I know the real issue in the real world is the basic Republicans just being mad about this statement in general but I actually really want to know if Bernie means to praise China pre-1982 or post-1982
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Yeah - and if it works, it's because there's political will to spend money on bombs that doesn't exist to build bridges. But the logic would basically mean that we could do just as well with fake bombs.
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Anyway it's a shaky framework to talk about confidently re: any country's history but this is why imo you have to take the "Gotta hand it to them" arguments about Russia and China with a grain of salt
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These are two very large countries with a lot of people and a lot of stuff Their poverty and political weakness was notable because it was *paradoxical*, these were countries that had in the past been very powerful empires that in the 19th century devolved into "basket cases"
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