"In retrospect, the U.S.S.R. of 1957 was not actually that formidable a competitor. ... A Sputnik Moment with China sometime early in the coming decade will be a whole lot more challenging ..." http://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/china-on-the-mind-is-a-sputnik-moment-coming-could-the-u-s-respond-if-it-did/ … ...
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... If you think the West most needs massive stress to jolt it out of its woke lunacy, this is all good.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I don't think current Western ruling elite, at least if we except part of aging boomer politicians and bureaucrats, is capable of being jolted by this. They are in high dudgeon about their infinite moral superiority and considerations of mere brute power are unlikely to move them
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Replying to @CandideIII
Guess I'm for seeing the heat turned up until the damn thing jolts or dies.
2:46 AM - 18 Oct 2019
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