Geo Political Risk

[Balance]

Well, I recommend you spend as much time in Tibet and in the Xi-an province and do research what the Communist Chinese did to the population there. Chinese weapons kill as well as Americans. Do as well some research how many millions the Chinese killed during the culture revolution and how many thousands disappeared after the Tianmen square massacre. Just walk around in China and ask the people ... maybe they tell you before they lock you up!

After that research (if you survive it ) you will find the numbers the Americans killed in Vietnam laughable small.

Afterwards you might want to do the same research, just focussing on Russian attrocities. A vist to the Dombass might be educational. I hear they have interesting prisons there.

If you are afterwards still around, then feel free to tell us about the American attrocities in Vietnam (and yes, many of the things they did have been as bad as what the Dutch and the Britains did to the Indians, or what the Germans did to Eastern Europe, or what the Japanese did to the Koreans, or what the Belgians did to the people in Kongo, or .... what New Zealanders did to the Maoris (during the landwars) or what the Maoris did to other Maoris before that time.

Just put it all into perspective, wil you? You should try to balance your outrage, otherwise you just come across as incredibly unbalanced.

Yes, millions of the Chinese people died as a consequence of Mao’s disastrous agricultural & industrial policies during the 50s and 60s.

Difference is that Mao did not set out to kill his people - it was a consequence of failed policies.

So how far do you want to go back?

Compare and contrast with the US genocide committed against the millions of Native Americans who were intentionally & systematically slaughtered or starved to death.

Since the 1970s, the US systematically waged wars against any number of countries and slaughtered civilians (estimate - 350,000+). China has not invaded one single country in that time.

Like I wrote, lay aisde your weapons & gun lobbying bias - have some decent values rather than the war mongering US values.

A nation controlled by gun & weapons manufacturers with no heed of school killings every year - that’s the value you are proud to have?

WOMD?

[Waltzing]

Radar tracking missiles .. shipped to Ukraine.

- we have RUS and Ukraine software from 2010 when it was possible to get access to technology and when eastern ukraine and moscow were still selling to the west...

and the UKE's are very good at hacking runtime software.

would not be surprised if they rigged something up for missiles but really it would be very very surprising if the got old aircraft rewired with bus technologies even as good as the UKE's are and they are very good...

more likely they got some aircraft shipped in parts and reassembled them from poland or some other NATO country.

with the amount of stuff shipped into UKE land whole aircraft may have gone in big crates .

The Quality of the software was standard , nothing brilliant but the thing was they had hacked the runtime address of internal c language struct's and function addresses in DLL's that the OS would load at runtime on windows.

impressive knowledge of runtime OS exe and dll loading addresses.

[Waltzing]

"If I remember rightly, the Australian Constitution already includes an option for New Zealand to be admitted as a State of the Australian Federation."

dont think IWI would go for it....

not a chance...

closer economic ties yes but now that IWI has the reserve banks ear doubt they want to move anywhere near closer to any country...

[Waltzing]

Im sure investors are looking closely at the UK consumer and economy with some concern.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/brit...ills-soar.html

This if it gets worse is the stuff that can cause political instability.

[Habits]

" IWI has the reserve banks ear "

Yes I saw something about this recently. Sounds very strange, what is it all about?

[BlackPeter]

Im sure investors are looking closely at the UK consumer and economy with some concern.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/brit...ills-soar.html

This if it gets worse is the stuff that can cause political instability.

Well, I guess the Brits are now paying the deserved price for electing the most inept politician after Trump to "get Brexit done". But what do you mean with political instability? It hardly can get less stable then having a populist weathercock without any moral values running the business who does not know what he is doing but turning with every right wing fart ...

All up from here ...

[GTM 3442]

Well, I guess the Brits are now paying the deserved price for electing the most inept politician after Trump to "get Brexit done". But what do you mean with political instability? It hardly can get less stable then having a populist weathercock without any moral values running the business who does not know what he is doing but turning with every right wing fart ...

All up from here ...

All up?

Why would you think that Trump, Johnson, et al are terminal points prompting a change of direction? They're more like data points on a graph of "The West's" overall political trajectory.

We're all on a journey

[BlackPeter]

All up?

Why would you think that Trump, Johnson, et al are terminal points prompting a change of direction? They're more like data points on a graph of "The West's" overall political trajectory.

We're all on a journey

Fair enough - but I am an optimist. Agree however, that optimists are not more often right then pessimists, however - they do live longer :

Having said that - human history seems to run in saecula (a saeculum is roughly a cycle of 4 generations), always ending in a crisis. The last saeculum before this ended with WW II and featured scum like Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Stalin, Mao Tsedong as world leaders .. and after them things somewhat improved in the 1950íes up to another cyclical high around 1970 to 1990íes). From there it went clearly downhill again.

I think we are now close to the next crisis point (but yes, bottom picking is easier with the benefit of hindsight) ... and after that things will improve (but remember - it is still cyclical, a new cyclical low will follow in another 80 plus years or so).

So - No, I don't know whether the recent league of low life world leaders (like Putin, Xi, Trump, Johnson and many others) are already the bottom, but for sure, we need to be close to it, don't we?

[Waltzing]

BP "populist weathercock "

classic

your saying the UK has had instabiliy and it only going to SLOWLY get better!!!


"saecula"

great word thank you ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum

[Davexl]

Revision of status quo for Australia...

Chinese ambassador to Australia says Beijing will use ‘all necessary means’ for Taiwan ‘unification’

Xiao Qian says reset of China-Australia relationship is possible and suggests Washington had turned Canberra against Beijing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...an-unification