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China is caught in a catch-22. It needs to keep industrializing as it modernizes and raises standards of living, but that very process threatens food production [as arable land is taken up by urbanization and new industries]. If it cannot solve this problem there will be unrest.
— Jan 17, 2026 06:08AM
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Lebusa Mabolloane
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The civilian head of NATO might well be a Belgian one year, a British the next, but the military commander is always an American, and by far the greatest firepower within NATO is American.
No matter what the treaty says, NATO’s Supreme Commander ultimately answers to Washington.
— Jan 18, 2026 06:58AM
No matter what the treaty says, NATO’s Supreme Commander ultimately answers to Washington.
Lebusa Mabolloane
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USA:
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
— Jan 17, 2026 07:44AM
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
