I agree; at the very least it'd be nice to see less fear-mongering. Especially with modern, acculturated tech, the democratic world ought to be doing acrobatic

I agree; at the very least it'd be nice to see less fear-mongering. Especially with modern, acculturated tech, the democratic world ought to be doing acrobatic flips and twists off each and every "where'd Jack Ma go" springboard news event that comes out of modern China. Those are leverage points, they are the dragon's missing armor plates. Tech comparison alone though...if you make it out to be a logistics-only game, as many in government do, then I can see why things would get depressing fast. Tech & culture integration is a huge accomplishment of the modern world and we ought to leverage it, even in the service of shoring up or solving logistics issues.