>>14477502

You start good and interesting with some valid points.

The problem with using obscure law of war and ideas that Washington DC is not part of American law is that it doesn't pass with the public or other groups. Those systems are designed to only work one way, so that obscure provisions can be used to withhold information or turn down prosecutions/investigations. Imagine being a prosecutor told that you have no authority because DC is French (or something like that) - you can go to a newspaper and they might print it …. But it's not going anywhere and you get harassed by gang members who are being paid by intelligence agencies.

Those systems are not designed to allow you to launch investigations using them - much less to actually be pursued as a legal recourse.

At best, you could use good actors to get information out of them that could be used later in a public court - but if Trump were to be bringing up law that came out of the Vatican to try and hold Hillary to it - she would obviously have no obligation to be held to it. It's like asking for a guild of theives to behave honorably while you act to investigate them for theft.

You may as well hand the taliban a list of our people and ask them to help us get them out. Maybe a few of them are going to honor that - but you're talking about a group of militants who have been opposing our presence and killing us in the past. I'm sure they'll abide by the terms and conditions as long as they are getting what they want … And just ignore the parts that are inconvenient.

>>14477618

I'm not denying that some aspects of military law may be used - but people like millet would be screaming bloody murder if Trump started sniffing around under such provisions, or Durham, etc.

I'm not saying you can't be right - just that you are constructing a novel legal argument and premise that would almost certainly be contested and argued against. These people aren't exactly going to go: "oh, dammit, you got us…" They are going to look at the NG outside and go "yeah, okay, you go out there and tell them to arrest us."

You seem to be starting with "we got what we needed" and working backwards to how that can be rationalized rather than moving with an action-reaction formulation where the opponent gets an opportunity to react.

You would need a military court which recognized the move as such and it to be so overwhelmingly convincing that it was legitimate that not even Hillary would have someone executed or try to get a national court to file an injunction.

Your first part regarding durham and mueller is rather spot on in my estimation. At least in terms of plausibility. I think there may be additional layers there, as well (I am of the opinion that hillary actually wanted trump to win by hacked elections to blame on Putin and then have cause to do exactly what has been tried with jan 6 … And that kushner was in on it) - but that is a whole other rabbit hole that gets into how Ivanka was targetted for sanctions because of ties she had with a friend of a friend of a friend of Deripaska… Her sudden decision to decide to get married to kushner … And how she called it the best business decision she ever made.

And that it was a new york real estate developer who called DJT Jr just before meeting with the Russian lawyer. Who "loves his country."

Remember… Trump always talks about a small loan he paid back.

This was ALWAYS a dig at Kushner.

>>14477784

I think that anons who are trying to parse out who is whom around here are fooling themselves. All I have to do is post some anime and suddenly people think I'm "tranime" or a sock puppet of. While I have no doubt there are attacks on this board and sock puppets being used - all I would have to do if I was such an attack is pretend to be either one of the target personalities or one of the people claiming everyone and everything is one of them.

Even on message boards with user accounts, I tend to ignore everything but the words I am reading and replying to, and will often not bother with account names. Even in person, I hardly ever use someone's name while addressing them or to call to them. It is always a pronoun.

In old traditions, if a magician, demon, or spirit knew your name, they could exert control over you. Perhaps my soul comes from such a time, or something, as I have an aversion to names and identities.

>>14477810

Generally speaking, they want the U.S. to be unable to stand a physical military obstacle to China. China is very dependent upon ports for import of raw material. It is the dirty, open secret of the Chinese economy - they were always a slave labor force created by people like Rockefeller and Kissinger (as opponents to Stalin's Russia - Stalin was no bolshevik) to use as part of a market scheme. If you look up what is known as the Shrinking Markets or Shrinking Profits theory - this is something still taught as economic fact in school. Nearly every major financial player believes it.

China exists to take cheap labor sold into a premium market to then buy resources on the global market. China is one giant corporation with share holders. They have poor natural resources on their own - high sulfur coal (they actually buy coal from China to make steel), low purity iron ore, few copper deposits, etc. This is why the Belt and Road Initiative is so important for them, why they are seeking to buy mines and rights internationally, etc…

If the U.S. were to ever stop printing currency and sending it their way - their entire economic model would collapse inside of a year. Forget where we would buy our shoes from - where would China get its rice if they stopped getting the dollars from our market to buy the oil derivatives or other mediaries accepted on the exchange?

China has to expand out and secure the south China Sea and the U.S. has more aircraft carriers and battleships as museums than everyone else has active displacement combined.

No matter how incompetent the senior command may be - a single carrier battle group could roll all of China's Navy under the waves if push came to shove, and China knows it. Any and all assertions that they are going to make an open military move are distractions. Unless they are left with absolutely no other options for survival.

The CCP has to start fracturing and losing control before the dollar can be allowed to collapse… If war is to be avoided. My estimate, at least.

>>14478006

I don't think it is bred out of them. Were it so easy to make a population of cattle from monke, there would never have been a rennaisance or the like to have arisen from the various peasantry.

The Chinese are just very good at cloaking their intentions. If I were the western elites, I would not believe myself to own China, and would fear, greatly, the situation where the five pointed star adorning nearly every military on Earth unites for a Walpurgisnacht to remember.

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