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emblem21

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Because Americans go to Mexico to spend money on a cheap place and Mexicans come to work in the US for cheap labor. Both support Mexico having a low quality of life compared to America.

Mexico does not have the largest tourism in the world. There is no perhaps.

Because it doesn't happen.

That's nobody's definition of competent.

All the more reason the hard power of cash draws them here.

Whether it is legitimate construction or menial labor, they came to America to get paid more than they would at home.

Those 2 are unrelated.

It's because Canada and America have more similar developed economies while Mexico is a complement being a developing country selling to developed countries. But demographics is hard power too.

It's called CHEAP vacation spot with nice weather and beaches.

This is true; America is getting more f-ed up, so moving to Mexico to retire is a good cheap option to stretch your money.

Mexican population growing means more production, more things to sell and American higher GDP per capita means they can afford cheap Mexican exports. It's all right there.

No, because the US has built walls and armed guards to keep Mexicans out.

Read it. It's stupid and wrong as always.

Actually, most of them just do hard labor because you need education to get a comfortable office job.

Yeah, Koreans/Japanese want comfortable 9-5 jobs that pay high and then buy big houses in America, which Japan and Korea don't offer.

Ok, "if"... the future is off topic and it takes a lot mre than software developers to make a developed country.

Figure 3? It shows migrant caravans consisting of 600K Mexicans and 1M others.

Furthermore, there's this right from the horse's mouth of why they want to come to America. It's all the reasons I outlined, none of your imaginary reasons:

Survey: “Why did you leave your home?”​

  • economic reasons 62%
  • fear of violence 25%
  • to escape illegal activity 4%
  • lack of education 2%

He's South-African. He doesn't care what he does to Silicon Valley.

You have said more stupid things here in the last 5 days than any other member in the 10 years I was here. Elon Musk was, at one point, the world's richest man and he's self-made based on technology. You can see how funny it is to me that you think he's stupid, right?

You can say it again and again but I always prove you wrong.

What power did it get them? What, other than money from the event, did Qatar gain with this "soft power?" Nothing. Whatever they could do before they can still do now, and whatever they couldn't before, they still can't now. "Soft power" is useless.

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That has nothing to do with soft power but the hard financial power to afford the planes they want.

I'm clueless because your answer is nonsense. I asked what Qatar can do that Kuwait cannot. Your answer is that people travel to the Middle-East and they have European footballers. LOLOL It's nonsense.

They didn't feel that way in WWII. Then they got beaten into a pacifist by hard power.

That's why they couldn't refuse Nordstream and the US had to order a terrorist strike on it to get Germans off? And Germany, of course, wanted to destroy its own industry so it can just buy things from Asia without the ability to make anything, right? You spin so hard you should start a powerdrill company, put Black and Decker out of business LOL

So either I have to provide hard evidence that the CIA rigged German politics or we should just accept your random imagination that German soft power is controlling the West??? Sorry, evidence and logic don't work like that.

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Supply and demand; if they got a better offer, they're most likely gone.

I'm mostly talking about engineers who work for their own country because they want to support their own people. This is a natural instinct, not soft power.

Ideology itself is soft power and it's easy; anybody can come up with an agreeable ideology. But the ability to project that ideology, to show the world its results and why it should be followed, is completely dependent on hard power. That's what sets apart fringe ideologies and the ones that dominate the world. It's all hard power.

"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Prolonged battle, even if it finally exhausts the enemy, is not a smart way to fight. A war of attrition is simply expensive and its costs will be felt long after the fighting has finished."
- Sun Tzu

This is stupid and nonsense.
You have a lot of willing power to debate with the equivalent of a brick wall but in the end,, this is not worth the effort nor the trouble. If there is any authority out there that can stop this madness now would be the time because I am sure many are getting sick of this back and forth. This is not worth you tormenting yourself over, especially if we are dealing with yet another sleepy
 

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Because Americans go to Mexico to spend money on a cheap place and Mexicans come to work in the US for cheap labor. Both support Mexico having a low quality of life compared to America.
Cheap compared to what? where you get this low quality of life when there are 130m Mexican with millions more Americans residing in Mexico and those Mexican are not after so called 9 to 5 jobs in US.
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Mexico does not have the largest tourism in the world. There is no perhaps.
Its all depend on classification. in Mexico business and tourism is now so intermingle that its hard to separate.
Because it doesn't happen.

