I thought I wrote it rather well… was feeling stylish at the keyboard. Might delete later, idk. But hell, if I sound like a propaganda apparatchik I could proba

I thought I wrote it rather well… was feeling stylish at the keyboard. Might delete later, idk. But hell, if I sound like a propaganda apparatchik I could probably get a job at the Economist, huh? Re: the substance of your post. >the Chinese are mostly neutral business people This is naive. They remember what was done to them in the opium war, and there is a reason they manufacture the stuff. >the same dirtbags… When one person falls into folly, that person is a fool. When an entire society falls into folly, can you blame each man as a fool? We have an opium problem. It was fueled by large pharamceutical companies, but in 2022 there is also a geopolitical component. Re: Russia I have no doubt Russia would like to see America knocked on its rear. However my biggest qualm with the support of Ukraine is not “Russia right, America wrong,” but that this is a self-own. What we’ve done is force the world to make a decision, in which neutrality, once a holding pattern for the sake of good business, is now a knife’s edge slicing through one’s slipper. Moreover, the so-called “smartest people in the room,” by confiscating a substantial portion of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, have forced a realignment in which a great portion of the world is now trading oil in terms of rubles instead of dollars, which removes the base from under our own currency. I’m sorry, our involvement in Ukraine was an overextension, and our measures in support of it were foolish and self-destructive. If I sound sympathetic to Russia, it is because I am frustrated with America and how this country is being run. The people who knew how to handle situations like this, such as the now oft-mention John Mearsheimer were ignored, in favor of weak-minded flag-wavers with complementary Lockheed caps in their closet.