Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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@javiermontoya3018 One of the major issues in any nation state, is that a supply cannot be made available if there is nowhere for it to go.
A small farmer in Colombia will never plant 10 or 100 more fruit trees if the fruit is going to just rot on the ground. And absolutely no one will make an effort to clear 1,000 hectares to grow those fruits if they have no way to export them because there is no road that leads to a port that will ship the product to where it is welcome.
I was born in Poland, which has historically been the breadbasket of Western Europe between 1100 AD and 1600 AD. Our rivers transported grain towards the Baltic Sea to be shipped to Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, Germany, and France. In return, French wines, Dutch cloth, and English and Scandinavian metals and finished goods made their way back to Poland.
But none of that would be possible without the Port City of Danzig which facilitated these exports and imports of goods. If you want to sell products on the Western Coast of the United States and Canada, there are about 80 million customers waiting for your goods. But until your government invests and builds that port town and a road that connects it, that customer base is lost to you.
The Pacific side of Colombia is ripe for exploitation. Beautiful beaches, resort towns, beach front properties for retiring Americans, these are all options on the table, that currently Mexico and Costa Rica are welcoming. Is Colombia?
And yes, I understand xenophobia, and 'Americans will own our country' but the only way Colombia grows rich and prosperous is if LEGITIMATE American dollars flow in and that can only happen if Americans have a reason to show up, live, party and spend their vacation $$s..
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6:32 This is such a dumb point, I can't believe anyone is even making it.
Stinger missiles, designed in 1967, a weapon no one is producing it in mass quantities because NO ONE in the United States military is even using it, are relics from 50 years ago. The cost of decommissioning and destroying them was more expensive than shipping them to Ukraine and letting the Ukrainians use them against Russian hardware.
That's right, shipping a Stinger missile to Ukraine probably cost $1,000 and scrapping it, and dismantling it safely in the US would have probably cost $3,000-$5,000 and you no longer had to pay someone to guard this junk.
The US is not running out of ammunition, as fast as Russia is running out of tanks, APCs and troops. So the worry about not having FULL munitions for the next 10 years, is an absurd issue, if it will take Russia 50-80 years to replace all of its losses.
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BRICS members, welcome to the Pyramid Scheme of the century, you are about to pay for China's economic excesses. Everyone else, yeah, not so much.
I'm just glad that South Africa, India, Russia, and Brazil are so willing to fund China's drunken spending spree, lol.
I hear Algeria, Iran, and Argentina are the next ones to join. It's like a who's who of losers who can't keep a stable economy.
Which other failed states are going to join? Venezuela?
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@covfefe1787 The U.S. annexed Texas, through peaceful means, Polk sent soldiers to to provoke Mexico into declaring war, and they did. At which point Congress declared war on Mexico in self-defense.
Lincoln did not tell Sumpter to fight back, South Carolina's militia attacked with artillery against Ft. Sumter. The Union garrison would have been forced to leave, due to supplies running out. The South fired the first shots because they were dumb shits.
And every conflict since WWII first required the authorization from Congress. Since in the U.S. the power to tax and the power to spend belongs to Congress. So if they say $0 for food and weapons in this conflict then the officers don't move, no matter what the President says.
As a matter of fact, the Unites States Officers DO NOT swear an Oath to obey the President. Soldiers DO, officers DO NOT. All officers receive their commissions from Congress (specifically the Senate.) Due to the headaches of administration, they don't actually do this for every lieutenant and captain, but every Major or above has to be commissioned directly by the Senate.
But tell me more, about how much you don't know about U.S. history and U.S. government. :D
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@Minchya Honestly, I wasn't sure. Since attacking South Korea would result in an American destruction of China and its armed forces, it sounded just about as dumb as an idea as I could think off and no actual benefit other than the arming of every Asian nation around China in a coalition. The U.S. would automatically declare war, Japan would join, Taiwan would join, Vietnam and Philippines would see this as a opportunity to punch their local bully. India would see a chance to settle some scores, and the list goes on and on.
Wiping out North Korea and allowing South Korea to reunify the peninsula might actually be of greatest benefit to China.
