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"Western wealth should be dispensed cautiously and with clarified purpose, not carelessly and with misrepresented sloganeering guiding the conversation."

Another pearl David. It is sad that our 'leaders' cannot see and act on the wisdom in this statement.

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Wow, you need a talented editor. This may have been proofed by "yes" men & women. Your critical thinking is misty. I read this because of Grant Williams' recommendation of you via Twitter.

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Another interesting read, cheers xxx

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We are living in Neil Howe's Fourth Turning. We will have what we had in our Grandparent's Fourth Turning. Lots of Poverty, Gibbitude and Disparity. To quote David Byrne from The Talking Heads "Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it EVER WAS..." Enjoy Today for Tomorrow we Toil...

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I like the humour mixed with hard reality....our fp should be revamped to current expectations with the world as we find it, not as we want it to be. Trump had the right ideal, but foolish implementation.

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Recently viewed Kingsman movie… the underlying message pairs well with this IMHO. War & killing is never ok

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War is almost always the result of economics, since the caveman beat his neighbor about his head and shoulders, to get better rocks for weapon making. The United Staes has been a more than willing participant. I lost many brothers, in Vietnam, that began as a request from the British and French, to remove the Vietnam Minh from the “French Rubber Plantations.”

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You have succumbed to illogical thinking about why the US went into Vietnam. It was to stop Russian satellite state expansion and nothing to do with helping French Rubber interests (Principal supplier to Michelin Tyre Company).

Your comment about the British rubber interests in Vietnam encouraging American involvement is nonsense. The OVERWHELMING and VAST majority of British rubber plantations were in Malaysia Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and Singapore. This is obvious as these were part of the British Empire. The French used Vietnam as their main rubber supplier because in was part of their empire and over 90% over the capacity was French owned. Of the remaining 9+% these were almost all owned by Vietnamese and Chinese capitalists. there are several sites on the web about rubber in Vietnam. A good like to a clear historical article is https://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jad/article/view/14675

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