Excellent catch of the Tucker-Clairmont Inst. connection as the discussion pivots midway through around the lack of sound foreign policy principles in play here.
The Philippines doesn't "dispute" anything: the Philippines is an occupied vassal of the US empire, which is using its (tiny, yappy) attack dog to provoke China in the same way NATO provoked Russia.
Do you WANT another Ukraine, for your garbage oligarchs to use as a money laundering scheme to dispossess and impoverish you?
1. "GDP per capita" doesn't help people buy groceries, pay their bills, or ward off the drug overdoses and porn addiction reducing our society like it's being melted in battery acid.
2. China has no interest in invading North America: they have a billion plus of their own people who they invest their efforts into
3. The US military just got its ass handed to it by the Houthis. Thoroughly. Your confidence is misplaced. US military capability is a joke, and it will only get worse.
In the opening exchange, the skepticism you outlined around Tucker (and the lack of skepticism!) had me hooked. I recall the only part of the Putin interview where the president called Tucker by name: he reproved Tucker for his delusion around China being a threat, as Tucker tried to "wedge" Russia off from its neighborliness with China, as if to suggest Russia should align against a China with the "Christian west." Laughable.
Excellent catch of the Tucker-Clairmont Inst. connection as the discussion pivots midway through around the lack of sound foreign policy principles in play here.
The Philippines doesn't "dispute" anything: the Philippines is an occupied vassal of the US empire, which is using its (tiny, yappy) attack dog to provoke China in the same way NATO provoked Russia.
Do you WANT another Ukraine, for your garbage oligarchs to use as a money laundering scheme to dispossess and impoverish you?
"the Pat Buchanan position"
1. China does write YOUR laws. Americans do. Fix yer damn oligarchs!
2. "Restrict trade." 好! 好 得 很 !! You restrict their chips, EVs and manufacturing, they'll restrict your ... uh ... "financial services" (sorry Epstein!), your, uh... OF whores? Disney+? What, exactly?
That should be "China doesn't write" not "does"
1. "GDP per capita" doesn't help people buy groceries, pay their bills, or ward off the drug overdoses and porn addiction reducing our society like it's being melted in battery acid.
2. China has no interest in invading North America: they have a billion plus of their own people who they invest their efforts into
3. The US military just got its ass handed to it by the Houthis. Thoroughly. Your confidence is misplaced. US military capability is a joke, and it will only get worse.
In the opening exchange, the skepticism you outlined around Tucker (and the lack of skepticism!) had me hooked. I recall the only part of the Putin interview where the president called Tucker by name: he reproved Tucker for his delusion around China being a threat, as Tucker tried to "wedge" Russia off from its neighborliness with China, as if to suggest Russia should align against a China with the "Christian west." Laughable.
And Putin said as much!