Once Korea is united and have China to thank for it, it would probably demilitarize, end cooperation with Japan, and distance itself from the U.S. If you are China, you want the Americans out of East Asia, and allowing South Korea to reunify the Koreas, would accomplish that in less than a decade.
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@nebuchadne33ar Doing things without loans is not a bad thing.
That is what is called a strawman argument.
Claiming someone else, disagrees with you about something, just because they disagree with you about something else is a weak argument only used by the weak minded.
People have money because they either saved or earned it. A man who robs a rich company today, will rob you tomorrow, because he always has a good excuse for his robbery. As soon as you make excuses for him robbing a foreigner, then you'll make the same excuses for him murdering a foreigner, as long as he robs and murders foreigners its ok, right? And once he's done murdering foreigners, guess who's left... just you and him, and guess whom he's not going to murder or rob. :D
Have fun, when he comes to murder you and your family, for your money. And don't come to my country seeking asylum, we don't need people who think like that.
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GE are scum. I worked for them as part of NBC Universal in 2006.
In order to show 'profits' they sold off revenue generating assets, in order to pad their profits because their worthless CEO Jeff Immelt, demanded that each division show a 10% profit per year.
So NBC Universal which owned "Law and Order" and other shows, started selling off episodes/seasons of their library, one by one, as a way of generating profit. Thing is, each of those episodes was generating yearly revenue. And once the "worthless" $0 value assets were gone, they ceased to generate revenues, at which point next year's profits had to be found through further, "special accounting."
The worthless CEO Jeff Immelt, smiled as 'record profits' came in, year after year because he was such a ponzi scheme genius.
GE was playing a shell game of 'imagined profits' for decades and I wouldn't be surprised if their other divisions did the exact same thing. So, their downfall, was a given.
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An entire society/country owned by 10 Chaebols inflicting the social and cultural norms of 90 year old geezers (through their national Diet.) And people are wondering why a Monopolistic Oligarchy is not a place you'd want to raise families? Let's see, any other Oligarchies having a crisis of this sort... Russia, perhaps?
Add to this, Korean racism/classism and all sorts of other isms, and you can't even get immigrants to come in to help with the demographics.
On to the mail order brides, that's a perfectly reasonable solution, arranged marriages have been around since the dawn of times. The only difference is that the bride isn't from two villages over but rather two countries over.
Finally, the $$ solution, might work but not if the help is only a 2 year boost. Last time I checked, a child isn't born and thrown out of a window after 2 years. 18 years to be raised, 18 years of financial burdens, giving a 2 year stipend to a family is just stupid and there's no wonder that Koreans aren't falling for it.
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@Ushakov_Mykyta So you should watch the video. Essentially however, NATO specifically the US, extended an invitation for NATO membership, to both Georgia and Ukraine in 2008.
The idea is simple, allow the US to have a military base in the Ukraine and in return the US will give you $$s and American service men will spend $$s in your country.
Kharkhiv is 750 kms from Moscow, for us Americans that's 500 miles away. The US wanted access to an invasion launchpad 500 miles away from Moscow. I promise you, Putin remembered his history of 1940 and 1811, he remembered the last two Superpowers and how they affected Russia's National Security, when permitted to be much further way from Moscow, it is very possible he made his decision based on that history. Volodymyr Zelenskyy decided to force the issue. We knew Russia's troops were gathering on Ukraine's border on April 5th, 2021, almost a year before it was an article here in the West that told us about it. Volodymyr decided to escalate things, instead of giving Russia reassurances. He taunted Putin and he did so for almost 10 months.
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@ShubhamMishrabro The US almost started WWIII because the USSR wanted a military base in Cuba (1,131 miles from Havana to Washington D.C.) Bush put missile systems in Poland in 2006 or 2008, I don't remember which since I can't research this right now (its 700 miles away from Warsaw to Moscow) and I assure you, we HAVE military bases and a presence in Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, etc... so you are blowing smoke if you claim otherwise.
NATO membership absolutely means hosting a US military base in your country, at least if you are close to Moscow. It isn't forced, but $$s make politicians very flexible. Just ask "any" politician on the planet. I am very cynical about politicians and the sort of stunts they pull, so please forgive me for that.
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