They’re in charge, either way; it’s not up to me to “let” them do anything.

But you’re right, I wouldn’t be quick to forgive and forget. However, in your hypothetical situation of a reformed US elite, if some Chinese person in China were furious about the US government’s past crimes against the American people and demanded firm action from his government, press, and corporations to punish the current US government for those crimes, I’d be pretty sure he was a propaganda puppet.

“We” is another one of the lies that “they” use to control me. It wasn’t my stupidity that pushed Russia and China together, and the hubris-drunk “experts” who did it won’t be the ones who suffer the consequences. No, the consequences will somehow wind up falling on me and and people like me. Then they’ll demand I sacrifice for the flag they make a such a show of dragging through the mud. Well, they can forget it.

That is an excellent point. Unfortunately, it seems that the Ruling Clique in the West is stuck in the past, fighting enemies that are long gone.

When the USSR and the Warsaw Pact collapsed, the reasonable course for the West would have been to terminate the now-irrelevant anti-Warsaw Pact NATO and try to build relationships with all of the former Eastern Bloc states, not just the likes of Lithuania. But “Our Guys” chose to treat Russia as an enemy, as if it was still the old USSR.

At the same time, probably part of the reason for bringing China into the World Trade Organization was to build up China as a future ally against designated enemy Russia. “Our Guys” completely under-estimated how effectively China would use that opportunity to industrialize.

Then “Our Guys”, especially the Democrats, screwed up so badly that they pushed China and Russia into a partnership in opposition to the US, NATO, and the West.

So now we in the West have created a joint opposition we cannot beat — dependent as we are on Russia for essential commodities and China for essential manufactures.

All because “Our Guys” insisted on treating Russia as an enemy instead of offering the hand of friendship. Totally different from what the then leaders of the USA did after WWII with the Marshall Plan. Well, it is too late to regret the path not taken; now we just have to suffer the consequences of our own stupidity.

In any event, good, bad, or indifferent, the Chinese government is a matter for the Chinese people, and I’m content to leave it to them rather than foam with outrage an enemy my self-proclaimed masters have designated for me.

Thank you, Die Kapitalisten.

Nothing new.

There are other ways to kill besides direct violence. You can go Green, the color of Irish.

In Ireland 1847 it was done by the system of rents being 40 layers of people deep, at the bottom was Paddy and his Potato. When the Potato crop succumbed to fungus it was merely a matter of the next 39 layers going up to the top layer of the Bank of England to collect their minimum payments. The system was called “Rack Rents” and the system created 1 farmer at the bottom, 1 bank of England at the top and 38 layers of rentiers in between. One collected the minimum payments to avoid being the starving one stepped over in the streets. The system called rack rents is mirrored here in USA , we call it ‘credit’ or ‘student loans’ or ‘refinance mortgage’ and the rest. Ireland had a democracy problem of recently emancipated and rapidly being enfranchised Catholic voters and England solved it – the potato fungus by the way was global but only Irish Catholics starved to death.

As for “it can’t happen here”: lol…LMAO.

It is happening, our potato fungus is called shortage of DEF and Fertilizer [Fertilizer a petroleum product]. This breaks the food chain at 2 critical points that can’t be replaced – the food is not grown [yes, already] for lack of fertilizer and the lack of DEF diesel additive breaks the food distribution system.

In case that doesn’t work the increased interest rates of already inflated money is a backstop, the actual value of the money is very low if Mr. Market takes notice – and Mr. Market is the Government aka the Federal Reserve and can take notice at any moment.

So you see America we are going ‘Green’ = Irish.

Ye are all Irish now.

LOL, LMAO.

The Red Guards movement represents a breakdown of government, as does the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. These always pass.

If you believe this nonsense, you are an idiot, and likely a racist bigot. The CPC (use the right abbreviation) has the support of a large percentage of the Chinese people. The people support the government first because the CPC threw off the colonial regime imposed by the Europeans and the US. Second because the CPC engineered the greatest economic revolution in history, raising 800 million peasants to middle class life styles. The also produced the most modern economy in the world.

P.S. Putin has the same advantages. Some 70 to 80% of the Russian people support him, his government, and the SMO.