I was struck by the following passage, which I altered by changing the country in question:
"The CHINESE System sought to make CHINA the 'workshop of the world,' with a global monopoly on industrial production. Other countries were to provide food and raw materials, in exchange for CHINESE manufactures.
By contrast, the American System encouraged national self-sufficiency. Americans were urged to produce everything they needed in their own country, including food, raw materials and manufactures.
The two systems were incompatible and bound to collide."
Change the year to 2023 and we are in a similar situation, with America trying to reclaim the American System that in abandoned over the past 25 years or so. Or, at least, move manufacturing out of China to countries more closely aligned with American interests, if not to America itself.
And just as the British empire used opium to keep the Chinese population down, the Chinese government is now using fentanyl to do the same to the United States.
There is nothing "puzzling or intractable" about the political philosophy that inspired, and was explicated within, The Constitution of The United States of America.
You have written at length here and elsewhere regarding the empires of the world, providing historical evidence for the motivations of different actors on the world stage, with a zeal that demands commendation.
This commendation I offer to you with a humble request; Tell me where in the following citation you find some defense for the prevention by force, by murderous violence, of self-determination for a people?
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Love my kin just as much as the next person. We are different and have always been subservient in class structure to the people you mention. The game you seek is not national it is purly satanic.
I was struck by the following passage, which I altered by changing the country in question:
"The CHINESE System sought to make CHINA the 'workshop of the world,' with a global monopoly on industrial production. Other countries were to provide food and raw materials, in exchange for CHINESE manufactures.
By contrast, the American System encouraged national self-sufficiency. Americans were urged to produce everything they needed in their own country, including food, raw materials and manufactures.
The two systems were incompatible and bound to collide."
Change the year to 2023 and we are in a similar situation, with America trying to reclaim the American System that in abandoned over the past 25 years or so. Or, at least, move manufacturing out of China to countries more closely aligned with American interests, if not to America itself.
And just as the British empire used opium to keep the Chinese population down, the Chinese government is now using fentanyl to do the same to the United States.
Thank you for writing
There is nothing "puzzling or intractable" about the political philosophy that inspired, and was explicated within, The Constitution of The United States of America.
You have written at length here and elsewhere regarding the empires of the world, providing historical evidence for the motivations of different actors on the world stage, with a zeal that demands commendation.
This commendation I offer to you with a humble request; Tell me where in the following citation you find some defense for the prevention by force, by murderous violence, of self-determination for a people?
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
- Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776
Love my kin just as much as the next person. We are different and have always been subservient in class structure to the people you mention. The game you seek is not national it is purly satanic.
Third Dog today is the Chinese Communist Party