It is true, my participation does tend to cause threads.You’re still doing it. Wreaking threads.
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It is true, my participation does tend to cause threads.You’re still doing it. Wreaking threads.
Lol. Tell it to Nicaragua and Gaza...With relatively minor and very temporary exemptions, that hasn't been the case since WW2. The idea of freedom of the seas is practiced by the world and protected by the US.
You may want to live in a country where the poor die in the gutter, but most Americans don’t. How about cutting corporate welfare and fairly taxing the extreme wealthy?1. Social Security and Medicare are earned and paid for entitlements. Welfare and Medicaid are charity. Healthy people need to get off their asses and earn their benefits. Welfare was supposed to have a 2-year time limit.
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2. The DOD Budget is about $760b. Cutting defense as China builds up its military is moronic. Who would stop a militaristic China from world domination?
3. My solution to the Budget mess is to add a 5% Federal Sales Tax on all goods and services. That would turn a $1T deficit into a $0.25 surplus. Plus we would need a new "Grace Commission" to identify where we could save even more money and eliminate waste and duplication.
In regard to trade routes, the Oz experience mirrors that of the US...The idea of freedom of the seas is practiced by the world and protected by the US.
France and Spain screwed themselves over and the U.K. became the dominant world power. China was advanced and turned inward with its caste system.I am sure that the French wish they once had a great superpower status to lose.
In regard to trade routes, the Oz experience mirrors that of the US...
You’re living in the past. The US has become a tyrannical empire imposing its will throughout the world, using its powerful navy to intimidate and murder. No nation in the history world has imposed greater economic sanctions on nations it hates than the US. The US navy enacts these sanctions, which cause great harm on poor nations.What the US has brought to the world, probably more than anything else, is open oceans. The freedom of traffic on the seas that we take as axiomatic is historically not so at all. And it has transformed the world's economies.
Puerto Rico can become independent whenever it wantsIt has territories taken by force of arms. Empire.
1. If we don't fix the Federal Budget and the Deficit soon there will be a lot more people dying in the gutters.You may want to live in a country where the poor die in the gutter, but most Americans don’t. How about cutting corporate welfare and fairly taxing the extreme wealthy?
If we didn’t have a MIC which is a racket, we wouldn’t have so many wars.
China is a major trading partner because our capitalist class moved our manufacturing base there to further enrich themselves. No need to make them an enemy, unless you want to further enrich the war machine.
The Grace Commission was a great idea that died. Nothing of it was ever implemented.
You’re living in the past. The US has become a tyrannical empire imposing its will throughout the world, using its powerful navy to intimidate and murder. No nation in the history world has imposed greater economic sanctions on nations it hates than the US. The US navy enacts these sanctions, which cause great harm on poor nations.
I expect the definition of words to be changed by MAGAts so that they can convince themselves their arguments are valid.Puerto Rico can become independent whenever it wants
Otherwise you got nuthin’
From whom is the US protecting China's trade routes with Australia? Just curious...It imports raw materials based on that freedom, protected by the US, and exports finished products.
I blew your argument out of the water with Puerto RicoI expect the definition of words to be changed by MAGAts so that they can convince themselves their arguments are valid.
From whom is the US protecting China's trade routes with Australia? Just curious...
As though it's not a territory taken by force of arms. Empire.I blew your argument out of the water with Puerto Rico
Since before US hegemony. But you don't answer the question. From whom is the US protecting China's trade routes with Australia?History is *rife* with such attacks on the open sea. But not today.
Since before US hegemony. But you don't answer the question. From whom is the US protecting China's trade routes with Australia?
The conundrum facing America’s allies is how to cope with a great imperial power in decline that is still a great imperial power.
peculiar cognitive dissonance seems to have taken hold in the world. The Western response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—led and propped up by the United States—has reminded the world that the international order is, if anything, more dependent on American military, economic, and financial might now than only a few years ago. Yet everywhere you turn, there is a sense that the U.S. is in some form of terminal decline; too divided, incoherent, violent, and dysfunctional to sustain its Pax Americana. Moscow and Beijing seem to think that the great American unwinding has already begun, while in Europe, officials worry about a sudden American collapse. “Do we talk about it?” Michel Duclos, a former French ambassador to Syria who remains well connected within Europe’s diplomatic network, told me, somewhat indignantly, after I asked whether an American implosion was ever discussed at the highest levels of government. “We never stop talking about it.”
What America’s Great Unwinding Would Mean for the World
The conundrum facing America’s allies is how to cope with a great imperial power in decline that is still a great imperial power.www.theatlantic.com