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by churchill 1y ago
>China lacks a deep water navy I just hope the Pentagon's policymakers and war planners are less myopic. if you stumble in a confrontation with this overconfidence, and still lose Taiwan to China, Pax Americana is effectively over.
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by churchill 1y ago
>They can be blockaded from petroleum access with a single us carrier group, which will happen if they invade Taiwan and I don't think they can help themselves. I doubt it. This is just an armchair general's cope that's so
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by churchill 1y ago
>"I don't care if my leaders literally fuck children as long as they enact my favorite policies." I don't know why you're downvoted because in all honesty, this is the tradeoff the American right made. Trump has
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by churchill 1y ago
Because it's a relevant question to ask? Both replies addressed nothing I said and were in a haste to say what's on their mind vs. process what I wrote.
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by churchill 1y ago
You were in such a haste to share our opinion that you didn't address any point I made. If you want to weaken Iran, you need to empower the Arab states since the Sunni-Shia split is one of their points of contention. Instead, America l
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by churchill 1y ago
You were in such a haste to reply that you didn't address any point I raised. >The Arab petrostates and their citizens regularly support all kinds of Sunni terrorist organizations. During the Syrian Civil War, it was a common knowle
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by churchill 1y ago
I always try to make sense of America's Middle East policy in a way that doesn't veer into antisemitic conspiracy theorist thinking and it just doesn't compute. At all. For instance, apart from ups and downs here and there, t
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by churchill 1y ago
It's clearly documented that Mossad committed terror attacks against Jews across the Middle East to terrorize them into fleeing. Iraq, Egypt, etc. Zionist authorities had to bribe, maneuver and scheme to get many of these communities t
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by churchill 1y ago
>Israel is a primarily Jewish country How did that Jewishness result? It didn't materialize out of thin air, but as a result of the Jews expelling the Arabs from their homes at gunpoint, bulldozing their homes, and then building ove
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by churchill 1y ago
>I can turn anyone, including you, into "someone who will fire a rocket in 5 years". Give me US backing and I can do it in 4 Echoing OP's point, I can turn you into a person who'll fire a rocket in a year, even. Go re
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by churchill 1y ago
Israel systematically abducts, tortures, and imprisons Palestinians old and young with reckless abandon. I hate to defend Hamas, but the goal of the abductions was to use them as a bargaining chip to get their own captives who'd been u
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by churchill 1y ago
>Other nations with low thresholds (Canada, EU, etc.) forced traffickers into bulk smuggling channels, which are riskier and more expensive. These countries still have issues with narcotics trafficking. Business has continued as usual. T
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by churchill 1y ago
No amount of noise America's nativist crowd makes will stop this. Are authorities going to open every single package making its way into the US? There are ways to cut down on drug trafficking, but this kneejerk repetition of anything F
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by churchill 1y ago
How is letting people buy stuff from other countries a scam/subsidy? Do words have no meaning to your cohort anymore?
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by churchill 1y ago
Why is this comment downvoted? You have the right to see China, USSR and NK as immoral regimes but there's nothing non-factual here.
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by churchill 1y ago
I'm just assessing your claim logically and it still doesn't make sense. For locals who live in the countryside, surrounded by fruit trees, it doesn't make sense paying for fruit when you can just walk over to your neighbor&#
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by churchill 1y ago
I'll need a source for that claim since it sounds blatantly made up. Aggregate/gravel costs $10/t., So, to get enough money for a snack, an addict would need to do an ungodly amount of work, digging up large stretches of high
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by churchill 1y ago
>freedom of speech, democracy, and individual rights For those within the imperial core. War, death, sanctions, and dilution of wealth for everyone outside it/whoever attempts to disagree.
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by churchill 1y ago
The purpose of a thing is what it does. If Western ideals condone and actively fund atrocities like what's happening in Gaza, while failing to match the infrastructural pace of auth. regimes like China, it's only logical that peop
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by churchill 1y ago
You can simply ignore it, but you can't wish China and the progress they've made out of existence. There are also Europeans who feel uncomfortable with the US having 1.5* Europe's GDP with less than half the population. It&#x
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by churchill 1y ago
Funny how much stuff you can build when you're not spending insane amounts of money bombing farmers in the Hindu Kush, achieving full-spectrum dominance over everyone, or catering to entrenched interests. Brown University's Costs
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by churchill 1y ago
Like we've seen with Karparthy & Murati starting their own labs, it's to be expected that over the next 5 years, hundreds of engineers & researchers at the bleeding edge will quit and start competing products. They'll
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by churchill 1y ago
And if you ever stop/step off the treadmill and jack up prices to reach profitability, a new upstart without your sunk costs will immediately create a 99% solution and start competing with you. Or more like hundreds of competitors. L
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by churchill 1y ago
Americans willingly stopped farming their own food because it's more economical for farmers to grow in bulk and sell for a little profit. The only way to make more people farm their food would be by government compulsion. Why would you
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by churchill 1y ago
So, is it feasible for all Americans families to grow their own food like you do?
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by churchill 1y ago
Except, the price difference will be more like $1 for the Chinese product & $20-40 for the American product. The Chinese have tremendous scale that no one else can really compete with. Some factory floors have rows of thousands of worke
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by churchill 1y ago
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by churchill 1y ago
That'd be the ideal option. So, why don't the Brits do it? Make sure every immigrant is paying into the system from the moment they step off the plane. If you're not doing that, but instead subsidizing refugees, you can'
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by churchill 1y ago
I hear some Brits & immigrants raise that argument and it's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. Can you imagine seeing yourself as a punishment to be inflicted upon someone else?
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by churchill 1y ago
On one hand, I can understand your frustration at demographic & social changes. Everybody would be offended at that, no matter their race/nationality. On another, I think you're channeling your angst towards the wrong directio

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