dreg.
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  2588.  @MissAlissaxX  the USA made globalism. We can unmake it.
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  2589. We need to return all Ukraine nuclear ICBM’s they gave up in 92. Let Putin deal with that.
    1
  2590. This is hilarious. The PRC is baiting all its neighbors and it is the fault of their government.
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  2591. How the rich hoarding all the wealth is destroying our future.
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  2592.  @XDF745  if so, the USA needs to do a lot more closing off. They do precious little as it is.
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  2593.  @johnyossarian9059  manufacturing plant isn’t built over night.
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  2594. Trump is doing to the USA what he did to his casinos. Again.
    1
  2595. I'll match the pollution of the USA with that of the PRC any time.
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  2596. The EU is a strategic ploy by the French.
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  2597. The Scots-Irish are the absolute worst scum of the USA, the absolute lowest.
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  2598. If we don’t stop the Russians in Ukraine today, tomorrow it will be Moldova, then Romania, then Poland, then the Baltic Republics, then Finland.
    1
  2599. Both Russia and the PRC are in demographic collapse. With what people will they dominate anybody?
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  2600. Instead of guarding global commerce, the USA should send out its navy to prey upon it.
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  2601. The 5 Eyes need to become the 4 Eyes.
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  2602. Always take the Brits seriously on the waves.
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  2603. Trump is most definitely America's Caesar.
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  2604. The American Order on the sea is falling apart all over the world. We are going back to pre-1945 maritime shipping. Soon, only those countries with the navies to protect their commercial shipping will be engaging in seaborne commerce.
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  2605.  @yota4004  no. Watching this vlog.
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  2606.  @gandydancer9710  Indeed. I am looking forward to a more natural world, that is more consistent with the bulk of human history. This artificial peace and prosperity the Americans have imposed on the world since 1945 is just too brittle, and makes life too easy for too many people. It’s why the world is so overpopulated.
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  2607. American taxpayers need to stop paying for freedom of navigation for the entire planet. Every country should guard its own shipping.
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  2608. Boston Brahmins.
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  2609. You are confirming Peter Zeihan’s hypothesis. I don’t think I can handle this.
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  2610. He can change his doctrine all he wants. If he tosses a nuke into the Western Hemisphere, the planet will be toast. And there won't be a future for any peoples. Putin loves to remind us he has nukes. Does he forget we have nukes too?
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  2611. The “allies” only sponge off us. I’m tired of paying taxes to protect every other country’s security.
    1
  2612. Gloves were on? Turnabout is always fair play.
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  2613. This is conservatism.
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  2614.  @lynetteprice8519  Disagree. A Shapiro pick would guaranteed the loss of Michigan.
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  2615. How do you guys come up with this BS? Don’t you have anything better to do?
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  2616.  @sirrobinofloxley7156  now, now. The Chinese claim they are superior to the West in every way. Why would they need or want Western tech or capital?
    1
  2617. You get the kind of behavior you incentivize.
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  2618. Biden needs to find the courage to impose a trade embargo on China.
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  2619. Why don’t these Americans get a handle on their ravenous appetite for fentanyl and cocaine?
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  2620. The PRC needs to stop all capital flight. I don’t see any other way for them.
    1
  2621. The Chinese people just don’t have the money to travel anymore.
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  2622.  @deanbryce8263  There certainly is a war. Putin brought it. And we are involved in it.
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  2623.  @MrFuzzKat  Fine. If they use nukes, so will we. It's past time the Russians bellied up to the bar.
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  2624.  @johangalician620  ok then. Let’s get this over with.
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  2625. Cheers to the collapse of the Empire. Glory to the restoration of the Republic.
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  2626.  @treacherousjslither6920 the copper makes the lining of the uterus inflamed, so egg doesn’t implant. Copper also spermicidal.
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  2627. I still don't understand why Hormuz should be on the American radar. We don't need it. Let the people who do need it, protect it.
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  2628. I’m looking forward to the end of the Bretton Woods system. I’m looking forward to the end of globalization.
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  2629.  @CMVBrielman  on the contrary, we need to make it mandatory for those who don’t have a government license to have each child.
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  2630.  @steveseattle6791  The Hyde Amendment should be repealed. US government funds cannot be used to pay for abortions. The federal government is NOT paying for abortions, sadly.
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  2631.  @steveseattle6791  we have seen how popular anti-abortion legislation is. And it's not. So what if they pay for travel? They should pay for everything. They should be doing it on all military hospitals. And they will be. Abortion is good.
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  2632.  @RichardChappell1  how is making abortion a right for everybody authoritarian?
    1
  2633.  @RichardChappell1  well, we’ve got plenty of people on the other side who want to ban abortion. Why not some balance?
    1
  2634.  @RichardChappell1  where did abortion come up? Have you been reading this thread? And equally, only a heinous authoritarian regime would try to restrict abortion. It should be covered and easily available like all other medical care. A pregnancy is just a tumor in a woman’s belly. If she wants to keep it, or have it cut out, is her business.
    1
  2635. I have no objections to home schooling, so long as public education is compulsory.
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  2636.  @jeffbreezee  good non-answer there.
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  2637.  @tann_man  I have never met a genuine anti-natalist in my personal or professional life. I should stipulate that I only count as anti-natalist as someone who declares themselves as such, philosophically. Anti-natalism is a specific philosophical point of view. Just because someone does not have kids or does not desire them, does not make them an anti-natalist.
