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iewgnem

Captain
Registered Member
LMAO news of the day, written by - who else? A female Chinese diaspora reporter! I put it in the same category of "Chinese 'fuel' their rockets with water" and "Chinese cook with rocket fuel".
I always found it funny whenever the west talk about corruption in China that there seem to be no self awareness that the corruption they describe is exactly what's every western official are expected to do.

i.e. take bribes or collude with military industrial complex on defence programs.
 

montyp165

Senior Member
The obvious and only conclusions that could be drawn at this point is that these extrajudicial executions are effectively policy.

The swiftness and consistency of things going from nothing to execution is impossible for anyone targeted to have any realistic chance to de-escalate once you are targeted. One second you are recording and talking, the next you are dogpiled, pistol whipped from all angles and pumped full of bullets within seconds.

With RoE like this, deaths are inevitable. And with the administration making zero efforts to rein in this behaviour when they could have easily gone with the standardised ‘bad apples’ excuse means that this behaviour is at a minimum condemned, if not outright encouraged.

That tracks with the broader purpose of ICE as Trump and MAGA’s personal paramilitary enforcers.

The goals of so blatantly using ICE in such a way is multifaceted.

Firstly, it is meant to intimidate and set examples to cow the masses. Behave, fall in line or we unleash the ICEtapo on you and turn your neighbourhood into legal kill zones where ICE can execute anyone who they don’t like the look of at any time with impunity. With an environment like that, it’s easier to keep your head down and look the other way.

Secondly, it secures the loyalty of ICE through such open displays of patronage by Trump, as well as through complicity in his crimes. It’s not so easy to turn your back on Trump and walk away if there is a real risk you will be hauled in front of a court alongside him.

One of the worst things, and the most likely thing that the democrats will do as things like this keep happening is make a big song and dance about holding ICE agents personally responsible for their actions by stripping them of their professional immunity. That will fire up their base, but it will also cement ICE’s loyalty to Trump.

I do not personally think a new American Civil War is imminent for many reasons. But Trump and his cliche are absolutely laying the foundations for seizing power and ending democracy, just so long as Trump can hold his nerve and doesn’t TACO at the last, which is also a real possibility. And with them in control of the national security apparatus, it’s far more likely that they will be able to isolate and eliminate all domestic opponents capable of putting up a serious challenge to their take over that no one will be able to organise enough of an opposition for it be come close to being a civil war. It will be one giant series of purges and lethal SWAT raids and ‘accidents’.

The only realistic scenario where things does escalate to Civil War is if there is a foreign state level actor willing and able to foster the opposition into open rebellion and provide enough material support that this opposition survives long enough to attract enough followers to achieve critical mass instead of being crushed after the first battle.

Ironically, the EU/NATO is actually the only viable entity able to act as this foreign support. Russia and China might have the material means and the will to support such a rebellion, but most Americans are too thoroughly trained to view both as the enemy for any movement openly supported by them to achieve grassroots acceptance. A American government in exile in Europe would be far more attractive to far more ordinary Americans. This may by the reason why Trump is so hell bent on undermining and even dismantling NATO.
The way I see it, just as how the 2 World Wars destroyed the power system constructed from the Napoleonic Wars, the next World War will end the western system no less clearly, the underlying driving logic of western imperialism will see to that.
 

Thecore

Junior Member
Registered Member

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
What China should be doing is putting on blast that everything about Trump and what he's doing is not the democracy that the US is selling to the world. Look at how the Democrats are just letting Trump getaway with everything and especially domestically in the US. The Democrats are showing no leadership in their very own principles they hide behind to thumb their nose to the world they lecture and all they're doing is expressing lip-service. In the democratic utopia they promote there should be checks and balances to someone like Trump but there are none showing that the righteous America leading the world to freedom is just a bunch of bull and just a trick to put countries like their very allies into a bind where they can do nothing if someone like him comes to power.

The Democrats and Europeans are more angry at China because it is in a position to defy someone like Trump and punish the US if necessary because it didn't fall in line with the West as they demand. Yeah they exercise checks and balances... on everyone else but not themselves. They're angry at China because it can get things done where their democratic bureaucracy throws road blocks ahead. Every time a Western politician attacks China, it's because they're hiding their own failure to get anything done for their own people. And why they can't is because the West is inherently corrupt. They just made it legal so it's not criminal.

The reason why everything costs more in the West is because their economic system demands outside entities to profit from someone's success. They have to share the wealth with other rich people. That's what they were trying to do to China attempting to brainwash that like with advanced semiconductor production that no one country can do it alone. No, that's so everyone that wants a piece of pie gets rich. The West doesn't have vertical supply chains where everything is done in-house. The Western system involves contracting others as a part of production. And what does that mean? It means all the others involved demand a profit of their own. The standard is 50% meaning it adds to the cost to everything every step of the way. If it were all in-house, all that added need for profit for others would be gone and thus the price would be cheaper. And what more tell you it was a lie that no one can go at it alone? The US wants no dependency on foreign entities in their semiconductor supple chain. That's why the West hates China because like they charge China is going against the Western world order where they can't also make money from Chinese successes. Why do you think Canada is looking to get into China's EV supply chain that doesn't need them so they can make money from not adding anything. The Democrats are trying to separate themselves from what Trump and the Republicans are doing. No, they are part of it because they are not doing anything to stop him that a democratic society that believes in rights is suppose to uphold.
 
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