Xerxes Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 1 hour ago, Hektor said: +1 You left out the elephant (errr...the dragon) in the room....China If you mean risk of People’ Republic of Dragons doing a military power play in Syria. That is highly unlikely. Although we may associate PRC with potential military adventurism in Taiwan, historically they have not gone far from their water. They have their naval bases in the southern hemisphere, but I don’t see them doing imperial adventurism. China does not waste resources doing nation shaping far from mainland. It deals directly with established regional powers, namely Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE.
Spekulatius Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 (edited) 2 hours ago, Xerxes said: Just like we give criticism to Trump like there is no tomorrow, we must give the American strongman, praise when it is due. I thought removing sanctions from Syria was a great move. Fresh start for the new Syria. Now it is up to Damascus to prove itself. A strong Syria means one that is not susceptible to malign Russian, Iranian and Israeli influence, and their expansionist agenda. l I agree on Syria- give the new regime a shot. You can always put the sanctions back on if it doesn’t not work out. Edited May 14, 2025 by Spekulatius
LC Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 (edited) 1 hour ago, nsx5200 said: Didn't do too deep of a dive, but it seems like these are just deals to turn them into witnesses. A bit of sensational and mis-leading tweet, IMHO. Just calling out the disparity. Apparently Dems were soft on crime & immigration, and Reps would point to these types of plea deals as evidence. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Plus I thought we were taking a rock-solid stance against fentanyl from bad hombres. Well, nobody actually believed that but you get the point. And you know, it's so great that cartel members and their family are given judicial due process. Meanwhile ICE deports US citizens and legal immigrants to El Salvador without due process. Edited May 14, 2025 by LC
Hektor Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 (edited) 6 hours ago, Xerxes said: If you mean risk of People’ Republic of Dragons doing a military power play in Syria. That is highly unlikely. Although we may associate PRC with potential military adventurism in Taiwan, historically they have not gone far from their water. They have their naval bases in the southern hemisphere, but I don’t see them doing imperial adventurism. China does not waste resources doing nation shaping far from mainland. It deals directly with established regional powers, namely Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE. Wouldn't they do something similar to their involvement in Sudan? Edited May 14, 2025 by Hektor
Xerxes Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 50 minutes ago, Hektor said: Wouldn't they could do something similar to their involvement in Sudan? I was not aware of their involvement in Sudan. I know they have presence in Djibouti. The prime trouble maker in Sudan are UAE, it’s frenemy Saudi Arabia support the other side. And I forgot on which side Turkey is; but is another player who wants its former Ottoman port on the Red Sea in its sphere.
Spooky Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 21 hours ago, changegonnacome said: the boomer's parents saved for a rainy day, didn't overspend their income AND fought for the freedom of their kids on the beaches of Normandy, North Africa and the Pacific......the boomers today are fighting chlamydia on the beaches of Florida while they vote theirs kids futures away. Hilarious! The GOP tax bill floating around is a travesty. Blow out the deficit by $2.5 trillion more over the next decade for tax cuts. I would be so mad if I was a young US taxpayer that needs to shoulder the debt burden in the future.
mattee2264 Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 Interesting what Trump did in the Middle East. Looks as though NVIDIA chips will be used as bargaining chips in the trade deals intended to be struck over the next year or so.
changegonnacome Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 (edited) 1 hour ago, Spooky said: Hilarious! The GOP tax bill floating around is a travesty. Blow out the deficit by $2.5 trillion more over the next decade for tax cuts. I would be so mad if I was a young US taxpayer that needs to shoulder the debt burden in the future. Been leafing through it.....big picture you've got ~$1.75trn of expenditure cuts and lets call it $4trn of revenue reductions (tax cuts) over ten years....how does the math, math......what Captain Chaos and GOP want you to believe in all this....is that United States already at full employment AND with immigration effectively turned off such that the underlying poor demographics of the United States take hold again.... that THIS economy can GROW sustainably at a 3% CAGR starting basically right now......if it doesn't.....well the budgetary math starts getting out of control. Instead of going after entitlements (as they need too to actually fix the budget) they figured out how to make the entitlement problem even worse by exempting social security payments from tax.....pretty damn nifty way to transfer from the young to the old again. Can't remember where I read it but I'm starting to come around to the theory that democracies only work in a demographically health society that is growing.....when you start getting an inverted pyramid in a low trust society like we have....the old people start voting themselves incremental resources at the expense of the young (& unborn). When you look around at folks in their 20's, 30', early 40's with the affordability & availability issues in education, housing, health and childcare.....and you then realize who driving the bus in terms of poltical leadership.....you quickly realize whats happening.....what is nimbyism except an artificially created short squeeze on housing such that the aged housing holder can experience higher returns to their assets via manufactured scarcity. Edited May 14, 2025 by changegonnacome
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