It's an interesting read. Needs more citations. Some of it seems plausible but without evidence it's just a nice story. HN doesn't accept political stories so

It's an interesting read. Needs more citations. Some of it seems plausible but without evidence it's just a nice story. HN doesn't accept political stories so this will be deleted: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html