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  2638.  @McGheeBentle  it makes sense, but the OP was talking about philosophical anti-natalists. At least, that’s what I got out of it.
    1
  2639.  @McGheeBentle  A true anti-natalist believes that human life is objectively a negative. That it is immoral to make more humans. Their argument has nothing to do with overpopulation.
    1
  2640. But without welfare from Blue States, how will Red States make it?
    1
  2641. Who do the Chinese think they are, that they make demands on US policy? China has no right to trade with the USA. Nobody has the right to trade with anybody else. It has to be mutual.
    1
  2642. Honestly, I felt sorry for the Brits when they did BrExit.
    1
  2643. China is a basket case. Look at its demographics. It’s a large net importer of food and energy. Its fleet can’t even go 1500km from the Chinese coast.
    1
  2644. This recording is unlistenable.
    1
  2645. I still don’t understand why Europe didn’t start to rearm when Russian invaded Ukraine in 2014.
    1
  2646. This is a secret?
    1
  2647. An idea, a concept, of a plan.
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  2648. The States certainly do have the right to compete. China declared itself a competitor of the USA. The USA has taken up the challenge. This is what national competition looks like. I don't know why China and its supporters are crying like spoilt children.
    1
  2649. Trump talks at the level of an 8 year old. It’s difficult to be that stupid.
    1
  2650. Scratch a conservative, find a fascist. We beat you before, we’ll beat you again. You can dress up your evil all you want, but it still is what it is. People who cooperate beat people who conflict among themselves all the time. Liberals are all about cooperation, and conservatives are all about conflict. Religion is garbage. In the States, we saw the apotheosis of conservatism in Trump. You are going to lose, just like Trump.
    1
  2651. I’ve enjoyed a few of your vlogs, but your incredible whine about the lot of young men is contemptible.
    1
  2652. @ then you should know you must fight them.
    1
  2653. No mentally healthy American voter is paying attention to the presidential election yet. They wait will after Labor Day.
    1
  2654. Listening to this Putin hack is a waste of airtime.
    1
  2655.  @chaosinsurgency4197  lol. Mine were made in England, thank you. Solovair. I avoid Chinese crap. Except the food. The food is awesome.
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  2656.  @chetanmani597  lol; the USN does not know how to tofu dreg. That’s a Chinese thing. The Chinas have never been naval nations.
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  2657.  @hughmungus2760  you make my point for me. They are being retired. The PRC, however, is not retiring its navy.
    1
  2658.  @hughmungus2760  Stuff that’s proven to work is proven to work. The Chinese have nothing that is proven to work. And there is a chance their fuel tanks are filled with water, too.
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  2659.  @Valeriie-cf3df  fair enough. I’d like to avoid the fish heads and offal. Thanks.
    1
  2660.  @jordanmoody2196  it’s totally true. I grew up on the border between North and South. We were having fist fights in the school yard over the Civil War and slavery in the 70’s. The liberal urban elites are just now seeing it for the first time, and they’re all scared.
    1
  2661.  @jordanmoody2196  totally true. Only the sheltered people in the cities believe this new civil war garbage.
    1
  2662. Conservatism is taking us to the place it was always going to.
    1
  2663. I like the muscles. It's the tattoos and nose ring that's a turn off.
    1
  2664. Time for the shipping companies to start profit sharing with their workers.
    1
  2665.  @KJJ782  lol; they've been making hand over fist these past few years. Their investors can afford to take a haircut.
    1
  2666. You two are very brave, going to the PRC.
    1
  2667. China is right about one thing: globalization is not fair. It is dominated by a few countries. Globalization itself was a mistake.
    1
  2668. The USA has done more to develop China than the Chinese have. We exported our industrial plant to China. This idea that the USA is anti-China is crazy.
    1
  2669. Yes! The end of the post-WWII world order is excellent!
    1
  2670. Ah, Kornacki, the Republican stalking horse.
    1
  2671. And many of us still aren’t happy about our getting involved in WWI and WWII.
    1
  2672. Globalization must be destroyed.
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  2673. But the USA doesn’t export finished goods to China. So Chinese tariffs really don’t matter.
    1
  2674. Why are there beachgoers in Crimea? It’s a war zone.
    1
  2675.  @CyberBeep_kenshi mmmm, yes. Eva Green is the perfect beautiful woman.
    1
  2676. I love how the Europeans are keen to export to China, while China finances the Russian invasion of the rest of Europe. The USA are wasting their money, helping the rest of the Europeans against the Russians.
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  2677. Every student and every professor from the PRC is a spy.
    1
  2678. Neville Chamberlain
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  2679. You really need to have Zeihan on your show. I would love to see you two debate.
    1
  2680.  @wgowshipping  Peter should come on as a guest, not a paid speaker. Listening to you two debating shipping should be edifying for us all.
    1
  2681. I can’t say I hate Peterson. I just can’t stand his incessant whining.
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  2682. @ as I said, USSR = Russian Empire.
    1
  2683. I'm not terribly worried. Trump is so incredibly incompetent, he's going to get nothing done.
    1
  2684. I am tired of this BS saying Putin is a strategic genius. The mess he made in Ukraine refutes that. I used to respect Putin. But he revealed himself an idiot.
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  2685.  @SiliconCurtain  your guest is implying it, if not declaring it outright.
