Triplethought wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:09 pm
Anyway, the point is people have confirmation bias. they won't admit they've made a mistake even if it's fairly clear. And wars and politics and markets are never very clear. If you guys think Chinese CCP aren't serious cheaters, liars and stealers I don't know how to convince you. They steal intellectual property at a rate never before seen in this world. And if you admire socialism or autocratic governments we will have to agree to disagree.
Oh really, do you know how much technology the US stole from the Germans when Hitler was defeated? A simple google search could prove to be quite revealing. Furthermore, China was a superpower and highly advanced nation until the British came in and corrupted it. Do you know that they invented the compass and gunpowder
But here is the kicker. The US is the biggest IP stealer. Oh my how could I make such an outrageous and slanderous statement? Let's talk about the US dollar. Because it is the world reserve currency, they can create money out of thin air, which almost no other nation can match and use these funds to steal all the brainpower, talent and tech they need. Just pay for it with money that is created out of thin air.
Have you visited any of the major universities in the last 10 to 15 years? Go to the science classes and you will find very few Americans enrolled. most of them aim for BS degrees, and if push comes to shove, these degrees are useless at producing anything but value. Presently the US maintains its edge via financial shenanigans, consumerism, Wallstreet mafia, etc.
In most universities, any degree that requires math, physics, or any form of hard thinking is dominated by foreigners. Hence the only way to maintain dominance is via wars, theft and using the USD to maintain an edge by paying whatever it takes to get the talented to stay here.
A small sample of why US took so many Nazi scientists back to the US
In the days and weeks after Germany’s surrender, American troops combed the European countryside in search of hidden caches of weaponry to collect. They came across facets of the Nazi war machine that the top brass were shocked to see, writer Annie Jacobsen told NPR’s All Things Considered in 2014. Jacobson wrote about both the mission and the scientists in her book, Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists To America.
“One example was they had no idea that Hitler had created this whole arsenal of nerve agents,” Jacobsen says. “They had no idea that Hitler was working on a bubonic plague weapon. That is really where Paperclip began, which was suddenly the Pentagon realizing, ‘Wait a minute, we need these weapons for ourselves.’"
But just studying the weapons wasn't enough, and the U.S. military wasn’t the only country eyeing Nazi scientists—their one-time allies in the Soviet Union were doing the same thing. If the Soviets were going to press their former enemies into service, American military officials didn't want to be left behind. So the U.S. government hatched a plan to bring 88 Nazi scientists captured during the fall of the Nazi Germany back to America and get them back on the job. Only this time, according to History.com, they were working for the U.S. under a project known as “Operation Paperclip.”
While the military did what they could to whitewash the pasts of their “prisoners of peace,” as some of the scientists called themselves, many had serious skeletons in their closets. For example, Wernher von Braun was not just one of the brains behind the V-2 rocket program, but had intimate knowledge of what was going on in the concentration camps. Von Braun himself hand-picked people from horrific places, including Buchenwald concentration camp, to work to the bone building his rockets, Jacobsen tells NPR.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180961110/
