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To: skinowski who wrote (588408)	11/29/2015 7:44:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 794214

1.3 billion vs 0.15 billion with the 1.3 billion increasingly wealthy. Good article, thanks. <In the article (which I link) they see the implications are generally negative - but who knows... Maybe they'll find a constructive way of working things out.> It's only negative from the Russian point of view. From Made in China's point of view, its sensible that Siberia become part of China, as it was when Genghis Khan and descendants spread all over the map. Mexico is taking over the southern USA and they have relatively few and comparatively poor people to do it. With China having ten times the population and big heaps of money and much need for natural resources, the logic is that the Made in China swarm will nab the cheese [as per my ant wars of 1974 in Spain over bits of cheese] Interestingly, the ant wars were really only skirmishes as the respective ant swarms worked out which gang had the relative advantage due to geography, mandible power, poison potion, numbers. The underpowered would simply surrender the cheese and retreat. Many kinds of ants were good experimental subjects. Interestingly, a tiny little ant nest succeeded against a nest of monsters about 50 times the size [by mass]. The big brutes could only lunge at the dirt chomping away, hoping to get a micro ant hunkered down among the dust. The micro ants would swarm all over the monsters and obviously were able to do enough damage to win with sufficient numbers. A bit like USA Terminators vs Afghan jihadists. Russia will shrivel and China expand. USA should HELP Russia and Putin. But Zbig is a prisoner of his past and the Cold War Chicken Hawk warriors still think there's something useful in defeating Russia. Islam [yes, the actual philosophical foundation, not just "extremists"] and totalitarian China are the threats. But the way USA and the so-called "free" world are going, it's not a slam dunk that jihad won't win as it did for 1000 years by freeing the local yokels from the brutal depredations of their rulers. China is taking over New Zealand in the same way that England did 170 years ago = more goods, hordes more people, more cash on the barrel-head and eventually with military power and economic amalgamation. China is apparently doing the same in Siberia. Also Africa and a lot more besides. Learning mandarin in NZ and Siberia [and Africa] is probably a good idea. Mqurice