We got rope-a-doped and we saw it coming 40 years ago but we got so intoxicated on cheap imports to say 'No!'? Why the hell didn't we wake up after Tiananmen Square? It was no big deal, kinda like Germany and the Sudenland, we should just mind our own business?
One of the world's most stealthy and deepest diving submarines of the US Navy just got into a 'collision' in the South China Sea this early October 2021. Were going to watch some brinkmanship play out but I think eventually we're going to blink first I say with sadness and anger. They will say of us that we were were that last generation of a great, prosperous and powerful country that lasted 250 so years? Not xenophobic, nor an ultra-nationtoinist, but I do love my country and I hated to see it loose it's position of prominence.
I hope this doesn't devolve into typical partisan unimaginative crap, it's painfully boring. This has been going on since the early 1970s with each administrations getting too cozy. Should we accept our new lessor position of power on the world stage, kowtow and know future generations here and in other powerful democratic countries are no longer are calling the shots? Should we accept the level of influence foreign countries and business interests have over our elected officials, does it matter anymore? We're getting cheap stuff from Walmart and so don't rock the boat? I guess we had our Monroe doctrine and now they'll have theirs from Hokkaido to Sudan? Now some western powers are pretending or actually stand up to China and come to the aid of Taiwan? I don't know the strategic value that Taiwan specifically holds for the US, Pacific Rim or the democratic world but its symbolic value will be significant. Will the China's political system collapse like the Soviet Union? I don't think it'll be that easy is my guess with China's confucius beliefs and appreciation of their history that even authriatian governments that provide overall collective good is worth sacrificing liberty. I have a few questions.
I hope this isn't too sappy but I like view some memorials near places we fish and hunt in the Northwoods. This one is forgotten by time as it sits over a cement slab that covers the mine shaft hidden in the woods. Makes me think how tough and desperate they were to leave their own country. Hopefully we and our decendents have Sisu as them.
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On a lighter note this advertising agency is still open in Republic, MI but Bettie Page sadly has left us for good.
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One of the world's most stealthy and deepest diving submarines of the US Navy just got into a 'collision' in the South China Sea this early October 2021. Were going to watch some brinkmanship play out but I think eventually we're going to blink first I say with sadness and anger. They will say of us that we were were that last generation of a great, prosperous and powerful country that lasted 250 so years? Not xenophobic, nor an ultra-nationtoinist, but I do love my country and I hated to see it loose it's position of prominence.
I hope this doesn't devolve into typical partisan unimaginative crap, it's painfully boring. This has been going on since the early 1970s with each administrations getting too cozy. Should we accept our new lessor position of power on the world stage, kowtow and know future generations here and in other powerful democratic countries are no longer are calling the shots? Should we accept the level of influence foreign countries and business interests have over our elected officials, does it matter anymore? We're getting cheap stuff from Walmart and so don't rock the boat? I guess we had our Monroe doctrine and now they'll have theirs from Hokkaido to Sudan? Now some western powers are pretending or actually stand up to China and come to the aid of Taiwan? I don't know the strategic value that Taiwan specifically holds for the US, Pacific Rim or the democratic world but its symbolic value will be significant. Will the China's political system collapse like the Soviet Union? I don't think it'll be that easy is my guess with China's confucius beliefs and appreciation of their history that even authriatian governments that provide overall collective good is worth sacrificing liberty. I have a few questions.
I hope this isn't too sappy but I like view some memorials near places we fish and hunt in the Northwoods. This one is forgotten by time as it sits over a cement slab that covers the mine shaft hidden in the woods. Makes me think how tough and desperate they were to leave their own country. Hopefully we and our decendents have Sisu as them.
On a lighter note this advertising agency is still open in Republic, MI but Bettie Page sadly has left us for good.
