[ExI] Presidential overstep

[William Flynn Wallace]

 Do you believe China is a threat or a menace? ;)
Dan

Well, look what humans have done ever since history began:  ran around
raping and killing and stealing and taking over other countries.  Who
hasn't done it?  Only the powerless.  Every country, Britain, USA, FRance,
Netherlands, etc. has done these things, enslaving people if they need
hands.  Why should China be any different?  Of course they are a threat to
take over.  I just hope they don't go running around the world starting
stupid wars like we have done. (A lot of what they have done is helping
people, like building bridges for countries in Africa - long term thinking,
that).

 Do you know that Baghdad still doesn't have full electricity because of
the 'shock and awe' done when we invaded?  We just leave a mess behind for
someone else to deal with, as we are moving on to other stupid engagements
and piling up more debt from military actions.  Just what have we gained
from the wars since before Vietnam?  Debt, mostly.  No friends, though some
have forgiven us and now we trade with them.

bill w

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:39 AM Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2019, at 7:02 AM, <spike at rainier66.com> <spike at rainier66.com>
> wrote:
>
> John you worry too much me lad.  If you want something to worry about,
> consider this.  The US government has become completely dependent on a
> communist government loaning it money just to make normal expenses.
> China’s government has the authority to order its people to desist lending
> money to the US at any time.  If it does, the US has no practical way to
> raise the difference.
>
>
> There’s s saying that might apply here: “If you owe the bank one hundred
> dollars that's your problem. If you owe the bank one hundred million
> dollars, that's the bank's problem.”
>
>   It realizes this, so the federal government has to stand by and watch as
> China builds islands in international waters, then claims more and more
> territory in what had been sea lanes.  The US cannot go to war with China
> over that.  They can’t even pressure the China over that, because it needs
> China’s money.  Your worrying about a dictator rising during peacetime is
> distracting you from the real danger the world really is facing. China is
> planning to take ownership of a huge swath of the Pacific. The US can’t do
> anything about it.
>
>
> You make it sound as if China is churning out these islands all over — say
> just South of the Aleutians, off the coast of South America, in the area
> between Midway and Hawaii, around Japan and the Coral Sea. Do you believe
> China is a threat or a menace? ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
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