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mell says
Taiwan is a small island of no consequence to anyone in the West
The top three exports to the USA from Taiwan are computers, computer chips and computer parts based on dollar value.
https://ustradenumbers.com/country/taiwan/
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mell says
Taiwan is a small island of no consequence to anyone in the West
The top three exports to the USA from Taiwan are computers, computer chips and computer parts based on dollar value.
https://ustradenumbers.com/country/taiwan/
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mell says
Taiwan is a small island of no consequence to anyone in the West
The top three exports to the USA from Taiwan are computers, computer chips and computer parts based on dollar value.
https://ustradenumbers.com/country/taiwan/
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Yeah, for modern life to continue to exist as it has, Taiwan is hugely important. Good luck getting a new or used car WORSE than covid times if China makes a move. Car values would double. And that's just one industry.
Also with regard to NS pipeline break. Why is China not on the list of bad actors? I know Biden said blah blah. China benefits bigly by this. Russia is going to need to sell their LGN somewhere to keep the war go...
@socal2 You don't seriously believe that the worldwide recession is due to Russian energy do you? Remember how the whole world was shut down for a year or two to boost the profits of Pfizer? That is the primary cause of the worldwide recession.
So what? Same argument as for buying shit from Chyna. Stop depending on other countries and return manufacturing to the US! Energy and manufacturing independence is fucking easy to achieve for a huge country so rich in natural resources like the US - we should not be depending on anyone. Trump showed the way briefly. Fucking Taiwan should be depending on us not the other way round, it's insignificant geopolitically. Time to reverse course and throw the leftoid and neocon bums out.
mell says
So what? Same argument as for buying shit from Chyna. Stop depending on other countries and return manufacturing to the US! Energy and manufacturing independence is fucking easy to achieve for a huge country so rich in natural resources like the US - we should not be depending on anyone. Trump showed the way briefly. Fucking Taiwan should be depending on us not the other way round, it's insignificant geopolitically. Time to reverse course and throw the leftoid and neocon bums out.
I don't disagree, but the prices of everything shoots through the roof with either outcome. Shaquanda on the South Side of Chicago having the price of her cell phone, car, etc. all doubled is and would cause unrest, crime and maybe revolt.
Not sure which company, but they are bringing some chip making back to the states after Covid. But I think it's still years from being online and ...
Hell my wife makes more than engineers, doctors and attorneys golfing, taking people out to lunch and sitting at conferences. I don't consider it work, but good for her and good for me.
China benefits bigly by this. Russia is going to need to sell their LGN somewhere to keep the war going. Hell to keep the country going.
Uh no, but to believe that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is having no impact on the global economy is ludicrous. Russia is one of the biggest energy exporters in the world! How could Russia cutting off gas to Europe have no impact on the global economy?
To believe that normal people are all propagandized to hate Putin for no good reason and Ukraine is run by Jewish Nazis is also ludicrous.
I think reasonable people on the Right can simultaneously believe that Russia was wrong to invade their sovereign neighbor, Ukraine is far from perfect but are justified in defending their borders against an illegal invasion, AND the Democrats are using Ukraine as an excuse for all of their bad policy results.
There is no grand conspiracy. Just a bunch of retarded politicians bumbling their way and often acting out of panic.
Was Trump all in on the conspiracy to plunge our world into a recession and provide Pfizer with record profits as part of the big "reset"? Trump was a big fan of the vaccin...
Fact is China is a our slave labor. Taiwan, Japan and S. Korea are the brains. Americans don't want to work. Our country isn't intelligent. Not everyone is dumb, but most of it is dumb. We're a service based industry country, that has a decent amount of resources, but don't want to do the manual labor that is required.
I didn't say "no impact", but compared to shutting down the world for a virus with a 99.7% survival rate, it's no contest as to which was the primary cause by far. The US, for example, never imported much energy from Russia to begin with.
Silly rabbits, the use of submarines (manned or remotely controlled) was necessary not because 70m is not diveable by Sean Connory (but not something to sneeze at either), but because any kind of diving-related surface activity would be easily detected and vessels traced back to the resposible party. The area in question is busy and is constantly under sattelite surveillance.
A couple of weeks ago this is what Putin had to say...
Putin tells Europe: if you want gas then open Nord Stream 2
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Sept 16 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Friday denied Russia had anything to do with Europe's energy crisis, saying that if the European Union wanted more gas it should lift sanctions preventing the opening of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Speaking to reporters after the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan, Putin blamed what he called "the green agenda" for the energy crisis, and insisted that Russia would fulfil its energy obligations.
