Great thread.
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Tom Coates
There are a few options: genuinely it could be all the actors you would think would be opposed to it - Russia, China etc. - because there are limits to the chaos they actually want. China wants economic growth. It wants a weaker US but not a dangerous, chaotic one that might fire a nuke.
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We've only Leon's word for that, and he's full of shit at the best of times.
I'd wager it's down to internal fuckups and a lack of skilled staff on the books.
Russians are barbarians, always were, always will be. China is a great civilization thru human history. Every good they want for their people requires strong trade with stable partners