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Maybe Zhou has been merely frontman (witless signer of papers) for the neocons - taking him out takes out the neocon lunatics (US and UK) and reduces chances of WW3?? Ok, it’s more complicated than that. Always is.

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It's early March 2020. Our bodies don't last forever and a New York banker is scheduled for a terminal medical event. Karma is sitting up there with a Cuban cigar in one hand and a fifth of Scotch in the other and says "This Dimon character, he's someone we can work with. Now these Europeans, they've been getting a bit uppity..."

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Interesting point you made about the "Asiatic Horde" stereotype. A colleague of mine was born in Russia. Grew about a couple hundred miles north of Moscow and spent the first 16 years of his life there. Great guy and I have learned a lot from him about Russian culture, etc. Told me his cousin got called up in the recent mobilization and he thinks he may be in Belarus. Anyway, back to the Asiatic Horde point. He did tell me that Russians view suffering very differently . Service in the military is a given for Russian men and in his words, "they don't run around thanking everyone for their service." He grew up in an area where people still eat with wooden utensils and bowls. Life is harder and that translates into a general toughness of their people that we haven't seen in this country since the WWII generation. My friend also told me months ago that Russia would win by grinding the Ukies down. "Artillery is still The God of War in Russia" and they're proving it once again.

As an aside, my friend served his new country as a Marine sniper in Iraq. His father was North Korean (he thinks) and his mother was an engineer who was moved to Siberia just prior to the USSR dissolving. They immigrated to Alaska across the Bering Straight. He's 6'2 and has Asian features. Speaks a Russian accented English. Lots more to his story. He's seen a lot an is an excellent resource for me.

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What the heck happened to Lipson? Did he get "redpilled"? Has he been threatened by the Libs at the U of C to lose tenure and status?

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Ok, everybody wants Joe gone, but how are they going to pull it off with Kamala in the default position? Been nice if they had thought about this before putting an incompetent clown in office, but I digress. They can’t just put up a “Vacancy” sign on the Oval Office, they have to have a plan, right? These folks have elevated poor planning and incompetence to an art form.

I just don’t see how this plays out and not destroy the country in the process.

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