The CCP loves ancient metaphors because they hide modern weakness behind civilizational swagger. China wants to be seen as Sparta, but it behaves like a paranoid cartel state with aircraft carriers. Sparta did not need TikTok algorithms, fentanyl precursors, hacked telecom networks, stolen patents, secret police stations, and slave-labor supply chains to prove its strength. China does. Xi’s message was meant to make America step back on Taiwan, trade, tech, and regional power. Trump’s answer should be simple: no. China does not get to write the rules because it quotes dead Greeks. The American century is not over unless America quits.
We continue to remain humble and pray for our President. Be wise as a serpent but GENTLE like a dove. We are at war with CCP NOW. Chess game. God continue give DJT and team Your wisdom and discernment.
Geo-politically, China has a strong position due failures of the US government to keep our industries strong in our own nation. China truthfully had the world by the neck.
They are in a position to force the Strait of Hormuz open. All this saber rattling is just that, it’s a bluff. If China and the US ever clash in a real military conflict, it won’t really matter who wins the kinetic clash, America’s and the world economies would be cast into collapse. It would take decades to recover.
Just a reality that overshadows this entire event. We need to concentrate on saving our country from the internal threats within. Our morals are in the toilet and we are infiltrated at every level. The DNI is very aware of what I’m saying here. We are being distracted from the real threats.
Several years ago we uncovered a massive intrusion and espionage caper, that revealed a Chinese connection when Hydro One of Canada tried to purchase Avista Utilities, an American Electric Power company covering 5states. The federal government and our WA star officials completely ignored the activity. I contacted every pertinent federal agency.
We defeated that espionage by taking Avista to court in IDAHO. The Supreme Court there struck down the deal which was highly illegal and would have subjected Americans to extremely high power prices.
I was heavily involved in that as a Civil Intelligence Investigator. If you trust any government in this country to protect our way of life, you are sorely lacking discernment and understanding.
Chinese people can withstand poverty and other uncomfortable conditions, which also gives Xi hard ground to stand on. Trump in reality has no leverage. Americans are spoiled and sensitive to hardships. We are divided by many issues. Most of what we get as far as reporting on these issues is propaganda.
Again, the American people must decide our future. Our government isn’t looking out for our best interest. The economic pains of high gas prices proves that decisively. What arrogance to assume that we are willing to pay for warmongering. I have spoken with many vets, retired BP and other citizens. I have no one who approves of what is taking place. It’s immoral and dangerous, putting our entire nation at risk.
Trumps trip to China will change nothing. Our real issues are right here at home. I could go on for hours revealing investigations and ongoing real threats right here in America that are being ignored. This is unsustainable.
I’m not sure who you are calling spoiled. Certainly rich, coastal, liberals and their children are spoiled, but in rural areas across the US & the heartland where an equally large number of Americans live, we are more accustomed to hardship and hard work. We are not nearly as divided as the MSM likes to present. Give us a common enemy like a murdering CCP regime and you will see a different type of attitude from the easy-going friend.
I would like to hope your right, but after 30 years directly involved in real-world investigations, working with thousands of people across the nation politically and being a very self-sufficient country boy myself, the indicators and facts just don’t support your outlook, generally speaking. Of course there are exceptions. Perhaps you are an exception and I certainly am with professional military training and experience.
I don’t mean to offend, but truth hurts sometimes. Most gun-carrying Americans will not organize to defend this nation. A different generation today.
Look at what we’ve already tolerated and it just keeps getting worse. Let’s deal with reality. I am trained and conditioned to do so. With the Lords help that’s how I have survived direct attacks by Deep State lackeys.
I certainly like what your saying. My experience just doesn’t reveal that reality. Again, there is always exceptions in various areas. However given the complexities of today’s internal 5th gen warfare, training is needed for Americans to be successful. That begins with accepting the conditions.
Only 30% of the Americans supported the Revolution that fought for and won to establish these United States. And, in these days there is at least if not more than 30% , that are willing and able. Don't sell out the good because of the noisy bad and ignorant.
Your estimations are not legitimate. It was only about 15% of the population that supported the Revolution and less than 3% were ever involved directly. Of course in our USMC counter insurgency studies we discovered that it only takes about 3% to overturn and/or subvert a nation.
Now take the facts at present. Islam , socialist and a powerful small Deep State are subverting and sweeping our nation in real time. What 30% force is stopping them?
You have fallen prey to what most Americans have suffered. Subversive false information and a comfort zone.
