Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "Lei's Real Talk" channel.

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  12. The CCP might benefit from looking at the measures taken by FDR to mitigate the Great Depression. Government injecting cash into the economy as advocated by John Maynard Keynes has helped maintain the consumer spending that drives the US economy. The comments by Prof. Li Dao Qui match those of the US Republican Party. I am most upset by his attack on Carbon reduction. China is crucial to have any significant effect on the climate crisis. The most upsetting aspect of Chinese Economic problems is to remember exactly what it was the ended the Great Depression ... World War II. Having a war helps CCP resolve many internal problems. Wars consume manufactured products at a furious pace, and therefore increase employment and industrial activity. A war will also justify a sacrifice in quality of life, and distract from internal problems. To my mind these economic problems in the PRC increases the likelihood of an invasion of Taiwan in the short term. It just occurred to me that new kind of Olympics might help the entire global economy. People may think I am joking but I am serious. Instead of trying to demilitarize space, I suggest we militarize space and demilitarize Earth by a Space Military Olympics conducted at the Lagrange Points L4 and L5 to avoid increasing the debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) which has already become a problem. Perhaps called the Lagrange Olympics, it would avoid human casualties because all the competition will take place between automated weapons. Industrial capacity in LEO can supply the "athletes" in the LaGrange Olympics, and could also supply the industrial needs of the humans on Earth while Earth focuses on producing food for people, and caring for the health of people. Keep in mind that anyone could decide to move the military conflict back to Earth, but every country participates in Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) strategy such as the US and USSR followed during the Cold War. All anyone needs to do is to drop a big enough rock from space onto Earth. That wiped out the dinosaurs in the past, and could wipe out the human race in the future. Perhaps such an existential threat to all humanity held in the hands of all humanity might cause people to respect one another more given the consequences of treating enough people so badly that a large enough group would chose to drop a rock on all of us, themselves included.
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  38. China makes a serious mistake thinking the Biden Administration is weak. The CCP has little regard for laws and treaties and fails to comprehend anyone respecting limitations imposed by a treaty organization such as NATO. The Biden Administration has shown great restraint by avoiding a direct confrontation with Russia while doing much to provide weapons to Ukraine. If you want to demonstrate that NATO exists purely for defensive purposes then you must avoid using the NATO treaty as a means to attack Russia without Russia having first attacked a NATO. It should make the CCP concerned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused the EU countries to consider having an EU military as well as causing Germany to reverse seventy years of foreign policy and now will expand it's military budget. The Biden Administration accomplished that through diplomatic means. The behavior of the CCP in the Pacific has pushed Japan to reverse the same seventy year policy against using the military in foreign engagements. The Biden Administration encouraged that as well. What the Biden Administration has done in Europe using the NATO treaty to get the European Country to rearm, and using Mutual Defense Agreements in the Pacific to increase weapons sold to Taiwan, to encourage the Japanese to expand their self defense to include any country attacking Taiwan should give the CCP pause. Attacking Taiwan before the end of the Biden Administration would provide a political gift to Biden. The US can cloth itself in self righteous indignation and even make comparisons with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A war with China would close political divisions in the US. There is another aspect to a war with China that as a US citizen it shames me to admit, racism would help fuel a war against China in a way that a war against Russia never would. The white supremacists including those in the Republican Party support Putin eventhough Russia invading Ukraine involves "white" people fighting one another. When it comes to China then all the political parties unite in hostility to China. The white-supremacists would support a war on China for reasons alone. The fact the US would have Japan, Taiwan and Korea as allies works in favor of white-supremacists thinking because it would be the US, a "white" country, leading Asian countries to counter an Asian adversary. A war between China and the US has some many ugly overtones that it makes it disgusting to imagine. However the CCP could deliberately walk into such a war because of the CCP already using Han racism as an excuse for the genocide of the Uyghurs. We could easily end up with a Third World War in which China and Russian are allied against an coalition of US, EU, Japan and ANZ (don't forget Australia, it can function as a huge air base). The CCP could cause all of that to occur if they attacked Taiwan.
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