China arming Iraq Gov and Iranians.......?

NotMyBlood · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 29, 2007 Posts: 306

Washington Times link

My question is WHY? They certainly dont need the money!!

RonMN

Easy...The peoples of Iran & Iraq all kill eachother & China steps in & takes the oil. Smile

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Twilight · Expert Joined: Mar 02, 2007 Posts: 3076 Location: UK

Maybe the Iraqis are approaching foreign suppliers because of this...?

BBC: US admits delay to Iraq weapons

pup55 · Expert Joined: May 26, 2004 Posts: 3862

This is a no brainer.

By supplying a lot of cheap weapons to the warring parties, they increase the chaos, build alliances on both sides that they can use to their advatage after the inevitable collapse, and most of all, keep the US military occupied in the middle of a quagmire while they sit back laughing.

A few more years of indirectly draining the life blood out of the US and they can go in and straighten the place out in their own image, sign up the big oil deals, and keep their economy running along just fine.

These guys are on a 10 to 15 year time frame, and are in no hurry at all to do anything except let the system fester the way it is. The longer this goes on, the stupider the US looks, and the easier for them to ride in on their white horse and look like the saviors in about 2017 when they really do need the oil.

The Russians would be delighted to do exactly the same thing, but they are hung up on the problems with their own muslim minority.

The US can whine all it wants about this, but there is obviously nothing they can do about it. After five years and a trillion dollars of war, they cannot even control all of Baghdad.

Colorado-Valley · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 16, 2004 Posts: 733

The old joke about learning Mandarin doesn't seem that far out to me.

The western banks may be swept aside by the Asian juggernaut.

At least until the oil runs out ...

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Keith_McClary

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Ferretlover

Is China preparing for war with U.S.? By ZACHARY HUBBARD

http://www.tribune-democrat.com/editorials/local_story_236133107.html

TheTurtle

NotMyBlood · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 29, 2007 Posts: 306

My experience with Chinaman. Nice enough, respectful, business oriented, savvy businessmen, frugal, family oriented and ruthless to a point of being cold-hearted. They wont care if the majority of people in the US are living sub-standard lifestyles. They wont even give it a second thought. And I wouldnt count on any help or sympathy.

Keith_McClary

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NotMyBlood · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 29, 2007 Posts: 306

This hanst been getting much attention, with everything else going on, but I really see this as a pretty big "signal". The US is in IRAQ trying to stabilize the country and our so-called friends are Arming both sides via Iran? Our so -called business partners are activley participating in the attempt to "bleed the Americans out of that area" ?

Am i missing something? Shouldnt this be front page news? Or am I over reacting??

Ferretlover

I posted this because I thought it was curious..
From everything I've read, the Chinese and Japanese cultures run on a different time schedule--ie: they plan long term, not short-term like we do.
Can't quite put my finger on why, but it seems to me it's an experiment (among other things) : "Let's see what happens when we do this."

Keith_McClary