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Well, Trump is uniting Iraq. And with a history of looting resources by force with reckless abandon to the lives of the natives, another textbook play by America. I wish the history of The United States of America wasn’t built on such blood. This is simply a symptom and presentation of American Greed. 

 

I wish we we could actually see support of Democratic Politics in the Arab Nations. All I see is hypocritical actions and force when nations decide to think for themselves. I guess if you have the biggest hammer then throwing a tissy fit when you don’t get what you want is the American Way. Damn, wish we weren’t such scared people here in America. Different is different, not bad. Acceptance and tolerance is what is needed, polarization and division is what America brought. 

 

Unfortunate. There was such tremendous potential for positive  change when Sadam was removed.

 

My mind and heart will be for the best solution for the lives of the Iraqis. I might loose my investment in IQD, but that’s ok I can always find something to do to make my way. Things always work out, just not always as I want. 

 

I certinaly hope for electriciy, clean water and education for Iraq with Equality, Liberty, and freedom of though. There has been enough bloodshed for generations.

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8 hours ago, DinarDavo said:

Flying the most pwerful leader of the free world in and out without their knowledge only shows what a bunch of bungling, inept, buffoons they really are......of course they are upset.......kinda like the democrats.

Trump's a high energy winner, and he acts like it.  God's man I say.

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23 minutes ago, Botzwana said:

I like Trump do not get me wrong.  To align God with him though.... men of God do not commit fornication with porn stars.  So if he is with God then it must have been really recently.

Samson was a man of God. Delilah was pretty much the porn star of the day. 

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5 minutes ago, Botzwana said:

I like Trump do not get me wrong.  To align God with him though.... men of God do not commit fornication with porn stars.  So if he is with God then it must have been really recently.

 I think what southbeach meant was, Trump is on the side of God. He wants to do good for America and its people. 

Hey botz, who would you consider a man of God.

No one is perfect except God. Trump is not perfect. A billionaire had a extra marital affair. If that makes Prez. Trump not a gods man, you better include a lot of inperfect men and woman including a lot of preists and nuns, that have done much worse like raping little girls and boys, theft and corruption, murder. Tell me who is Godly 100% without a doubt? 

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26 minutes ago, Botzwana said:

I like Trump do not get me wrong.  To align God with him though.... men of God do not commit fornication with porn stars.  So if he is with God then it must have been really recently.

All men have fallen short, and have sinned!! I believe President Trump has asked and been forgiven of his sins! He is the President not a Preacher!

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Not saying God condones such behavior. Who knows what what will happen to Trump in the end. I believe God uses imperfect people and they may not even know it. LOL, even though I am a Trump supporter, he is arrogant enough to be one of those people .

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Iran's policy severely attacks Trump's "banditry" visit to Iraq

Iran strongly attacks Trump's "banditry" visit to Iraq
 
 Twilight News    
 
 5 hours ago
 
 

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasimi criticized the US president's visit to Iraq as "a lack of respect for Iraqi sovereignty." 
"As Mr. Trump said in his speech at the rally of the US military at the base of 'Ayn al-Assad' (air-west of Iraq), despite their countless interventions and their expenses by the thousands of billions of dollars they paid at the expense of their irrefutable reputation for the American people, The presence of illegal military and illegal in the region, especially Iraq, it is forced to enter the territory of one of the countries of the region in a completely secret or rather banditry and under the most security-security measures and be subjected to such criticism from analysts and indifference of Iraqi officials and the opposition of the Iraqi people.
"The governments and peoples of the region never allow foreign aggressors and untouchables to take advantage of things to provoke discrimination among countries in the region," he said. 
"It is not America that is hungry and supportive of terrorism in every sense of the word. It is the people of the conscious region that have been able to understand correctly the circumstances of their right timing and their accumulation of material and moral potential to defeat and defeat the terrorists who were prepared, armed and financed by the United States and Zionism," he said. 
"There is no doubt that it will not be long before all the countries in the region realize that stability and security in the region is not possible without relying on their internal, regional and international sources and energies and that foreign forces will have to leave the region sooner or later," the foreign ministry spokesman said.

 
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After 10 years .. What is the fate of that agreement between Baghdad and Washington?
 
After 10 years .. What is the fate of that agreement between Baghdad and Washington?

