hello and welcome, anon. > i think its foolish to keep expanding nato and fund proxy wars like this - with money we don't even have those things aren't done with the best interest of the american people in mind, but to further the interests of the elite ruling class. while those people are in power. nothing will ever change. > i hope that some day we can be friends instead of adversaries the time for that has now passed, at least during this generation. after the fall of the ussr, the russian leadership was very willing to engage with the west, in the hopes of becoming a part of it. it was poor western leadership that screwed that over by interfering and advancing over areas that have historically being part of russia's sphere of influence while it was plagued by internal issues, like the balkans. the baltic and ukraine. as for china, it's current growth was kickstarted by western companies and industries moving there. the objective being twofold: to pull them away from the then soviet union and to make a profit due to its large consumer market and cheap production costs. liberals say that there was a hope that it would bring democratic rule to mainland china, but quite frankly, if said government existed and didn't do your bidding, you would antagonize it too. now that the chinese economy is bound to surpass yours, and in some regards already did, your elites can't accept that. maybe in another generation what you say can happen, but not as things are.
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