• BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
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    7 hours ago

    It’s been coming for a long time. While the rest of us have been fighting among ourselves, China stayed out of it all, and improved their country. I’m not surprised that they’ve emerged as a powerhouse, while we volunteered to give a lunatic the nukes.

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      6 hours ago

      Doesnt have anything to do with fighting with ourselves. America has never invested a lot of money into its own population and environment.

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        6 hours ago

        A big part of that is because we blow the money on endless wars, which China doesn’t do.

        Add that to their good-faith commitment to invest in, and substantially improve, their country, compared to our lack of investment in our own nation, which you mentioned.

        I’m just saying, we shouldn’t be surprised. This is nothing new to anyone who’s been paying attention for a while.

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            They had a few hundred troops there as part of a UN peace-keeping force, who left with the rest of the UN troops in 2020 when the new government asked them to.

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          Yeah and the wars are created by America many times, because its huge profits for the military industrial complex and also serves as a way to increase the American presence in countries with resources like oil.

          The CIA is super good at what it does actually.