    1
  2686. Well, the Christians should be ecstatic with a wave of sex negativity.
    1
  2687.  @sinesaii  exactly my point. Sex for pleasure is not a thing in the Abrahamic religions. It’s all about the procreation.
    1
  2688. Means testing the social safety net is a non-starter.
    1
  2689. Deglobalization all the way. It’s wonderful!
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  2690.  @dekev7503  now that is bunk. We stopped being a pay-as-you-go social insurance system in the 80’s, when Reagan made the Boomers pay double: once for themselves, and again for the generation previous to them. So this argument of people needing to have kids to keep the retirement system going is capitalist garbage.
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  2691. More yuan are printed at a rate 3-5x that of the dollar. I don’t see how this works out for the Chinese.
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  2692. Seeing as how they don’t control the seas, no.
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  2693. There is nothing to listen to. The Right has been peddling the same arguments since the dawn of human history. There is nothing new, and no reason to listen to anything you have to say.
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  2694. Why not just torpedo any tankers of oil or food leaving Russia?
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  2695. @ no, he didn’t. Show me.
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  2696. @ Yeah, no. He said that if Biden wasn’t on the ballot, all bets were off. That he did not know.
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  2697. The PRC threw down the gauntlet to the USA. Challenge accepted. Imperial competition is part of the human condition. The Republican xenophobia is terrible, however. China is no threat to the USA. Once we halt trading with China, and stop protecting their shipping, they will no longer be a competitor, either.
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  2698. Lol
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  2699. We need to decouple from China. They declared themselves our competitors. Fine. Game on.
    1
  2700. Israel has nothing to offer the USA strategically. We really need to get out of the whole Middle East. It’s just a personnel and resource sink. Israel, particularly, offers nothing to offer us.
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  2701. Wang Yi: is this guy serious?
    1
  2702. There is no need for the USA to attack the PRC directly. The USA simply needs to deny the PRC any sea imports or exports.
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  2703. Wood is already in the carbon cycle. Coal is not.
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  2704. Petroleum is also not.
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  2705. According to whom?
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  2706. How about leaving the WTO so we can massively increase taxes? How about returning to the Eisenhower income tax rates?
    1
  2707. Why shouldn’t the Ukrainians have nukes? They gave them up on the guarantee they would be protected. They were not protected.
    1
  2708. Hong Kong is just like the rest of the PRC now.
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  2709. There can be no military deployment from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere. The USA will not allow that.
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  2710. @@Prunymushytip honestly, who can challenge the USA in its own back yard?
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  2711. @@Prunymushytip there are a lot of insane people in the world. Truth.
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  2712. LMAO. You must be desperate.
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  2713. National shame. Why did my fellow Yanks do this to us?
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  2714. It's led to the longest period of prosperity for some Americans, but not others.
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  2715. Hasn’t been pay-as-you-go since Reagan double FICA taxed the Baby Boomers.
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  2716. Trump is still a globalist. He’s all for USA involvement in the Middle East, which is a giant cesspool.
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  2717.  @danwelterweight4137  the supremacy of tonnage and weapons. Materiel that works, and does not fall apart. The Chinese still think putting a naval number on fiberglass speed boat makes it a warship of the line.
    1
  2718. Um, no. The first purposeless generation was X.
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  2719. Do you know the story behind cafe Americano? It’s from the Great Patriotic War.
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  2720. Slippery slope is the favorite conservative argument.
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  2721. The PRC discharges more nuclear waste water than Fukushima every day, and without treating it.
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  2722. What else did you expect Trump to do?
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  2723. People have been predicting dedollarization for decades. It’s still nowhere.
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  2724. The USA is paring back its trade with the PRC. That’s just business.
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  2725. The sooner that freedom of navigation of the seas ends, the better for the USA.
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  2726. Where is the European industrial complex in all of this? This war has been going on for 2 years now. Should have been plenty of time to spin up the factories and get them online.
    1
  2727. Oil needs to not be a commodity anymore.
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  2728. They can’t even feed themselves.
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  2729. The USA needs to withdraw from the WTO. We need to close our market to non-NAFTA countries.
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  2730. No. It should in fact be preying on our competitors’ commerce. Protect ours commerce. But they need to be flagged and paying taxes to Uncle Sam.
    1
  2731. Another conservative crying.
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  2732. Hang in there! We are cheering for you!
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  2733. The USA no longer has any strategic or economic interests in the Middle East. We have a lingering sentimental connection to Israel. That is all.
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  2734.  @qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5  Because they want Uncle Sam to continue to be their security guarantor. They don’t want to have to do it themselves.
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  2735.  @qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5  and it really doesn’t matter what Iran does or doesn’t do. Iran can have the whole region, for all I care.
    1
  2736. Supply and demand. Time for employers to pay more, and treat workers better. Time to suck it, capitalists.
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  2737. The USA just needs to close its production and consumption to the PRC. It’s past time to just eat the pain and get our manufacturing back up.
    1
  2738. Because Republicans created this world with the Reagan Revolution.
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  2739.  @marksprague8425  And?
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  2740.  @marksprague8425  I disagree. It’s not up to the USA to be world policeman. It’s not up to the USA to make sure everybody has fuel and food. We’ve been doing that since 1945. Time to let it go.
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  2741. Cenk is totally correct. He hit on the cronyism. He hit on the internal military use. He hit canceling elections. He hit on the detention of political opponents for being political opponents. Fascism found.
