This is how I feel about all of those geriatrics. We shouldn't be letting policy outlive the ones writing the laws or making decisions. I can't blame the lobbiest really. I am sure that caretaker was owed a lot of money.
Was China also going to invade Japan? Generally speaking, I favor deregulation and oppose subsidies. You could call all of criminal law regulations, and I certainly think we should criminalize murder, robbery, burglary, rape, etc. You could call the elimination of taxation a subsidy, as it would be a net increase in income resulting from government action. In that way, sure, some subsidies are good, some regulations are good. The things typically regarded as subsidies and regulations, I oppose. I favor freedom.
The PRC has several territorial disputes with Japan where Air Force and navy on both sides have confronted each other. There is also a lot of resentment of Japan in the PRC going back to the 19th C. When Japan joined Western forces to carve up China. The CCP every now and then will crank up anti Japanese propaganda. This is a long standing philosophical discussion but as you seem to be stating is “freedom” cannot exist without a social system of laws that protect rights. freedom as such cannot exist in an anarchy.
A lifetime of lies and bullshiit stories. This is what happens when you are a Democrat and the media is protecting you. I guess by now, America except for a few gaslighters in here is sick of this sick old fart and wishing that he will go away and disappear after this election.
In Sleepy Joe's defense, he is probably speaking what he really believes during a senior moment; Ukraine belongs to Russia
Always the dude: Senator-elect Joe Biden, who had just turned 30, was the youngest — and possibly the nattiest — senator in Congress when he was seated in January 1973. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/style/biden-tailor-mens-wear.html