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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @CliffBadger 2 Dec \ parent \ on: The foolish temptation to feel superior AskSN
And you're still missing the point. When the government levies a tax, that is militarism. That is a military extracting value from civilians by force. You're suggesting it serves some long term goal that in some indirect roundabout way eventually provides partial benefit to the civilians it stole from is a question not worth exploring because the initial theft is a human rights violation.
China has won the trade war and dominates global supply chains and commodity markets.
China now calls the shots militarily as well because it controls the supply of rare earths.
USA is on the back foot and cannot fight a war of any size without Chinas assistance.
Chinas power and wealth are increasing with its rapidly expanding, competitive, strategically structured, planned and profitable mixed economy while the USA is in decline, drowning in debt, due to its crony capitalist decadence and bloated sense of entitlement and superiority.
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America and China are friends. You're talking about communist seditionists. China will never be a communist country.
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Talk nonsense because you cannot refute the facts and issues raised.
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