I base all my understanding on real-world factors, actual front line hands on service and 30 years of experience. I’m not moved by media information, false positives and political narratives. My only bias is facts, love of God, family and country.
Those who believe in narratives that make them feel good, will suffer shock later. I’m trying to save this country, not imagine positive wishes.
Our research and experience serving this nation and protecting it just doesn’t line up with your understanding.
Unfortunately, there are to many people caught up in false positives hoping for the best. Hope is not a strategy.
I’m so far from being a liberal that it’s ridiculous to say that. You obviously haven’t read my comments before and are not aware that I have served this nation in both the USMC in combat and 30 years as a Civil Intelligence Investigator.
I don’t even watch network TV or any other compromised feeds. We’re not allowed to do that due to compromised bias.
We get direct intelligence from direct sources and our own hands on investigations. Truth and facts, period.
SIR: Xi may be a ruthless dictator but he's not stupid. He may have made veiled threats but look who President Trump took with him on that trip. Did he have Generals, beltway China experts and academics - the useful idiots of regimes past? Hell no!
He had the best in class American tech innovators. Musk, Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Tim Cook and others from Boeing, Cisco and Micron. Why did he do that? He knows Xi doesn't want war. President Trump knows that China also has some major economic issues. The message he brought to Xi is that he wants China to prosper, just like he wants America to prosper.
Powerful leaders don't want continuous war. They want to harness their countries brain power to invent things we need for the future. They want abundant gas and oil that is not held hostage by insane terrorists. They want to thrive. Nations want partners they can work with and trust. Xi knows that President Trump is a man of his word. They have mutual respect which is core to deal making.
Trump sent a new message to all of the world on this trip. You are dealing with the economic might of the United States of America. Let's make deals, NOT war. Win-win. That, sir, is the new CCP diplomacy.
The fighter in me does not like China one bit and wants to tell Xi & his CCP that no one is impressed with his coy double-speak. More than that, MAGA Americans are largely awake to China’s atrocious attacks on the US and want blood. Xi makes the error, much like Japan did, of arrogantly waking a “sleeping giant”. It won’t end well for them.
The US has lost 2 wars due to globalist undermining in our government & military. Without interference from those forces, we will do what we always do and have done, which is win. The U.S. was literally born from the warrior ethos. It’s in our genes. Meanwhile the CCP manages an increasingly resentful population by force. Finally, communism has not succeeded in maintaining its hold on any nation thus far. The CCP hangs by a bloody thread
You probably still use the phrase “Red China,” which has stock exchanges by the way. And a trillion of our debt, and they're the factory for all the Walmart slop you buy. And lots of the non-slop too. We're also educating 266,000 of their upper classes’ kids.
The Chinese are Confucian Han supremacists whose religion is being Chinese. The US is a polyglot, “proposition” nation that no longer agrees on the proposition. Who are you counting on for the glorious meatgrinder war against half a continent? Iran is supposedly hanging on by a thread too. From what I can see that war is a long way from over.
The Anglo-Americans who still believe in your narrative have stopped reproducing and are too busy moving ever further out to find a place for the few kids they're having to go to school. The non-white majority America has already been born.
Nobody doubts the American military had the means to win (theoretically) against Vietnamese peasant soldiers who fight in sandals on a bowl of rice a day and Pashtun tribesmen who will melt into the countryside and wait twenty years. So long as you're willing to get elbow deep in the natives’ blood and let the solders take war brides and give them the land you can win a lot of wars.
Why the nastiness? Strike a nerve? You sound like a CCP advocate, lol. China’s share of US debt is shrinking as they gradually bail out of their holdings. Their own economy is teetering. Multiple banks have folded leaving investors without redress and angry too! What makes you stereotype me by suggesting I buy “Walmart slop”? Quite sensitive aren’t you, lol. Iran, btw, is a “past-tense” problem, defanged. You really present as a socialist stalker incensed by the prospect of loss, dear.
I just got back from Walmart. Two-thirds of the store is probably made in China. They sell us $202 billion more stuff than we sell them. The US is tied economically to China in a way that makes war untenable and Americans are not going to fight a meatgrinder war over which set of Han supremacists rules the island of Formosa.
No one is arguing over whether or not many of Walmart’s goods are made in China. Trump has made significant changes to our trade policies and those changes are having significantly positive impacts, including putting tariffs on those cheap Chinese goods. Meanwhile, military recruitment is breaking records. Of course no one wants a kinetic war, but that’s very different from being willing to fight one if we must. Young men aren’t enrolling in record numbers for the thrill of sitting on the sidelines.