 



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The tenth anniversary of the signing of the security agreement between the governments of Iraq and the United States, which was then described by Iraqi officials strategy, the voices calling for its abolition in conjunction with the secret and quick visit to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to Iraq. 
According to the agreement signed by the government of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in 2008, US combat forces withdrawn from cities and provinces will remain in facilities and areas agreed upon with the Iraqi government, which are located outside towns, villages and townships and are identified by the Joint Commission To coordinate military operations between the two sides.

Directing Foreign Forces 
The political parties and factions loyal to Iran began early and under pressure from the latter, demanding the abolition of the Convention since entering the new parliament, under the pretext of ending the war with terrorist organizations, but to the enactment of a law to remove foreign forces from Iraq. 
The bloc "Sadikon" political wing of Asaib Ahl al-Haq led by Qais al-Khazali, which recently won the Iraqi elections, called for the subject of reviewing the strategic agreement with the United States during the next parliament session, following Trump's surprise visit to Iraq. 
The leader of the Uaeib, Naim Aboudi, said that there is a bill included by the parliamentary legal committee, looking to remove all foreign troops from Iraq.
On the risks of straining relations between the United States and Iraq against the backdrop of this law, Aboudi said, Iraq can not put his position on what he called the anger of Washington. 
Aboudi said that the United States can not be trusted about the justification for its presence in Iraq, and their presence under the pretext of an inadequate call with the presence of troops from the army and police and popular mobilization, he said. 
US President Donald Trump during his visit to Iraq spoke of his unwillingness to withdraw US military forces from Iraq, pointing out that Iraq could be taken as a springboard against terrorism in the region and that Iran's moves would be monitored.

The multiplicity of sources of armament 
to that, said MP for the alliance of conquest, Walid al-Sahlani, the House of Representatives will work to change a number of concepts of the strategic agreement concluded with the United States on the supply of weapons to the Iraqi military. 
He explained that it is a priority of the current parliament to change a number of concepts of the strategic agreement between Iraq and the United States on the supply of arms and military equipment, as well as opening to other countries to be different sources of arms processing. 
Sahlani added that the parliament will hold accountable the government figures responsible for the agreements, which did not provide anything tangible on the ground, noting that the agreement with Washington will be studied and will be canceled after consideration of its usefulness.
The United States had previously suggested that if the Iraqi government demands that US forces leave its territory after the end of the war with Saddam Hussein, Iraq must pay the debts owed by the Iraqi government and the cost of wars since 2003 of $ 1 trillion and $ 100 billion.

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After the controversy .. Iraq confirms "no US troops on the border"

11:29 - 28/12/2018

 
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Baghdad - Mawazin News 
After the controversy that accompanied the visit of the US President to Iraq, and the news that was circulated locally about the deployment of US forces on the Iraqi-Syrian border, the spokesman for the joint operations in Iraq, Brigadier Yahya Rasool, on Thursday evening, the coalition forces on the Iraqi territory Working with military units and the Iraqi military sectors as advisers, stressing that there is no US troops on the Iraqi-Syrian border. 
Rasul said in a press statement that the base of Ain al-Assad in Anbar province, which was visited by US President Donald Trump during his quick visit to Iraq, working within the framework of the formal agreement with the consent of the Iraqi government and parliament. 
Asked whether US forces would withdraw from Syria to Iraq, Rasul said that "until now there has been no coordination between the Iraqi and American sides," adding that any steps or new agreement will be announced as soon as it is obtained.
Trump during the visit 
to Iraq , he explained that the American forces on the Iraqi territory are among the coalition forces against international Daqash, and elements have long been the advisers. 
Not US forces on the border 
denied the presence of any US troops on the Iraqi-Syrian border, indicating that the forces along the border of about 650 km, are joint military units of the Iraqi security forces, which works to secure the border, and will respond strongly to any movement of Within Syrian territory. 
A member of the Anbar provincial council Eid Ammash, has revealed, the presence of US military bases on the border with Syria. 
Ammash said that since the beginning of the liberation of Qaim province, located on the border with Syria, US forces established a mini-base in an area called 22 kilometers late last year.
A member of the Anbar Provincial Council that in the past few days has been monitoring the presence of US forces north of the Euphrates river in the border of the Romaneh district north of Qaim district of the province, but there is no information on whether this gathering temporarily or permanently. 
For his part, denied Qaimmqam district of the existing presence of any US military base, indicating that they were present artillery battalion of the French army with the Guard forces of the Iraqi border for the purpose of addressing targets close to the Syrian side. 
The visit by US President Donald Trump sparked a wave of mixed reactions because he did not meet any Iraqi official. 
Trump said in his visit that he did not intend to withdraw troops from Iraq, indicating that it is possible to carry out operations inside Syria from Iraq, if needed.
The Iraqi forces liberated the Qaim district completely from the control of Dahed in early November 2017, as part of the liberation of the Upper Euphrates west of Anbar province.