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  2742. What are you smoking?
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  2743.  @dontlaughtoomuch11  Exactly correct. And since China is soon to shut down as world’s factory, prices are going to rise. Nothing to be done about that.
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  2744.  @dontlaughtoomuch11  they may not mind being the world’s factory, but they don’t have the demographics to be. Chinese labor is already double the cost of Mexican labor, and Mexican labor is more educated to boot. The USA has already started onshoring manufacturing back to North America, and needs to do so faster.
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  2745.  @dontlaughtoomuch11  American investors are just going to need to write off their investments in China, just as China is going to need to write off its investments in other countries.
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  2746.  @dontlaughtoomuch11  exactly! The USA needs to get back to manufacturing its own products.
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  2747.  @dontlaughtoomuch11  I know they are going to rise until such time as we get the physical plant rebuilt in North American. That is Econ 101.
    1
  2748. Bipartisan is a dirty word when the Republican Party is fascist.
    1
  2749. This is so disturbing. Why would the French of all people do this? Slumming?
    1
  2750. Safe trip! Have a good time in NZ!
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  2751.  @Captain_Bharatt  actually, the Biden Admin is trying to get China to sell it’s treasury bonds. That is one of the reasons the US keeps raising its interest rates.
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  2752. Sounds like the CCP is planning to seize FoxConn
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  2753.  @Leshic2  at its height, the USA never imported more than 20% of its oil from the Middle-east. 9/11 and the Gulf War was making sure the Europeans and the Chinese could have cheap gas. Not the USA.
    1
  2754. The US dollar is not at all doomed. But hopefully its time as the global reserve currency is coming to an end. The US dollar as reserve currency is ultimately harmful to the USA.
    1
  2755. I hope Harris will lean into deglobalization more.
    1
  2756. Ask yourself why a vote in Washington should affect circumstances in Ukraine. Why aren’t the Europeans taking care of this problem.
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  2757. Well, if the clash between the USA and China is ideological, the last thing they want is access to our evil consumer market.
    1
  2758. We really need to shut down transcontinental trade in commodities. That will equilibrate population losses.
    1
  2759. The USA needs to return the dumb pandas.
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  2760. Why would anybody travel to China on holiday? They’ll put you in prison.
    1
  2761. Zeihan worships George Bush. He’s a non-Trump Republican.
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  2762. Well, ja, it’s a genocide. This is the Middle East. What else does anybody expect?
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  2763. The US just needs to give up on the Red Sea. Let the locals worry about it. We don’t need it.
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  2764. Washington wants the US dollar to stop being the world currency. It’s a drain on the USA.
    1
  2765. Japan’s situation is bad. The PRC’s is worse.
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  2766. The USA will not involve its troops in European wars ever again. Stop it.
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  2767. No need to hate on the Chinese. Time will take care of them.
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  2768.  @thomasherrin6798  Have you ever noticed that the USA makes a mess out of every place we intervene, every time?
    1
  2769. Well, it is Texas.
    1
  2770.  @Mikell-h2c  Little Crappy Ships
    1
  2771.  @leojohn1615  I don’t think we have any choice. We don’t have the fleet for it. We should not have to bear the cost of it alone. That was never fair. And nobody else is stepping up to help do it. And the young population for a world consumption economy is gone. Structurally, global trade was always going to be a blip in time.
    1
  2772.  @leojohn1615  ah, but we don't really want to. And why should we? For myself, I would like to see an American navy protecting our shipping, and preying on the shipping of our competitors.
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  2773.  @leojohn1615  why should it be up to the USA to "persuade" the Houthis? The Red Sea is on the other side of the planet. Let the local countries with their navies do the persuading, and leave us out of it.
    1
  2774. I hope nobody is surprised at this.
    1
  2775. The USA needs to stop being a net importer.
    1
  2776. I would love if your Patrreon had a podcast option I could listen to on my iPhone.
    1
  2777. And we are not surprised.
    1
  2778. No. Trump’s policies are flat out anti-immigrant.
    1
  2779. @ Peter worships George HW Bush. Peter is a Rightie.
    1
  2780. What can these aircraft actually do in combat? How many enemy targets have they destroyed?
    1
  2781. “The woman is always going to be the more vulnerable in a sexual encounter.” Does she not know how fragile the penis is?
    1
  2782. Only an Air Force man would shoot for the head. Idiot.
    1
  2783.  @jerryrichardson2799  Yep. The WTO is bad for America.
    1
  2784. Happiness is over-rated.
    1
  2785. I thought the PRC desired to be viewed as competitor and strategic rival.
    1
  2786.  @glennkeppel9836  The USA no longer needs any petroleum from the Arabs. So why should we care?
    1
  2787. We have two senile old men as candidates from the two major parties.
    1
  2788.  @tonysu8860  under Xi, I wonder China is going to have another Cultural Revolution. Nothing the USA can do about that. That is for the mainland people to decide. But I don’t want the USA to be any part of that. American industry just needs to write off all the physical plant it built in the mainland. It did it in Russia, it can do it in the PRC. The only reason to defend the ROC is to keep the chip fabs out of the hands of the PRC.
    1
  2789. Why shouldn’t women have the same liberty as men?
    1
  2790. The USA is abandoning freedom of navigation on the oceans.
    1
  2791. The USA needs to leave the WTO.
    1
  2792. It’s past time the shipping companies pay up. Take all that money saved by automation, and force them to give to the workers as pay bonuses.
