That is the US role in the world - we are the Hegemon, it is what we must do to remain the Hegemon. China wants to be the Hegemon but they can't get there as long as we are.
China wants to change the entire ordering of the world - that is a much bigger deal than the US invading Iraq or Afghanistan.
This bc we now realize that China is screwed in the future - the Chinese population will be well under a billion people by 2100 - long before then the only thing their society will be able to do is deal with the problems that come from dropping 500 million people.
This is all bc of the 1 Child policy and it cannot be easily fixed - if it can be fixed at all.
China can only take Taiwan with the Millennials or Gen Z generations - Xi Jinping knows this and wants Taiwan to be part of his legacy.
Now is the best time to do this if they are ever going to. I've long been saying that it Trump is reelected that they will invade that January he takes office.
I hope you are wrong, but the Russian invasion of the Ukraine might support your view.
Russians have a terrible low fertility, integrating the Ukraine into Russia might have been a last shot at staying the ethnic majority in the country.
Update:
Ih had stetes wrong numbers of the composition of the Russian population before, claiming that only 40 million of russias inhabitants were ethnic Russians.
Experian was hacked and 168 million Americans had all of lives information stolen - the data that is supposed to verify who I am and tracks all of my financial life, everywhere I've ever lived and of course my social security number.
Not one thing to fix this was done. Anyone could buy my information and be me, NOTHING was done to fix this insanely huge problem.
But they can’t fake notarization, can they? What I’m getting from your comment is that they can send a screenshot of your id and that’s enough. If so, it is indeed a problem on the employers/legislation side. Expecting your numbers to not leak was a bad plan from the beginning. You should be able to publish these without any serious consequences for anyone involved (apart from deanonymization-related issues basically).
I’m also heavily “leaked”, but nobody can do anything with my numbers without actual counterfeiting. I could share my ids here if not for pseudonymity. The fact that your identity can be legally hired into a company without your proven id hard copies, that’s the root of the problem, imo.
It’s pretty trivial to commit a variety of frauds against you, and moderate difficult to get valid ID impersonating you. I worked with a non-federal US government entity that employed many investigators who spent 80% of their time looking into what you’re talking about. With the exception of simple frauds addressed with facial recognition (usually people impersonating dead or disabled relatives to avoid consequences of DWI or divorce), they felt that they weren’t scratching the surface.
The US is plagued by stupid right wing people who think that ID is satanic, and stupid left wing people who think that ID by nature will marginalize poor people. Because we’ve allowed the federal government to outsource ID to the states, the US is stuck with inadequate identity framework for a long time.
In my experience, National Security tends to mean the security of (primarily) the US Gov and (secondarily) Gov contractors and major campaign donors. National Security applies to individuals when justification is needed to deploy systems that surveil Americans (not suspected of a crime).
> For a long time the U.S. military resisted the use of PALs. It feared the loss of its own independence, and it feared malfunction, which could put warheads out of action in a time of crisis.
Why anyone would use Chrome blows my mind a bit. Brave is a superior browser in every single aspect of a browser and as of rn - you do not see ads on the Internet.
Because Brave is just trying to build their own ad-network under the guise of being "privacy" oriented. It is a conflict of interest trying to get profitable selling user data while also claiming to block it. When first installed the their own ad and crypto stuff is enabled-by-default. Then throw in a few nefarious incidents, such as the affiliate link-hijacks a few years ago, and it is hard to trust them.
No browser is safe from capitalistic rot at this point.
Ads in and of themselves don't mean a browser isn't privacy-focused. In fact the most privacy focused one I can think of, Duckduckgo, is monetized by ads. All of Duckduckgo is. They're just not personalized.
I use Ungoogled Chromium (download from Github) that has all the tracking code removed. Only downside is updates are not automatic but otherwise runs flawlessly.
God is in 3 parts that comprise a whole in their sum.
Legislative, Executive, Judicial = Govt of US
Strike 1, 2 and 3 = an out
Mind, Body, soul = A person
I could list hundreds of these examples.
3=1 is a rule found all over reality. The easiest way to create something that will exist for awhile, as it has a sound foundation, is build the foundation in 3 parts that make the whole.
Almost all dichotomies have a hidden third aspect. The fight is over how obvious it was at the time - the church was scared people may discover the secret way to create like the divine, so they convoluted it until they couldn't understand it uniformly anymore.
The dead are dead - they cannot hear those prayers. God may be able to but if he hears our laments to our lost loved ones, even if we ask them to help us, I cannot conceive how he could anything but pity us, he loves us after all.
People punish - Jesus loves. That's a super easy way to see the lies from the truth
Ok - I'm not saying that I believe Jesus was born of a virgin and placed within the womb by an angel, I mean maybe, but very very likely Jesus was a man, Joseph was his father or his Mother for away with the biggest lie ever to cover her adultery - obviously either of those things that actually have and do happen are more likely than something that never has, save this one time... maybe.
Jesus said he was the Son of God bc WE - HUMANITY is in fact that. It's not an actual parent child relationship but 2500 years ago Jesus had nothing in his pocket to explain better than the family analogy.
The actual OG basis of almost all religious teachings in almost every religion is that WE are in fact God, living as human, experiencing his creation first hand, as US.
Jesus claimed to be the Son of God and didn't lie even if not true the way we believe it to be. It was also prolly a great way to get attention as he had a Father, ppl must have spoke of that.
I think Hannibal is owed some credit for marching elephants over the alps - I believe Rome razed and erased Carthage on their 3rd or 4th try? No matter really, it wasn't their 1st.
China wants to change the entire ordering of the world - that is a much bigger deal than the US invading Iraq or Afghanistan.
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