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2018/12/28 07:37
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Democrat comments on Trump's visit and announces his position on the withdrawal of US troops

 

BAGHDAD - The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), headed by Massoud Barzani, suspended President Donald Trump's sudden and unannounced visit to Iraq last Wednesday.

Party member Sobhi al-Mandalawi said in a reply to the "obelisk" that "Trump's visit caused a stir in the political street and I think it is a personal or private visit, not official or protocol, but is to visit US soldiers to a US base and we should not deal with it sensitively, And this visit got to former US presidents. "

"It was better to inform the Iraqi government of this visit, but security concerns may have prevented that and our reservation on the visit is not to inform the Iraqi government of the visit and appreciate the security situation and US concerns," he said.

"It is difficult to pass a decision of the House of Representatives to withdraw US forces and there is a signed agreement between Iraq and America, which allows the presence of special forces and advisers at the request of an Iraqi," Mandalawi said.

"We will be with the decision of the parliament in the withdrawal of US forces if it is unanimously and the majority and the Kurdistan region part of Iraq, but we reserve the issuance of a decision on the matter as the existence of security concerns," expected "the difficulty of issuing such a decision."

He pointed out that "the visit Trump breach of sovereignty to Iraq, but we have to deal with them realistically in the security risks, according to the interpretation of the US side, a special visit to US forces and not to the State of Iraq." 
He pointed out that "the parliament if he could reach a decision contrary to the security agreement with the United States, we have no problem and there is a direction to the Kurdish leadership in the consensus with the Iraqi opinion and it is very natural that the Kurds with the Iraqi decision."

"We have previous experiences with the United States and the latest in Syria. It remains an undeniable military force. The Kurds have interests with the United States, although they opposed the referendum in the Kurdistan region, but we remain keen on these relations and the US role is clear in Iraq as well as the role of regional states," Mandelawi said.

A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, said that "Kurdish experiences with the Americans once and the last in Syria to withdraw from them, but reality says that it is a superpower, and Trump comes with a different strategy is more economic and everyone is trying to understand, even within the US," calling for "to deal realistically with the American influence "He said.

 

"We are monitoring the situation in Iraq and the region and we are trying to take advantage of all the lessons and we have good relations with the United States and other countries," he said, adding that "the US side has cooperation with the region and the Peshmerga and not the eyes of the Kurds.

"The US presence in Iraq is important, there are political crises and regional interventions, and this presence may achieve some balance in the forces, but certainly we are with the Iraqi federal decision and we are experiencing a new era with Baghdad after the referendum crisis and the Iraqi government is keen to establish relations with the American side, Breach ".

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http://almasalah.com/ar/news/159607/الديمقراطي-يعلق-على-زيارة-ترامب-ويعلن-موقفه-من-سحب-القوات-الأمريكية

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TRUMP IS CORRECTING OBAMA’S BIGGEST MIDDLE EAST MISTAKE

10:57 PM 12/27/2018 | EDITORIAL
Mike Brest | Reporter
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President Donald Trump announced earlier this month his intention to pull the troops out of Syria, claiming that ISIS has been defeated.

But, as Retired Brigadier General Anthony Tata points out, Trump wouldn’t even need to make that call had President Barack Obama not pulled troops from Iraq around 2011, the time of the Arab Spring.

ISIS was able to conquer two-thirds of Iraq and Syria without the troops there in only a year and a half. (RELATED: Kurds Expected America To Stay In Syria ‘Forever’ But Trump Had Other Plans)

As Tata explains, the Obama Administration opted to put their heads in the sand as ISIS started to form and gain territory, which allowed them to grow until it was no longer something that could be ignored.

Trump’s decision to pull the troops from Syria came about two weeks ago and he explained his decision on Twitter.

