• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Well I don’t think it does, so that’s an easy decision for them. They want to be just friendly enough that we keep buying their stuff and educating their youth.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, we buy all our stuff from them, no way we’d actually impose meaningful sanctions.

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        5 months ago

        We can’t. We sent some much production there we should worry that China may put sanctions on us. It’s why we shouldn’t have allowed manufacturing to move there.

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      5 months ago

      It’s a shame you are being downvoted because you are quite correct. Nato mat be rich but it only represents around 15% of the global population.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        Ya know if the fucking British hadnt conquered all of India and most of the world maybe your point qould be sailent. If anything its a lot easier to take down regions with large populations, namely by destroying food supplies and food imports.

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          5 months ago

          *easy to take down regions with technologically outdated and divided populations who’ve already been weakened by internal strife.

          This paints more of a gray picture.

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            5 months ago

            Oh no I meant what I said, everyone needs to eat and the fucken second you are reliant on imports for food you are at the mercy of those doing the exporting. China is turbo fucked if those food shipments ever stop, and the US navy could stop them. If memory serves me right most of the food comes from Brazil so you dont evenneed to be near China to deal that blow.

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    5 months ago

    China knows the Republicans are going to gut NATO,

    China doesn’t care,

    China is committed to breaking the West’s dominion, which is why it’s making Russia into its vassal-state, totally-dependent-on-China, but with accountability/responsibility not having any direct-line into China, in the 1st place…

    Once Trump’s finished destroying the US, then … then the real action will begin, militarily.

    Give that about 1 dozen, or less, years, to occur.

    ContinuousHammerfall’s when the NATO-allied countries have been gutted, bankrupted, torn-apart through “populist dictatorship”, etc, and suddenly the triple-alliance throws EVERYthing they’ve got against us, to break our capability…

    Between now & then should be 2 more stages:

    economic-collapse, which Trump uses to gain & secure dictatorship,

    & the butchering of NATO & the West, economically, which should last … roughly 7 or 8 years, or so.

    Once those’re done, then the WW3 tantrum/pogrom can begin.