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1 hour ago, BLA said:

.   .   .   and Chevron ends up with their biggest Iraq oil contract 

.   .   .   .   .   yet China ends up with the biggest Iraq contracts

Yes quite a world of abject BS we live in...is it not?  It lives in the same vein that Russia and Germany thrive in...Russia has huge gas contracts with Germany....and Germany wants US troops on the ground to support their way of life and cannot even meet there own obligations to the UN

And Merkel declares Trump is a A@@ for no longer playing her game.....Menopause on the highest order....

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11 minutes ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

Yes quite a world of abject BS we live in...is it not?  It lives in the same vein that Russia and Germany thrive in...Russia has huge gas contracts with Germany....and Germany wants US troops on the ground to support their way of life and cannot even meet there own obligations to the UN

And Merkel declares Trump is a A@@ for no longer playing her game.....Menopause on the highest order....

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-poll-germany-supports-us-troop-removal-trump-merkel-2020-8

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/08/11/you-wouldnt-know-it-from-the-coverage-but-most-germans-are-fine-with-trumps-withdrawal-of-us-troops/

Just leave, everybody will be happy

Edited August 25, 2020 by Hotone

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38 minutes ago, Hotone said:

https://www.dw.com/en/nearly-half-of-germans-in-favor-of-us-military-withdrawal-survey/a-54427490

Good for the German People, they do not need to be a welfare state of any dimension. While Germany has had some difficult history they also have made enormous contributions to the world. They are more than capable of independence and pride.

Perhaps in the future we can once again be equal trading partners, right now it is about  65 billion a year deficit...https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/06/01/heres-why-germanys-trade-surplus-us-so-big/102349370/

Edited August 25, 2020 by Eyes Wide Open

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6 hours ago, BLA said:

.   .   .   and Chevron ends up with their biggest Iraq oil contract 

.   .   .   .   .   yet China ends up with the biggest Iraq contracts

I am currently reading "No Higher Honour" by Condoleezza Rice.  She stated something about the Chinese/Iraq relationship during the Saddam era that I had not heard of before, and was quite concerning given the current view towards China (this passage is during the time after the 1st Iraq war and before the second one where Saddam was captured):

"The no-fly zones were just one part of a complex web of constraints that the international system relied upon to keep Saddam from attacking his neighbors and his people and prevent him from rebuilding his weapons of mass destruction (WMD). And those constraints were being undermined on multiple fronts. For example, the Chinese were building a fiber-optic system in and around the capital, making it harder to track Iraq’s military communications. Saddam was finding new ways to shield his forces."

Rice, Condoleezza (2011-10-31T22:58:59). No Higher Honour . Simon & Schuster UK. Kindle Edition. 

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4 hours ago, Hotone said:

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-poll-germany-supports-us-troop-removal-trump-merkel-2020-8

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/08/11/you-wouldnt-know-it-from-the-coverage-but-most-germans-are-fine-with-trumps-withdrawal-of-us-troops/

Just leave, everybody will be happy

Yeah, it's tough to get the Armory re-stocked and ready with those damn Americans always looking over your shoulder.

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On 8/24/2020 at 10:04 PM, Hotone said:

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Edited September 18, 2020 by BLA