13 Months and Biden has given Putin the ability to divide NATO, that must be part of Building Back Better.

I’ve also heard a theory about why the Democrats seem so panicked about Ukraine is that they do a whole lot of money laundering through there and don’t want that discovered and shut down, hence why it seems like the Biden regime seems to be the only ones beating the drums of war.

That and it’s a distraction from the colossal failure also known as Biden. It would give the fraudulent and perpetually dishonest legacy media something else to focus on for a while besides how much their guy manages to turn everything he touches into shit.

I beginning to think that this administration lies about everything.

The leftist trash backed administration will declare sometime in the next 2-2.5 years that they defeated Covid and averted war with Russia and China. After Biden’s disastrous first year, it’s really all they have left.

Can you imagine being the poor schmuck who has to write Biden’s State of the Union address?

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Originally posted by Edmond:
Talking to friends who are still in the industry and from past experience, lots of Chinese are coming to central Florida and buying large homes. They're outbidding Americans by significant amounts and pricing the Americans out of the housing market and turning them into renters.

Example: friend is a sales lady for a large builder, her husband is also sales for an even larger builder. The larger builder has buyers bidding on homes. Young couple is looking at a home listing for $350k and they bid $355k to be competitive. Chinese come in and bid $375k and win it. No intentions of living there.

Another friend is building $650k vacation homes by Disney, he's built 6 for the same Chinese buyer renting it out as vacation home for people visiting Disney. If the Chinese for such commies, how does a dude buy 6 homes for $650k each?

Every time you buy shit from Amazon, you are giving the Chinese American money to price us out of buying homes in our own country. We are killing ourselves. China needs us more than we need them.

Chinese are investing in hard assets in stable countries with reliable banking systems. Remember, in China the government owns all the land and people have 75 year leases. The original 75 year leases that started in 1948 are due to expire in 2023. Lot of people are unsure what's going to happen - extension of leases, or confiscation of land for other uses. One friend of mine in Southern China lives in one floor of a 4 story family house. In the past she said that the government could take it, tear it down, build apartments and given them an apartment in compensation. But it would be no where near the actual value taken.

Someone else told me that gov't people have enriched themselves repurposing land for commercial development, resulting in a glut of luxury apartments that people are not buying and the fabled "ghost cities" of buildings with no people. Since they own the land, they lease it to a developer who then builds with low or zero interest government loans. Somehow everyone makes money, even if the units never sell.

Then there are the Chinese stock markets which are not very well regulated. It's still pre-1929 with lots of corruption and insider trading and other instabilities. Very risky to invest.

Then there's the banking system. I have been told that government officials can take money out of the banks with demand notes. Basically a low or zero interest loan. Then they embezzle the money and invest outside China in hard assets. So the banks have been pilfered of their reserves and any significant increase in withdrawal rates caused by signs of potential collapse will create a massive run on the banks.

The end game is economic collapse when the house of cards falls down. All those US assets are the parachutes for the wealthy and the government people. You can get a green card by investing enough money in the US. $1M will do it from what I have been told.

This is what single party rule does. The government and connected people steal everything they can from the public, because there is no one to stop them. California, Illinois, and New York are not much different.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
Talking to friends who are still in the industry and from past experience, lots of Chinese are coming to central Florida and buying large homes. They're outbidding Americans by significant amounts and pricing the Americans out of the housing market and turning them into renters.

Every metro-area on the West Coast has large home/property ownership by Chinese nationals. Many of them have their kids attending US universities, the kids stay in the States use the home and the parents have a place to come visit. Orlando over the last 20-25 years has evolved from being timeshare-central, to an international community.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Chinese are investing in hard assets in stable countries with reliable banking systems.

Considering what's been happening with the Evergrande-episode and how that's been playing-out, we're going to see a lot more Chinese nationals looking to buy-up property, and not just here in the US but, other countries as well. Over in the UK & France, lots of property is owned by wealthy Gulf State citizens; same deal they've got the capitol but, the country they're from is unstable. Bankers, developers and sellers will gladly take their money but, what's the societal cost?

What's the secret to life....buy land.

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Chinese are investing in hard assets in stable countries with reliable banking systems.

I believe in two way streets. If a US Citizen can not do the same in China, then a Chinese Citizen should not be able to do it here.

In addition to many so willing to give China money, we also seem to have a problem giving them better access to our country than they give us to theirs.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Chinese are investing in hard assets in stable countries with reliable banking systems.

