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So you might be joking, but this will likely happen. As well as their families. Though likely the family will only lose all social credit and be reduced to perpetual slave labor. I assure you, however harshly you think these people should be punished for being essentially rude tourists, the...

Argentina has needed that for two hundred years. At this point, I don't think it's happening.

It has more modern planes. More advanced missiles. Ships that would not be out of place a couple decades ago. Would I consider them good? Not particularly, but they are closing the gap. Two decades ago their missiles and jets were so bad they would have been a larger contemporary to Iraq. Now...

They are however, slowly for sure, getting better. The USM is not. The latest joint chief is the one who pushed the racial equity in pilots nonsense.

Gaza is looking pretty flat. It's going to get even flatter.

I'm all for Taiwan's right to defend themselves. By all means, if they've the cash or trade sell them everything. But I certainly won't die for them. If they want to go down in a blaze of glory, they are welcome to do so.

It would take quite a few hits to take out a dam that large. To say nothing of the obvious issue with launching a strike looking to deliberately kill millions of civilians. Gaza is learning the dangers of using terror to cow a much larger and more powerful neighbor.

I mean it's not being called hypocrites, it's that lots of American businesses operate in countries like China. Sure you can just seize everything whenever you want, first though maybe look at how much you stand to lose? To say nothing of the second order effects from it.

Hah, that's not how western companies and governments operate. You'd like China though, that's close to how they run.

Nationalizing other countries assets? It's a dangerous game. Not letting people buy something in the first place is fine, but allowing purchases then basically stealing them even with a reasonable sounding pretext is not a good idea. This is especially true for countries like the US, which...

I will note that Mexico is a borderline failed state, that has lost defacto control of several states to narcotics cartels. They are hardly sterling examples of good policies.

Woah, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. I'd settle for prices not doubling every couple years. Gotta keep those expectations reasonable.

The whole western economy could do with some deflation.

Payment was instead made by buying into the dollar system and letting the US offload its inflatatory mass dollar printing across all users of its carrying trade. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. The system was reasonably balanced in ye olden days when the US had a large amount of...

If China goes hot right now pretty much everyone on the planet is going to feel the heat. Western economies are already in the shitter with double digit inflation and Europe having food and power shortages. China is a basket case, but it aways has been. At best, their deaths throes causes what...

See that's why they are building the carriers. Now I don't think they will work out like that for them, but Africa is general is likely the only place where I could see China actually winning a war.

With the way Canada is filling up with Chinese nationals and apperently Chinese government agents, don't discount a future where a Chinese "Canadian" plurality elects a pro-China, anti-US government. At that point the US disputing the election and the Ukraine style follow on events would...

Now to be fair the Montenegro highway wasn't supposed to finish. It was a pretty blatant debt trap that the new Montenegro government admits it has no idea why the previous administration signed off on. China has all kinds of pointless communist programs to be sure, but that one 'worked'.

Against a nation that they already rounded up all the suspect nationals, that they were in a prolonged war with, that didn't have any nukes and had no real way of retaliation even if they did. That's a long way from the current situation with China.

Unless the opponent is so small that nukes are pointless anyway, no one wins in a nuclear exchange. A good question to ask yourself is how many foreign nationals are currently in country of said target. What disruption would mass arresting them cause. How many of your citizens are first...