He tweeted, “Getting out of Syria was no surprise. I’ve been campaigning on it for years, and six months ago, when I very publicly wanted to do it, I agreed to stay longer. Russia, Iran, Syria & others are the local enemy of ISIS. We were doing there work. Time to come home & rebuild.”

https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/27/retired-general-trump-obama-middle-east/

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Fatah: Parliament will announce its position on Trump's visit and the US presence in an emergency session

10:41 - 28/12/2018
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MP Hamid al-Moussawi said on Friday that the parliament could convene an emergency session to announce its position on Trump's unofficial visit to Iraq and the US presence in bases inside the country, stressing that the United States is seeking to strengthen its presence in Iraq to target the Islamic Republic.

"The presidency of parliament may call in the next few days to hold an emergency meeting on the successor to enter Trump to Iraq stealthily and informally, and take a position on it."

He added that "the international community rejected Trump's unofficial visit to Iraq, and promised a violation of the sovereignty of Iraq, which will reflect on Trump and his country negatively in the coming days."

"Iraq can remove American forces from its bases through political means without resorting to the use of force, especially as the United States is fully aware that Iraq is no longer as it was before and has become a force that has witnessed the world and its ability to confront all odds," he said.

"The United States has withdrawn its forces from Afghanistan and Syria to Iraq in order to implement its plan to target the Islamic Republic whenever it wishes, as it seeks to implement a new plan within its strategy in the Middle East." End 25 n

https://www.almaalomah.com/2018/12/28/377515/

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Date of release: 2018/12/28 9:51  577 times read
A photo forced Trump to reveal his "secret" visit to Iraq
{International: The Euphrates News} A photograph of US President Donald Trump's plane during his trip, which was supposed to remain secret, to Iraq has raised controversy over the security of the president of the world's most powerful nation and the dangers that social networking sites pose.
Hours before the announcement of Trump's surprise visit to Iraq, a tweet was posted on Twitter, accompanied by a picture posted on Flickr's Web site, showing the US Air Force One aircraft taken while flying in British airspace, specifically in the skies of Sheffield, That the US president is on his way to visit a Middle Eastern country, "says the tweet. 
The photograph originally came from a British amateur named Alan Meloy, who took it last Wednesday when he was taking his hobby in taking pictures of transiting planes. 
Milwaukee took the picture by chance, photographing the presidential plane as it was rising above Chapeltown in front of his door. 
"It's one of those weird moments when I'm in the right place and time," Meloy told The Guardian.
"It was sunny and beautiful in the morning, I looked up, and once I saw it, it was shiny, it was flying in a clear blue sky," he said. 
Air Force One, the name of the two US VC-25s, Trump and his wife Melania, who left the US capital in the dead of night, took a secret trip to visit US troops in Iraq on Christmas Day. 
The "secret" of the trip may have been the cause of the suspicion raised by the Milwaukee image as soon as it was published on Flickr's website, especially since the president's agenda, usually published on the White House website, was devoid of any activity on the day. 
But other enthusiasts knew the plane and began tracking its journey online, eventually concluding that the US president might be on his way to a Middle Eastern country.
With the image taken by Milwaukee on a wide scale through social networking sites, the travel ban agreed with the White House press corps was lifted, according to Sky News. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders announced the visit.

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5 hours ago, Butifldrm said:
 
 


Iran's policy severely attacks Trump's "banditry" visit to Iraq

Iran strongly attacks Trump's "banditry" visit to Iraq
 
 Twilight News    
 
 5 hours ago
 
 

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasimi criticized the US president's visit to Iraq as "a lack of respect for Iraqi sovereignty." 
"As Mr. Trump said in his speech at the rally of the US military at the base of 'Ayn al-Assad' (air-west of Iraq), despite their countless interventions and their expenses by the thousands of billions of dollars they paid at the expense of their irrefutable reputation for the American people, The presence of illegal military and illegal in the region, especially Iraq, it is forced to enter the territory of one of the countries of the region in a completely secret or rather banditry and under the most security-security measures and be subjected to such criticism from analysts and indifference of Iraqi officials and the opposition of the Iraqi people.
"The governments and peoples of the region never allow foreign aggressors and untouchables to take advantage of things to provoke discrimination among countries in the region," he said. 
"It is not America that is hungry and supportive of terrorism in every sense of the word. It is the people of the conscious region that have been able to understand correctly the circumstances of their right timing and their accumulation of material and moral potential to defeat and defeat the terrorists who were prepared, armed and financed by the United States and Zionism," he said. 
"There is no doubt that it will not be long before all the countries in the region realize that stability and security in the region is not possible without relying on their internal, regional and international sources and energies and that foreign forces will have to leave the region sooner or later," the foreign ministry spokesman said.

