I wish our leadership would be more direct about their intentions. Don't dance around with claims of 'national security' and 'spying' and 'protect the children

I wish our leadership would be more direct about their intentions. Don't dance around with claims of 'national security' and 'spying' and 'protect the children' which seem to always lack vital details on how they expect to use their technological foothold to... mobilize 82 million screen-obsessed teenagers to march across the Pacific and take back Taiwan? Don't propose bullshit "well, they could keep operating if they just..." standards that you either aren't going to honor, or are inherently unfulfillable. It's farce in the same vein as expecting Saddam Hussein to turn over the WMDs. Just tell us "the fix is in, we have no interest in actually getting to a mutually agreeable consensus." Then we can ask exactly why. Is it a single casualty as part of a long-term strategy of antagonizing a new Cold War with China? Or is it a smaller game-- responding because American social-media companies are butthurt that they can't capture TikTok's appeal?