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Lethe

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Speaking of "moral duty" while funding an open-ended forever war...

Someone should ask these people if there is any number of deaths they would consider unnacceptable to enforce abstract principles of territorial sovereignty, non-aggression between states (all the aggressions from western states excluded, obviously). One million? Ten million? Or is morality unconcerned with how high the bodies are piled outside the crematoriums?

Of course we know the real answers to these questions, and that those answers will never be given. Nonetheless senior officials should be pressed on this question to highlight the vacuity of their moral posturing.
 

luminary

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Someone should ask these people if there is any number of deaths they would consider unnacceptable to enforce abstract principles of territorial sovereignty, non-aggression between states (all the aggressions from western states excluded, obviously). One million? Ten million? Or is morality unconcerned with how high the bodies are piled outside the crematoriums?
Well, the answer depends. Are you asking about the number of Anglo deaths, or non-Anglo deaths? If it's the latter, well, you're better off not asking.

Zambia's opposition leader welcomes Kamala Harris. The US had a major role in turning Libya, one of Africa's richest countries, into a basket case with open slave markets.
This is great to see. In the West, being anti-China is the easy way to get popular support. In Africa, being anti-West is the easy way to get popular support.

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on why the US cannot compete with China economically in Africa:
The fact of the matter is that if you want to do anything serious in the region within a tight political business cycle and need financing, calling Beijing is typically the smart option. This is especially true if you happen to be an incumbent in a competitive electoral democracy like Kenya or Zambia (I hope Washington sees the irony here). According to Nikkei Asia,
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. The same dynamics obtain in the private sector. Whether you are looking for machinery or cheap imports (and increasingly markets), China is often the best option. Trends in trade volumes demonstrate this fact. In 2022 Africa-US trade (under $40b) was less than a fifth of Africa-China volumes.

The Biden administration is
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to get American companies to invest in Zambia.


It’s hard to beat something with nothing as Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo explained during his
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China is Africa’s largest bilateral trading partner and about $254 billion in trade in 2021. China is the largest provider of foreign direct investment, supporting hundreds of thousands of African jobs. This is roughly double the level of U.S foreign direct investment and China remains by far, the largest lender to African countries.

Chinese companies have also taken the lead in exploiting minerals in Africa, many now in lithium mining in Mali, Ghana, Nigeria, DRC, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Most African countries are in my view, rightly unapologetic about their close ties with China. China shows up where and when the West is reluctant to show up. And many African countries are of the view that the “beware of the Chinese Trojan loans” advice from the West is wise, but probably self-serving.

Africa needs the loans and the infrastructure and China offers them. In any case, the history of loans from Western institutions is not great. The memory of the destructive conditionalities of the Breton Woods loans is still fresh and the debris is everywhere. And the preoccupation of Western governments and media with the so-called China debt trap might well be an overreaction.

The truth is that all the Chinese lending to Africa is only 5% of all outstanding public and publicly guaranteed debt in low- and middle-income countries, compared to 23% held by the World Bank and other multilaterals. Chinese banks provided 63% of the total debt relief while being only owed 30% of the debt service payments due.

In the arguments about the Chinese death traps (as it is called sometimes) and the large amounts of loans to African countries, I think that what is clear is that the Chinese have proven to be quite responsible in the giving out of these loans.
 
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A sign from above that the US is a damned nation, not a chosen one:
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The U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet
Tornadoes. Hurricanes. Flash floods. Droughts. Wildfires. Blizzards. Ice storms. Nor’easters. Lake-effect snow. Heat waves. Severe thunderstorms. Hail. Lightning. Atmospheric rivers. Derechos. Dust storms. Monsoons. Bomb cyclones. And the dreaded polar vortex.

“buckle up. More extreme events are expected,” said Rick Spinrad, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
God is fair. Although there are many extreme weather in the United States, the number of rainbows in the United States is also the first in the world.
 

luminary

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The fourth document China should release to humiliate the West, who constantly accuses China of "military-civil fusion" or "pursuit of dual-use technologies", should be the "US Military-Industrial Past of Silicon Valley".
The first initial public offering from Silicon Valley was in 1956 for a company called Varian, that sold microwave tubes for military applications. Fairchild Semiconductor derived over half of its revenue from government contracts during this period, and Intel's initial success was largely due to its development of memory chips for the US military.

All modern high tech has the US Department of Defense at its core, because this is where the money came from to be able to develop a lot of what is driving the technology that we’re using today.

Not to mention the current modern incarnation of US civil-military fusion, in the role of mass data collection, espionage, misinformation and propaganda campaigns for active hybrid warfare purposes.

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reveals that the Department of Defense and federal law enforcement agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, have secured thousands of deals with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Facebook, and
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Chevalier

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Did the CIA ever have imagination or intelligence outside of spy movies and John Le carre novels?

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Every so often, America demands acts of fealty like a jealous husband upset that his hot Margot Robbie wife is spending too much time with billionaire Chad Chang down at Dorsia.

Meanwhile in the haven of Australia, a housing giant collapses, yet we don’t hear talk of doom and gloom as we did with evergrande now did we?
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how bad is it? Bad enough that irate unpaid tradies started burning down homes they built
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Chevalier

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chinese mandarin scientifically proven to improve baby’s learning. It’s like the entire Chinese culture is an accelerant in Homo sapiens evolution.
Anglo antipathy towards China is simply jealousy that they’ll never be as great or as glorious as China, and that their only lasting contribution to humanity is religious fundamentalism and institutional pederasty.


seems there’s more and more to the theory of Covid being an Anglo bio weapon targeted at East Asian genomes but mutated and started attacking all Homo sapiens.
This happened whilst pompeo was Secretary of State and the USG was staffed by the likes of pottinger, so it’s not unreasonable that these individuals would use a genetic bio weapon.

re the magnitude of Finland joining nato

idiots.

also, now that the US wants war with China, they can’t afford to have girls wi5 two moms as recruits anymore, they need toxic masculinity to save them
 
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After talking to Qin Gang, Japanese FM Yoshimasa Hayashi has invited China and South Korea to resume China–Japan–South Korea trilateral summit.

This could be the start of Japan and South Korea's grand betrayal.

Semiconductor sanctions repealed when?
 
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