Saturday 7 August 2021

Xi is making the mistake Stalin made

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Xi is making the mistake Stalin made from 1945 to 1948 of alerting the West to his intentions. Had Stalin been canny he'd have waited till Truman withdrew the American troops from Western Europe before imposing Communism on Eastern Europe.

From a James Forsyth article in the Spectator in April:
'Had China waited another ten years, we would have been unable to react. Our dependence would have been too great. There would have been no opportunity to get out. By moving early, they’ve given us a chance.’ One cabinet minister agrees with this analysis:
‘The Chinese have very surreptitiously but delicately inserted themselves into a lot of institutions. They are almost too big to get rid of.’
As it is we are lucky to see what is happening, but a Cold War serves little purpose now and probably didn't in the period 1947-89. 

Apart from any other reason, illegal immigrants are a very much bigger and more urgent problem for England, Europe and the USA than Taiwanese independence.

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  1. As it is we are lucky to see what is happening, but a Cold War serves little purpose now and probably didn't in the period 1947-89.

    The original Cold War served a definite purpose. It was very very good for the military. They got lots of funding and lots of new toys to play with. It was very good for arms manufacturers.

    That may be largely why we're getting a new Cold War. It won't be good for most of us but it will be very good for Lockheed-Martin.

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  2. Joe Biden doesn't even know the population of the country he's president of:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDjvbZd8WEo

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    1. But it's not his uselessness and the senile glint in his eyes, but his ideals and philosophy that are the problem.

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    2. Obama: I’d Be Fine with a Third Term If There Was Someone Who Would’ve Been a Stand-In with an Ear Piece.

      https://www.air.tv/watch?v=kcC6Rv5CQr-8Bb4HmUkVaA

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