Modern Piracy - Moral High ground fallen off the cliff...

Discussion in 'Politics' started by FrankInLa, Apr 4, 2020.

  1. FrankInLa

    FrankInLa

    A lot of goodwill is squandered in exchange for a few face masks. Pretty stupid in my book:

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...rder-to-stop-exporting-masks-to-canada-163060

    https://www.politico.eu/article/ber...virus-face-masks-diverted-from-germany-to-us/

    http://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20200402-china-coronavirus-face-mask-france-stolen-us

    Way to go pissing off the worldwide closest political and military allies (ex UK). It is a testimony to the utter failure of honoring closed deals and agreements and business contracts. No issue with US companies allocating more units to America (though also highly contentious as disadvantaged nations might retaliate), but it is not ok to outbid on an already agreed transaction. We are not talking about diverted items from ISIS but from Canada, France, and Germany. It would be interesting to see how the US administration responded if China would stop delivering anything to the US and instead supplied only Asia and Europe.

    Pure hypocrisy to point fingers at China's unethical behavior and lies when one treats his closest allies like this. America chose to discontinue taking the moral high ground in times of challenge and need. No other Western nation behaves like this. We Canadians took in American diverted airplanes 9/11, accommodated the passengers, fed them, shed tears with them, and sent them off with a big neighborly hug. And now we are treated in exchange like this?
     
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  2. KCalhoun

    KCalhoun

    The best solution is the us government should give 3m a lot of money to ramp up mfg capacity asap
     
  3. Cuddles

    Cuddles

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  4. FrankInLa

    FrankInLa

    Exactly this is what Russia would do. Stooping to their level opens many cans of worms.

     
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    Cuddles

     
  6. FrankInLa

    FrankInLa

    Strange times we live in...

     
  7. This First Family are licking their chops as the discuss around the dinner table how they're going to dig in that Two Trillion Dollar bailout package . . . . . believe me.


    Trump doesn’t have the brainpower around him to competently manage the multi-trillion dollar stimulus: historian


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    “When he signed the $2 trillion COVID-19 rescue package last week, President Donald Trump was visibly pleased,” Zeitz wrote. “He touted it as the ‘single biggest economic relief package” in U.S. history, which will deliver “urgently needed relief’ to Americans. Perhaps. Sweeping in its ambition, the package endeavors to infuse hundreds of thousands of small businesses, tens of millions of individuals and families, hospitals and health care systems, as well as the nation’s largest employers, with cash and liquidity.”
     
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