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Originally posted by OKCGene:

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
I’ve heard it said that China owns the largest pork producer in the United States. Wonderful. Period

It's a fact. LINK

To paraphrase the old poker saying: Read'em and Weep.
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WTF


Even if there aren’t any rules prohibiting this nonsense, the rules of nature are instructive thusly.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
I’ve heard it said that China owns the largest pork producer in the United States.

Yep. Discussed back on Page 2:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Smithfield was purchased by Shuanghui Group back in 2013.

China is the largest consumer of pork products in the world by a huge margin (2x more annually than all of the EU together, and 4x more than the US), most of which comes from imported pork. And Smithfield is the largest pork producer in the world.

Pork serves as a primary component of China's consumer price index/inflation gauge, and the Chinese government keeps tight control over pork prices, with generous subsidies to the pork industry and even the establishment of the world's only strategic pork reserve for price stabilization purposes.

All Chinese companies are controlled by the Chinese government to one extent or another. So by controlling the largest pork producer in the world, they have greater control over pork prices, and therefore greater control over their inflation rate and economic stability.

They're playing pork chess, not pork checkers.

Well this made me feel just peachy. When asked on Friday, Biden responded thusly.....Biden says he'll send troops to Eastern Europe in 'near term'

Even the Ukrainian president is fed up with Biden and his cast of morons. In response to Biden's blathering, the Ukraine president has disagreed, arguing that an invasion is not imminent and taking issue with the heightened rhetoric of U.S. officials.

We are truly being ruled by the stupidest people on the fricking planet right now!

I offer a couple American alternatives to Smithfield pork. I stopped buying Smithfield after the China buyout and their quality took a nose dive. I have been more than pleased with both of these suppliers. I somewhat prefer the Cheshire in some cuts particularly the pork belly but you won't go wrong with either and you are supporting American pork producers. In addition search out local farmers in you're area. Facebook marketplace or Craigslist is a good starting point. Also your local Ag extension will often have a list compiled of local farmers licensed to sell retail. Let the Chinamen have all the feedlot pork they want.

Cheshire Pork

Berkshire Pork

I have a good friend who is a clinical data manager for a pharma and he said a study just opened up in the Ukraine and he’s got 3 doctors from there as part of this. He asked one of them how they are handling things over there and they said they are going about their business as usual, no one is in a panic except the United States who seems to be wanting war more than anyone else.

This demented fool is going to end up starting a shooting war in Europe and God help us if he starts World War III.

Hey, but at least we don’t have any more mean tweets, right?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/...aine-diplomacy-push/

"But according to a Macron aide, Putin told the French leader in a call lasting more than an hour that he had “no offensive plans.”

In Washington, Biden nevertheless said he would soon send a small number of US troops to bolster the NATO presence in eastern Europe as tensions remain heightened."

During his talks with Macron, Putin “expressed no offensive plans and said he wanted to continue the talks with France and our allies,” the aide to the French president said.

Their conversation “enabled us to agree on the need for a de-escalation,” the aide told journalists. Putin “said very clearly that he did not want confrontation.”



What if all this saber rattling from JB is all theatrics? Russia and Ukrainian leaders come to a resolution and JB can take center stage and say he saved the world from another war?

BuzzFeed News, quoting source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

“Americans are safer in Kyiv than they are in Los Angeles ... or any other crime-ridden city in the US.”

Well, if we get into WWIII and have to draft all the millennials and snowflakes..........

Putin might be a southpaw, watch is on the right wrist.

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Well, if we get into WWIII and have to draft all the millennials and snowflakes..........

I hate to say it but I don't think this country would survive a major war that depended on conscription.

We are becoming a tower of babel without a unifying culture or purpose.

We will more resemble the Austro-Hungarian Army of WW1 than the American Army that won WW2.

Putin splits NATO and cuts out Biden

Seems like Biden wants a shooting war.

No, he was given permission to show some bravado. permission given by both adversaries, that hold all the info on this severely compromised fool and his son.

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"But according to a Macron aide, Putin told the French leader in a call lasting more than an hour that he had “no offensive plans.”

Uh-huh. That's why Russia has two whole field Armies parked on the border and is moving assets into Belarus.

As to Ukraine saying there's nothing to worry about; bullshit. I notice they haven't refused a single weapons shipment from anybody. Oh, and just ignore the fact that Ukraine is dusting off old bomb shelters and citizen militia's seem to be forming up.

You don't spend the kind of money Russia has (and really cant afford) to put the kind of firepower on Ukraine's border that they have and then not use it.

Russia is going to attack unless Ukraine surrenders before the first shots ring out.

As to president Potato-head, he (or more likely his handlers) may well want a war in Europe for whatever reason but other than being encouraged by US weakness Putin's going to do what Putin's going to do.

And Putin is going to take Ukraine.

If I had a nation and other nations started shipping me weapons tomorrow I wouldn’t refuse any of them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...-NATO-squabbles.html


Putin splits NATO and cuts out Biden: Russian president agrees to hold talks with Germany, France and Ukraine as squabbling NATO countries fail to decide joint troop deployment and Joe says he'll go it alone

Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to meet with Germany, France and Ukraine over the Ukraine-Russian border crisis
The European-led talk, which will be held in two weeks in Berlin, is said to focus on ''de-escalation' and excludes NATO and the US
Joe Biden on Friday evening said that he would be moving some troops to Eastern Europe - but 'not too many' - as tensions mount in Ukraine
Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops around Ukraine after a steady buildup in the region and may be planning an invasion in February
Chairman of Joint Chiefs Gen Milley warned of 'horrific' consequences if Russia put its 100,000-plus force to work on an invasion
Hours earlier Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that the world was overreacting to the threat of a Russian invasion of his country
Zelensky chided world leaders for their public statements, saying 'we don't need this panic' and condemning the withdrawal of diplomats
UK intelligence source suggested Putin will continue massing forces for 'two or three weeks' before attacking

A friend of mine in Ukraine previously said it's all B.S. and nothing to worry about. I'm going to ask again how it is now.

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A friend of mine in Ukraine previously said it's all B.S. and nothing to worry about. I'm going to ask again how it is now.

My numerous Ukrainian friends say that they are all Russian. This is a flipping Civil War made up by Biden.