"The bottom line is, if you have an urge, if it's so hard for you, just lift the sanctions on Nord Stream 2, which is 55 billion cubic metres of gas per year, just push the button and everything will get going," Pu...
Imagine for a moment that Russia managed to arrange a coup in Mexico to install a pro-Putin government and was sending arms to Mexico to fight the US. Would the US respect the borders of the "sovereign nation" of Mexico?
The USSR was funding Marxist insurgencies in South/Central America over the last half century.
What tangible harm and risk did the Orange Revolution have on Putin and Russia
I am pretty sure if Xi invaded Taiwan and caused tens of thousands of deaths in a ham-fisted and embarrassing military display holding chip markets hostage causing a worldwide recession (as Russia is doing with Ukraine and energy)
Our media is so rediculously corrupt and mostly propaganda. Our media needs to be broken up and not be aloud to be parts of bigger companies. Maybe make them not allowed to be corporations or part of a corporation. Thier propaganda is beyond predictable.
They fucked up and set back huge chunks of Africa, Asia. Middle East and South/Central America. USSR/Russian "meddling" caused massive destabilization and poverty resulting in mass migration and drug smuggling into the US
Europe is controlled by traitors, literal traitors.
Nord Stream Attack Updates
United States complicity seems increasingly to be an open secret.
Radosław Sikorski, MEP, former Polish defence minister and husband of well-connected neoconservative intellectual Anne Appelbaum, has publicly thanked the United States for attacking the Nord Stream pipelines.
So you agree that America was justified in fighting back against that?
But you don't agree that Russia is justified in fighting back against the same thing on its own border?
The US is run by the fucking NAZIs now. The US is at war with Europe, that's just the facts. Europe is run by traitors, they can end all this stupid shit by telling the US to go get fucked, and co-operate with Russia, which they should have been doing for the last 2 fucking decades.
On 18 September, the Russian sailing ship Sedov (four masts, one of the largest of its kind in the world) left Kaliningrad.
On September 22 at 4.14 UTC, he showed his last position sailing towards the South-East coast of Bornholm.
After 15 hours, he showed up sailing south-west from Bornholm.
23.IX Sedov turns north
Currently, it is next to the NS2 crash site, and during the voyage to this site, there are again many hours (night) absences in the AIS system.
At the same time, the second Russian MIR sailing ship is sailing at a distance of 12 nm from our drilling platform Baltic PIpe
And around MIR, the US Navy flies its MH-60r anti-submarine helicopter
Yes, I remember those routes. 😉
Still, the issue is that we see only what has the appropriate transponder mode on on the FR24. There can be and there are probably many more actions.
The Russians use their large sailing ships MIR and Sedov (Sedov) for underwater special operations in the Baltic Sea and did it to sabotage the NS?
The US government is the biggest fucking drug smuggler in the United States.
Right - everyone are Nazis and Traitors -
except Putin and Russia who are busy demolishing entire cities and killing thousands of people in Ukraine.
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Blasts detected near Nord Stream pipelines amid leak – Swedish seismologists
Scientists in Denmark and Sweden registered underwater explosions near the Nord Stream pipelines on Monday, when several major leaks were reported. Sabotage is now suspected as a key reason for the damage.
“There is no doubt that these were explosions,” seismologist Bjorn Lund with Sweden’s National Seismology Centre (SNSN) told public broadcaster SVT on Tuesday.
The Danish military released aerial footage of the leaks, showing large spots and visible bubbling in the water. Nord Stream 1 suffered two leaks northeast of the Danish island of Bornholm, while Nord Stream 2 was damaged south of Dueodde, a beach located at the island’s southernmost tip, the military noted.
Earlier in the day, Moscow said it has been looking into the reasons behind the leaks, suggesting the pipelines were targeted in an act of sabotage. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that currently “no option can be ruled out” on the causes of the incident.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline was completed in 2011. Construction work on Nord Stream 2 began in 2018, and suffered numerous delays due to political pressure and sanctions from the US. The pipeline was finished and pressurized in September 2021, but never actually got online.
Two days before the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the German government put its certification on indefinite hold, and has repeatedly rejected any suggestions, both domestic and from Moscow, to open the pipeline.
https://www.rt.com/russia/563614-explosions-detected-near-nordstream/