[ExI] Seeds of War

[William Flynn Wallace]

 The
Chinese government certainly seems onboard with war judging by their
closure of our embassies and lack of conciliatory behavior.  stuart

Who started closing embassies first?  And have you seen any conciliatory
behavior out of Trump?  The very idea is foolish.  bill w

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 9:45 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Quoting Robert Kennedy III:
>
> >
> > some say this mystery-seeds-from-China thing is just some fraudsters'
> > scams exploiting a bug in Amazon.
> >
> > Or that it's "Gaslighting"  (A word I don?t use often enough-somehow I
> > managed to grow up without seeing the Ingrid Bergman movie so I missed
> > that meme.)
> >
> > The fraud seems like a stretch to me.  Also I know that Asian "murder
> > hornets" showed up out of the blue in the Pacific Northwest this winter.
> >  So I've been having unsettling thoughts about clandestine bio-warfare
> > or eco-sabotage.
>
> Your instincts serve you well, Robert. It is hard to believe that a
> regime that tracks its citizens so thoroughly
> that it can stop a viral epidemic in its tracks would be unaware that
> its merchants are exporting seeds out of country, benign or harmful.
>
> Therefore the most likely scenario is some sort of biological or
> agricultural eco-warfare especially in light of the honeybee
> destroying murder hornets, if not COVID-19 in the first place. The
> Chinese government certainly seems onboard with war judging by their
> closure of our embassies and lack of conciliatory behavior.
>
> It seems pretty obvious that Trump is desperate to get us into a war
> with somebody, and it doesn't seem to matter who since Iran, China,
> and Antifa all seem plausible. Except that of all of them, China seems
> to be the most eager to fight at this time. Since no POTUS has ever
> lost his job in the middle of a war, not even a civil war, I think
> that it statistically safe to to say that if we go to war for any
> reason before November, then Trump will likely win a second term.
>
> The problem is that even if by some miracle, we avoid war until after
> the election, the war is likely to still happen. So any candidate who
> runs against Trump had better have a plan in place to counter China's
> warmongering that does not involve submitting to communist tyranny. If
> Biden's plan is simply to roll over and let China have their way with
> us, then he has no chance to be elected.
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
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