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But you have no Interceptors left.
Hormuz is the Suez end of empire moment for the petrodollar hegemony.
Dang!
Venezuela and Iran produce energy - oil and gas that China and the world want.
1953-1979 CIA and US oil cos along with BP removed Irans democratically elected leader because he nationalised Irans oil industry and installed a puppet shah so US and UK could expolit Irans oil.
Ditto Venezuela and all the Banana republics USA has raped and pillaged under the Munroe Doctrine.
USA is jealous of the IRGC and so Chevron got Trump to attack these alternative energy sources so that Chevron can charge Europe 10x the price Europe paid for Russian gas.
USA harps on about free trade and capitalism- it's gross Hypocrisy!
USA is the origin and driver of global rentseeking corporate imperialist thuggery, Zionist debt slavery and genocide.
They may be referring to links @nitter sometimes posts which have a screening page which somehow checks your browser is not a bot?
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Lol.
USA lost the trade war and can't accept it.
China beat capitalism at its own game by applying a potent hybrid mix of scale, state capitalism and free enterprise.
So you started attacking Chinas energy supplies...militarily, in breach of international law, kidnapping Venezuelas president and assassinating Irans leadership.
Now your outta Interceptors- Dang!
Without its legacy petrodollar hegemony USA is broke.
You don't make anything the world wants anymore.
You peddle death and debt and fund Greater Israelis Genocidal Insanity.
BIBIs GIGI.
The world is watching- the clock is ticking, on an empire in decline.
The inverters are available online from around NZ$200-300.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012154547684.html?
PV panels here are selling as low as 2w/$ so solar really is affordable now...where its allowed at least.
If enough people install these it could make a difference to grid load and power prices.
Very few if any but it matters not because Chinas productive economy is so integrated and integral to the US and its economy that the USA cannot afford to militarily attack.
Without Chinese supply chains the US economy would collapse!
You already cannot replace Interceptors and most other high tech military materiel because China cut your supply of rare earths.
China won the trade war- get it yet?!?
I very rarely use a phone to access the internet but still worry that at some stage Linux OS use may be flagged or restricted.
Currently I can do almost everything I want online by using linux on laptop- but will that remain the case?
Age verification looks like a potential pretext for a more broad introduction of the surveillance state.
Wake up bro- its not 1974.
Today, in 2026, China is the leading trade partner for 120 nations.
For most of the rest it is their second most economic relationship.
China won the trade war while USA was squandering its exceptional privilege.
USA doesn't make much that the world wants anymore.
Its major exports are death, debt and delusion.
Yes, pumping fiat debt into non productive speculative assets does that.
This is a problem when fiat bankers gain power over politicians and win the right to issue fiat debt toward any purpose rather than fiat debt capital issuance being restricted to funding purposes which are productive.
This is exactly what happened in the neoliberal era of bank deregulation and ever since the wests productive capacity and competitiveness has decline and non productive speculation, especially in housing has crippled our productive economies.
Commercial bankers must be restricted to only funding productive purposes- but this has not been the case for many decades now and is one of the major root causes of the decline of the west.
Yes but increasingly irrelevant.
USA has burned its bridges with many former allies already.
Hard to see this trend being reversed now, sadly.
Enjoy your last heady if chaotic days of global dominance.
There will be decades, if not centuries, for reflection and humility.
Canada too- our dairy products are cheaper and arguably better quality than US and Canadian dairy products.
Producer lobbys in many countries everywhere have huge sway over their governments.
With our new FTA with India I understand there was huge resistance on dairy too because again we are simply more efficient producer than India but India have a powerful farmer lobby group.
But yeah it makes a mockery of US claims to be free trade advocate when US lobbys can so consistently block free trade with long time friendly nations like New Zealand.
A growing number of US traditional allies are now actively forming stronger trade groupings like the TPP as US goes increasingly protectionist...it is imo a lose lose outcome but one that US has chosen.
@DarthCoin doesn't use sats here on SNs.
@DarthCoin uses CCs instead because 'they always work'.
What a blatant posturing virtue signalling big talk no walk fake BTC Maxi hypocrite.
'Living on The Bitcoin Standard' @DarthCoin = BS.
Lol you cling to these cute strawman memes as you drift toward the abyss of irrelevance.
More like the decline and fall of US empire will be contained within the lifetime of gameshow host DJ Trump.
No I was never in exporting but I do know successive NZ governments have tried and failed to negotiate a FTA with USA.
There was a close call with the TPPA but Trump ditched US participation in it - it is still somewhat alive now with Japan, Australia, NZ and other Asia-Pacific countries going it alone without US involvement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/about-us/who-we-are/treaties/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-tpp
I would guess the US tariffs on NZ exports vary depending on product but pretty sure its mostly on the primary produce that is the bulk of what we export- dairy, red meats, seafoods, timber, and wine etc.
China loves all these products as they has a large need for imported food and at the same time can sell us the manufactured goods we need and cannot efficiently produce ourselves.
Watching the decimation of western produced manufactured goods has been frightening but its free trade and markets at work like it or not.
The wests ability to produce the wide range of manufactured goods that are needed to operate an economy has been dangerously depleted.
For NZ to lose supply of Chinese manufactured goods now would imply a huge increase in costs and inflation.
Economic dependency of NZ on China is now well advanced...and we are far from alone!
We do to the extent we can- USA is a big market now for our red meats, but USA has always refused to give us a Free Trade Agreement.
We have had an FTA with China since 2008- the first western democracy to gain one.
We have a FTA with Australia (since the 1980s) and Singapore and many other countries including recently India, but USA has always refused, probably because of the powerful farming lobby in the US.
Claims that USA is a free enterprise country simply is not credible from the point of view of New Zealand when USA has always put tariffs and or quotas on our exports there to protect its less efficient farmers.
In part yes it has shaped my viewpoint. Growing up in the 1960s and 70s NZ was a very closed economy- we relied mostly on Britain as the market for our produce...and for the supply of manufactured goods although some came from the US and elsewhere too.
When Britain joined the EEC we lost that traditional market and were forced to look for new markets which have included the middle east, Russia, Latin America and China. China has been by far the best economic partner for NZ over the last 30 years. USA would never give us a FTA but 'communist' China did!
Post Deng China has embraced state capitalism and free trade and enterprise.
I began importing Chinese products in the early 2000s and became fascinated with the country- learning its history and contemporary development was a very interesting past-time. Peter Hesslers books on China are a great way for a westerner to gain some understanding of this rather alien culture.
China has beaten the 'capitalist' west at its own game- and they have not forgotten The Opium Wars.
The ignorance and arrogance of many westerners on China is both tragic and dangerous.
The hypocrisy of western imperialism is probably or probably will be matched by similar contradictions in Chinese culture but right now, China offers many nations the best trading partner and that is why 120 nations biggest trading partner today is China.
Good news - Coinos is working for payments again.
I am off for lunch at my favourite BTC accepting restaurant...
Their pork stuffed Vietnamese bread rolls are excellent.
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USA cannot compete with Chinas productive industry.
You simply cannot accept that you have lost the trade war and so resort to brutal military aggression and supporting Zionist genocide and war crimes.
Truly sad to see the USA stoop to such cowardly criminal amorality.
It is clearly an empire in moral and economic decline.
Yeah but doesn't China DIY mine most of its gold accumulation?