    1
  2793. The USA has a health care system?
    1
  2794.  @loremasteringwion9930  who cares about credibility? The USA has the food, the fuel, and the consumer market everybody wants.
    1
  2795. Trump has already backed off on the H-1B immigrants.
    1
  2796.  @markb8468  someone always does. The USA didn't have much of an empire before 1945. Let's go back to that. Globalization has only made Americans miserable.
    1
  2797. Nobody defined the classes better than Marx.
    1
  2798. Not everybody has a birth certificate. Out here in Midwest, many people still born at home.
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  2799.  @ryanshout8652  which is fine. If the wealth stays within the American economy, it ultimately benefits me. There are no additive effects for me if the money goes to China.
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  2800.  @rollswrangler  even so, union membership and union control of industry still benefits me. Income redistribution downwards makes for a better standard of living for everybody.
    1
  2801.  @ryanshout8652  we could definitely do without them.
    1
  2802. The Gilded Age was evil. We need much harder taxes and regulations against the wealthy. The robber barons were evil.
    1
  2803. Pax Americana is over. Thankfully.
    1
  2804.  @jaydee6268  Nothing and no one is going to stop the Americans from controlling the Western Hemisphere. That’s a given. There is certainly no power that can challenge the Americans in their own hemisphere.
    1
  2805. Yes, the radical Leftists from …Minnesota. Minnesota is a known Communist holdout.
    1
  2806. The Republican Party is controlled by Putin now.
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  2807. The USA is going to fuck with China’s oil, and there is nothing they can do about it.
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  2808. The Chinese will need satellites to control such missiles. In the event of war, their satellites will be the first to go.
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  2809. Why would evangelical Christians want anything to do with Harris? She supports taking care of poor people. That is totally against evangelical Christianity.
    1
  2810. The largest sex abuse this century, and last century, and last century, etc., is the Christian Church. The more strict version of Islam might rival them, but not in scale.
    1
  2811. Disband the WTO and FAO. That will solve the problem.
    1
  2812. US banks simply aren’t regulated enough.
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  2813. I don’t know as if we should sanction the PRC. I think we should just stop trading with them completely.
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  2814. This assumes everybody wants to reproduce. That is just not the case.
    1
  2815. American here. Israel is no ally of the USA. They have nothing to offer us. Israel is a giant louse on the body of the USA.
    1
  2816. I think these documents are all CIA psy-ops.
    1
  2817. How was this allowed to happen in a socialist country in the first place?
    1
  2818. I think the analyst was spot on. But he seemed angry that the USA rose to the challenge when th PRC met the USA with competition and conflict. What did he think the Yanks would do? Roll over for them?
    1
  2819.  @arthurulrich5244  to what greener, exactly?
    1
  2820. The old Democratic leadership is owned by the billionaires.
    1
  2821. Because the USA protects it.
    1
  2822. Trump is the best representative of Christianity in the world today.
    1
  2823. The only reason the African populations are increasing is because of imported food, fertilizer, and medicines. When those imports stop, the death toll will be catastrophic.
    1
  2824. If you voluntarily travel to Russia, China, Venezuela, or any others, you should be abandoned.
    1
  2825. Also, exactly whose sexual freedom are we talking about here?
    1
  2826. I hope the Russians and Chinese realize that the West can do this, too.
    1
  2827. I think they should defy. This will be a great excuse to stop trade between the BRICS and the G7. Anything we can do to shut down globalization is to be pursued.
    1
  2828. If Belarus enters the war, then we are off to the races.
    1
  2829. National disgrace for the USA. Trump is demented.
    1
  2830. Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC, explained it.
    1
  2831. The only real risk factor for having a racist baby is a racist parent.
    1
  2832. Chicago is too strategic to be abandoned. It’s probably the single most strategic bit of real estate in the States. Its only competition would be Baltimore and New Orleans.
    1
  2833. It’s been 2 years now. Why hasn’t Europe spun up its military industrial complex? Why does Ukraine still need to depend on American manufacturing?
    1
  2834. Trump is more demented now than he was in 2016, which is saying something.
    1
  2835. Hasn’t the USA intervened in Europe too much already?
    1
  2836. The US Navy should stop protecting the sea lanes for non-American shipping.
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  2837. In the coming age where countries once again attack one another’s commercial shipping, how will this be such an advantage?
    1
  2838. Trump is doing his usual flooding of the zone with BS. Please stop talking about it.
    1
  2839. Trump is far more demented than Biden. The debate showed it.
    1
  2840.  @wingkei8779  It’s not good. But it’s better than being $105 trillion in debt.
    1
  2841.  @Sunthaz  Not satire. Look up Reagan’s SS readjustment acts in 83 and 84.
    1
  2842. The entire debate, Trump was confabulating.
    1
  2843. I do not even understand why the concern over sex robots. They aren’t people.
    1
  2844. The syphilis is eating Trump’s brain so hard.
    1
  2845. Isn’t escalate to de-escalate what Russia is doing in Ukraine? Doesn’t seem to work so well.
    1
  2846. Trump is a Kremlin asset. They have kompromat on him. We’ve known that since they bailed him out of bankruptcy in the 90’s.
    1
  2847. This is a simple problem to fix. Xi announces new economic goals. The provincial leadership announces they have exceeded all those goals. Everything is now fine.
