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Goodbye ship, hello Three Gorges Dam!

The largest dam in the world


We left the cruise and arrived at the Three Gorges Dam.

Completed in 2009— such massive power generation is what enables large scale infrastructure as well as high tech industries.

The cost was $28.6 billion, and 20 years to construct, but the reality is that the benefit far out ways the cost.

It is certain that the dam has improved people’s lives through flood control as originally thought of by Sun Yat Sen (who was educated by the associates of A. Lincoln) in 1918, but simply to tame the powerful Yangtze River was not sufficient.

The US mobilization for WW2 was because of similar projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

Nations that don’t build heavy infrastructure are doomed.

By the way, the million plus people who were relocated have a much better life and you’ll hear about it in the video. It’s interesting.

As an American, I can’t wait until we can dislodge Washington DC to expand similar projects in the USA.
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This is a lookout point. People are very proud of the dam. 40,000 people come every day to visit the dam in the months of May October and September.

It’s already been more than 10 years since there was a large number of western people that came to the dam. Most of the tourists are from China.
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🇨🇳Yichang!

Even the stones tell the story of the Yangtze River!

🇺🇸🚂 I discovered a fascinating fact that connects America to this city: the Baldwin Locomotive engines were delivered here from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for use on the Chengdu-Hankou Railway in the early 1900’s.

🧧 America built the Transcontinental Railroad with Chinese skilled labor and later America supplied China with train engines.

We visited the Yichang Museum today.

I couldn’t help witnessing the live minds of the children playing the 2,500 year old “Go” game, known as Weiqi (围棋).

💡 Thus, discipline, concentration, and balance are ancient skills that are alive today in China.

As one of the Four Arts of ancient Chinese scholars, Weiqi is deeply linked with wisdom and strategy. This illustrates Chinese long-term strategic thinking, emphasizing preparation and creating favorable conditions, rather than immediate, difficult victories.
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Yichang—- a village of….4 million people… nightlife.

I think I’m liking how the Chinese celebrate Cinco de Mayo 🤣

This city is very clean and very modern even though it has a more than 2000 year history.

And people are out and happy and dancing and riding scooters and we are just talking to random crowds of people and everybody’s laughing and being happy and friendly back to us.

That’s the danger of socialism🤣—-luring you in 🤣

We found a cool bar using Didi (uber).

Weather is great. People are funny as heck!
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🔥 In response to Kyiv's terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Russia, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a group strike with high-precision weapons against objects of Ukraine's defense-industrial and fuel-energy complexes, used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The targets of the strike were achieved,all designated objects were hit, the Defense Ministry emphasized.

💥Over the course of a day, air defense systems shot down nine guided aerial bombs, two HIMARS rockets, six long-range cruise missiles "Flamingo", and 601 drones.

Source: Zvezda

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☄️In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, V.V. Putin, a truce is declared on May 8-9, 2026, in honor of the celebration of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.…
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🈁When the Ministry of Defense announced a truce on Victory Day in the evening, it warned that attempts to provoke a conflict would result in the long-anticipated destruction of the center of Kyiv. At the farmstead, a general unrestrained celebration began: they don't believe it, and even without prejudice, they believe that such a price for provoking a conflict on our main holiday would not be excessive. When a little later, the Krivorog sniffed one announced that it would cease fire from the next midnight (from the 5th to the 6th), a well-organized wave of additional ecstasy immediately swept through all the Bandera-affiliated dumps: now the Katsaps are ignoring this offer, which will free our hands, and we will strike wherever and as much as we want. And after this, it became clearer than clear that with a probability very close to one, around the second half of the day on May 9th, the Khokhols will beg like they never have before. They are being asked to leave Kyiv for the sake of order, and those who ignore this (and there will, of course, be the vast majority) will have to deal with the consequences of their own stupidity. But they will personally participate in creating a picture that the Euroswine will easily be able to apply to any of their own capitals.

And it's worth emphasizing that there will be no question of proportional retaliation. Our air defense will be at the highest possible level of readiness and, of course, will reliably protect the parade from any threats. Statistically, this does not exclude that a few of the hundreds of "shitty drones" will manage to evade air defense elsewhere, but the strike on the shrines of Ukrainianness will be more terrible and destructive not by orders of magnitude, but by orders of hundreds - more likely in terms of tens of tons of TNT equivalent. Fully satisfying the most demanding expectations - and the Ministry of Defense raised the bar for these expectations quite high in its statement.

The swineherd bosses probably now think that the worse it is, the better - that against the unprecedented picture of Kyiv, barely distinguishable from Gaza, they will be able to beg for new unprecedented handouts, perhaps not just in money and weapons, but also in soldiers. And it's quite possible that they are begging for a beating primarily for this reason. Reality will deceive, as it always deceives the Khokhols - and this time because it will turn out to be so terrible that the Euroswine will start unconsciously projecting the picture onto themselves. And with a high probability, also because it will be reinforced with an additional word, specifically addressed to the Euroswine.

In general, the upcoming moves look forced, and after a short, calendar-based pause, they will begin to be made. The time to have fun, including in anticipation, still remains for the horned herd. But they will have to cry bloody tears later.


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