That brings to mind this 2021 article from Forbes about a Chinese billionaire buying up land in Texas.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
That and it’s a distraction from the colossal failure also known as Biden. It would give the fraudulent and perpetually dishonest legacy media something else to focus on for a while besides how much their guy manages to turn everything he touches into shit.

'If' that is what he's doing then he's made his biggest mistake to date. The American public are already ahead of the game on this BS, and 'any' military monkey business in Ukraine will bring universal condemnation regardless what the media trots out. This is a no win for Biden and yet again he appears way too stupid to get it.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
In addition to many so willing to give China money, we also seem to have a problem giving them better access to our country than they give us to theirs.

That's what owning US politicians will do for you. How do you think some of these morons sporting IQ's of 90 with zero useful skills filling up offices in Washington end up retiring from Congress as multi-millionaires. Face it, we've been sold out be the people who are supposed to be representing 'us'.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
13 Months and Biden has given Putin the ability to divide NATO, that must be part of Building Back Better.

The Germans did that when they decided to shut down all of their coal and nuke plants and instead suck on the sweet teat of natural gas from Mother Russia.

What can he or his allies point to as a success? Ukraine is a chance to give the propagandist media something to talk about other than Biden’s declining approval and list of failures and fuck ups. This is a group of people who have a history of hiding behind lies of objectivity and honesty while doing the exact opposite.

The guy and his puppet master are fucking morons so your guess is as good as mine.

It could even be a bit of stock market manipulation to help his insider trader friends cash in on crashes and rallies they intentionally sought to influence via beating on the war drums etc.

State Dept. is now telling US citizens they have 24-48 hrs to get out of Ukraine.

So glad we have pres.potato head in charge. Gives me the warm-fuzzies

And we just sent over like 4-5 B-52's yesterday.

Biden WANTS this

NO ONE ELSE DOES

Fuck this demented old fucker, he better not get us into WWIII and blow up this world for my young children.

Fox is reporting that Russia has sent their invasion plans to the US military. Why would they do that?

LGBrandon’s response to an invasion of Ukraine by Russia is to send 3,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne to Poland.

Poland, which Putin has no plans to invade.

Not Ukraine, where 3,000 lightly armed troops might make a 5-day delay in the outcome.

It is an interesting situation.

But less frantic or critical than many cold-war situations were (Berlin, Hungary, Cuba, Quemoy-Matsu, Gulf of Tonkin, etc.).

Our participation in NATO does not obligate us to fight the Russkies in the Ukraine. (If they invade Latvia, or Poland, etc., Article 5 of the NATO Treaty obligates us to come to the aid of the invaded NATO partner nation. But Putin isn't poised to do that right now).

NATO has worked well for 70 years. The USSR massed troops in Eastern Europe and never invaded a NATO country, mostly because we were there. Overall, a united NATO has more troops, more technology, and a lot more money that Russia - which is a pale shadow of the USSR.

I think we should be more worried that weak western politicians will bargain away something to the Russkies they don't deserve so they will stop threatening Ukraine.

Invading Ukraine would be a big deal for Putin. Do the Russkies want to be immortalized in social media slaughtering European (Ukrainian) civilians? If that happens, NATO will be seen as more important than ever and the US will retain its role as the leader. Maybe it will make the Europeans get on board re: China, and trade more with the US, and maybe buy more US energy exports. Maybe Russia's economy will be trashed by cancellation of Nordstream and expulsion from SWIFT. What happens if the Russkies lose a lot of troops in a foreign adventure (the 15,000 troops lost in Afghanistan helped bring down the Soviet Union).

Maybe Putin will be fired.

The U.S. is actually in a good situation here - Putin is overextended and we are being steady in supporting NATO. The troops send to Poland and Romania, the four destroyers sent to Europe, the B-52's going to Fairford, the F-15s going to Poland, all show the NATO countries that we are all-in for NATO. They are not intended to deal with the Russians in the Ukraine, per so, but to show our allies we will honor the alliance. Diplomatically the Germans and French are waffling like usual, and only the U.S. is living up to our promises to NATO.

Our leaders just need to be steady, maybe make a little less noise, and let Putin do what Putin is going to do. It may not work out well for him.

Always look on the Bright Side of Life.

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Originally posted by RoverSig:

...Our participation in NATO does not obligate us to fight the Russkies in the Ukraine...

Agree. But what about the Budapest Memorandum? We offered "security assurances."

IIRC, Obama (and his VP) did nothing when Russia took over part of Crimea, I'm not sure it was worth going to war over. Giving in to bullies rarely ends well, but neither does going to war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._Security_Assurances

I have zero confidence that the Biden Regime can do anything wisely, this is no exception.