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Vonu's avatar

China has more navel vessels than the US does, they being smaller, less expensive to make, and made much faster. A few submarine killers could take out the America submarine fleet if they lacked the sense to stay away from China.

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Joe's avatar

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Working backwards often works for me

If reading a 20 page 50 page or 150 page decision, I go to the last page first

The last page here for Trump is:

...................................... Stopping Delaying Inhibiting China's Belt and Road Project

And there may be 1500 pages and chapters before that

How does Trump accomplish that One Goal

..........................................Create a Greater Israel

Greater US Hegemony in the Mid East Greater Air force navy military base oil control flow of oil control - control of the region

+++ and the control of the Proxies in the Region that can be turned on China +++

They know they can pay the surrounding Proxies to eg: rob steal and loot any China transportation

Just One Chapter:

Trump may gladly trade Ukraine for Russia assistance in having Iran regime permit / support Palestinian removal and Israel enlargement.

Trump is playing this hand currently. The promised weapons were already shipped to Ukraine and are sitting in Poland

............................................Bottom Line

- Trump knows through what ever means and force and killing necessary - that once Israel and the US remove the Palestinians Israel and US in the future can break all agreements again -

the goal an enlarged Israel - once Palestinians are removed never coming back - defacto Greater Israel -

The US and Israel have No Long Term Intention of abiding by any agreement they make

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They have one goal in mind the removal of the Palestinians - a Greater Israel - and the inhibition of the China Belt and Road Project ///

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Lubica's avatar

Yes, I think this is right…..

In his video with Nima, Martyanov maintains that the arms cutoff to Ukraine is just another ploy and that Trump will continue the war on Russia as well as elsewhere—leading to further attrition of US military resources. Much of this Trumpian rhetoric is therefore for domestic consumption—just Trump gaslighting his base about the “peace” he promised.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Trita Parsi @tparsi

9h

This is why Iran won't capitulate on enrichment. The minute it does, Israel will shift its focus to missiles. Then to sling bells - until Iran is turned into Syria or Lebanon: A country Israel completely dominates and bombs at will with impunity.

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rakyat kecil's avatar

Which is what Russia is now unfortunately and no end in sight but only hopeful prognosis.

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susan mullen's avatar

2/18/2016, Stephen Kinzer: "The United States has the power to decree the death of nations. It can do so with popular support because many Americans--and many journalists--are content with the official story. In Syria, it is: “Fight Assad, Russia, and Iran! Join with our Turkish, Saudi, and Kurdish friends to support peace!” This is appallingly distant from reality. It is also likely to prolong the war and condemn more Syrians to suffering and death.” (end of article)...“If people in Bhutan or Bolivia misunderstand Syria... that has no real effect. Our [US] ignorance is more dangerous, because we act on it."...

Feb. 18, 2016, “The media are misleading the public on Syria,” Boston Globe, Stephen Kinzer, opinion...https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html

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rakyat kecil's avatar

Thanks for this great BDA and backgrounder of Weizmann institutes terrorist/military role right back to Haganah.

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