That's nobody's definition of competent.
Its definition of a competent. Any Country that can deal with US airline traffic especially when there are surge during peak tourist season. Its a 38 cities in such narrow area.
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All the more reason the hard power of cash draws them here.

Whether it is legitimate construction or menial labor, they came to America to get paid more than they would at home.
Construction is not menial labor as far as rates in US they will be well above Software engineers outside US and certainly not all hispanic are Mexican.
Those 2 are unrelated.
It's because Canada and America have more similar developed economies while Mexico is a complement being a developing country selling to developed countries. But demographics is hard power too.
Demographics is Soft Power. you dont even understand the basics.
It's called CHEAP vacation spot with nice weather and beaches.

This is true; America is getting more f-ed up, so moving to Mexico to retire is a good cheap option to stretch your money.
Is there data for Cheap?.
Mexican population growing means more production, more things to sell and American higher GDP per capita means they can afford cheap Mexican exports. It's all right there.

No, because the US has built walls and armed guards to keep Mexicans out.
you simply cannot provide data and randomly throwing numbers. US GDP per capita is skewed by foreign born medical staff and software engineers. Mexico has more balanced economy that still provide high population growth with life expectancy surpassing US in most measures with much less spending on health.
Read it. It's stupid and wrong as always.

Actually, most of them just do hard labor because you need education to get a comfortable office job.

Yeah, Koreans/Japanese want comfortable 9-5 jobs that pay high and then buy big houses in America, which Japan and Korea don't offer.

Ok, "if"... the future is off topic and it takes a lot mre than software developers to make a developed country.

Figure 3? It shows migrant caravans consisting of 600K Mexicans and 1M others.
These all add upto 5 million people over 15 years. which is even less than 5% of 130m. Its Mexico culture, values and soft power that made such cohesive nation under democracy next to over helming Money printing of US.
Furthermore, there's this right from the horse's mouth of why they want to come to America. It's all the reasons I outlined, none of your imaginary reasons:

Survey: “Why did you leave your home?”​

  • economic reasons 62%
  • fear of violence 25%
  • to escape illegal activity 4%
  • lack of education 2%

He's South-African. He doesn't care what he does to Silicon Valley.

You have said more stupid things here in the last 5 days than any other member in the 10 years I was here. Elon Musk was, at one point, the world's richest man and he's self-made based on technology. You can see how funny it is to me that you think he's stupid, right?
Thats why there should be more indepth study before money hand over fist.
You can say it again and again but I always prove you wrong.

What power did it get them? What, other than money from the event, did Qatar gain with this "soft power?" Nothing. Whatever they could do before they can still do now, and whatever they couldn't before, they still can't now. "Soft power" is useless.
how do you know they didnot gain Soft Power?. Soft Power is gradually built over past success. and certain thing may not be visible to outsiders immediately.
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“We continue to look forward to our bright future here in Qatar, with multiple projects lined up for 2023 and beyond, such as the Formula 1 partnership and much more. Qatar will continue to be a global connectivity hub and an ideal destination for tourists long after the great success of the historic FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.”

Irrelevent

That has nothing to do with soft power but the hard financial power to afford the planes they want.

