China and oil market

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-power-armed-services-committee-a8211466.html

Now, Im not trying to be the harbinger of doom and gloom or anything like that, but I do tend to notice these type of news articles.

Its a concern when militarists start talking about specific issues and identifying specific countries. Its a greater concern if the political arena starts to echo the sentiments of the militarists.

Lets hope not.
 
TheBigShort said:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-power-armed-services-committee-a8211466.html

Now, Im not trying to be the harbinger of doom and gloom or anything like that, but I do tend to notice these type of news articles.

Its a concern when militarists start talking about specific issues and identifying specific countries. Its a greater concern if the political arena starts to echo the sentiments of the militarists.

Lets hope not.
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In the last 20-30 years, from desert storm to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, it has been the military leaders who have offered caution and urged restraint. The problem is the politicians playing at being soldiers, thinking that war is politics by another means. Remember the new world order of George W Bush after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Within a few years we had the worst genocide since the Second World War and we have rampant and powerful police states in China and Russia attempting to reassert themselves on the world stage.

As for the term "Militarists"; I consider people like Dick Cheney and Donald Trump a better fit for that word that mould better than most men or women who wear a military uniform. An Admiral based in the region warning about what might happen is just doing his job.
 
Purple said:
The problem is the politicians playing at being soldiers, thinking that war is politics by another means. Remember the new world order of George W Bush after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Within a few years we had the worst genocide since the Second World War
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I presume you talking about bosnia here, in fairness that was not the fault of the US , in fact they were blamed for taking too long to intervene. In fact the racial tensions within the balkans were actually contained by the overarching military response of the cold war. In other words if the soviet union did not collapse there would not have been a civil war in the balkans.
 
No, I'm talking about Rwanda. Bosnia was a walk in the park by comparison.
And the USA aren't to blame for that though, like everyone else, they did nothing to stop it.
My original point is that people who have fought in wars are generally the ones who don't want to start the next one.
 
TheBigShort said:
According to this article

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.blo...utures-are-finally-here-what-you-need-to-know

China is set to shake up oil futures market.
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I think this is pretty big news.

As it stands, oil exporters store the revenue from their U.S. oil sales in Treasury bonds - a process known as “petro-dollar recycling.” As a result, the rise of the petro-yuan would also jeopardize a key source of financing for U.S. deficit spending.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...althcare-venture-for-13-billion-idUSKBN1H30FK
 
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