I just got back from Walmart. Two-thirds of the store is probably made in China. They sell us $202 billion more stuff than we sell them. The US is tied economically to China in a way that makes war untenable and Americans are not going to fight a meatgrinder war over which set of Han supremacists rules the island of Formosa.
To many respondents do not take in the actual cultures involved in todays struggles. Both Islam and Chinese cultures have endured for centuries.
China May be a paper tiger in some respects, but their not going anywhere. America is dependent on the struggle to keep what’s left of our constitutional position in tact. That’s not looking good.
Americans have no concept of 3third world living, thus they are essentially delinquent in their understanding of what other nations can endure.
To much propaganda, to much subversion and not enough taking in the whole picture. Bottom line, Americans must step up in these times and take responsibility for our future.
Islam and the CCP are operating right here at home, wide open!
As a fellow Bostonian... I trust you more than anyone else. At this time in my life (58) God is the answer. If the end is near, and let's say no GOD is there, so be it! I find myself thinking especially nowadays, maybe death is the great escape from the rat race we call humanity!
Thank you for sharing. God Bless You and yours. 🙏🏻
‘No New Wars’ along with practically every other campaign promise has been satanically reversed. We should have stopped funding, arms and intelligence for the genocide in the Levant and the NATO war in Ukraine on Day One. On a practical level my understanding is that we don’t have the munitions outside of strategic conventional and nuclear missles to fight a war with another great military power. Finally, we don’t have the finances to keep fighting or supplying war! Trump will go down as the most disappointing POTUS of our existence, bar NONE.
I agree with you both on these issues to a great extent. Gary us just saying something that most conservatives don’t want to hear.
Trump had done some good things, but he had also made some bad decisions. The missing link here is the American people.
This nation was designed to be guided by its people through consistent constitutional corrections along the time line. That didn’t happen.
Americans were ideologically altered over decades to put far to much trust in a hand full of people who turned out to be the Deep State.
The Deep State is a cooperative conglomerate of elite bankers, Military Industrial complex leadership, cooperative government officials and other indigenous corporate types as well as MI6, IC and Zionist.
This represents an oligarchy of control over our nation. Our Republic was scrapped a long time ago.
We are all at this time caught up in a 5th generation warfare condition trying to hold onto what’s left of our liberty and freedom. We need find common ground around that and stop treating our elected like celebrities. Hold them accountable like GF had stated. Only we can do that.
China is a paper tiger. Their birthrate is well below replacement so that in a few decades, their greatest strategic asset-their population-will be decimated. They have no energy resources of their own. They've intentionally re-arranged their economy from a productive agrarian system to a nearly pure industrial system. They have to import food. They've exhausted clean groundwater and the air in many places isn't breathable. They may have a large army but we have a distinct technological and skill advantage. Their army is a conscript army and much of their industrial and military power is slave-based. The BRI is an utter failure as these projects physically and financially collapsed and it was exposed as a shell game. They've been kicked out of our hemisphere and have reduced influence in Europe. They're facing a resurgent Japan and a powerful South Korea. Their hands were tied from being able to help Iran by their dependence on strategic relations with the Middle East. They can't project power and are utterly dependent on energy imports which won't be there in the event of war with the US. China may consider itself a threat when self-examining through lenses that are millennia old like Sun Tzu or the Greek Histories, but modern reality renders their vision absurd.
Are you really that naive? China could Drill Baby Drill just like anywhere else in the world. Oil us the Blood of the Earth. Oil is everywhere. Water is the Sweat of the earth and Natural Gas is the Farts of the world. The globe is alive and well. People on the other hand are retarded, literally dying as a result of shear ignorance. #DefundTyranny #DepopulateTheDepopulators #MakeTreasonPunishableByDeathAgain #ResumeIndependenceOrExpectToDieCommunist #FreedomIsNotFree #EndFreeTrade #Eject530TraitorsFromCongress2026 #ThomasMassieForPOTUS2028
Most people are operating politically from a very subverted and influenced disposition. Although you’ll never convince many of them of that truth.
Accountability begins with the people realizing they’ve been duped for many decades. Most could not tell you who or what the Deep State is, nor could they identify a subversive individual within or without the government.
Who do we trust? We trust those who actually defend our Constitution in deed and without reservation. We trust those who are willing to die in the trenches for righteousness. We trust those with real solutions, not more bandaid attempts that are more fluff than real effort.
How do you know when your on the right track? When they kick your front door down or something to that effect. Been there brother.
