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    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

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    So maybe this would be a good idea:

     

    -screw NATO

    -make a new defense system with EU, Russia and North America

    -invest in South America more, there will be a need of good and strong allies in order to keep the balance with regimes like China after the disarmement of North America and Europe

    -Marshall plan for the African continent along with the annulment of exploitative EPAs in order to give African countries the opportunity to develop functioning economies, Chinese neocolonianism won't work if the surrounding countries are strong and free and not being exploited

    -then force China to disarm by global econimical sanctions

    -once all forces are militarily neutralized there must be global bills to democratize organisations and to prevent monopolization

    -set a global minimum wage

    -set a global maximum fortune

    -set a global basic income

     

    Only problem is it won't work.

     

    - NATO has actually become a stronger armed version of the UN peacekeeping forces - Balkan interventions in 1995 and 1999 inand the deployment of forces into Afghanistan (only time NATO has actually "gone to war" when an ally was attacked) being the main examples.

    - US/EU/Russia alignment was in the early to mid-90s a likely outcome, the US and Russia even had friendly military exercises briefly, but this has long since melted. nationalism in Russia (expand borders, pull East Europe back into their sphere of influence, etc) and Russia's much more aggressive anti-terrorist methods (install puppet states, crush all threats, make allies with Iran and Syria as needed, only focus on borders and/or strategic allies) made them diverge from the US and EU.

    - South America and Africa: China is already courting both. For example they are building another canal in Nicaragua, or at least trying to, that would compete and supersede the Panama Canal.

    - Brazil and India IIRC are essentially trying to stay independent and self-sufficient, even form a third way from either Russia or China or the US/EU

    - Africa - we should invest more but it's unlikely the US or EU will considering the rise of isolationism and anti-foreign sentiment in general. France interventions to stabilize places like Chad and Mali might go away completely if LePen wins (I assume, actually not sure if she's anti-interventionism)

     

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/10/european-union-eu-pledges-225m-rescue-package-newly-democratic-the-gambia-adama-barrow

     

    Gambia isn't exactly the most problematic country but it's a start/something.

    Studio Pics

    in EKT General Discussion

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    patch bay + using external fx as sends in ableton is game changer—makes me realize the waldorf 2pole is really a special thing.

     

     

    Can you elaborate a bit on how using a patch bay with the 2pole improved the way you use it? 

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