Every election is “the most important election in history and in our lifetime”

• we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends – and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality exploit and plunder it. *

Frederick Engels 135 years ago

That shithole’s banana republic politics is the longest running gag in history.

China couldn’t give a shit about supposed US deterrence.
Henry knows that, he also knows that China receives the largest share of oil exports passing through the Strait of Hormuz, accounting for 37.7% of the trade route’s total volume.
That is why they had their own blockade.