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Oh come now! It is not an accident of fate that western companies do not depend on Russia for chips!

More to the point: the prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is not merely contrary to American principles or pecuniary interests but a near-existential threat. Does Chinese leadership grasp this fact? An awful lot turns on this question.

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Touché... & touché...

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But her emails: on the positive side, it becomes easier to grasp the collapse of the Weimar Republic, which I found baffling, many years ago, in high school.

Pleasures of conspiratorial thinking: I've enjoyed them myself in the form of ARG (alternate reality games) played by seeding the internet with some fake sites which turn up in what is more or less a scavenger hunt, with an evolving narrative. My understanding of Q is that there are multiple levels of belief involved, including those who are just enjoying the fiction and are fully conscious of it. But even a normal brain processes the real world largely as a narrative. Augustine described his own search for a satisfactory narrative. I felt some sympathy, during the search phase.

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Yes, indeed: we literally cannot think without a narrative, and narratives **must** fall into the pattern that completes them...

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