Seymour Hersh is an award-winning journalist who's well-known for uncovering rampant government corruption. His record includes coverage of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, Saudi support for al-Qaeda leading up to 9/11, and the so-called "weapons of mass destruction" and "nuclear materials" used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Winter tires, then a winter driving course, then AWD. In that order.
India's getting blatant and nobody cares because of China.
ITT: dude's been living in $200/month flats and wonders why people living in $2000/month luxury apartments are enjoying it so much
The funny thing is, modern Chinese policy is against war.
Even from way back in 1964, the CIA determined that Chinese military doctrine is primarily defensive in nature [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000413519.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj36czJsIqBAxWgFjQIHSYqAIYQFnoECBQQBg&usg=AOvVaw1QQgwJTRyYQ6hXxNnSCqQP].
This recent study summarizes modern Chinese military doctrine https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://setav.org/en/assets/uploads/2020/02/A56En.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj36czJsIqBAxWgFjQIHSYqAIYQFnoECB4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1LSvgCeq0-dwzfela757iE
It's a defensive doctrine designed to protect local interests. Chinese foreign policy involves remaining in a justifiable grey zone, not in open conflict.
Fuck that. Requiring trains to be built in the US will blow up the already obscene budget even more and lead to poor-quality trains due to a lack of experience in high speed trainset manufacturing.
We saw this in Boston, where the requirement of US-made led to absolutely fucked supply chains, constant delays and cost overruns, and shoddily constructed trains with a multitude of problems (though, admittedly, the entire Boston transit system has these problems anyway so I guess it's just another part of government dysfunction). For what? For a voting bloc of like a thousand temporary workers?
Thing is, the US doesn't really have high speed rail in the pipeline that can share technical expertise. The proposed Texas line is planning to use Shinkansen trains, Brightline already has a supplier, and so does Amtrak. Where are you going to get economies of scale to come into play?
It's also a fucking California state project, and California is the safest blue state that ever blued.
I mean... Man's got a good point here lol. As far as circumstantial evidence goes, this is pretty damning.
Weren't jet engines developed by the Germans to kill the Allies?
Imo this was as good of an expansion as could be expected.
Any more and it looks like they're overreaching.
A shame Indonesia, Nigeria, and Venezuela were skipped though.
You criticized an anti-American perspective then gave a pro-American perspective... To counterbalance it, I guess?
Calling CNN left-leaning is more a condemnation of America's completely fucked political landscape than anything else. They're at best centre-right.
Bullshit. Adequate mass transportation is competitive with a car. You don't even have to leave North America to see an "adequate" mass transportation system: just go to Montreal, Vancouver, or New York.
Most US cities have mass transportation that's designed to move around poor people so rich people in cars can't see them.
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"Sanctions" indeed