JC, I agree with your analysis of the coming up Party Congress to make Comrade Xi the 3rd term successor (permanent) leader. Pelosi arrived and departed. Xi performs a week of live fire exercises around Taiwan. You say "We," and your are correct, We don't matter if We are weak like Joe does things. We, even under Donaldo, didn't build in hypersonic missiles of previous discussions (which is faster). Personally, I see Xi, based on Communist Party ideology, and Chinese Mainland culture as seeking the extermination of the US and its population. See? I call these non-ideologically (I think) and whether it's Don or Joe, they were both a bit weak. When the old saying of, "They only respect force," in some cases this is sadly true. The Chinese "soft power," is merely bribery and it works. Pelosi should be able to talk with whomever she wants. Threats or no, bribes or no.
It'd be a better world if Xi and Putin were not in power, but that is beyond our control. Even with Joey, it's Policy that matters and not the man. The democrats love ad hominem attacks because Party Philosopher, Saul Alinsky used it as one of his 13 Rules for Radicals. It works fab for the dem voter, but less so for Reps and Indies. Another matter is, I still view fusion technology as easier to do in space or maybe even nuke subs, over commercial power, despite the advances made. I'd love it if I was wrong. Back to war, as I mentioned to Telmo, I understand why the Germans don't want to Mil-Up, but with Vlad or one of his chums in power, this seems unavoidable. One pundit viewed the Germans and the EU simply wishing to be a large Switzerland (neutral) and purchase Russian gas, while selling their Mercedes to the Chinese. Not bad (for them) if you can do this, but mindsets of the Russians & Chinese deny this in a sustained manner. -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Aug 2, 2022 8:05 am Subject: Re: The collapse of bitcoin On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 9:44 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > What's this? Talk of no star travel whilst we are very near to producing the > mighty Bussard Ramjet to cleveth the night sky with a mighty roar! Actually, > I think all the fusion power stuff may be uneconomic (unaffordable) till our > AI is fast enough to cut through the maths in diverse areas of science to > make it cheap enough. BUT, it will be peachy keen for interplanetary travel. > For Dyson Sphere's yeah, we do the solar system (descendants) and then red > dwarf stars which are said to last some 2-10 trillion years. I visualize > these as some sort of very long holiday, for some reason? That is a very ambitious plan but I see no scientific or technological reason that would make it impossible, however there might be other things that could prevent it from happening, Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan could be one of them. That's why I hope she doesn't go. Nobody knows for sure what will happen if she does decide to but the possible risk doesn't seem worth the possible reward. You might say that China's threat is just a bluff and maybe that's true, but are you willing to bet your life on it? And the timing is particularly bad, China's economy is stalling and this fall the 20th Communist Party Congress is supposed to give Xi an indefinite extension of his role as leader, so Xi needs something to make him look strong and get the people's mind off pocketbook issues, ramping up hostilities against Taiwan could do that. We already have one hotspot in Ukraine that could lead to nuclear war, we don't need another one in Taiwan. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis awt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1wkK-ZyyTd4MLzQq6vRz4gX5D1iM0nC_Ni7gj4wQQbTA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/593546779.123230.1659532994017%40mail.yahoo.com.
