When totalitarian leaders get into trouble like this they often start wars to distract from the ptoblems.
And:
Xi Jinping’s crackdown on almost everything in China may be a sign of insecurity or tremendous fear of the monied business sector.
It may be that he is merely shutting the corral gate now that he has captured all the wild horses he needs (from the free market systems around the world).
To paraphrase an old joke: When Xi turn market upside down he have crack up.
Man, that would be one massive roll-of-the-dice for the Chi-coms.
If they succeed, world domination is at their finger-tips.
If they don't, total economic collapse, (massive starvation and genocide) and generations of shame to follow - they will not recover for a hundred years.
I’ve had people on this forum tell me the CCP would never attack because of the economic and political instability in China. Those FReepers have no clue. As you said, those are the perfect times to rally the population as the country patriotically rushes across the South China Sea. What’s also of concern, our regime is capable of the same once the real shock and awe inflation begins.
This right here is the kind of post #2 that used to be the norm on FR. Spot on and concise. Need more posts like yours at the beginning of every thread.
Are you talking about Biden or Xi?
“ When totalitarian leaders get into trouble like this they often start wars to distract from the ptoblems.”
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Yup, my thought as well. Taiwan, guns up! Be at the ready!
Now is the time to start a war with America being socialist and leaderless. No greater opportunity than now.
Let’s go Brandon.
“When totalitarian leaders get into trouble like this they often start wars to distract from the problems.”
Yes they do! But this one will be different. Over the last 20 plus years, we have helped them modernize and grow rapidly, while we have become dependent on their cheap labor and watched them as they have aggressively ramped up their military power with stolen technology (or technology we gifted). And don’t forget, they have pushed their territorial envelope in every way possible with over 15 border disputes with their neighbors, building islands in the middle of the ocean, and constantly claiming to make Taiwan a part of the CCP.
And then you add to that their new love for Russia (and vice versa) and Russia’s potential move against Ukraine and fighting a bunch of “she men” and a demented president, it is not hard to understand that the U.S. could quickly be outgunned and outmanned (I use the term “manned” very loosely).
After Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan it’s time we fixed our own house before we tell others how to fix theirs — cause ours is broken bad!
We be in trouble.