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Old 04-18-2017, 03:30 PM
 
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Trump's huge weakness is that he's a sucker for flattery. The dominant mainstream media have been gushing over his bombing campaigns and establishment democrats and republicans have been heaping praise on him.

As Trump continues to push the needs of right wing donors, like his internet spying bill which allows your internet service provider to sell your internet history, his Trumpcare plan and other deeply unpopular anti-99% agendas, we are right to conclude that his popularity will not recover. But with the establishment always being ready for war and Trump loving the praise and flattery he gets, should we be concerned that this tactic will be used to ensure he gains popularity?
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Old 04-18-2017, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Trump being conned into a massive new war?
No way.

Xi will not give tRump permission to start a fight. He'll be limited to lying about "armadas."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.ced5eabf6979

The armada Trump sent to North Korea wasn't actually there.


Besides, he needs more than Xi's approval.

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Old 04-18-2017, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Midwest City, Oklahoma
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The only reason the United States didn't win the Korean War back in 1950, was because of Chinese intervention.

The Chinese set up a communist puppet-state as a buffer against American-controlled capitalist South Korea.

The Chinese aren't going to hand over North Korea to America today, just as they didn't in the past.


The difference between then and now, is that the Chinese no longer need a North Korean buffer-state. Their form of communism(which is really authoritarian/state-capitalism) is not threatened by South Korea.

Thus the real goal of China at this point, is to take North Korea for itself. China actually wants to move its border to South Korea, because it can out-compete South Korea at this point, and spread its influence across the entire Korean peninsula, possibly pushing America out as well.


China is using its economic-might in the same way America does. The Chinese system is basically the American economic system, with a quasi-European social-safety net, without the divisive and dysfunctional political parties. It is a technocracy/meritocracy. And its only goal is economic-growth.


China isn't worried about Trump taking down the North Korean government, because China doesn't want a potentially-threatening nuclear power as a neighbor. But it needs to play the situation correctly to its advantage.


It needs America to be the bad guy, and for North Korea to "wear-down" America's will, and to undermine the American/South Korean alliance. So that it can come in as "peace-keeper".
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Old 04-18-2017, 05:59 PM
 
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Trump WANTS to be a wartime president. He's not being suckered into anything.
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Old 04-18-2017, 06:06 PM
 
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Trump's huge weakness is that he's a sucker for flattery. The dominant mainstream media have been gushing over his bombing campaigns and establishment democrats and republicans have been heaping praise on him.

As Trump continues to push the needs of right wing donors, like his internet spying bill which allows your internet service provider to sell your internet history, his Trumpcare plan and other deeply unpopular anti-99% agendas, we are right to conclude that his popularity will not recover. But with the establishment always being ready for war and Trump loving the praise and flattery he gets, should we be concerned that this tactic will be used to ensure he gains popularity?
Is that YOUR opinion "Trump's huge weakness is that he's a sucker for flattery." ?
You say it like it is a fact.

I see your post as so far reaching and agenda driven to bash President Trump.
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Old 04-18-2017, 06:09 PM
 
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Trump WANTS to be a wartime president. He's not being suckered into anything.
Same here. "He WANTS."
How do you know what he wants?
You can guess or assume, but no one knows what he wants but himself.

Have you ever had anyone stick words in your mouth or claim something on you that isnt true?
It is not kind to do such a thing.
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Old 04-18-2017, 06:13 PM
 
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Trump's huge weakness is that he's a sucker for flattery. The dominant mainstream media have been gushing over his bombing campaigns and establishment democrats and republicans have been heaping praise on him.

As Trump continues to push the needs of right wing donors, like his internet spying bill which allows your internet service provider to sell your internet history, his Trumpcare plan and other deeply unpopular anti-99% agendas, we are right to conclude that his popularity will not recover. But with the establishment always being ready for war and Trump loving the praise and flattery he gets, should we be concerned that this tactic will be used to ensure he gains popularity?
How many Trump is going to start a (nuclear) war type threads have you started now?
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Old 04-18-2017, 06:48 PM
 
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Trump's huge weakness is that he's a sucker for flattery. The dominant mainstream media have been gushing over his bombing campaigns and establishment democrats and republicans have been heaping praise on him.

As Trump continues to push the needs of right wing donors, like his internet spying bill which allows your internet service provider to sell your internet history, his Trumpcare plan and other deeply unpopular anti-99% agendas, we are right to conclude that his popularity will not recover. But with the establishment always being ready for war and Trump loving the praise and flattery he gets, should we be concerned that this tactic will be used to ensure he gains popularity?
I don't have any idea what you are talking about, you seem to be babbling incoherently.

Seriously, start over, and make a some point that people can understand.


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How many Trump is going to start a (nuclear) war type threads have you started now?
Is that what this is about, because I have no idea what the OP is talking about.
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Old 04-18-2017, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Portland, OR
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Same here. "He WANTS."
How do you know what he wants?
You can guess or assume, but no one knows what he wants but himself.

Have you ever had anyone stick words in your mouth or claim something on you that isnt true?
It is not kind to do such a thing.
Indeed, it is extremely hard to impossible to say what he wants, as he literally has no idea himself. e has flip-flopped on every major issue and has revealed himself to be a truly vacuous waste of oxygen....
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Old 04-18-2017, 07:10 PM
 
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I don't have any idea what you are talking about, you seem to be babbling incoherently.

Seriously, start over, and make a some point that people can understand.




Is that what this is about, because I have no idea what the OP is talking about.
What's so hard to understand? Trump is clearly in love with himself, and flattery is a huge weak spot for him. A massive neo-con war will give him exactly what he deeply craves. Just notice how the dominant mainstream media gushed over his bombings in the Middle East.
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