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2016-09-03 China-Japan-Koreas

CNN: Jack Ma: Wars start when trade stops

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Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 He is right.

But I suspect he will be rather more concerned with - When wars start, trade stops.

Posted by phil_b 2016-09-03 05:45|| 2016-09-03 05:45|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought "Peace of Dives" theory was debunked in 1914? If only because there's lots of money to be made in manufacturing ans selling weapons.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-03 06:07|| 2016-09-03 06:07|| Front Page Top

#3 If only because there's lots of money to be made in manufacturing ans selling weapons.

If you doubt the contracting and manufacture of weapons of war is the highly cultivated enterprise of government, just examine how rigorously the arms industry is protected from foreign imports.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-03 06:59|| 2016-09-03 06:59|| Front Page Top

#4 just examine how rigorously the arms industry is protected from foreign imports

I'm an Israeli, Besoeker

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-03 07:20|| 2016-09-03 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Your TAAS is essential to your national survival and is not particularly focused on fostering endless regime changes here and there. At least that is my opinion.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-03 08:32|| 2016-09-03 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I meant the way USA won't buy IMI staff that's better and (lots) cheaper then domestic.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-03 09:52|| 2016-09-03 09:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Our politicians are wedded to domestic contractors such Lockheed Martin, Boeing, GD, etc. It's a 'K' street - Wall Street thing.

Why share with the 'greedy Jooos?' They never listen to what we say.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-03 09:58|| 2016-09-03 09:58|| Front Page Top

#8 I meant the way USA won't buy IMI staff that's better and (lots) cheaper then domestic.

Maybe because State and WH have played "go along with us or lose your supply of materials and spare parts" too many times to fail to grasp, what goes around, comes around. Besides the graft.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-03 10:43|| 2016-09-03 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 When Saddam rolled south over the Mutla Ridge and took Kuwait City, I was privileged to make contact with a small aircraft spares outfit out of Schaumberg, IL with a contract at Ali al Salem. The business was started by a former USAF officer. His sons ran it at that time with the old man in overwatch. Their on-site PM was a retired USMC aviator. He was successful in launching the Kuwaiti Air Force 'down city streets' (due to runway cratering Ali by Saddam). They escaped and evaded to Saudi and eventually became the vanguard of the liberation.

The two brothers and some other mil retirees set up a command post in Crystal City where they could maintain FACECOM with DoS and Embassy Row. As a result they were instrumental in ending-running recalcitrant, do nothing DoS bureaucrats to gain the successful exfiltration and E&E of their staff at Ali. Thank you Amman and Manila. Nothing more need be said.

The Kuwaitis were very grateful to the outfit from Schaumburg. So much so that when Foggy Bottom began their re-arming - re-contracting schemes, the Kuwaitis told them 'Schaumburg please, forget everyone else.'

Lots of 'butt hurt' DoS types as a result of the Kuwaiti's insistence and the Schaumburg brother's aggressive, no bullshi* approach to getting stuff done.

It was fun to watch. Had I thought to have taken notes, a good book could have been written.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-03 12:00|| 2016-09-03 12:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, that was some kind of a war we had with the Soviet Union. IIRC, it didn't work out to well for them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-09-03 12:33|| 2016-09-03 12:33|| Front Page Top

#11 IMI is really Israeli?
I thought it was just a Kahr trademark

Posted by Slomock Smith9004 2016-09-03 14:52|| 2016-09-03 14:52|| Front Page Top

#12 TAAS acronym means? GIMF is failing me...

Posted by magpie 2016-09-03 22:16|| 2016-09-03 22:16|| Front Page Top

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