According to Susan Kokinda of Promethean action, …”The Peloponnesian War wasn't caused by a rising Athens — it was caused by the Persian Empire playing both city-states against each other. Same trick today. The British want the U.S. and China at each other's throats. They don't get to anymore.” Thoughts?
Yet it is China making bizarre ancient historical claims regarding Taiwan. It is China, when pressed on an issue that reminds people of a 4000 year old culture.
Formosa was home to primitive Austronesian tribes. They currently make up 2 - 3% of the population of what is now called Taiwan. The Dutch took the place over in the 1620s.Then the Ming dynasty kicked them out in the 1640s. Then the Chinese Nationalists took it over in 1945 and declared sovereignty, which is the equivalent of US Neo-Confederates moving to Puerto Rico and declaring sovereignty. Mainland China has as good a claim to the place as anybody.
After his defeat by Mao, Chiang Kai-shek flees to the Chinese island of Taiwan, then called Formosa, along with two million Nationalist refugees. It is 100 miles off China's coast. There he establishes a "provisional" Nationalist capital in Taipe. Mao defeated the Nationalists who were opposed to comunism and the killing brought about by Mao so wouldn't the Nationalists have more right to it than the communists? They with assistance from the US have developed the most sought after Semi Conductors. Can we actually stand by and let Xi take over what the US technologies were instrumental in developing. That would mean that Xi could hold the entire world hostage to its control of trace minerals as well as AI chips. I don't think so. if it were me, I would booby trap all manufacturing and research facilities to initiate upon invasion by China, rather than have it fall to China.
The US would not emerge intact from a war with China over Taiwan Neither would China for that matter.So it won't happen. The US cannot invade Iran much less China.
Mao is a distant memory. Xi is actually a part of an executive triumvirate. They divided their executive up so they didn't get a Mao again.
This is like worrying that Muslim Arabs have the majority of the world's oil. China has no one but the US to trade with on the scale it needs. 280 Chinese companies trade on NYSE and NASDAQ.
Historically, China has been ruled by a combination of warlords, Emperors and generals. They are no longer monarchical and could most accurately be described as fascist. They have a mixed economy, like ours. I get the impression you subscribe to The Bulwark.
I've read, and tend to agree, that Putin and Xi are partnering with Trump to remove the Deep State. I do not believe Xi is CCP.
I will also admit I'm not the knowledgeable historian or politically adept person, as many here are. This is just my opinion based on the last 8 years of researching and dumping MSM
What I am feeling here is a new 'Special Relationship' in the budding, with China, as the old 'special relationship', re: US & GB has now been effectively demolished. I hope this only relates though to the City of London swamp habitants and not the British people themselves such as myself, I do so love the MAGA Americans and would like to see a good relationship still between us. If people really look closer at to what is being discussed in the Trump/Xi discussions, it is very exciting stuff so I feel we need to try and notice what may lay beneath the surface show. I do see some brilliant 5G psyops around at the moment. I have read the books, General Flynn!
Why don’t you post “pleaded guilty under oath to many felonies but got me a pardon.” Who pardoned me for lying to the FBI about my dealings with Sergey Kislyack?” The most corrupt president who has attacked 9 countries and is stuck in Iran.
Man up and post: “Trump failed so badly at diplomacy that Iran will now control the Straight of Hormuz forever.” The government under Trump was so wrong and failed so badly that we’re at war for the foreseeable future. I would have respect for you if you did this. Be fully honest and stop being an enemy of democracy.
The CCP loves ancient metaphors because they hide modern weakness behind civilizational swagger. China wants to be seen as Sparta, but it behaves like a paranoid cartel state with aircraft carriers. Sparta did not need TikTok algorithms, fentanyl precursors, hacked telecom networks, stolen patents, secret police stations, and slave-labor supply chains to prove its strength. China does. Xi’s message was meant to make America step back on Taiwan, trade, tech, and regional power. Trump’s answer should be simple: no. China does not get to write the rules because it quotes dead Greeks. The American century is not over unless America quits.
We continue to remain humble and pray for our President. Be wise as a serpent but GENTLE like a dove. We are at war with CCP NOW. Chess game. God continue give DJT and team Your wisdom and discernment.
Geo-politically, China has a strong position due failures of the US government to keep our industries strong in our own nation. China truthfully had the world by the neck.
They are in a position to force the Strait of Hormuz open. All this saber rattling is just that, it’s a bluff. If China and the US ever clash in a real military conflict, it won’t really matter who wins the kinetic clash, America’s and the world economies would be cast into collapse. It would take decades to recover.
