From: nospam.Richard.Falken@f1.n770.z14699.fidonet.org   
      
     Re: Re: Google Groups   
     By: TimS to tnp@invalid.invalid on Tue Feb 13 2024 10:54 pm   
      
    > I know that. But instead of being warmongers they might have merely been   
    > strong leaders for their countries. Unluckily for the world, they *are/were*   
    > warmongers, when there was no need. And *that* is what we have to guard   
    > against and prepare for.   
      
   I don't think Xi is such a big warmonger since he is taking heavy profits from   
   the opposite approach - opening to trade and sending Chinesse workforce to   
   develop poor countries to bring them into the Chinesse sphere of influence. I   
   think his position regarding Taiwan is macho posturing. Putin has also a   
   non-weak (I won't say "strong") case that the NATO is making open advances   
   torward Russian interests and that Russian efforts to collaborate with NATO   
   against common enemies have not been welcome.   
      
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