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2024-04-02 -Great Cultural Revolution

That 1938 Feeling A scent of trouble in the air

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Posted by Frank G 2024-04-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [269 views ] Top
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#1 And the main thing: Western ruling classes and the major part of their populations live in a fantasy world having no connections with reality.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-02 02:24|| 2024-04-02 02:24|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Their "reality" is a chessboard of power and money.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-02 05:41|| 2024-04-02 05:41|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Their goals power & money. But their behavior is as if their slogans were reality.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-02 08:30|| 2024-04-02 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 a chessboard of power and money

More like Risk.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-02 09:29|| 2024-04-02 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Finally, we might take comfort from the fact that China is in serious economic trouble:

I've been hearing that for decades. The more I hear it, the less I believe it. Underestimating your enemy can only lead to complacency and then to defeat.

What should we be doing? Stop trading with the commie bastards immediately. Their military is only as capable as their economy and ever since the early 1990's we have been the biggest enabler of the Chinese economy. As well as driving the Chinese economy, we have gutted our own manufacturing capacity. That doesn't make any sense.

Next, elect a Republican president. History is very clear: Democrats have always gotten us into the shittiest wars. I think Joe Biden would take rather money from the communists, let them flood our country with fentanyl and prepare for surrender than to deter war with superior fire power.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-04-02 12:37|| 2024-04-02 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 We are at war already. This is a fantasy of refighting ww2. Like the Vietnam experience. China does not want to destroy the US. Belt and road seeks resource control. USAs econimic engine is the resource. They want to manage it. China wants do everything it can to avoid the USA realizing it is already in conflict. It does want us to divide and fight each other. Then support one side over the other.

Posted by Jefe101 2024-04-02 20:26|| 2024-04-02 20:26|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Exactly correct.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-02 22:04|| 2024-04-02 22:04|| Front Page Top

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