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  1. And welcome to the American school system. It‘s lacking.
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  2. Canada bestest neighbor, ever! ;)
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  3. The cobra effect : Sorta like those gun buyback programs. :D
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  4. So… this and Netherlands are the only oil-rich countries that didn’t succumb to Dutch Disease? Thanks for the video!
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  5. Late comment, but before the Qin dynasty, China was seven kingdoms, and the Qin dynasty “unified” them militarily. In other words, if you use history to claim a territory, for China, you would go back even further to the warring states. China has a very long history, and there were plenty of times when there was no such thing as “One China”.
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  6. Pretty sure that’s how we select our presidential and gubernatorial candidates. :P
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  7. With the help of China, Lake Baikal, the world’s largest lake, also located in Russia, is next.
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  8. Covid did more damage. The Houthis are causing more problems for Egypt, China, and EU, than the USA. Egypt depends on the Suez Canal for income, and Iran is using the Houthis to pressure Egypt against USA-Israel-SA-UAE. China uses the Red Sea for EU trade and oil. What shipping lanes did was make consumers used to cheaply priced goods as being the norm, as well as ship jobs to China. Covid already told us to stop depending on cheap Chinese prices, and stop buying junk we don’t need. Likewise, USA has become more energy independent. I find it bemusing the China boasts it has such a large navy, yet it cannot send its ships to the Red Sea to protect its own trade interests. The USA, btw, has been reducing its naval presence on worldwide shipping lanes, which China and countries not allied with the USA used to benefit from. The USA still continues to patrol regionally, such as with Mexico. As a taxpayer, I don’t like supporting China, but, yeah, I get it that this is good advertising for countries to buddy up to the USA. The USA, also btw, according to Peter Zephaniah, fought for foreign oil not for USA, but for EU. Likewise, someone in a YT comment said that NATO is just there to protect EU countries until the USA saves the day.
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  9. “Transitory” worldwide inflation was already starting before the war, while China’s politically-motivated anti-CoVid lockdowns disrupted agricultural supply chains.
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  10. Egypt wisely spending all the US aid we send them (including protecting the Red Sea). Makes me wonder why MAGA hasn’t made them a target. “ The United States considers Egypt a crucial partner for Middle East security, and a pillar of regional stability. Both as an incentive, then a reward, for the Camp David Accords that brought peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978, the two countries quickly became the largest recipients of U.S. security assistance. Since then, the United States has provided Egypt with more than $50 billion in military aid and $30 billion in economic assistance, according to the State Department.
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  11. 24:10 : Not that the USA doesn’t have its water problems, but Beijing’s are man-made: “ The canals contribute to the drying of the major rivers and to the water crisis that Beijing is facing today. Transferring water through this complex series of canals not only deters it from naturally flowing downstream into rivers, but also depletes the groundwater in the system, as water is not able to infiltrate into the soil due to the concrete lining of the majority of the canals. This increases risks of floods in the area and negatively impacts the overall ecosystem in the province.” — Beijing’s Water Crisis: A Historical Analysis of Beijing’s Waterways using Geographic Information Systems, 2013.
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  12. Who needs climate change when you’re depleting groundwater?
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  13. China Unequal Treat with Russia : Results in nationalism for lost land and exploitation for cheap oil. American Revolutionary War with Britain: Results in Monty Python reruns and episodes of Dr. Who with a budget.
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  14. USA relies on much of its produce from a region in California, Salinas Valley — and California is in yet another year of a drought.
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  15. “If China is your only friend, you have no friends.” — NY Times, Tom Friedman
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  16. Make Germany and EU dependent on your oil for years to come, or sell to China and India at rock bottom prices. Brilliant move, Putin.
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  17. And now, Pakistan, whose closet allies are USA, China, Turkey, and not Iran.
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  18. They‘re made out of tofu dregs. Not going to last long, and someone already stole the money.
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  19. Maybe Russia will export to Iran those Russian cigarettes that keep exploding.
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