What’s the over/ under on nothing happening?
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That's an act of war on their part.
So 100% chance of nothing happening internationally. The time to deal with the chinks was twenty years ago, arguably thirty. We're far too weak now, and we just took a thrashing from a minor regional power.
Domestically this is full and complete treason and justifies enacting martial law, outlawing the democrat party and seizing the intelligence agencies with federal troops and marshalls.so also a 100% chance of nothing happening.
Trump didn't cross the Rubicon when he had the best chance. The gop doesn't want to win. This will be yet another link in the long chain of oppressions and usurpations.
The GOP wants to win. They're just not on your team.
But, but ... muh iPhone. Muh 75" TV. Muh Happy Meal toys.
We can't punish China. How would we live without all our cheap plastic trinkets? HOW!? 🙄
Unironically this is probably pretty close to the actual rationale.
For which we can thank the traitorous democrats for normalizing trade with them in the nineties.
"When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you."
One of their generals wrote in one of the CCP's strategy papers that the more they allowed the West to exploit their cheap labor, and thereby become dependent on Chinese labor, the more they could get away with subverting us. Eventually, they estimated, we wouldn't be able to stop them without hurting ourselves. America has given up so many industries to China, for so long, that we don't have any or enough trained people to resume those industries without considerable time and expense.
Women drive something like 85% of consumer spending, btw.