 

Guess someone is on the Iranian's side, as this is a hit piece to allow Iran to control the region. It's duly noted that Russia was not mentioned in one iota of ink in the article. Hmmm. I wonder why? Aren't they also foreign aggressors?

 

to those who think Trump to be the most corrupt in the world and I know you are on here read this tidbit about what China is doing (Iraq needs to be cautious). Who cares about what is going on in Kenya? A pattern is a pattern not done to who but by who.

Now Kenya gets to pay the China piper

All that good P.R. China got for its "one belt, one road" infrastructure-building in third world countries - so much more constructive than America's military spending, see - is starting to look like something entirely different now that Kenya is about to fall to China and its very humorless bill collectors. Here's what Taiwan News is reporting.

China may be preparing to seize some major assets in the African nation of Kenya, as a result of debt-trap diplomacy.

African media reports that Kenya may soon be forced to relinquish control of its largest and most lucrative port in Mombasa to Chinese control.

Other assets related to the inland shipment of goods from the port, including the Inland Container Depot in Nairobi, and the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), may also be compromised in the event of a Chinese port takeover.

Kenya has reportedly taken extremely large loans from the Communist government for the development of some major highways, and especially for the SGR, which forms a crucial transport link to and from Nairobi for the import and export of goods through Mombasa.

In November, Moody’s noted that Kenya is at high risk of losing strategic assets because of debts owed to Beijing.

Local media began to express concern that Chinese lenders may be angling to seize assets, since it does not appear the Kenyan government will be capable to repaying the loans.

Beijing, of course, is denying it. But that was a couple days ago. And its only argument begs the question. China insists that the project, out there in deepest Kenya, will indeed make money, effectively suggesting that it won't need to expropriate the port. It doesn't say what will happen if the project doesn't make money, which is what Moody's is focusing on.

That follows a recent report from the New York Times, that China has gotten Ecuador so in hock to it, through a big dam infrastructure project, that it will never be able to repay its debts. What's more, it won't get much of a dam, either, given the still-unfinished dam's 6,000-plus cracks and the inevitability of a nearby volcano going off, which ought to junk it for good. But the Chinese debts for Ecuador shall stand eternal, and that's going to keep the country underdeveloped. We noted the same sort of Chinese debt collection going on in hellhole Venezuela, which wrecked its oil industry through socialism and then took Chinese loans to keep it going. Like Ecuador, Venezuela can't pay, but that doesn't mean it's not time to pay the piper. And don't forget that illegal immigrant-exporting El Salvador has pulled the same stunt with China, throwing it in our faces. I wrote about that here.

All that embracing of China (and cheerleading from leftists in the West) seems to be turning into a nightmare for nations dumb enough to embrace the smiling dragon.

Now Kenya is about to lose its most important and strategic port, no small thing given that Africa's linear coastline means very few ports. 

China likes that sort of thing - getting a nation in hock, building junk infrastructure, and then taking over the good stuff, and that's for strategic reasons. Already, it's forcing in-hock Pakistan to allow its foothold there to turn into military purposes, once again, because Pakistan can't pay its debts. The New York Times has an excellent article and infographic map of the whole thing.

The Times reports that seventy countries have embraced China and its loans through its "one belt, one road," trillion-dollar infrastructure loan program, meaning there are a heckuva lot of countries that are in hock and now can't repay - and that will see major parts of their infrastructures taken over to pay debts. The Washington Post names Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Montenegro, as all trapped now. Seems corruption and bribes, on which a lot of these were premised, is a great way to get an empire.

Didn't the U.S. and Britain use to get criticized a hundred years ago for going to war over badly-run South American nations that failed to pay their debts? Looks like China is viewing that as a how-to guide.

But this is the age of the Internet, and mass media, the parallels aren't as exact as the late-19th and early 20th centuries. Perhaps these countries can get out of their contracts by exposing the bribery that brought them into being. Perhaps they can prove in court that they bought lemons and need a refund. Perhaps the U.S. can bundle them together and use them as a wedge to force China to play fair for all countries.

Because right now, a new global dawn is on us, the era of the Chinese debt-forced empire. That alone should be a stick with which the U.S. can use on China over all its bad practices that will inevitably lead to a crude new empire. It's fortunate that just about the only American president with the guts to challenge this long-running scam is President Trump. He's what we have now, and it seems that's for a reason.