Just a reality that overshadows this entire event. We need to concentrate on saving our country from the internal threats within. Our morals are in the toilet and we are infiltrated at every level. The DNI is very aware of what I’m saying here. We are being distracted from the real threats.
Several years ago we uncovered a massive intrusion and espionage caper, that revealed a Chinese connection when Hydro One of Canada tried to purchase Avista Utilities, an American Electric Power company covering 5states. The federal government and our WA star officials completely ignored the activity. I contacted every pertinent federal agency.
We defeated that espionage by taking Avista to court in IDAHO. The Supreme Court there struck down the deal which was highly illegal and would have subjected Americans to extremely high power prices.
I was heavily involved in that as a Civil Intelligence Investigator. If you trust any government in this country to protect our way of life, you are sorely lacking discernment and understanding.
Chinese people can withstand poverty and other uncomfortable conditions, which also gives Xi hard ground to stand on. Trump in reality has no leverage. Americans are spoiled and sensitive to hardships. We are divided by many issues. Most of what we get as far as reporting on these issues is propaganda.
Again, the American people must decide our future. Our government isn’t looking out for our best interest. The economic pains of high gas prices proves that decisively. What arrogance to assume that we are willing to pay for warmongering. I have spoken with many vets, retired BP and other citizens. I have no one who approves of what is taking place. It’s immoral and dangerous, putting our entire nation at risk.
Trumps trip to China will change nothing. Our real issues are right here at home. I could go on for hours revealing investigations and ongoing real threats right here in America that are being ignored. This is unsustainable.
I’m not sure who you are calling spoiled. Certainly rich, coastal, liberals and their children are spoiled, but in rural areas across the US & the heartland where an equally large number of Americans live, we are more accustomed to hardship and hard work. We are not nearly as divided as the MSM likes to present. Give us a common enemy like a murdering CCP regime and you will see a different type of attitude from the easy-going friend.
I would like to hope your right, but after 30 years directly involved in real-world investigations, working with thousands of people across the nation politically and being a very self-sufficient country boy myself, the indicators and facts just don’t support your outlook, generally speaking. Of course there are exceptions. Perhaps you are an exception and I certainly am with professional military training and experience.
I don’t mean to offend, but truth hurts sometimes. Most gun-carrying Americans will not organize to defend this nation. A different generation today.
Look at what we’ve already tolerated and it just keeps getting worse. Let’s deal with reality. I am trained and conditioned to do so. With the Lords help that’s how I have survived direct attacks by Deep State lackeys.
I certainly like what your saying. My experience just doesn’t reveal that reality. Again, there is always exceptions in various areas. However given the complexities of today’s internal 5th gen warfare, training is needed for Americans to be successful. That begins with accepting the conditions.
God bless
Only 30% of the Americans supported the Revolution that fought for and won to establish these United States. And, in these days there is at least if not more than 30% , that are willing and able. Don't sell out the good because of the noisy bad and ignorant.
Your estimations are not legitimate. It was only about 15% of the population that supported the Revolution and less than 3% were ever involved directly. Of course in our USMC counter insurgency studies we discovered that it only takes about 3% to overturn and/or subvert a nation.
Now take the facts at present. Islam , socialist and a powerful small Deep State are subverting and sweeping our nation in real time. What 30% force is stopping them?
You have fallen prey to what most Americans have suffered. Subversive false information and a comfort zone.
I base all my understanding on real-world factors, actual front line hands on service and 30 years of experience. I’m not moved by media information, false positives and political narratives. My only bias is facts, love of God, family and country.
Those who believe in narratives that make them feel good, will suffer shock later. I’m trying to save this country, not imagine positive wishes.
Our research and experience serving this nation and protecting it just doesn’t line up with your understanding.
Unfortunately, there are to many people caught up in false positives hoping for the best. Hope is not a strategy.
Precisely.
You obviously by the liberal narrative from the MSM. I live in flyover country I love the sound of staccato fire automatic weapons in the morning.
I’m so far from being a liberal that it’s ridiculous to say that. You obviously haven’t read my comments before and are not aware that I have served this nation in both the USMC in combat and 30 years as a Civil Intelligence Investigator.
I don’t even watch network TV or any other compromised feeds. We’re not allowed to do that due to compromised bias.
We get direct intelligence from direct sources and our own hands on investigations. Truth and facts, period.
Precisely.
SIR: Xi may be a ruthless dictator but he's not stupid. He may have made veiled threats but look who President Trump took with him on that trip. Did he have Generals, beltway China experts and academics - the useful idiots of regimes past? Hell no!
