#13 I would like to know what those who are likely to replace Schröder's regime will do about the effort to lift the ban on arms sales to China.
Specifically, will they work as hard to kill this incredibly greedy and short-sighted bit of suicidal madness as Schröder & Co did to support it?
What about ongoing tech transfer via commercial sales? Will tech transfer be closely guarded against, with stringent laws on the books - strictly enforced?
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I once took great pains to point out that it was the German leadership that we should oppose, not the German people. I've even done the same with the French - and was graciously given a pass by the tolerant citizens of RB (thanks!). The effort to sell high-technology to China, some (much?) of which is US originated, is tantamount to an act of war - and in that venue such polite distinctions no longer apply. As with Islam's stealth declaration of war upon the US in '73, again we're looking at a cowardly and craven declaration of war. And war is war, whether from ideological insanity or EUropean greed to save themselves from the logical end their socialist policies bring.
Who among us, pray tell, does not anticipate that someday we (the West) could face off against China? They certainly seem to be expecting it. Dominion is a 6,000 yr old tradition for them... And it's Chinese Dominion they seek - a complete political, economic, and military hegemony, a totalitarian hegemony... whereas America promotes a Dominion of Freedom - a hegemony of free market capitalism underpinned by freedom of communication and representative democracy - the exact opposite. For that moment of decision to arrive, the Chinese must conclude they can either prevail or force a draw or stalemate - in some combination of economically, politically, or militarily. And that conclusion will be largely based upon the advances stolen or sold to them from the West. I don't think I'd want to be a first generation cosmonaut in China, if you know what I mean. For the record, just being the biggest pile of people does not a great anything make. Whether it is a military confrontation or not will almost certainly be decided by the depth and breadth of whatever military technology gap still exists - for if they are clearly outgunned and raw numbers won't prevail then they will think much harder before jumping the shark - allowing that internal politics and shenanigans will influence this moment, of course. This obviously presumes there still is a substantive gap and the EUropeans (or our native whores) haven't given away the farm for a few pieces of silver to save their sorry shopworn socialism from the collapse it so richly deserves.
Additionally, even if this particular self-destructive effort is stopped, the damage can be the same if the EU govts do not have and enforce very strong strictures against ongoing commercial tech transfer, as well - including the much-ridiculed dual use tech. In the end, it's not funny in the least, it's a deadly issue for our children or grandchildren or... This isn't trivial - it is the crux of the biscuit, as Master Zappa once said. Many, many lives depend upon the answers. Those who can't be trusted not to sell the farm must be isolated, ostracized, and allowed to die on the vine. Each state that falls under the weight of its stupidity and greed is a newly minted example of the failure of some combination of socialism, communism, maoism, fascism, ecoism, not-invented-here-ism, or suicidal immigration policy.
I think of the looming failures as Dominatrix Nanny States. Sure, you can have a guaranteed "life", of sorts, and a taste of my strap for good measure. Yes, you may have 50 weeks of vacation this year, but you'll take it where I tell you, when I tell you (heh), and stay in my sister's cousin's run-down hovel at 5-star rates. And like it. And you'll retire to a life of poverty and want. Congratulations, idiots - you killed the golden goose of free market capitalism because you were too blind, too proud, too stupid, too hidebound, too full of "tradition" and "culture" and "customs" (read: serfdom mentality), and too greedy - the cupboard is bare - and will stay that way.
Oh, BTW, you EUropeans are not taking me down with you. I am a free man which, today and tomorrow, means an American, not some Tranzi tool or "Ism" fool. You can join me or jump, while you still have the choice.
Tomorrow, or sometime soon, anyway, we can discuss Russia's death throes, NKor writ very large, as it sinks into oblivion and the tech horrors they will happily put on the auction block. And we owe this to Tsar Putty and both his minions, Cult of Personality idol fans - a more stupid lot is hard to imagine, and his Masters yanking merrily on the visible strings. Wow! So many fun and interesting things afoot, so little time! :-)
Fuck Yeah!
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Just sorta wondering, y'know? |
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder took a big gamble by calling for a national election a year early to enable his people to choose who best can lead them out of mass unemployment and stagnation. Schroeder announced his high-risk strategy on Sunday after his Social Democrats (SPD) were booted out of office in the most populous German state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), a longtime left-wing bastion the party had ruled for 39 years.