 

All that good P.R. China got for its "one belt, one road" infrastructure-building in third world countries - so much more constructive than America's military spending, see - is starting to look like something entirely different now that Kenya is about to fall to China and its very humorless bill collectors. Here's what Taiwan News is reporting.

China may be preparing to seize some major assets in the African nation of Kenya, as a result of debt-trap diplomacy.

African media reports that Kenya may soon be forced to relinquish control of its largest and most lucrative port in Mombasa to Chinese control.

Other assets related to the inland shipment of goods from the port, including the Inland Container Depot in Nairobi, and the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), may also be compromised in the event of a Chinese port takeover.

Kenya has reportedly taken extremely large loans from the Communist government for the development of some major highways, and especially for the SGR, which forms a crucial transport link to and from Nairobi for the import and export of goods through Mombasa.

In November, Moody’s noted that Kenya is at high risk of losing strategic assets because of debts owed to Beijing.

Local media began to express concern that Chinese lenders may be angling to seize assets, since it does not appear the Kenyan government will be capable to repaying the loans.

 

Beijing, of course, is denying it. But that was a couple days ago. And its only argument begs the question. China insists that the project, out there in deepest Kenya, will indeed make money, effectively suggesting that it won't need to expropriate the port. It doesn't say what will happen if the project doesn't make money, which is what Moody's is focusing on.

That follows a recent report from the New York Times, that China has gotten Ecuador so in hock to it, through a big dam infrastructure project, that it will never be able to repay its debts. What's more, it won't get much of a dam, either, given the still-unfinished dam's 6,000-plus cracks and the inevitability of a nearby volcano going off, which ought to junk it for good. But the Chinese debts for Ecuador shall stand eternal, and that's going to keep the country underdeveloped. We noted the same sort of Chinese debt collection going on in hellhole Venezuela, which wrecked its oil industry through socialism and then took Chinese loans to keep it going. Like Ecuador, Venezuela can't pay, but that doesn't mean it's not time to pay the piper. And don't forget that illegal immigrant-exporting El Salvador has pulled the same stunt with China, throwing it in our faces. I wrote about that here.

All that embracing of China (and cheerleading from leftists in the West) seems to be turning into a nightmare for nations dumb enough to embrace the smiling dragon.

Now Kenya is about to lose its most important and strategic port, no small thing given that Africa's linear coastline means very few ports. 

China likes that sort of thing - getting a nation in hock, building junk infrastructure, and then taking over the good stuff, and that's for strategic reasons. Already, it's forcing in-hock Pakistan to allow its foothold there to turn into military purposes, once again, because Pakistan can't pay its debts. The New York Times has an excellent article and infographic map of the whole thing.

The Times reports that seventy countries have embraced China and its loans through its "one belt, one road," trillion-dollar infrastructure loan program, meaning there are a heckuva lot of countries that are in hock and now can't repay - and that will see major parts of their infrastructures taken over to pay debts. The Washington Post names Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Montenegro, as all trapped now. Seems corruption and bribes, on which a lot of these were premised, is a great way to get an empire.

Didn't the U.S. and Britain use to get criticized a hundred years ago for going to war over badly-run South American nations that failed to pay their debts? Looks like China is viewing that as a how-to guide.

But this is the age of the Internet, and mass media, the parallels aren't as exact as the late-19th and early 20th centuries. Perhaps these countries can get out of their contracts by exposing the bribery that brought them into being. Perhaps they can prove in court that they bought lemons and need a refund. Perhaps the U.S. can bundle them together and use them as a wedge to force China to play fair for all countries.

Because right now, a new global dawn is on us, the era of the Chinese debt-forced empire. That alone should be a stick with which the U.S. can use on China over all its bad practices that will inevitably lead to a crude new empire. It's fortunate that just about the only American president with the guts to challenge this long-running scam is President Trump. He's what we have now, and it seems that's for a reason.

 

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22 hours ago, Botzwana said:

I like Trump do not get me wrong.  To align God with him though.... men of God do not commit fornication with porn stars.  So if he is with God then it must have been really recently.

… For God uses the "base" of this world to confound the ways of the wise (liberal elite).  It'll always be that way.  Sorry to disappoint.  Trump, like me, is about as born again and saved as one can ever be (by the grace of God), but not perfected.

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