He had the best in class American tech innovators. Musk, Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Tim Cook and others from Boeing, Cisco and Micron. Why did he do that? He knows Xi doesn't want war. President Trump knows that China also has some major economic issues. The message he brought to Xi is that he wants China to prosper, just like he wants America to prosper.
Powerful leaders don't want continuous war. They want to harness their countries brain power to invent things we need for the future. They want abundant gas and oil that is not held hostage by insane terrorists. They want to thrive. Nations want partners they can work with and trust. Xi knows that President Trump is a man of his word. They have mutual respect which is core to deal making.
Trump sent a new message to all of the world on this trip. You are dealing with the economic might of the United States of America. Let's make deals, NOT war. Win-win. That, sir, is the new CCP diplomacy.
The fighter in me does not like China one bit and wants to tell Xi & his CCP that no one is impressed with his coy double-speak. More than that, MAGA Americans are largely awake to China’s atrocious attacks on the US and want blood. Xi makes the error, much like Japan did, of arrogantly waking a “sleeping giant”. It won’t end well for them.
The US has lost two wars in my lifetime and probably has no good way out in iran but we'll see. The US would not emerge intact from a war with China.
The US has lost 2 wars due to globalist undermining in our government & military. Without interference from those forces, we will do what we always do and have done, which is win. The U.S. was literally born from the warrior ethos. It’s in our genes. Meanwhile the CCP manages an increasingly resentful population by force. Finally, communism has not succeeded in maintaining its hold on any nation thus far. The CCP hangs by a bloody thread
You probably still use the phrase “Red China,” which has stock exchanges by the way. And a trillion of our debt, and they're the factory for all the Walmart slop you buy. And lots of the non-slop too. We're also educating 266,000 of their upper classes’ kids.
The Chinese are Confucian Han supremacists whose religion is being Chinese. The US is a polyglot, “proposition” nation that no longer agrees on the proposition. Who are you counting on for the glorious meatgrinder war against half a continent? Iran is supposedly hanging on by a thread too. From what I can see that war is a long way from over.
The Anglo-Americans who still believe in your narrative have stopped reproducing and are too busy moving ever further out to find a place for the few kids they're having to go to school. The non-white majority America has already been born.
Nobody doubts the American military had the means to win (theoretically) against Vietnamese peasant soldiers who fight in sandals on a bowl of rice a day and Pashtun tribesmen who will melt into the countryside and wait twenty years. So long as you're willing to get elbow deep in the natives’ blood and let the solders take war brides and give them the land you can win a lot of wars.
Why the nastiness? Strike a nerve? You sound like a CCP advocate, lol. China’s share of US debt is shrinking as they gradually bail out of their holdings. Their own economy is teetering. Multiple banks have folded leaving investors without redress and angry too! What makes you stereotype me by suggesting I buy “Walmart slop”? Quite sensitive aren’t you, lol. Iran, btw, is a “past-tense” problem, defanged. You really present as a socialist stalker incensed by the prospect of loss, dear.
I just got back from Walmart. Two-thirds of the store is probably made in China. They sell us $202 billion more stuff than we sell them. The US is tied economically to China in a way that makes war untenable and Americans are not going to fight a meatgrinder war over which set of Han supremacists rules the island of Formosa.
No one is arguing over whether or not many of Walmart’s goods are made in China. Trump has made significant changes to our trade policies and those changes are having significantly positive impacts, including putting tariffs on those cheap Chinese goods. Meanwhile, military recruitment is breaking records. Of course no one wants a kinetic war, but that’s very different from being willing to fight one if we must. Young men aren’t enrolling in record numbers for the thrill of sitting on the sidelines.
I just got back from Walmart. Two-thirds of the store is probably made in China. They sell us $202 billion more stuff than we sell them. The US is tied economically to China in a way that makes war untenable and Americans are not going to fight a meatgrinder war over which set of Han supremacists rules the island of Formosa.
You are correct!
To many respondents do not take in the actual cultures involved in todays struggles. Both Islam and Chinese cultures have endured for centuries.
China May be a paper tiger in some respects, but their not going anywhere. America is dependent on the struggle to keep what’s left of our constitutional position in tact. That’s not looking good.
Americans have no concept of 3third world living, thus they are essentially delinquent in their understanding of what other nations can endure.
To much propaganda, to much subversion and not enough taking in the whole picture. Bottom line, Americans must step up in these times and take responsibility for our future.
Islam and the CCP are operating right here at home, wide open!
