I don't mean to bash America as I love the country, I have been over many times and have good friends there. American is a more attractive system than China or Russia. But as my favourite American Colonel states - America in recent years has lost the plot, it needs to fix the problems in its own country, sort out its border, re-industrialise the country, retrain its diplomats in diplomacy rather than bullying.and stop interferring and causing trouble in other countries.Del.Monte wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:20 pm A conflict with China needs to be headed off now not when it happens and reunification with Taiwan will only happen through diplomacy and time being the healer. Any conflict involving the USA and China over events that took place the best part of 100 years ago is absolute lunacy. There are real problems in the world without this sort of nonsense and China needs to be brought onside rather than pushed into a some bizarre alliance with Putin, North Korea and Iran.
I didn't mention the Ukrainians in my last post, for the simple reason is that they don't really figure anymore in all of this unfortunately from what I can see.
Many might not agree with this but Ukraine needed a leader cut from the same cloth as Erdoğan or Orban. Someone that is strong and keeps the interests of his or her country in the back of their minds. They should have got the Russians and Americans around the same table and laid it out to them that the country comes first and foremost and that it will not be used as an instrument to bash each other over the head at the expense of the territorial and political integrity of the country. Instead, due to the fact that it was and is a highly corrupt country where money is their god. If you look at all the corruption and government officials being fired, even the oligarch that brought Zelensky to power had his residency raided by the SBU and apparently the corruption charges on him run into the hundreds of millions. The country never had a chance of surviving with all these criminals running the show. Money is all they were interested in and the ill-conceived idea that America would match the Russians in military fire power to keep everything ticking over until Putin got ousted for another Boris Yeltsin type and the Russian army went home with their tail between their legs.