Unfortunately we did business with the current Russian dictatorship and they became a threat to worldwide freedom once again because of it. Going as far as rolling tanks into Ukraine and displacing my own family.
Doing business with China has done nothing for us besides short term corporate profits. At the expense of helping a dictatorship grow their military, make themselves nuclear and create a global threat to human freedom. A threat we must spend more resources on every year to counter.
You dont “do business” with murdering thieves in the hope they'll become good people when they are rich enough. No, they'll rob and murder you too as soon as they see an opportunity. To these power-hungry assholes, there ain't enough room on this planet for anyone but themselves.
Death to all dictatorships! F all their apologists!
Yes, we did. Did you not see the young people of the USSR adopting western styles, music, movies, Levis, . . . There was lots of commerce that made the Russian people demand a western like economic reform like they saw that they weren’t getting from Socialism. That brought down the iron curtain.
We did lots of trade with the USSR. . . They depended on us for wheat they could not produce because their collective farm economic models didn’t work. It was more of those five year plans where commissars produced millions of bushels of paper wheat that existed only in their glowing reports created to make themselves look good. And they most certainly exported to the west because we would not accept their fiat rubles for that wheat—rubles were not a world commodity currency and could only be used as a medium of exchange inside the Soviet Union and satellite states— and they needed to export goods to get dollars to buy it. I am an economist and know these things for a fact. Your anecdotes don’t turn magically into data.
It will be very intereting to see if Apple touts the China line.
Maybe China eil be ice tro them if they do!