Open The Economy! (Page 2): If we tell EU to stop trading with China, they will. We can also insert direct influence on Hong Kong. Japan and Taiwan will fall in line; Vietnam, eastern...

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

I doubt America will withdraw much business from C... (show quote)

If we tell EU to stop trading with China, they will. We can also insert direct influence on Hong Kong. Japan and Taiwan will fall in line; Vietnam, eastern Asia, very nearly all of them? We can choke China dry and that's a fact. Their little f**e islands will be sunk if need be. We can strangle their military which is highly over rated anyway.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

nwtk2007 wrote:

If we tell EU to stop trading with China, they will. We can also insert direct influence on Hong Kong. Japan and Taiwan will fall in line; Vietnam, eastern Asia, very nearly all of them? We can choke China dry and that's a fact. Their little f**e islands will be sunk if need be. We can strangle their military which is highly over rated anyway.

You think the EU is going to survive this

Many of those nations are establishing stronger links to China now...

Hong kong

Sorry... That is just funny...

Japan might go along... Taiwan will be very careful... I doubt they'll go along...

South East Asia? Where China is sending supplies... Doubtful... They are pretty interdependent on trade as well... Good thing Trump didn't withdraw from APEC... Oh wait...

It's a nice dream that vengeance will be exacted... But it won't... The world will want to heal and recover economically....

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

nwtk2007 wrote:

If we tell EU to stop trading with China, they will. We can also insert direct influence on Hong Kong. Japan and Taiwan will fall in line; Vietnam, eastern Asia, very nearly all of them? We can choke China dry and that's a fact. Their little f**e islands will be sunk if need be. We can strangle their military which is highly over rated anyway.

Missed that last part...

Don't take it the wrong way... But y'all haven't been able to defeat the Taliban... After 19 years... And Vietnam was a failure... Iraq took two goes and still isn't much of a victory...

Just saying... Playing fast and loose with the term overrated... Taking on a nuclear power with the largest standing army might not be the best decision at the moment

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

You think the EU is going to survive this img src... (show quote)

The world will want to heal and recover until it happens again??????????? Nope.

It's just a summit or two and we have control/cooperation. EU will rebuild their ties to the US, GB and yep, even Russia. Russia's gas war will soon be irrelevant. Every body is seeing that it is unwise to be dependent on China. Oh, there might be some who stand fast with the country who unleashed death on them, for now, to heal.

I'm sure China is rethinking their strategy with the West.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

nwtk2007 wrote:

The world will want to heal and recover until it happens again??????????? Nope.

It's just a summit or two and we have control/cooperation. EU will rebuild their ties to the US, GB and yep, even Russia. Russia's gas war will soon be irrelevant. Every body is seeing that it is unwise to be dependent on China. Oh, there might be some who stand fast with the country who unleashed death on them, for now, to heal.

I'm sure China is rethinking their strategy with the West.

I have no doubt China is rethinking things...

But the line that China has unleashed death will not gain much traction outside of the US...

And as much as I still think he did the right thing, Trump's alienation of many of those allies will count against this line of thought as well...

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

Missed that last part...

Don't take it the wrong way... But y'all haven't been able to defeat the Taliban... After 19 years... And Vietnam was a failure... Iraq took two goes and still isn't much of a victory...

Just saying... Playing fast and loose with the term overrated... Taking on a nuclear power with the largest standing army might not be the best decision at the moment

China is a nuclear power with tens of hundreds of war heads aimed at them as we speak; virtually all less than ten minutes from target and that is just from beneath the surface of the deep. Soldiers are great but you just can't get them anywhere. We don't want to invade, we would just shut China down. They have bee flexing their new adolescent biceps for a while but they just don't have the stick big enough to make it "stick," for lack of a better word. And, it is they who are tempting fate here. Either way, economically or militarily, we will exact our r********ns one way or the other. Think on this, in the end, China might have k**led 100,000 or more Americans almost literally on purpose. Will that hold water? Will that dog hunt?

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

nwtk2007 wrote:

China is a nuclear power with tens of hundreds of ... (show quote)

Literally on purpose?

Just yesterday you were explaining how the numbers weren't real and there was no need for the panic....

What happened?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

I have no doubt China is rethinking things...

But the line that China has unleashed death will not gain much traction outside of the US...

And as much as I still think he did the right thing, Trump's alienation of many of those allies will count against this line of thought as well...

You should ask Spain, Italy, France, et al about that! No traction? WE have been though life and death with them. We all remember.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

Literally on purpose?

Just yesterday you were explaining how the numbers weren't real and there was no need for the panic....

What happened?

I was explaining how the numbers were exaggerated, except for China who is hiding theirs. And no, there is no need for panic. What part of that did I not make clear but the deaths are mounting none the less, the countries are losing their economies for their fear. It's the added world wide panic that is the crux of the issue. Death by disease is one thing, but taking them down economically is the death of a country. They won't admit it but they are sill nations with nationality. The French are still the French, the Italians still the Italians, etc, etc and they still have their history and culture. It's the k*****g of their cultures which will drive them to fight.

And no one wants to be susceptible to this again.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

nwtk2007 wrote:

You should ask Spain, Italy, France, et al about that! No traction? WE have been though life and death with them. We all remember.

I am asking.. And following their news... Mostly the UK, Germany and Italy because I have friends there...

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

nwtk2007 wrote:

I was explaining how the numbers were exaggerated,... (show quote)

I agree... But how is it China's fault that people are panicking?

Asia didn't panic... And the Chinese media certainly isn't contributing to the panic...

I find most of the hyperbole is coming from the MSM...

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

nwtk2007 wrote:

If we tell EU to stop trading with China, they will. We can also insert direct influence on Hong Kong. Japan and Taiwan will fall in line; Vietnam, eastern Asia, very nearly all of them? We can choke China dry and that's a fact. Their little f**e islands will be sunk if need be. We can strangle their military which is highly over rated anyway.

The military I can say from personal experience is far overrated.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

Literally on purpose?

Just yesterday you were explaining how the numbers weren't real and there was no need for the panic....

What happened?

China's numbers are not real, we know. But many in EU and America are although not really that much more than due to regular illnesses.

China is fanning the flames of panic and threats of control over medical supplies. They need to get with the apologies, offers of help and requests for mercy. They will not be allowed to save face and that is what they want.

They, like the American media, hope this will be the undoing of Trump. Fat chance. It might not have been their plan from the beginning but that is how they are playing it now.

Not a good idea. We are working through this an when it is over, well . . .

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Lt. Rob Polans ret. wrote:

The military I can say from personal experience is far overrated.

Oh I know. They are like ants but can be easily squashed if need be.

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

nwtk2007 wrote:

China is a nuclear power with tens of hundreds of ... (show quote)

Nuclear, one is enough to destroy the world.