    1
  2848. How is this hypocrisy? Morocco hasn’t been a threat to make a huge war in centuries.
    1
  2849. The Chinese "economic miracle" was created by American largesse. For that reason alone, they cannot be trusted.
    1
  2850. This was an elective war. They were supposed to have the Ukraine War covered, and still be able to deliver to their customers.
    1
  2851. The USA never should have got into globalization, and should have told the rest of the world to shove off before WWI.
    1
  2852. Reagan almost single-handedly destroyed the middle class in the USA.
    1
  2853. Religion is idiotic.
    1
  2854.  @I_am_not_a_bot-s6i  sovereigns can insure their own ships. Nothing is preventing Russia from doing this.
    1
  2855.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  the Russians are already pirating ships. They’ve got no cause to complain.
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  2856.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  Russia has seized no neutral ships, as you know. But has seized Ukrainian civilian ships in neutral waters. Russia considers the USA a co-belligerent. So I think the USA should just go ahead and start seizing and sinking Russian cargo ships, or the cargo ships of other nations buying Russian goods. Turnabout is always fair play.
    1
  2857. LMAO
    1
  2858. That would be a disaster. We need to abandon the evil Saudis and evil Israelis. The Saudis attacked us on 9\11, and the Israelis spy on us and steal from us.
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  2859. My parents always told me I could get involved in all the extracurricular activities I wanted, so long as I could pay for them, and provide my own transport.
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  2860. @ I had my feet, a bike, and eventually a car. Got my first real job at 15.
    1
  2861.  @esplace3023  the PRC isn’t well positioned for anything. Even as a manufacturing power, its workforce is aging out, and it imports its raw materials. The cost of PRC labor is already double that of Mexico. The PRC cannot fuel itself nor feed itself. All the USA needs to do to China is nothing. Xi Xing Ping said he would challenge the USA for global dominance. Fair enough. Challenge accepted.
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  2862.  @gaius_enceladus  fair enough
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  2863. Tourism is a bad idea. We should stop it.
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  2864. He’s also a coward. He will back down from any fight.
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  2865. Deglobalization is the future for the USA. We really don’t need or want a global economy,
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  2866. If they weren’t ethnic Russians, why would Putin care?
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  2867. Zhao Lijan was doing more to destroy China than almost anyone else. His loss is a great defeat to those of us who want to see China down the drain.
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  2868. At this point, we no longer need the Chinese for anything. Why not just discard them, and go on with our lives?
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  2869.  @Gojimaru actually, the colonists learned about democracy from the Native Americans. The American government is patterned after the Iroquois government.
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  2870. The police are there to serve and protect; the riches of the wealthy.
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  2871. Which is fine. The USA has long rehearsed a tight blockade of China.
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  2872.  @Amidat  China still imports 80% of their food, their fertilizer, and their petroleum by sea. It will work.
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  2873.  @douglashobden  lol. Cost of transport over land. And the Russians have always used resources to extract geopolitical concessions from their customers. Try again.
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  2874. @ nope. It’s the world before 1939.
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  2875. Hopefully, the Ukrainians can maximize Russian casualties. Kill off the prime of Russia's male youth. Their demographics before the war were horrible. After this war, they will be much worse. The more we can bleed Russia of its youth before they consolidate in Ukraine, the better our position when they march into Poland.
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  2876. @Степан Рыбаков Seriously, this war could be over in a day if Putin ordered all Russian forces to withdraw from all Ukrainian territory.
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  2877. @Степан Рыбаков Donbas is Ukrainian territory. I do not believe they were bombing themselves.
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  2878. @Степан Рыбаков we shall soon know if Russia can hold on to its colonies in Ukraine.
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  2879. Why not use bunker-buster bombs on all the apartment blocks in Donetsk and Luhansk?
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  2880.  @robo__cop8154  LOL. The Russians been trying to do that for more than year now. Hasn’t worked.
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  2881. Why don’t the Chinese just put a 100% import tariff on all raw materials and food and fertilizer? :-D
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  2882. Prince and his family were key in gutting the American industrial base.
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  2883.  @scubasteve117  LOL Fishing boats do not warships make. Neither do subs that sink in their own moorings. The entire PRC fleet is half the tonnage of the US fleet. And their ships can't even sail past the first island chain. The Chinese Navy is pathetic, and the Russia one no longer exists. Try again.
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  2884. I voted for Biden to be President of the USA, not president of Ukraine, Israel, or Yemen.
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  2885. Past time to destroy the global supply chain.
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  2886. Good. India will keep its industry in house. The rest of the world will not need to worry about it.
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  2887. The USA really doesn’t care about Iraq anymore.
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  2888.  @johndenver8907  It’s the CCP government that’s so hot for reunification though.
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  2889.  @Defective1313  again, it’s the PRC pushing the unification subject. They want it. Let them belly up to the bar.
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  2890. The most important thing we can do is stop the transoceanic trade in commodities. That will level out population properly.
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  2891. The USA should withdraw all assets and aid to the region. We just need to get out. Completely.
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  2892. Why don’t they just sell those products to their own people?
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  2893. The less interests the USA has in Taiwan and the PRC, the less likely there will be conflict.
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  2894. The Europeans should be making products for their own market, and the Americans should be making products for their own market. Simple. No more of this making something, then shipping it halfway around the world. It's too fragile.
