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Golden line for the day. And apparently, it doesn't only apply to politicians, it also fits a lot of no-brainer Reddit trolls when they talk shit about things like F-22 and Burke.
Not saying they are bad, but bros talk about them as if they are alien technology.
It's reverse genghis khan where instead of having 1000s of offspring, she has only 1, but it's not known which man out of 1000s is the father
“$500B” is just a big enough story for Trump to sell his audiences. I never under-estimate American IQ when it comes to big money. When people here proclaimed American stupid this and stupid that ... most likely those Americans in power chose to be so, not that there was no smart people who could see it coming. My post was all about a bigly story Trump wanted to sell to the world but somehow for some reason Zelenskyy didn't want to cooperate.
The point of the proposed regulation is like other Hegemon policies: to damage Chinese manufacturing sector. Ship building will not go back to the US. The Hegemon wants to use the new rules to force the ship orders to go to South Korean and Japanese shipyards instead of Chinese ones.
I don't think the is actually any plan of investing in Ukraine post war or putting NATO troops there to defend the investment. I think what's happening here is Trump has determined that US needs to get out of this war and he needs a face saving way to get out. So instead of just withdraw support and make it seem US lost the war he's trying to twist the narrative into "No Biden lost the war, I got us a deal for $500B so America is still ahead in the books thanks to my genius".
He doesn't actually care about weather or not US gets any of that $500B because it's fairly certain they will get nearly none of it, he just want a piece of paper to wave around and say he won.
In theory Zelensky could just give it to him and sign the deal, what does Zelensky care about future financial health of Ukraine he's sending 18 year old into the trenches to eat FPV drones. But alas Zelensky can't do it because if he did their own nationalist will hang him by lamp post.
I saw someone run the numbers already, consider the $500B price tag, the current value of gold and the remaining Ukrainian population. This deal would force each and every Ukrainian to take on reparation far heavier than what was in the Boxer Protocol (1 tael of silver per Chinese person, works out to a total of about 12.5 billion USD today including inflation in a nation of 450 million). Does Zelensky look like someone who had a more secure seat of power than Cixi?
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I just commented on the part about US troops guarding those minerals, that would be impossible or catastrophic because those deposits are in Russian-annexed territory now. Even the US troops officially stationed in the rest of Ukraine, where there are fewer natural resources, is similarly a very bad idea - basically inviting nuclear war.
As for why Zelensky rejected this idea because that would make Ukraine a slave colony in the minds of their people and piss on all the previous war efforts, not to mention that Ukrainian own oligarchs actually would not want their business to be taken away like that by Americans.
I told you, Putin will likely allow them to sign such a symbolic paper (getting minerals from Russian territory + the rest of Ukraine), but on his own terms, and for the rest of Ukraine to become a Russian proxy on top of what they already annexed recognized . So, Zelensky and his cabinet will have to go anyway even if they agreed.
The answer is simple, any Boeing aircraft landing in China or flying over Chinese airspace pays an additional landing fee.
Also seems like a SKorean Company has taken over a US shipbuilder, then not long ago, unions there are calling to sanction CN shipbuilders..
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"Tokyo fund buys China bonds for first time on Japanification bet"
"The deflation-fueled outperformance of Chinese bonds has lured in a Tokyo-based investor for the first time.A team that oversees investment in foreign government bonds at Asset Management One started buying China’s debt in October and has since boosted exposure to the country’s interest-rate risk, Hikaru Tanaka, fund manager at the Tokyo-based company, said in an interview on Friday.[...]
Tanaka isn’t alone. Japanese investors are estimated to have increased holdings of Chinese bonds by 53% last year, the most among the markets that make up the World Government Bond Index, according to Bloomberg analysis of Japanese balance-of-payments data.[...]"
I remember hearing Putin himself saying Russia doesn't stand a chance against NATO, anybody who thinks Russia can take on the entire NATO is fooling themselves.