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He's right, of course. The West needs to get back to work or you can say goodbye to the 'good life' ...
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Interesting message, in this day and age I wonder if the population over there (and eventually here) are ready to hear it.
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Germany is on the '180 program' in alot of ways, so I'm guessing they're going to be banging that drum alot in the near future...
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Trump’s real Iran strategy is hiding in plain sight. It’s a disaster for Xi Jinping
US victory in the Middle East and the destruction of China’s proxy could deter an invasion of Taiwan
www.telegraph.co.uk
For China, an aggressive Iran – like its other allies Russia and North Korea – is a useful vehicle for fixing the Western adversary and presenting so many diversions that the US risks becoming overwhelmed by multiple threats. It is to create, as the father of military theory Von Clausewitz would say, “friction”, tying down the American Gulliver and giving China global freedom of manoeuvre.
The Trump administration’s response has been dramatic. It is trying to deliver a shattering blow not only to Iran’s despicable regime, but also to China’s hopes of using the country to set the geostrategic conditions it needs prior to a potential Taiwan invasion. Taken in conjunction with Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro on January 3 – another major oil supplier to China – the US is knocking out China’s strategic diversions, cutting its tentacles one by one.
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The US is using raw power to prevent war in future years by ensuring that it will have the maximum conventional naval deterrence against China. It is raw power to support a US-led international order – despite foolish noises off over Canada or Greenland. It is raw power in aid of a world order that the US and the UK established after the Second World War. This is not a defence of everything Trump has said and done, nor a guarantee that the US will win, but there is a clear strategic aim.
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Beijing fumes as Trump’s Iran strike threatens China’s oil
US president’s military adventurism exposes Beijing’s energy vulnerability
www.telegraph.co.uk
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If the Regime falls, Iranian oil will eventually ramp up and provide a steady supply and give China an opportunity to provide modern refineries to Iran and long term contracts at good prices for legal oil.Beijing fumes as Trump’s Iran strike threatens China’s oil
US president’s military adventurism exposes Beijing’s energy vulnerability
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If they play by "the rules"
If they are willing to take the time to get the job done right.
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Kind of interesting.
If this is all about Chinese oil from Iran hasn't Trump already achieved something by having the Iranians close the Straits of Hormuz?
One of the articles mentions that China has been stockpiling oil to survive a blockade in the event they invade Taiwan. If they are depleting the oil now due to the Iranian actions would that then set back any action on Taiwan?
If this is all about Chinese oil from Iran hasn't Trump already achieved something by having the Iranians close the Straits of Hormuz?
One of the articles mentions that China has been stockpiling oil to survive a blockade in the event they invade Taiwan. If they are depleting the oil now due to the Iranian actions would that then set back any action on Taiwan?
I hadn't thought of that, but it certainly sounds plausible & likely...nice catch!
And just think, this guy didn't just spurt something out that sounded dumb...and then quickly corrected himself
No he sat at a keyboard somewhere. Logged into a computer. And deliberately typed that out & posted it...thinking HE'S as close to a modern day philosopher as one can be.
That's a kind of stupid that isn't fixable
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He isn't being smart-assed; he's just displaying ignorance.
When it takes fewer people to do X amount of work, some of the former employed are available for other work.
Most of the people who generations ago were working hard in agriculture would today be working hard at entirely different things, many of which weren't even imagined back then.
And there has been some shortening of most peoples' work weeks.
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