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  2895. After WWII, the USA paid the Europeans to be their friends. If you pay people to be your friends, they are only your friends so long as you pay them. The USA needs to remember this, and not be surprised that Europe will not support the USA over the PRC.
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  2896. Got mine in maths and physics. Paid off handsomely.
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  2897.  @bellakrinkle9381  exactly. Time to break up the American Empire, and make the world into smaller, regional empires.
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  2898. The UN was just founded as an organ of American hegemony post-WWII. We should just dissolve it, and dissolve the ICC and the WTO as well.
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  2899. You and Winston show up fairly regularly on my feed.
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  2900. But then, I never get pro-China content.
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  2901. What do flannel shirts have to do with masculinity?
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  2902. Jeffries couldn't strike out of wet toilet paper if his life depended upon it.
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  2903. Nope. We need to stop wasting our money.
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  2904. I use an M1 Garand. If you are careful, you don't get Garand Thumb.
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  2905. LOL. The PRC has no money to loan, unless it just prints more.
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  2906. Exactly how is this fruitful?
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  2907. Stolen tech can only take you so far.
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  2908. A few, well-placed torpedoes in a few commercial ships will put an end to this.
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  2909.  @uss-dh7909  lol
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  2910. “Multipolar world,” implies no freedom of the seas. I wonder how the PRC will do on planet where it can’t reach export markets?
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  2911.  @JohnJaneson2449  it’s interesting: the PRC has benefitted more from the American Order than any other country, yet they are in the vanguard of destroying it, and yet they are complaining that the order is being destroyed. Are the Chinese even rational at this point?
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  2912. Viewing the Middle Ages as a pinnacle of human existence is a very interesting idea.
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  2913. “Development loans,” are just debt-trapping, no matter who does them. No nation should do them, and the WB and IMF should be disbanded.
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  2914. You and your wife and children are most welcome. The USA could double its population, and not even notice it. We need more immigrants, not less.
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  2915. Your daughter is not an anchor baby. Your critics are horrible people.
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  2916. @ OK. Fine. But that doesn’t explain why the Europeans still need the Americans involved in their continent. Can’t the Europeans fix all this stuff themselves, without US involvement? We have territories in Asia that are under threat from China, and we need to leave Europe, the Middle East, and Africa alone to focus on them.
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  2917.  @Laterprater  as for history, the Russians have always been game to conquer Eastern Europe. Sure the Europeans know this, and prepared for it. I find it hard to believe that the Europeans thought their end of Eurasia was going to be free of war indefinitely.
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  2918. @ Our involvement in WW2 was a mistake that we don’t need to repeat.
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  2919. @ Decent human beings do not exist.
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  2920. @ And I was mistaken. The Europeans had a decade to spin up their MIC. But they spooched it.
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  2921. @ with the end of the American Empire, history will return to the world.
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  2922. That would be almost every other country. And for good reasons.
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  2923. The PRC has said it intends to destroy the USA. So we must answer the challenge.
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  2924. Considering how incompetent FEMA is, would anybody notice if it was defunded?
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  2925. Trump confabulated the whole thing.
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  2926. That ship has already sailed.
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  2927.  @briansimon8969  No. We automate as much as we can, then give the money to people who would have been employed doing those jobs. Stop the money from going to shareholders. Redirect it to the proletariat.
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  2928. The Jones Act is good. It just needs to apply to land and air travel as well.
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  2929. Is it possible for Russia to change its strategic needs? Will geography and demography allow it? I think now.
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  2930.  @sociolocomtsac  oil is an inelastic commodity. Most commodities are not inelastic. Oil is a poor example.
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  2931. Trump destroys everything he touches.
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  2932. Tony, you are an excellent journalist. Stay that. Pundits are garbage.
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  2933. @ because those huge ships are really slow and not maneuverable. They will have no chance against fast pirate ships and submarines.
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  2934. @ what we want is disunity. We need less ports and railways and highways over the world. Why should we decrease our own standard of living so the rest of the world can increase theirs?
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  2935. Trump is a convicted felon. How could they demonize him?
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  2936. China has already abrogated UNCLOS. We are seeing the end of freedom of the seas in real time. Then end of bulk shipments of commodities like petroleum, food, and fertilizer is upon us.
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  2937. Probably because the USA was founded on race-based genocide, and built up by race-based slavery.
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  2938. Pelosi can count.
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  2939. I am looking forward to the day when the USN starts preying on commercial shipping.
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  2940. LOL. We're staring down the barrel of climate change extinction. So much for capitalism bringing us to a brighter future.
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  2941.  @ThePhobos100  Exactly.
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  2942. The USA wants the Russian Army to wreck itself in Ukraine. They do not want the war to stop.
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  2943. Turnabout is always fair play.
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  2944. Excellent. Now let’s make it a true multipolar world and end freedom of navigation of the seas.
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  2945. Europe and North America need to stay out of Africa. They only make bad things worse.
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  2946. Bingo
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  2947. I don't think anybody who understand Russian geography and demography is at all surprised at what Yeltsin, and now Putin, have done since the end of the USSR. They are following the same foreign policy that every Russian government has followed since Catherine the Great set it out. Russia, in order to be secure in her borders, must expand her borders. That means taking over and controlling more people of various nationalities than there are Russians. We all whine about it, but the Russians are doing what they must. And the rest of us are doing what we must. It's a tragedy, but it's unavoidable.
