In a way, it is an admission.
You break it, you buy it.
But they don't always. Libya is still a mess, although the Russians and Chinese are helping, now.
So the other motive, or opportunity, is the OIL and Wheat. Gotta keep them going. Throw in some Humanitarian Aid, and maybe a Hospital, for the locals. That has been the business model for several centuries.
I don't disagree with doula peeps. My mother had a lady who lived-in and helped with everything for my younger brothers. Dads may not always be around in a functioning family. They will be busy making money. So mums sits at home, breast-feeding, changing nappies and burping baby. But the most important part is feeding, often. And of course, breast-feeding tends to conk out the mothers, if they are not fed themselves. So mum may be half-asleep most of the time, from doing that 24/7. There will be chores that someone should do. Many. many. A baby will mean washing machine should be going all day long, for example. They poop, All. The Time.
Then there is the household cooking and eating drama. Dishes pile up. Dad could do them when he comes home (after doing the shopping), but he will be tired, and may believe that Mum is just sitting around 'doing nothing' judging by the state of the house.
So, if someone else can come in and bring a little sanity in those early years, I think that's great.
I think you misunderstand what the Chinese intention is.
They do not want to plunge usA into the dark ages, because it is a viable, developed market. They would lose a major trading partner - and that is their main goal in life. I am not saying they are our friends, either. Just that Trump is sounding different than the last time around. His thinking on China seems to have evolved.
Nevertheless, there is a body of work that states that China wants to somehow overthrow USA, and the world - Which I believe is born from imperialist theory, and is actually kind of defunct. Something about overthrowing governments etc., which some others have been very active in pursuing. TBH the Chinese investors prefer stable governments that are run by locals.
Yes it is un-nerving to see them buying up lots of land, and so is Bill Gates, BTW. But in the end, it's what these people do with the land. One cannot tow it away, for example. In a functioning society there is a real estate market, and this means people can buy land. The regulator's problem is Where, and Why, and there should be some rules about Who. The fact that wealthy people are buying it, means it was available, So perhaps the problem lies with driving native land-owners off the land via financial shenanigans, or something.
Also, Trump is a builder. He loves big beautiful projects. So if he can swing a NS corridor in the Americas, connecting through Alaska to Russia, (with the help with China and Russia, to build a Big. Beautiful bridge, or tunnel), he will prolly do it. I don't know if that will happen, but maybe. Even with the best intentions such projects can cause massive suffering too. America's rail was built by foreigners - there are still songs about it.
I agree with the Columbian Exposition/Ancient Tartaria stuff. But this was interesting too - If you bothered to look, the footprints in question were of ordinary size. The Giant 'big foot' stuff was from the thirties, when they found mammoth and sloth prints, and given their indistinct nature, these were confused with human prints.
The point is: the peeps that were heavily covered by the media, were dating the footprints by carbon-dating a plant that lives under water, found at the bottom of the prints. Ground water has a way of aging the results, because the carbon that is absorbed by the plants comes from buried carbon, not atmospheric carbon. The anomaly is also seasonal - in summer the water table is lower, so the results will be older, so to speak. So, carbon-dating that particular plant, or any under-water plant is a very unstable dating technique.
i agree that Christians face dire consequences. They might get some relief if they can make it to the coast, TBH.
The plan to topple Syria (Assad must go) started in the Bush era, continued during Obama, and even Trump kept 1000 soldiers 'guarding' the oil and agriculture lands, so that Assad was starved out. Now this supposed 'fall of Syria' happens during Biden's lame duck stint. Point is: it's bipartisan.
The main goal was to 'stretch Russia'. And so it is - that many are now saying this Syria flare-up is WW3 continued - against BRICS, really. Mainly Russia and Iran, in this case.(Ukraine being the main hot-spot right meow, but there were also plans made for Georgia (still warmish), Moldova (heating up), Belarus (safe, for now) and Central Asia (warmish).
Trump mentions that China could help, and that is gracious of him. China wants to extend the Belt-and-Road accross the ME, and TBH that would actually transform the place, unlike this endless head-chopping video stuff. Furthermore, that Belt and Road could easily come accross the Bering straight and then connect Canada, USA, Mexico. It is mindboggling what Peace could achieve. But the Chinese are not pleased with this fire-breathing and cloak and dagger stuff that is going on over here.
The ME war is about pipelines and land-route trade-corridors. The reason Assad's behavior was unacceptable to the West, is that he did not agree to a pipeline to Turkey through Syria - wanting to use the oil to feed Syrians. Meanwile, the Syrians were thrown some US humanitarian aid, despite the crippling sanctions. All very confusing, and if they don't start killing civilians, it might even be better. IDK.
It was planned since the noughties - Seymour Hirsh warned us of Bush' plans, and so did Wikileaks report on the Clintons meddling during the Obummer years.
USA still, shamefully backs the 'rebels' (ISIS, AlQaida - you name it, they invent names every few years. All we see in MSM is 'rebels'. or 'opposition forces'. Also many Kurds moved to the USA after Turkey ethnically cleansed them, so rightfully, the 'Kurds' who mainly work the oilfields, are acked by USA. Meanwhile, Israel had already taken the Golan Heights off Syria back in 1976, so they are also culpable. But nothing to see here. Apparently, countries may not claim sovereignty anymore.
There were groups of these State-dept -listed terrorists around the US bases (Near border of Jordan, Syria and Iraq - since WW1).
Oh, There have been reports of Ukrainians in Syria, despite the crumbling front lines back in ukraine, there are personnel in Syria. Explain this to a logical person?
The last factoid had me thinking that this whole thing is all based on lies and deception, and Angloid meddling in the ME, from the likes of Laurence-the-cross-dresser of Arabia, since WW1.
gun totting rednecks who intermarry with our sisters.
Reminds me of Choctaw Bingo
Any Meth-odists in the audience?
(not me)
but i always was fascinated by the nexus where humans enter the chat, geologically speaking.
Also, the dating methodology was questionable, and is vigorously argued in back and forth journal articles.
Were we were fed another lie?
I think you may be right.