Congratulations to China for both undertaking and succeeding at such enormous engineering projects. The USA was able to do such things until our social welfare spending over took us. It's ironic that the so-called "capitalist" USA is hobbled by spending on individual citizen welfare...
Once respect for the rule of law is abandoned by a nation's powerful elites, especially by the security forces elites, there is probably no way back except revolution. The least bloody way back is for an internal coup by patriotic Pakistani military officers who have the respect of the rank and...
I live in Virginia along the James River. I live next to a damed up pond that feeds into the James. We see deer most every day out our windows. We saw fawns about 8 weeks ago but not any such spottted young ones since. The community in which I live has a deer herd of ~ 100.
Suburban American life is a compromise between cityscape life with people walking everywhere and living with noise, and rural life with distant neighbors. It is only really possible with personal automobile-"like" transportation that allows easy transistions between the quiet residential areas...
In point ot fact their is no "arbiter" of national legitimacy. Mao perhaps is the authority here:
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun ...
枪杆子里面出政权
Mao made this observation during an emergency meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on 7 August 1927, at the beginning of the...
Corruption danages a society when decisions are made for selfish reasons rather than for the benefit of the "the people" in the broadest sense possible. If the CCP can reduce corruption to the extent that decisions are made for rational economic and societal values, then China will benefit...
Yes, I should have thought of that. The GWOT has been a trendous drain on the American spirit. Especially the 2003 Iraq invasion which was a huge betrayal of American values. America behaved as an imperialist, which has never been the desire of 95% of Americans. Afghanistani jihadis should...
I don't get it. So what? Let the Chinese people spend their blood and treasure dominating the world. Good luck with that...
The American people have never wanted to or, in fact, dominated the world.
My most basic understanding of patriotism is some form of "love of country" and "love of fellow countrymen". I see that declining all around me. Even the formulation I just made love of "countrymen" is anti-woke because of the word root "men" I used. If you said such a phrase on an American...
I am a 77 year old American who have lived most of my years in Virginia communities close to either Washington DC or to military bases near Norfolk. It is very clear to me that American patriotism IS severely declining. I believe the primary culprit is "wokeness". That is, the Democratic...
You are describing the United States Constitution which also embodies federalism. However, the linchpin of the US Constitution was the addition of the Bill of Rights which gave minorities constitutional rights. Without that you can't control the ethnic competition and domination which ...
The Palestinians should have, long ago, accepted either (1) second class citizenship in a country dominated by Jewish countrymen, or (2) a rump state on the west bank allied with Jordan. Then, they should have worked tirelessly to become educationally and economically equals of the Jews of...
It continues to amaze me how so many here at PDF have no sympathy for the Ukrainian people. Ukrainians are not "Anglos". They are not now, and have never been, colonialist exploiters of others. If you cannot understand that the Russian invasion of the Ukraine is a trajedy for its civilian...
"Intangible" assets are wealth if they can be sold for tangible assests. For example, an invention, even though not yet manufactured, if it is recorded and protected by a patent, can be sold for tangible assets and is therefore wealth. Similarly, a trademark, such as "Coca-Cola", if registered...
While not a "justification" there is an "explanation": human nature. Human beings are selfish and greedy. In a representative democracy, like the USA, this translates into the diversion of public funds into the pockets of special interest voting groups such as teachers and government...
The USA needs to use every non-military power it possesses to restrain the Communist Party of China. The CCP is a deadly enemy and must be opposed in every way possible.