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Overbom

Brigadier
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Lol. Didn't Biden told the whole world with great fanfare that the US would "diplomatically" boycott the Olympics?..
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US government applies for three-month visas for 18 personnel to provide ‘security support operations’ at Beijing Games
Of the 18 names on the list, 15 of the US personnel work for the State Department and one works for the Pentagon, said a source who requested anonymity. Most appear to be mid to lower ranking officials.
The US indicated to Chinese officials it might submit applications for 40 more officials in the coming months.
It is not clear whether China will issue visas to the US officials, but a person briefed on the situation said the two governments had very different definitions of a diplomatic boycott.
 

victoon

Junior Member
Registered Member
May I ask more senior members of this forum to attend to posts like this? While I am principally against any forms of racism to anyone, no Chinese patriots should tolerate any bit of racism against any groups of the Chinese community. China is and will forever be a multiethnic country. It is one of our greatest strengths and a convincing way to calm the nerves of our smaller neighbors. Advocating ethnic purity is as evil as advocating overthrowing the Chinese government. And it should never be an excuse to block immigration to China.

I will write a rebuttal to the rest of his arguments. Sentiment against immigration are generally hyped up by populist politicians to get elected. Well crafted immigration policy tend to be a way to harvest the cream of the crop of other populations. and absorption of immigrants tend to be easy for countries that are already multiethnic and multilingual.

 

BoraTas

Captain
Registered Member
People think that I am crazy when I say that concentration camps are coming
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I have a few friends here in the Netherlands (a normally extremely pro-US country) with who I discuss a lot of politics. A lot of them started believing the USA may go fascist in the coming two decades. And they are using the word in its original meaning. 1-2 more Republican terms may really sewer the trans-Atlantic relationship.
 

gelgoog

Lieutenant General
Registered Member
Yeah, exactly, that is why I do not think there will be a war in the Ukraine at this time. It could happen later, but not when winter is coming to Mother Russia.

If winter is coming and Putin wants the Red Army to roll, then there is the perfect excuse to not roll the tanks, because of the Russian winter. If Putin threatens war and does not do it because of winter, then he can always do it later.

If Putin threatens war in the summer, and does not do it, then Russia loses some credibility.
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Putin is pushing both pressure points, economics and military. However, he can only push it until the summer.

Actually Russia has pursued wars in the Winter more than once back in WW2. There are two times in the year where it is basically impossible to pursue a war, those are the periods immediately before and after the winter freeze. It rains a lot and the dirt roads turn into mush. Once it freezes you can actually move vehicles more easily again. Assuming the vehicles were designed for winter fighting which they are.
 

NiuBiDaRen

Brigadier
Registered Member
But didn't the bitcoin nutjobs said that crypto is the way because "the evil government" won't be able to trace your money or some s...t like that?
You see I don't understand the craze behind crypto. Okay maybe for short term trading wins, but I'm not the short term trading kind of guy.

But over the long run, government introduced crypto will overtake private crypto. I mean do you think the central banks or monetary authorities of China and USA are just going to let private crypto fester around? Hell no, they going to enforce that government crypto is the only legal tender. People might want to bank on private crypto as a hedge, but I think government is going to outlaw private crypto because its gonna be money laundering.

You want to dodge taxes, you use private crypto. That's why I believe eventually all govs will crackdown on private crypto.
 
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