pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
I remember being a kid sitting mesmerized when my grandparents and older relatives were sitting around the kitchen table chain smoking and talking. Imagine people that would socialize, play cards and so forth and not need a computer or TV and the only phone was an actual phone attached to the wall. But that's another story.
Stuff like 'the goddamned Japs took all our scrap steel and threw it right back at us' was common and they were right. Their generation. We helped build that huge Imperial War Machine and then got cut to shreds by it because we cut them off from oil. History makes for strange bedfellows, like selling Russians tons of wheat at the same time we were threatening each other with annihilation. It's a weird game of musical chairs. So, for the past 40 years we have literally sold the farm to the Chinese. How long would it take you to find something in your home that says 'Made in China' on it ? How much time to find a 'Made in UK or USA' ?
China is a frenemy. They literally take 'the long view' on everything and don't think in terms of election cycles. Long term subversion is their modus operandi - ask the Vietnamese and anyone else in proximity. Not everyone wants Chinese largesse or to be part of their co-prosperity sphere. We have a President with a ridiculously questionable relationship with them and any talk of it is dismissed as conspiracy theory. Spread enough money around and you can buy anything - politicians, media, etc.
Stuff like 'the goddamned Japs took all our scrap steel and threw it right back at us' was common and they were right. Their generation. We helped build that huge Imperial War Machine and then got cut to shreds by it because we cut them off from oil. History makes for strange bedfellows, like selling Russians tons of wheat at the same time we were threatening each other with annihilation. It's a weird game of musical chairs. So, for the past 40 years we have literally sold the farm to the Chinese. How long would it take you to find something in your home that says 'Made in China' on it ? How much time to find a 'Made in UK or USA' ?
China is a frenemy. They literally take 'the long view' on everything and don't think in terms of election cycles. Long term subversion is their modus operandi - ask the Vietnamese and anyone else in proximity. Not everyone wants Chinese largesse or to be part of their co-prosperity sphere. We have a President with a ridiculously questionable relationship with them and any talk of it is dismissed as conspiracy theory. Spread enough money around and you can buy anything - politicians, media, etc.