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  2948. Rules Based International Order = Bretton Woods System = American Empire
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  2949. Apple? Steve Jobs was an ethnic Syrian.
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  2950. Trump never met a dictator he didn’t want to bow down to.
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  2951. It doesn’t take much of a brain to beat China. 1) ban their exports, 2) naval blockage their imports. End.
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  2952. @ and once the global trade in commodities is shut down, it will also shrink massively outside the West. We will be back to where we were circa 1950.
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  2953. They do realize Trump confabulated the entire debate. He’s more demented than Biden is.
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  2954. I would happily put those 75 million Americans in gulags for re-education and punishment.
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  2955. I consider my Subaru Outback to be a nice successor to my dad’s Country Squire. Yes, it’s smaller. But it’s also much more fuel efficient, sits a good 12 inches off the ground, and has all-wheel drive.
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  2956. Pardon my cynicism, but isn’t the UN just a tool of American diplomacy, and nothing more?
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  2957. LOL
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  2958. @ ultimately none of our business. This is between the Europeans.
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  2959.  @janrunetraa2677  "The rule based world order" is a euphemism for the American Empire. An empire that is bad for America, and bad for the world. American exports outside of NAFTA is only 4% of GDP for the USA. The USA as the defender of "liberty and democracy?" Gag. We never have. That's just propaganda. I think the USA will be better off not involving itself in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asian subcontinent. We have citizens and territories in East Asia, so we should concentrate our resources there.
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  2960. What makes Prof. Wolff thinks the USA anymore wants to be the global hegemon? Especially since the USA is right now unwinding the globalized trade system.
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  2961. Die globalization, die.
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  2962. Zelenskyy had to fight. FU, man.
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  2963.  @breadnewbie6326  Missiles can easily take out the pipeline and the 3 Gorges Dam
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  2964.  @breadnewbie6326  the US can always give the weapons to somebody else to use.
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  2965.  @breadnewbie6326  does the PRC really want to turn the South China Sea into a no-go zone? This means no imports and no exports for the indefinite future. And for what? Taiwan? What would that give them? The Chinese Civil War has been quiescent for 75 years now. Best for all to keep it that way.
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  2966. I thought Xi was all about multipolarity, not one world.
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  2967. If I were Europe, I would not worry. Bretton Woods is ending, and imperial competition is returning to the seas. Global trade is about to vanish. The USA will largely withdraw to the Western Hemisphere, leaving the Eastern Hemisphere to its devices, with the exception of disrupting their enemies’ commercial shipping.
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  2968.  @occamraiser  Chinese labor is already twice the cost of Mexican labor. And Mexico is not going to attack us any time soon.
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  2969. What is the point of buying property in a communist country? All land is ultimately owned by The People.
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  2970. I think the USA and the PRC need to go their separate ways on trade.
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  2971. Well, many Americans are NATO-skeptic regardless of who is in the White House. I’m voting for Harris, even if I’d like to see the USA out of NATO.
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  2972. With the Russians being owned by China now, I don’t think the Indians will do that.
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  2973. For years, the PRC has been using supplies of manufactured goods for strategic ends, just like Russia. And now they are crying because their targets are decoupling from them.
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  2974. We really need to rid ourselves of religion in the liberal west. It's just bad.
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  2975. How about all those people just move to the Midwest? Problem solved. Bring the people to the water.
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  2976. If you ignore history, you are an idiot. People do not change.
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  2977. The most important thing you can teach kids: “life is generally not worth living.”
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  2978. The USA needs to quit the Bretton Woods system.
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  2979.  @theglobalgambit  it's already weaponized.
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  2980.  @theglobalgambit  the dollar was weaponized in 1945 with the Bretton Woods Accords.
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  2981.  @stlouisix3  I’m from the States. But I’ve been to NZ four times now, and Australia twice. I think the accents are very different.
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  2982. I wish Westerners would stop talking about “human rights” in the PRC. 1) they have no room to talk. And, 2) it is the PRC, which makes no pretense about respecting individual human rights.
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  2983.  @gtw4546  I’m just a bit skeptical when any government starts talking about “human rights.” All “human rights” stop where national interests begin.
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  2984.  @gtw4546  OK. But shouldn’t human rights be something the Chinese figure out for themselves?
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  2985.  @StephenGillie  you do have a point. But “human rights” are a Western construct. Eastern philosophy has never acknowledged any such thing. I think we are foolish to expect Easterners to ever agree with the concept.
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  2986.  @thomasherrin6798  "Free democratic society" is also a Western construct. Asians are welcome to adopt those constructs, but should not be compelled to do so, and certainly not due to Western intervention.
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  2987. We’ve been taking care of the planet since the beginning of WWII. Past time for us to stop.
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  2988. Americans have wanted to decouple from Europe since WW1. I’m glad the Europeans are wanting that now, too.
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  2989. Once the USA retools its refining, a lot of crude is not going to get refined, and oil prices the rest of the world are going to skyrocket.
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  2990. The South is evil. They deserve to be poor.
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  2991.  @nkr1159 I am totally for the USA abdicating its superpower responsibilities. But China will not and cannot shape the world order.
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  2992. I wonder if many Ukrainians realize that many Americans would just rather be quit of European wars. The Europeans have made it quite clear they are not going to help us in the Pacific against the PRC. We have our own problems.
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