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And china are right in this case. They're just also assholes
Marjorie Taylor Green posted about how invading Venezuela is a terrible idea.
I hate it when I agree with Marjorie Taylor Green.
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Not as much as America tho.
People often forget all the countries America has bombed and destabilized in the past.
Worse, a "world judge" that doesn't accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
"We make the rules, but rules don't apply to us."
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according to data from the American Enterprise Institute
Don't ask who pays their bills
While I agree you always need to look at who is saying what and what their motivations are, China has been investing in Venezuela, just as they have in many other countries.
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The anus calling the butthole an asshole situation here.
China is nowhere near a terrorist as America.
Every regime change America has done in another country and installed a puppet, their economic situation never improved under the puppet leader.
It would appear that the US got tired of all the jokes comparing them to the movie Idiocracy, so they decided to make themselves into Team America: World Police instead.
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China is the world's largest economy by every meaningful metric. No serious economist uses GDP as a metric for actual economic production. Can we please at least use GDP (PPP)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
It's still not a good metric but at least it actually allows a means to compare countries to one another more accurately.
The US economy is 10 major tech corporations doing essentially this with AI right now.
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We agree, so let's discuss the Chinese police stations in countries that are clearly not China.
This also gives justification to North Korea. They've been arguing for ages that they should be allowed nuclear weapons because otherwise the US would come in and force a regime change, and now Trumpsky has just handed them the evidence.
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China should dump all of its U.S. treasuries
They literally can't. Nor can the US dump theirs.
The US, the EU, and China are economically tied to one another. One of the reasons there hasn't been a shooting war between the East and West is how much we depend on the other's economy. Without foreign backed assets, there's nothing to trade against.
Chinese made goods are bought with American dollars. If they're not putting them back in to the US, there's no need to take them in the first place. And then who, exactly, would China be making all that crap for?
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Wait, didn’t they just say it was a good template for Taiwan?
In any case, Mainland China still wants to supplant the US as a world power, so any failings of the Americans will be advantageous to Chinese regardless of its own domestic issues, as it does business with mostly countries rejected by the Americans as "enemy states" and undeserving of its support.
edit: To that particular someone who says to the contrary believing Americans remain strong, the Mainlanders still have their presence known in my country, especially as far as trade is concerned; walk into any street market and Mainland goods are cheap and present in huge volumes, and to boycott their goods will be next to impossible, having completely captured my country's market.
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Taiwan has entered the chat.
They're not wrong but also the last thing those assholes want is anyone judging their shitty behavior. Ulterior Motives and all.
‘Despicable cunts accuse despicable cunts of being despicable cunts’
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