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AM64 said:
Common sense would be that the US labor market finally realizes their competition isn't literally next door or in another state.
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OK, let me try this angle. What if I threw out the possibility that we have had a misallocation of wages over the past 40 years? Or labor has been mispriced for the last 40 years. Meaning, that trades/crafts and people that actually are involved in making real product in the real world have been underpaid, while lawyers, govt bureaucrats, bankers and "administrators" have been overpaid?
 
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EasternVol said:
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Yes there are territorial disputes between other countries. Only PRC is actively stealing other's territory and militarizing it. Their 9 dash line map which they use to justify their claims is bogus. Philippines took them to arbitration in the Hague over Scarborough and won, but PRC refuses to relinquish the territory.
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Funny thing about the Philippines - they didn't want us around so we closed bases and left; now that China is acting warlike they are cooperating with us again. Maybe not to the point of reestablishing military bases, but we're doing some joint exercises with them on their turf. Now that they are seeing themselves as China's lunch, having friends seems appealing.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
OK, let me try this angle. What if I threw out the possibility that we have had a misallocation of wages over the past 40 years? Or labor has been mispriced for the last 40 years. Meaning, that trades/crafts and people that actually are involved in making real product in the real world have been underpaid, while lawyers, govt bureaucrats, bankers and "administrators" have been overpaid?
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No question overhead has been way out of line - too much administration and too highly priced. It's possible that at least some labor rates are unreasonably low, but I'd argue that nobody working here is underpriced when compared to the world labor market.
 
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AM64 said:
Funny thing about the Philippines - they didn't want us around so we closed bases and left; now that China is acting warlike they are cooperating with us again. Maybe not to the point of reestablishing military bases, but we're doing some joint exercises with them on their turf. Now that they are seeing themselves as China's lunch, having friends seems appealing.
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I think pushback against our support of Marcos Sr had a lot to do with the base closures after his fall.
Then Duterte tried kissing PRC’s tail but PRC continued the grab.
Now with Marcos Jr it’s back to US bases there. I think 3 are agreed as of now,
 
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EasternVol said:
I think pushback against our support of Marcos Sr had a lot to do with the base closures after his fall.
Then Duterte tried kissing PRC’s tail but PRC continued the grab.
Now with Marcos Jr it’s back to US bases there. I think 3 are agreed as of now,
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I haven't looked at the politics there for a long time, but I'm glad to see some cooperation between us and the Philippines. We've got too much history together to throw it all away.
 
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AM64 said:
Funny thing about the Philippines - they didn't want us around so we closed bases and left; now that China is acting warlike they are cooperating with us again. Maybe not to the point of reestablishing military bases, but we're doing some joint exercises with them on their turf. Now that they are seeing themselves as China's lunch, having friends seems appealing.
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Filipinos are mercurial people.
They still are at the dinner table with, and explaining to them that these exercises are just to strengthen their forces.

Always looking for a handout. If China were smarter they could just buy the Filipinos loyalty.
In addition to not meddling to much with their affairs.

In truth however, the US goverment never really left the PI. CIA is everywhere there. As are special forces. Now we have thousands of regular military there.
 
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There has been an acceleration in Western business withdrawal from China. There will be escalating employment issues.
 
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AM64 said:
Considering the physical and mental unfitness of the kids currently volunteering for the military, that might be a good thing if you believe it's not just an entire wasted generation. On the other hand the kids enlisting now might actually be representative of the generation as a whole, and we really are totally screwed.
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Yep, I don't think we could win a war with the generation coming of age today, they're too weak and immature. Our only hope is to scare off any potential invader with nuclear destruction.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Overweight soldiers with dangerous drones.
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The only thing a drone generation would do is ensure that the overweight problem would end because if they thought the supply chain problem during the corona virus is bad, they wouldn't know what hit them if a real war broke out. No crap from Amazon or Walmart, no pharmaceutical drugs, no pre-packaged food in the frozen section.
 
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davethevol said:
It’s coming, and our leaders have been asleep at the wheel for over decade. China has made very clear their intentions and we don’t have a long term plan to deal with the fallout. They will not wait until Biden’s term is up.
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We knew they were building this up for 20 years now. So stupid.
 
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Orangeburst said:
North Korea Has Tested Its First Solid Fuel ICBM (Updated)

Might be time for Japan to do the unthinkable
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Japan has been considering a change in their constitution to extend the military to more than simple self defense. To be honest they pretty much have to at this point. A real defense can't be limited to just passively waiting for an enemy to cross a line and then trying to stop further penetration. Even a staunch ally can't put their trust in the US as run by people like biden to protect them.

We currently are playing musical chairs with fighter squadrons based in Japan, F-35s don't have the legs or the reliability/logistics to fill the need, and you shoot down the tanker support and it all goes to crap. The AF variant of the F-35 has a combat range of 670 nautical miles - the Navy version is more limited - the Marine version is a joke - simply doesn't work for the Pacific area of operations. F-22s are very limited, and remaining F-15Cs are almost relics at this point.

The second article is downright scary. That anybody would even consider the "just in time" logistics idiocy for anything beyond basic manufacturing is nuts. It wasn't even near the task when supplies were disrupted a couple of years ago - unavailability of one simple chip shut down industries.

HASC report finds that F-35C lacks the range to strike enemy targets - The Aviation Geek Club

How The F-35’s Lack Of Spare Parts Became As Big A Threat As Enemy Missiles
 
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