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To: Thomas M. who wrote (771053)11/7/2022 3:17:46 PM
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Funny - just yesterday I ran into something similar by Austin Dahmer - on Twitter. He’s worried that our most dangerous enemy is China, but we’re too focused on Russia.

Imho, Tom, both strategies are counterproductive and dangerous.

They both become meaningless - if we decide to give up the notion of taking on responsibility over the rest of the world - aka, global hegemony. No one wants us to do the hegemony thing, and resentments will continue to grow.

China is our opponent economically, as well as militarily. Russia - only militarily.

I think we need to rediscover the art of diplomacy. Had we not continued for decades the policy of NATO “enlargement” - this situation in Ukraine wouldn’t happen - and we wouldn’t be living under threat of a thermonuclear annihilation.

Smart old timers like Kissinger and others would have never allowed this to happen. They would have outplayed Russia - and everyone would be happy.

China has never been expansionist and imperialistic in the Western understanding. They have never had a compulsion to conquer territory. Economically? Yes. They desire to outproduce and to out trade everyone.

So, the way to deal with them is to bring our own house back in order. Bring America back to what it is naturally - an inventive, energetic, productive nation which thrives on success, trade - and making money.

In the 1980’s, we weren’t stupid for allowing them to screw together computers - let them do it! We were too busy being 2-3 steps ahead of them, inventing new things.

That would be the best way of dealing with the Chinese.

And if we don’t focus on that -- having a big fat military industrial complex won’t help us.
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