To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (146054 ) 2/16/2019 5:09:59 PM From: TobagoJack Respond to of 217896 I 'can' count on some rules of the game, them being ... generically (1) some choosing are time sensitive, and if not made, is in any case made - i.e. Huawei 5G for Germany (2) some choices are asymmetric, i.e. team USA uses only a bit of huawei and a decision to ban is meaningless, whereas for other states more a matter of have vs have-not (3) some choices might be right in the short term and very wrong over a decade, Japan banning Huawei today involves little pain (assuming outright societal as opposed government sector ban) by may bite and hard 10 years later (4) other choices might hurt today and hurt more tomorrow, i.e. Australia banning Huawei today involves pain, to Australia, and more pain later, relative to Indonesia etc etc (5) win or lose, nations are tee-ed up to choose, old world order, that which is crumbling, or free trade, that they know is the sustainable future ... (6) I 'can' observe ... (6-i) china is a continental economy with strategic depth (6-ii) dna is intertwined into America more than acknowledged by deep-state msm (6-iii) holds trump card, that which we know as rare earth (6-iv) is open for commerce with any and all (6-v) is not milling time (6-vi) is closing gap on some and leaping ahead in other undertakings (6-vii) enough arms & legs, but more important, lots of brains (6-viii) has a plan, executing script, tracking well, and not systemically distracted (6-ix) imperatives give rise to solutions (6-x) mostly unity in objective even if varies at the edge by method / approach (6-xi) is not making a nuisance I wait to see if I am correct (7) I do need potus trump to double down, so as to ... (7-i) de-risk the wagers I can make (7-ii) expose the deep-agents / agenda in the arena (7-iii) drain the swamp the olive-watchers of this world might be missing things by trying to connect olives to each other by the branches, talking wayo pizza, and advising Africa to say 'no' to tagging along for the ride towards progress and advancement maybe best to start from premise based on broad sweep of history-matters, and put faith in mathematics-rule time shall tell