As a fellow Bostonian... I trust you more than anyone else. At this time in my life (58) God is the answer. If the end is near, and let's say no GOD is there, so be it! I find myself thinking especially nowadays, maybe death is the great escape from the rat race we call humanity!
Thank you for sharing. God Bless You and yours. 🙏🏻
My understanding of the state of the l
‘No New Wars’ along with practically every other campaign promise has been satanically reversed. We should have stopped funding, arms and intelligence for the genocide in the Levant and the NATO war in Ukraine on Day One. On a practical level my understanding is that we don’t have the munitions outside of strategic conventional and nuclear missles to fight a war with another great military power. Finally, we don’t have the finances to keep fighting or supplying war! Trump will go down as the most disappointing POTUS of our existence, bar NONE.
You're fucking high. Go to rehab.
I agree with you both on these issues to a great extent. Gary us just saying something that most conservatives don’t want to hear.
Trump had done some good things, but he had also made some bad decisions. The missing link here is the American people.
This nation was designed to be guided by its people through consistent constitutional corrections along the time line. That didn’t happen.
Americans were ideologically altered over decades to put far to much trust in a hand full of people who turned out to be the Deep State.
The Deep State is a cooperative conglomerate of elite bankers, Military Industrial complex leadership, cooperative government officials and other indigenous corporate types as well as MI6, IC and Zionist.
This represents an oligarchy of control over our nation. Our Republic was scrapped a long time ago.
We are all at this time caught up in a 5th generation warfare condition trying to hold onto what’s left of our liberty and freedom. We need find common ground around that and stop treating our elected like celebrities. Hold them accountable like GF had stated. Only we can do that.
I beg to differ.. you are calling the game too soon. Let's let it play out a little longer.
Excellent sir!
China is a paper tiger. Their birthrate is well below replacement so that in a few decades, their greatest strategic asset-their population-will be decimated. They have no energy resources of their own. They've intentionally re-arranged their economy from a productive agrarian system to a nearly pure industrial system. They have to import food. They've exhausted clean groundwater and the air in many places isn't breathable. They may have a large army but we have a distinct technological and skill advantage. Their army is a conscript army and much of their industrial and military power is slave-based. The BRI is an utter failure as these projects physically and financially collapsed and it was exposed as a shell game. They've been kicked out of our hemisphere and have reduced influence in Europe. They're facing a resurgent Japan and a powerful South Korea. Their hands were tied from being able to help Iran by their dependence on strategic relations with the Middle East. They can't project power and are utterly dependent on energy imports which won't be there in the event of war with the US. China may consider itself a threat when self-examining through lenses that are millennia old like Sun Tzu or the Greek Histories, but modern reality renders their vision absurd.
Are you really that naive? China could Drill Baby Drill just like anywhere else in the world. Oil us the Blood of the Earth. Oil is everywhere. Water is the Sweat of the earth and Natural Gas is the Farts of the world. The globe is alive and well. People on the other hand are retarded, literally dying as a result of shear ignorance. #DefundTyranny #DepopulateTheDepopulators #MakeTreasonPunishableByDeathAgain #ResumeIndependenceOrExpectToDieCommunist #FreedomIsNotFree #EndFreeTrade #Eject530TraitorsFromCongress2026 #ThomasMassieForPOTUS2028
I cannot disagree with you.
Most people are operating politically from a very subverted and influenced disposition. Although you’ll never convince many of them of that truth.
Accountability begins with the people realizing they’ve been duped for many decades. Most could not tell you who or what the Deep State is, nor could they identify a subversive individual within or without the government.
Who do we trust? We trust those who actually defend our Constitution in deed and without reservation. We trust those who are willing to die in the trenches for righteousness. We trust those with real solutions, not more bandaid attempts that are more fluff than real effort.
How do you know when your on the right track? When they kick your front door down or something to that effect. Been there brother.
I know your frustration. Stay strong.
According to Susan Kokinda of Promethean action, …”The Peloponnesian War wasn't caused by a rising Athens — it was caused by the Persian Empire playing both city-states against each other. Same trick today. The British want the U.S. and China at each other's throats. They don't get to anymore.” Thoughts?
Yet it is China making bizarre ancient historical claims regarding Taiwan. It is China, when pressed on an issue that reminds people of a 4000 year old culture.
Formosa was home to primitive Austronesian tribes. They currently make up 2 - 3% of the population of what is now called Taiwan. The Dutch took the place over in the 1620s.Then the Ming dynasty kicked them out in the 1640s. Then the Chinese Nationalists took it over in 1945 and declared sovereignty, which is the equivalent of US Neo-Confederates moving to Puerto Rico and declaring sovereignty. Mainland China has as good a claim to the place as anybody.
