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He clearly had no "what if china doesn't back down" contingency plan.

They'll go to war before thats allowed to happen again.

Maybe thats the intention. If the GOP can get an external war going before midterms, it doesn't matter that they wouldn't have accomplished much of nothing (the USAID shutdown was Trump not the GOP, but potato-patato), the right/israel-first faction of the uniparty retains control instead of the left/china/globalism-first coalition.

The CCP's only path forward is to avoid war, avoid it at ALL costs. I suspect the 'all' costs will be the replacement of Xi and officiating of the PLA as enacting a formalized 'temporary' military take over. They run things in practice anyway, but right now they have an ostensible civilian government. What was that Zappa quote? When the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they pull back the curtain at the back of the theater, to reveal the brick wall?

Suggests to me that the infighting between pakistan and india is manufactured. Would be the perfect opportunity for the chinese to manufacture their own external distraction war, while avoiding direct war with the u.s. over say taiwan (when they're not quite ready to commit and win yet), without directly giving the u.s. something to coalesce, unite, and distract the western populace over.

I'd put 1-in-3 odds on the kashmir terror attack having been manufactured by chinese intelligence, to either distract india ahead of a chinese attack against them (india already backed down from the chinese tiger, showing weakness to save the peace with neighbors), or alternatively push india toward china when a war kicks off, chilling relations between india and the u.s. as a secondary benefit to the chinese.

Dayyumm greens@int went all souuuf onnat ayuuss frfr 💯 gnome seyin?!

I just heard that food stamp recipients are going to get an increase in October. Theres your "return".

@beece I see your 2 months and raise you 6.

Are you in china?