[nathanbedford]

Many of us were writing before November 3 that the election would determine whether the Republic would ultimately survive China.

So it begins.

[mrsmith]

China can not afford to step into the shoes of America’s post WW2 empire.
No one can.

The goal is to get us to pretend we can. And to waste our fortune doing that.

Every empire, such as was forced on us after WW2, is devoured by it’s ‘allies’’ if it doesn’t leave under it’s own terms.