I'm clueless because your answer is nonsense. I asked what Qatar can do that Kuwait cannot. Your answer is that people travel to the Middle-East and they have European footballers. LOLOL It's nonsense.
Every nation has status that other with money cannot achieve. Kuwait knows even if it spends that money it cannot become Qatar. so better not spend on this side of Soft Power. Qatar can balance both is religious and Modern angle but Kuwait cannot. thats why you should really understand Soft Power of each country.
They didn't feel that way in WWII. Then they got beaten into a pacifist by hard power.

That's why they couldn't refuse Nordstream and the US had to order a terrorist strike on it to get Germans off? And Germany, of course, wanted to destroy its own industry so it can just buy things from Asia without the ability to make anything, right? You spin so hard you should start a powerdrill company, put Black and Decker out of business LOL
do you know behind the scenes US and German conversation?. Germany has image and Soft Power it want to preserve. for the rest it want to use other countries like Lithuania when it speak out. Germany want to transition away from this Fossil fuel based Industry. what convenient way than now. It is much easy to rally its population when there are image of war on TVs.
So either I have to provide hard evidence that the CIA rigged German politics or we should just accept your random imagination that German soft power is controlling the West??? Sorry, evidence and logic don't work like that.
Germany soft power is global driving force behind Bilderbergs, WEF, MSC and COP and all other things that you see. German soft power gave it oversize role in setting agendas and let other drive it.
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Supply and demand; if they got a better offer, they're most likely gone.

I'm mostly talking about engineers who work for their own country because they want to support their own people. This is a natural instinct, not soft power.
you make a statement without any evidence to back up. how do you know engineers are different than others?
Ideology itself is soft power and it's easy; anybody can come up with an agreeable ideology. But the ability to project that ideology, to show the world its results and why it should be followed, is completely dependent on hard power. That's what sets apart fringe ideologies and the ones that dominate the world. It's all hard power.
it certainly not hard power to sustain a ideology spread by sword. It require that Soft Power.
"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Prolonged battle, even if it finally exhausts the enemy, is not a smart way to fight. A war of attrition is simply expensive and its costs will be felt long after the fighting has finished."
- Sun Tzu
There is alot of evidence. you just need to look around. Prolong war if properly executed can accelerate tech development in various fields , remove production bottlenecks in industries. straight out logistics and quickly figure out who has the character and competency. this lay foundation for future recruitment and training.
 

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A few hours after it was announced that the Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao will travel to the US next week, the US agreed on Taiwan island trade terms. Once again China tries to mend relations, and then the US undermines those efforts.
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I guess it's a strategy to threaten China's national security and then act like China is unreasonable for not wanting to engage in pointless talks.
 

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China to boycott G20 meeting hosted by India in Kashmir​

Kashmiri activists have been subjected to mass killings, forced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual abuse to suppression of freedom of speech and bans on religious gatherings. Over 355 people were recorded killed in 2021. Over 41,000 have died since 2009.

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“China is firmly opposed to holding any kind of
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in disputed territory, and will not attend such meetings,” Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday.

The meeting will be the first significant international event in Kashmir since New Delhi stripped the Muslim-majority region of semi-autonomy in 2019.

On Friday, India said peace and tranquillity on its border are essential for normal ties with China.

Scrutiny has been beefed up in Kashmir in the wake of the event, with commandos patrolling the streets. Police have increased security even further, placing a massive security cordon around the meeting site.

Thank you, our dear friend PRC.
 

baykalov

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The British-Baltic-Polish alliance is far more aggressive than America. In America, there is still a section of the American elite who urge caution. In Britain, no such contingent exists.

WSJ: The U.S. and U.K. Are Split on the Ukraine War

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The British are more assertive, the Americans more worried about provoking Russia.

The U.K. and the U.S. are great allies, but on Ukraine there’s a disagreement brewing. The Brits would like the Americans to be more aggressive, and the U.S. wants the U.K. to be more cautious.

The disagreement revolves mainly around weaponry. The U.K. last week announced it will send Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, and it has provided thousands of man-portable antitank systems to Kyiv. The U.K. has also provided boutique electronic warfare and intelligence support to Ukraine. Yet although British support pales in comparison with the weapons and financial aid provided by the U.S., the U.K has shown a sustained willingness to send its best weapons to Ukraine.

