Nah, Mr Starmer, our esteemed PM, ain't no tractor - he's a Trabbi - do use your browser of choice to check out that vehicle, developed and built in the socialist East German DDR, with a waiting list of 8 years ...
"There is a US military base on the Chagos island of Diego Garcia, which lies strategically situated in the Indian Ocean controlling sea lanes in which the expansionist Chinese Government is keenly interested".
Do you have the slightest sense of irony or proportion? A US military base literally almost exactly on the opposite side of the planet from the USA. But you object to the Chinese government wanting some influence over sea lanes that are vital to its economy and prosperity.
Perhaps - if so, between a military empire and a commercial one. China's weapons are intelligence, hard work, cooperation, low prices, and the ability to defend itself if it is forced to.
I prefer that kind of empire to the B-52 - napalm - 800 foreign bases type.
China is working smarter, though as to peaceableness there is the issue of Tibet - and China's claims on Arunachal Pradesh etc. This is the first phase.
I'm amazed that the US didn't use money instead of armaments - no I'm not, there's the arms manufacturers and their lobbyists. Lethal greed.
Why would you condemn a pony to be an emotional support for Starmer? An alligator, I could get behind. Or a hippo. Anything big, with teeth.
Perhaps an Eeyore.
Wasn't there a Heffalump somewhere in the story?
It could squash insignificant things ...
Nah, Mr Starmer, our esteemed PM, ain't no tractor - he's a Trabbi - do use your browser of choice to check out that vehicle, developed and built in the socialist East German DDR, with a waiting list of 8 years ...
I'd heard of those.
His father was a toolmaker, true, but not a very good one it seems.
Of course! That explains it!
"There is a US military base on the Chagos island of Diego Garcia, which lies strategically situated in the Indian Ocean controlling sea lanes in which the expansionist Chinese Government is keenly interested".
Do you have the slightest sense of irony or proportion? A US military base literally almost exactly on the opposite side of the planet from the USA. But you object to the Chinese government wanting some influence over sea lanes that are vital to its economy and prosperity.
This is a struggle between empires.
Perhaps - if so, between a military empire and a commercial one. China's weapons are intelligence, hard work, cooperation, low prices, and the ability to defend itself if it is forced to.
I prefer that kind of empire to the B-52 - napalm - 800 foreign bases type.
How many foreign military bases does China have?
China is working smarter, though as to peaceableness there is the issue of Tibet - and China's claims on Arunachal Pradesh etc. This is the first phase.
I'm amazed that the US didn't use money instead of armaments - no I'm not, there's the arms manufacturers and their lobbyists. Lethal greed.
"Mauritius has zero entitlement to the Chagos Islands and never did have".
And the UK does? Seriously??
Yes, otherwise the ICJ would not be asking us to relinquish it.
“Tractor” is not among the first couple of hundred words that come to mind.
It's only one letter out.
A what?