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ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts) Tue Dec 6, 2016, 09:15 PM Dec 2016

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"I'm glad he is getting tough with China"

Heard three times today..... Yep, ratchet up the rhetoric. Then a "Reichstag event" close enough after inauguration day so as to blame Obama for security lapses, then war on China.

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"I'm glad he is getting tough with China" (Original Post) ghostsinthemachine Dec 2016 OP

Never happen. Nothing to gain by war on China. jmg257 Dec 2016 #1

They start harassing their neighbors. yallerdawg Dec 2016 #2

How are we going to war with China we would have to buy our steel from doc03 Dec 2016 #3

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

1. Never happen. Nothing to gain by war on China.

Reply to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)

Tue Dec 6, 2016, 09:16 PM

Dec 2016

For either side.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

2. They start harassing their neighbors.

Reply to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)

Tue Dec 6, 2016, 09:25 PM

Dec 2016

We start an oil embargo.

They teach us a little lesson.

Next thing you know, World War II.

doc03

(35,383 posts)

3. How are we going to war with China we would have to buy our steel from

Reply to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)

Tue Dec 6, 2016, 10:18 PM

Dec 2016

them to build weapons. Nukes would be the only option.

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