Concern grows as host of US military planes descend on UK bases.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/25746135.us-military-planes-descend-airfield-near-cirencester/.

Being a wound collector is selfish. Notice how you are talking about the messenger and not the warning?

USA has been in a cold war with China for years. Picked up some when China started exporting green tech.

From the article,

The international laws and norms Trump has barged through had already been loosened by previous US administrations. The operation most closely resembles the 1990 invasion of Panama and forced surrender of its strongman, by the first Bush administration.

That was followed by the younger George Bush with the invasion of Iraq on false grounds, and his administration’s broad use of rendition of torture. Barack Obama failed to hold his predecessor’s administration to account and pursued his own legally questionable drone assassination campaign against suspected terrorists.

These are arguably discrete acts of hypocrisy by earlier presidents, who claimed exceptions from international laws in the pursuit of US interests, but mostly embraced global norms in the knowledge that the “rules-based system” overwhelmingly favoured America.

comes across as a resounding call to complacency, and is a rhetorical technique widely used by the fascists.

Nope. It’s just another warning that people will hand wave aside and ask what’s the point here and shoot the messenger.

What unfolded overnight in Venezuela will cause immediate anxiety to governments like Iran and Denmark, against whom Trump has expressed enthusiasm for taking radical action.

In recent days, Trump has said the US would come to the defence of Iranian anti-government protesters, and his officials have kept up a drumbeat of threats to take control of Greenland by any necessary means. Last month, the Danish Defence Intelligence Service labelled the US as a security risk, a declaration that would have been unthinkable just a short time ago for a Nato ally.

It accelerates the slide from a mostly rules-based world to one of competing spheres of influence, to be determined by armed might and the readiness to use it. One American commentator, David Rothkopf, called it the “Putinization of US foreign policy”.

Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America’s domain just as Ukraine was under the Russian shadow. Vladimir Putin thinks the same of much of eastern Europe.

That’s kinda my point. In USA the price of solar has always been expensive. It’s now really cheap. Just not in USA. China made it affordable. USA made it expensive again.

Same thing with EVs.

What happens when people in America find out how much sunshine costs?

I suspect around when that happens interest in battery powered cars will increase.

There’s also no question that, for now, gasoline cars are selling better in second-tier markets, such as Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, with scarce EV-charging infrastructure.

Longer term, Beijing aims to dominate EVs and plug-in hybrids globally. But in the interim, many Chinese automakers are building overseas brands by giving customers whatever they want.

You know people can read the article right?

The dispute is an example of how Europe is caught between Washington and Beijing in their rivalry over trade and tech.

Netherlands issued its seizure order after the United States last year put Wingtech on its “entity list” of companies that face export controls, and then expanded it in September to include subsidiaries including Nexperia.

Keeping oil prices down slows down the green energy transition. That’s it.

If that seems odd to you then read up on what China has been doing with green energy. Then USA.

The world runs on fossil fuels. What happens when China stops playing that game?

The weird part is foreign investment kinda ignored all the Chinese real estate investments outside of China done by China nationals.

Rich people don’t like poor people having money. Especially when they don’t spend it in service based economies. Doubly so when it comes to the stock market.

The peer-reviewed report, written by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Climate Analytics and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, aims to focus attention on the supply side of the climate equation and the government policies that encourage or steer fossil fuel production.

What’s their bias?

Nation wide workers strike? Is this a thing? Asking for a friend in USA? /s

No easy access to legal porn means illegal porn becomes more profitable. That’s very bad.

China wants USA stable and sane. Weak or strong USA isn’t a priority right now.

People tend to forget how afraid China is of USA. Last time Trump was in office Milley had to call China a couple of times to tell them USA was not going to implode and attack China.

Someone has to make hard decisions when other people won’t make sane decisions. No one wants Trump to start WW3 with China. No one.

Remember what just happened when China hit the off switch on rare earth metals?

Anyone got that quote about Trump wanting to build resorts in North Korea?

The only upside… the only one, is that maybe it’ll get so bad that if Republicans lose control that maybe it will be a long time before we again give them control. Maybe.