After his defeat by Mao, Chiang Kai-shek flees to the Chinese island of Taiwan, then called Formosa, along with two million Nationalist refugees. It is 100 miles off China's coast. There he establishes a "provisional" Nationalist capital in Taipe. Mao defeated the Nationalists who were opposed to comunism and the killing brought about by Mao so wouldn't the Nationalists have more right to it than the communists? They with assistance from the US have developed the most sought after Semi Conductors. Can we actually stand by and let Xi take over what the US technologies were instrumental in developing. That would mean that Xi could hold the entire world hostage to its control of trace minerals as well as AI chips. I don't think so. if it were me, I would booby trap all manufacturing and research facilities to initiate upon invasion by China, rather than have it fall to China.
The US would not emerge intact from a war with China over Taiwan Neither would China for that matter.So it won't happen. The US cannot invade Iran much less China.
Mao is a distant memory. Xi is actually a part of an executive triumvirate. They divided their executive up so they didn't get a Mao again.
This is like worrying that Muslim Arabs have the majority of the world's oil. China has no one but the US to trade with on the scale it needs. 280 Chinese companies trade on NYSE and NASDAQ.
Good points. Cooler heads will hopefully prevail.
The free Chinese are the opposite of "neo-Confederates". The CCP is the evil anomaly historically and currently.
Historically, China has been ruled by a combination of warlords, Emperors and generals. They are no longer monarchical and could most accurately be described as fascist. They have a mixed economy, like ours. I get the impression you subscribe to The Bulwark.
Fascist is not on your list of historical examples. No, I don't subscribe to Bulwark.
Fascism is the State uber alles. The Han no longer believe in the Mandate of Heaven. They believe in the Han super State.
I've read, and tend to agree, that Putin and Xi are partnering with Trump to remove the Deep State. I do not believe Xi is CCP.
I will also admit I'm not the knowledgeable historian or politically adept person, as many here are. This is just my opinion based on the last 8 years of researching and dumping MSM
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What I am feeling here is a new 'Special Relationship' in the budding, with China, as the old 'special relationship', re: US & GB has now been effectively demolished. I hope this only relates though to the City of London swamp habitants and not the British people themselves such as myself, I do so love the MAGA Americans and would like to see a good relationship still between us. If people really look closer at to what is being discussed in the Trump/Xi discussions, it is very exciting stuff so I feel we need to try and notice what may lay beneath the surface show. I do see some brilliant 5G psyops around at the moment. I have read the books, General Flynn!
Ok ... But what are you then recommending? Sparta ended the Golden Age, did the area flourish with the victory of the Spartans?
China is not going away so hopefully we can live in peaceful contradictions
Why don’t you post “pleaded guilty under oath to many felonies but got me a pardon.” Who pardoned me for lying to the FBI about my dealings with Sergey Kislyack?” The most corrupt president who has attacked 9 countries and is stuck in Iran.
Man up and post: “Trump failed so badly at diplomacy that Iran will now control the Straight of Hormuz forever.” The government under Trump was so wrong and failed so badly that we’re at war for the foreseeable future. I would have respect for you if you did this. Be fully honest and stop being an enemy of democracy.
https://parallelintelligence.substack.com/p/two-keys-one-door?r=beqtw&utm_medium=ios
Here is some data that can help put things in perspective.
Steel production: China 1.02 billion tons vs. U.S. 80 million tons.
Cement production: China 2.02 billion tons vs. U.S. 90 million tons.
Electrolytic copper: China 13 million tons vs. U.S. 1.1 million tons.
Electrolytic aluminum: China 41.6 million tons vs. U.S. 2.1 million tons.
Coal production: China 4.7 billion tons vs. U.S. 520 million tons.
Shipbuilding: China 42.32 million tons vs. U.S. 600,000 tons.
Automobile production: China 30.16 million vs. U.S. 10.61 million.
Industrial robots: China 430,000 units vs. U.S. 44,000 units.
Computer production: China 330 million units vs. U.S. 70 million units.
High-speed rail: China 45,000 km vs. U.S. 2,500 km.
Highways: China 184,000 km vs. U.S. 106,000 km.
Rail freight: China 5 billion tons vs. U.S. 2 billion tons.
The ship building is a very important element.
While America’s Navy had enjoyed no rival, things are changing not only in tonnage, but with 5G warfare.
One discipline you learn as a warrior is, never underestimate your opposition. Pride and false positives is no substitute for wisdom.