War ain't beanbag....What the F*ck?

[Tyler Durden]

Justin wrote...

>I haven't lived in China, but my impression of the country leads me to
>believe otherwise.  If it's not *quite* socialist, it's fascist.

>As above, this doesn't seem right.  Hong Kong might be a major capitalist
>center of operations, but Hong Kong is not really China, socioeconomically
>speaking.

Mainland China is already a capitalist giant. It's also arguably fascist, at 
least from an American's point of view. But if you don't f*ck with 
politicians, you can cut almost whatever deal you want. Start criticisizng 
Zhong Non Hai and your eyeballs will end up giving sight to some aging 
businessman or party bigshot (which basically means an aging businessman 
these days).


>A majority screwing up a country is not "letting them figure things out on
>their own".  Maybe we should have let the Japanese figure things out by
>themselves once they surrendered?  Germany?  No funds to rebuild France.
>Oh, I want to live in *that* world, where we may not have won the cold
>war.

Well, there's a difference here. It's one thing to rebuild a country after 
we've gone to war with them, but messing with a country's internal politics 
and destabilising their local governments is a different story. And indeed, 
none of the countries where we've performed such duties (with our help from 
our friends in the SOAs) currently have a particularly stable economy, 
though Argentina is finally showing some dim hope.

-TD

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