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Can't we just GIVE Nancy Pelosi to the Chinese?

With friends like her, we don't need enemies.

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The sensible thing for Taiwan to do is to deny these people a visit.

They aren’t worth the trouble they’ll cause.

Using the Taiwan people as sacrificial

Pawns for their crazy violent games isn’t morally acceptable.

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Pelosi is SUCH a tacky old whore. It’s frustrating for me to issue such a negative statement, because I realize that I’ve been carefully programmed to feel this way about that murdering old succubus. But facts are facts.

Pompeo is filthy zit whose name is ironically reminiscent of an ancient city BURIED alive in B.C. 79 by unavoidable circumstances. The thing perhaps most freaky about him is that he has, so we’re led to believe, some measure of popular support affecting a ‘cult of personality’ (WTF!) . I just have trouble believing it.

Hong Kong and Formosa have already been curled back into Beijing’s claim, expressly because of American imperialism. So these D.C. wankers are just throwing bourgeois tantrums for thrills at the expense of humanity’s future. Why? Because they’re idiots, I guess.

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Queen Nancy, CIA Chief Pompeo, Mitch, Kevin, Lindsey, etc. they all worship the same god, the god of power and money. Their principles are deception, infidelity, revenge and self promotion. They speak in tongues, steal from the tithes, and crucify their detractors. It seems to me they have substituted one delusion from ancient history for another grander heaven that will prove themselves all saints of the new utopia. To top it off they have chosen Mr Magoo as a figure head to spout idiotic doublespeak about the progress the faithful have accomplished. Why hasn’t Ray Epps been arrested?

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the global colonialist imperialists are hopping mad because China's getting ahead of the US in key sectors and there's not a damn thing their thugs can do about it. China has just developed the most advanced generation nano chips and expanded their manned space station successfully and all on their own, despite sabotage of all kinds by the "west" plus japan.

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Brilliant article - once again, Showcasing the theatre of DEMS vs. GOP. Reminds me of George Carlin's joke = "Whenever the government does something they deem "Bi-partisan" - that's when you know they have just done some real evil shit."

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Washington sinks ever deeper into collective delusion. The US cannot hope to ever win a land-war war in Europe against Russia or in Asia against China. For twenty years in succession war games at the Rand have indicated that China would win a naval war against the US. The 7th Fleet (which is based in the Pacific) is a joke. It's senior officers are deeply corrupt, as the Fat Leonard scandal demonstrated (https://www.rt.com/usa/542682-fat-leonard-francis-scandal/). Belligerence towards China over Taiwan is beyond reckless.

Perhaps Washington wants to provoke a crisis by turning Taiwan into an East Asian version of Ukraine in order seize China's cash reserves and prevent China from selling any more US Treasury bonds? In any case, the unipolar moment came and went years ago. The reality of this is slowly sinking in. The US is a de-industrialised basket-case with a low trust, low cohesion society. It cannot reindustrialise on any great scale because it lacks the infrastructure and the skilled workers to do so. Its education system is dysfunctional. Its people live in debt peonage and its currency is useless as a store of value and of diminishing relevance as a medium of exchange. There are no longer any national institutions that inspire trust or respect. As America rots, the only strategy of its leaders is distraction and misdirection.

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That old parasite has been living off the largesse of the US taxpayer for most of her life and getting unbelievably rich through insider trading with her husband. I don't think anyone would shed a tear if she went out in a puff of smoke from a Chinese missile.

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Expectations of America to keep world order is becoming unrealistic and unreliable. But rather seen as warmongering megalomaniac. Who is after imperialistic approached dividing world. The U.S and NATO Vs rest of the world.

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We start a proxy war with Russia--and their economy is going gangbusters and gasoline in the US spiked. We start up a proxy war with China and I wonder what will happen to their economy and what will happen to our gas prices? Hmm...

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If what I have read elsewhere at the Moon of Alabama and other places, China would be within their rights to at a minimum take Ms. Pelosi as a criminal offender if she sets foot in Taiwan and I believe they have expressed this sentiment in no uncertain terms.

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1. Is it "aggressive" to visit a country?

2. Is it "aggressive" to threaten countries for visiting a country?

This article exclusively focused on question #1 and completely ignored question 2.

A very strange way of framing the issues.

It's "aggressive" to tell countries not to work with another country, because you are claiming ownership of that country. But wait a second, if you "owned" the country, why would you be making threats to other countries?

And why is China militarizing the S. China sea? Is "that" aggressive?

Why is China funding US and other world media to repeat their talking points? That's another question I have.

In Journalism, it is easy to miss "bias" through the misleading framing of issues. Sometimes this bias is "unconscious" and is not deliberate. I hope that is the case here.

Authoritarian regimes can only "survive" by being aggressive. That means jailing their population for dissent (99% conviction rate--China literally jailed COVID whistleblowers for years, simply for reporting facts proven to be true), silencing free speech, and consolidating power through corruption. All communist countries eventually fail because top down corruption is inevitable and the system will collapse.

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Caitlin , you've missed the obvious point of this trip to start a war. That is to remove the world bicycles as well as cars , so we can't even cycle to wherever we might like to go. Honestly, these barstards think of everything. Taiwan must be loving the idea of total annihilation by letting that drunk geriatric anywhere near their border.

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“Speaker Pelosi should go to Taiwan and President Biden should make it abundantly clear to Chairman Xi that there’s not a damn thing the Chinese Communist Party can do about it,” Republican Senator Ben Sasse said on Monday. Does this man know that there are a lot of 'pro China' citizens in Taiwan? The (two little 'P'eas) better have good bodyguards!

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It's a strange kinda disconnect and priorities misidentification: any US politico with their thinking apparatus in relative order should be fixated on "chemical fertilizers", "rare metals", "wheat and grains," instead of "Taiwan", which will jeopardize their access to the former. But they are mesmerized, obsessed, into a hate and nuisance contest against Russia and China, silly kids poking sticks at tigers. The stuff doesn't usually end well.

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No more blatant example of the uniparty than this. This should (but won't) open the eyes of anyone who is paying attention and who still believes there is even a scintilla of difference between the two drains of the unified swamp.

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