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Title: China Must Be Destroyed
Published: 2019-02-05
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxayZ4WHEg
Title: China Must Be Destroyed
Published: 2019-02-05
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxayZ4WHEg
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[Music] hello I am Peter Lee the news buds China watch this episode China must be destroyed starts with a look back way back to the second century BC there's an old story from Roman history about Cato the Elder trolling the peaceniks in the Roman Senate by dropping figs on the floor the hook was that the figs were from Carthage Rome's two tested rival for supremacy in2/10
the Mediterranean and the figs were fresh because Carthage was only three days sail away from Rome and they were magnificent because Carthage had survived its century of confrontation with Rome to become both bigger and wealthier than Rome this displeased Cato the Elder who wanted Carthage to remain an eternally submissive State to Rome so Cato ended every speech in the Roman Senate with the phrase Carthage innum3/10
essa delenda Carthage must be destroyed and guess what because of Cato's determination and the fig stunt and I would expect the fact that Carthage was the main center of agricultural and economic wealth in the Mediterranean not yet controlled by Rome Carthage was destroyed by Rome in 146 BC the Roman armies raised Carthage to the ground sold the surviving population into slavery annihilated it's written culture and4/10
Rome got a few more centuries at the top of the heap well today it's sinnism essa delenda m-- china must be destroyed instead of Cato the Elder we've got Marco Rubio instead of thigs we got Holley smartphones and we've got indo-pacific command thirsty for another couple decades as top dog in the western Pacific and we have increasingly open and unambiguous calls for the People's Republic of5/10
China to be destabilized both from the so called left and right wings of American politics which are pretty much all right wing now the only thing missing mr. and mrs. America is you apparently Americans simply aren't getting with the program and letting their opinions get shaped by non-stop threat mongering by pundits politicians and the journals given the task of delivering the China threat message to ordinary6/10
citizens in a January 31st op-ed in the Washington Post entitled the China gap I our pooh-bah dr. Dan Dresner noted that while the Beltway is in his words United in its perception of the primacy of the China threat China by one poll conducted by the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs only rated eighth out of 12th as a major threat by the public at large what could7/10
the American public think was possibly more important than the China threat global warming may be income inequality intense social and racial divisions who does dr. Dresner concluded I do not have a definitive answer for why the American public is not exercised about China well maybe it's because China isn't really a threat it's an opportunity an opportunity to line the pockets of the foreign policy and military8/10
establishment while at the same time hurting the interests of US consumers through a trade war in other words the gap is not between public and elite understanding it's between public and elite interest just a thought and maybe dr. dresner's bewilderment is a result of the same tunnel vision that caused him to support the Iraq war a while back just another thought well these thoughts are brought9/10
to you courtesy of news but in China watch we're not self pleasuring armchair generals who've discovered the miraculous synergies of public policy and personal prestige in profit we're trying to pierce through the hype get to what's really going on and get people off the lead balloon that though experts pretend is a hypersonic rocket to victory navigate to news but calm to subscribe and access this full