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It just occurred to me that I can talk to you on the way to my destination. Contact me. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:52, July 13, 2023 (EDT)
It just occurred to me that I can talk to you on the way to my destination. Contact me. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:52, July 13, 2023 (EDT)
== Re video: Edward Luttwak: Biden and Putin are ready to do a deal ==
I watched the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bIdcu0o9Pc Edward Luttwak: Biden and Putin are ready to do a deal] that you recommended. It was a good video.
[[Steve Turley]] points out regarding societies/countries that external threats increase internal solidarity. And there is a lot of economic/social problems in China. So perhaps Xi Jingping is doing a lot of saber-rattling as a distraction strategy similar to the [https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/wag-the-dog/ wag the dog] strategy so his people don't focus on all the internal problems within China.
But maybe it is less of a political calculation. Edward Luttwak points out that dictators are often irrational and unpredictable.
If China/Russia are shrewd allies, perhaps Xi JingPing is doing all the saber-rattling in order to put pressure on the US/West to want to shift their focus more to Asia and to increase their desire to hammer out a deal as far as Ukraine.
A lot of political decisions are caused by economics and right now the West, Russia and China have some dark economic storm clouds on the horizon. Edward Luttwak thinks that Russia's economic advisors warned Putin that escalating the war in Ukraine a lot could cause inflation in Russia would be disastrous since Russia has a lot of rural people with fewer economic opportunities so inflation hurts them more. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 01:04, July 24, 2023 (EDT)