It isn’t only weapons; it’s people too. U.K. special forces from the British Army’s SAS and SRR regiments and the Navy’s SBS units are operating very close to the front lines. These personnel are serving as key interlocutors between North Atlantic Treaty Organization intelligence efforts and Ukrainian forces. They aren’t fighting, but their guiding influence on Ukrainian special-forces activity is evident in the sabotage operations Ukraine has conducted against Russian railway, airfield, fuel and other logistical nodes. The British army is also regarded by the Ukrainian military command as its most reliable advisory partner.

British policy toward Russia from 2006 through 2022 was defined by overt appeasement until it became clear late in 2021 that Vladimir Putin intended a major invasion of Ukraine. But for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Russian attack provoked a deeper personal reaction.

Тhe attack on Ukraine changed something for Mr. Johnson, a devoted admirer of Winston Churchill. The theme of Mr. Johnson’s 2014 biography of the legendary wartime prime minister was the intersection of Churchill’s innate greatness and the moment of greatest consequence. In Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the commencement of the largest war in Europe since 1945, Mr. Boris Johnson sensed his own Churchillian moment. Crucially, he also sensed an opportunity to prove that his post-Brexit Britain would remain a global power.

Quickly deploying special forces to Ukraine alongside a large number of varied weapons and other intelligence capabilities, Mr. Johnson went all-in. Ukraine’s gratitude was evident in the personal connection Mr. Johnson established with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The ensuing success of these efforts for Ukraine’s defense, and the prestige they have lent to U.K. foreign policy, allowed Mr. Johnson’s two successors to continue his efforts. While Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is seen as risk-averse on China by many in London and Washington, he has doubled down on support for Ukraine.

Always behind the scenes, Britain, Poland and the Baltic states have lamented what they regard as the Biden administration’s lethargy in supplying Kyiv with the advanced weapons it requests. American caution is evident in other areas. When a Russian jet fighter fired on a British spy plane over the Black Sea in September 2022, the U.K. responded by deploying its own jet fighters to escort future spy flights. In contrast, when Russian jet fighters downed a U.S. drone over the Black Sea this March, the Biden administration ordered future drone flights to steer clear of the battlefield.

Coordination on Ukraine between Washington and London remains unparalleled in the West. But for London, the risk of provoking the Kremlin is viewed as less important than the reward of enabling Ukraine’s victory. And that is as much about Churchill and Brexit as it is about Ukraine.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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Taiwanese province based journalist Andy Lee alleges that Nancy Pelosi Liz Truss have been paid enormous sums of money from the ruling separatist party (DPP) from what's called a secret fund designed to establish good relations with foreign leaders. The money comes from the Taiwanese taxpayers. Nancy Pelosi was paid or the lobbyist 94 Million NT which is equivalent to $3Million USD. Lol Democracy and Freedom? More like gimmick for b.s. and corruption. But people in the west and in these places that practices "Democracy" and "Freedumb" have lost touch with reality.

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The British-Baltic-Polish alliance is far more aggressive than America. In America, there is still a section of the American elite who urge caution. In Britain, no such contingent exists.

WSJ: The U.S. and U.K. Are Split on the Ukraine War

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The British are more assertive, the Americans more worried about provoking Russia.
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Bellum_Romanum

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The British-Baltic-Polish alliance is far more aggressive than America. In America, there is still a section of the American elite who urge caution. In Britain, no such contingent exists.

WSJ: The U.S. and U.K. Are Split on the Ukraine War

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The British are more assertive, the Americans more worried about provoking Russia.
LOL Johnson as Churchill as if the UK of today equals the power and might of Churchill's Britain. What a puff piece, written by the psy-ops team of NATO. Only the hamsters, sheep's would believe such rubbish.
 
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