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To: TobagoJack who wrote (127331)	12/30/2016 12:35:58 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218043

See my reply to Snowshoe which I quote here. “The geographical size, population, and natural resources of the British Isles would suggest that it ought to possess 3 or 4% of the world’s wealth and power, all other things being equal; but it is precisely because all other things are never equal that a peculiar set of circumstances permitted the British Isles to expand to possess, say 25% of the world’s wealth and power in its prime; and since those favorable circumstances have disappeared, all that it has being doing is returning down to its more ‘natural’ size. In the same way, it may be argued that the geographical extent, population, and natural resources of the U.S. suggest that it ought to possess perhaps 16 or 19% of the world’s wealth and power, but because of historical and technical circumstances favourable to it, that share rose to 40% or more by 1945; and what we are witnessing at the moment is the early decades of the ebbing away from that extraordinarily high figure to a more ‘natural’ share.” Kennedy Paul, (1988), The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Fontana Press, London. Please got get some culture

To: TobagoJack who wrote (127331)	12/30/2016 12:49:12 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218043

Self appointed herald of the new China has, after decade and half, put on his place by Elmat who is showing the thread what China really is: a giant with mud feet. Doing as favor for TJ as he has a family to support. The power of a Thread is in the ideas and the caliber of the postings. I had always wanted to right the China issue and had not first because it would be humiliating but it has gone too far, to keep the charade going it would be akin to avoid telling the king has no clothes. Thus I decided to show the reality. I don't bash like people shorting China or throwing muck at it. I am showing that the whole thing smacks of a scam.