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DaKardii
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Has anyone here read Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap by Graham Allison?

Not only does this book invoke historical patterns in great power relationships to explain why a Sino-American war may be inevitable, it also hints that there's a second ongoing geopolitical conflict that could potentially result in a great power war; that conflict pitting Britain and France against Germany.

https://www.belfercenter.org/thucydides ... dides-trap

https://www.amazon.com/Destined-War-Ame ... B01IAS9FZY

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DaKardii wrote:
Thu May 06, 2021 11:09 pm
Cool Breeze wrote:
Thu May 06, 2021 9:18 pm
The larger issue is what happens demographically and how reckless does the US get with the USD
"How reckless does the US get with the USD." That and the petrodollar are fundamentally intertwined.

As I've said over and over and over again, the petrodollar is not about exports, imports, or total production numbers. It's about what currency a specific commodity is sold in.

Yes. Oil does represent just 7% of the global economy. So what? If you want to go there, gold represents less than 3% of all the world's wealth. Does that change the role gold plays in the global economy?
How about blood is "just" 10% of the human body?

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DaKardii wrote:
Fri May 07, 2021 6:43 pm
Cool Breeze wrote:
Fri May 07, 2021 4:16 pm
John has a lot of great ideas but it is curious that he can't discern the covsars2 farce and clear plandemic. I highly recommend reading the 2017 WEF and Gates .pdf called SPARS 2025-28 to see that they openly admit that they can see what is coming and their reaction. Yet people still say conspiracy theories, like lemmings. In that document, they talk about how the EUA made vaccine guinea pig attempts open for all, and how many will have adverse events and worse. But they'll openly blame politicians and not drug companies or guys like Gilly Bates.
First off, John has been open to the possibility of COVID-19 being an intentional pandemic.

And second, who do you think was the ultimate mastermind? Gates, or someone else who he answered to?
As far as my best guess, Gates is still consumed by money and he's a weakling, he looks like an old lesbian at this point. His wife, ex-wife, whatever ... seriously looks just as manly as he does. So he mostly did and does all of this to get more money but he sold out to the bigger brokers who are above him. He's pretty close though, but not close enough for something bad happening to him as a result of the chaos that demons always produce.

Think of how bizarre it is that we hear about how important science is, how important medicine is, vaccines are, etc. - and we have this non engineer, non MD, non everything given all the airtime in the world to lecture us about vaccines among other things - what we can do, we we can't, why, - all the while making money hand over fist on the vaccine EUA.

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I have no home in either major party either. As a devout Catholic the "Pro-choice" Democrats repel me and the Ayn Rand GOP is almost as bad now.
My science background tells me Anthropogenic Global Warming is one of the world's two biggest problems (Abortion is the other).
I am now an Independent who votes the straight Right-to-Life ticket (which means I am practically still a Republican...but I won't lend my name to the Party anymore).
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

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Silenced S wrote:
Fri May 07, 2021 1:38 pm
https://www.theepochtimes.com/philippin ... 05319.html

She then found her posts had been deleted without notice.

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Sounds eerily familiar. We're approaching a bad place.

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Tom Mazanec wrote:
Sat May 08, 2021 7:20 am
I have no home in either major party either. As a devout Catholic the "Pro-choice" Democrats repel me and the Ayn Rand GOP is almost as bad now.
My science background tells me Anthropogenic Global Warming is one of the world's two biggest problems (Abortion is the other).
I am now an Independent who votes the straight Right-to-Life ticket (which means I am practically still a Republican...but I won't lend my name to the Party anymore).
I’m a Catholic too. Probably not as devout as you, but still very spiritual and somewhat religious. In fact, I seriously considered voting for Brian T. Carroll instead of Jo Jorgensen for that reason.

That being said, to say that the GOP follows Ayn Rand’s philosophy is inaccurate. Rand would’ve hated today’s GOP.

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I must admit I have never read her...I have heard that said by others.
I guess I made the same mistake as John did with The Club of Rome.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

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Also, DaKardii, I came this close to writing in Brian T. Carroll but realized I might be responsible for getting Biden in, and I considered Trump the lesser evil (and of course a third party candidate does not stand a chance).
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

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** 08-May-2021 World View: ISIS bomb in Kabul targets teen girls, killing dozens

Multiple blasts exploded around 5:30 pm Saturday afternoon near a
girls school in Kabul, Afghanistan, as classes were ending for the
day, and the girls were walking home. At least 40 people were killed,
and over 50 were injured. The bomb exploded in a Shia Hazara
neighborhood. Most of the dead were young students.

The bombing is being blamed on ISIS, rather than the Taliban. Indeed,
the Taliban are condemning the attack and blaming ISIS, claiming
that ISIS is linked to the Afghan government.

This attack has put Kabul into almost a state of shock. It was just a
week ago on April 30 that a car bomb killed 30 people, injuring 90,
including high school students, went off in Logar province. Kabul
residents fear that these attacks will increase as the Americans
withdraw.

Violence by both ISIS and the Taliban has been increasing across the
country in the last week, since American and Nato forces began
withdrawing on May 1. It's expected that the country will descend
into chaos as the withdrawal proceeds.

Both the Taliban and ISIS are composed of radicalized ethnic Pashtun
jihadists. The difference between the two in Afghanistan is
political, with one claiming allegiance to Syria-based ISIS, and the
other claiming allegiance to Afghanistan-based al-Qaeda. According to
reports I've read in the last couple of years, they're competing for
influence in different parts of Afghanistan, and they occasionally
clash with each other. However, the Shia Hazaras are a common enemy,
targeted by both.

In the case of today's bombings, the al-Ahram story contains
the following paragraphs:
> Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said
> ambulances were rushing to the scene of the blast near Syed
> Al-Shahda school, in the Shiite majority neighborhood of
> Dasht-e-Barchi.

> Angry crowds attacked the ambulances and even beat health workers,
> said Health Ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastigar Nazari. He implored
> residents to cooperate and allow ambulances free access to the
> site."
I don't know what that means, except perhaps that it's part of
the conflict between Taliban and ISIS.

The governments in America, the UK, and EU countries issued statements
harshly condemning the violence, saying that it was not acceptable,
and threatening to issue more statements if the violence continues.

---- Sources:

-- Bomb kills at least 25 people, including young students, near
school in Afghan capital
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/st ... fghanistan
(LA Times, 8-May-2021)

-- Bomb kills at least 25 people near school in Afghan capital
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsConten ... ghan-.aspx
(al-Ahram, Cairo, AP, 8-May-2021)

-- Blast near school in Afghan capital Kabul kills over two dozen
https://www.trtworld.com/asia/blast-nea ... ozen-46560
(TRT World, Turkey, 8-May-2021)

-- Afghanistan car bomb kills 30 at guesthouse in Logar province
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56949830
(BBC, 30-Apr-2021)

----- Related articles:

** 3-May-21 World View -- US withdrawal from Afghanistan threatens Central Asia stability
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e210503

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John wrote:
Sat May 08, 2021 2:50 pm
Indeed, the Taliban are condemning the attack and blaming ISIS, claiming that ISIS is linked to the Afghan government.
An alliance between ISIS and the Afghan government?

Sounds like a nonsensical claim to me.

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