I’d rather see the United States descend into Civil War, before this country turns to Communism
1 tour of duty in Viet Nam convinced me totally
It was just a couple of years ago that I figured out why communist countries called their battles for new conquests "wars of liberation". It may have been while reading Bernard Fall's
Street Without Joy or one of the other books about the Vienamese fight against French colonialism when the light came on. For whatever reason I was too tied with the arrogance of communists fighting for control of a country and calling it "liberation" to make the connection that it was all a play on words about
"liberating" a colony from one country while enslaving it to another. A few weeks ago while reading the Epilog to
The Ugly American I realized how slick the Russians could be in priming a country for revolution.
Right now the Chinese are playing a variant across the globe, and I honestly believe a huge majority of this country is clueless. The Chinese have been plucking poor countries, seducing politicians who grant them the rights to build projects for which the country can never repay, and then moving in as repayment for the debt. They are locking up very strategic shipping locations - the Panama Canal, approaches to the Suez Canal, and passage through the South China Sea. Nixon blundered in opening the way to China - he of all people should have seen the error; but until Trump, nobody since Nixon has seen fit to take an honest look at China - particularly that we've sold our industrial soul to the vampires. We see Chinese industry as a mirror of our own - made up of individual companies - nothing could be farther from the truth. We're fighting "China Inc", it's all owned by the Chinese government and military, and we've bought them a very nice military that one day when weakened enough we will face. As you know from Viet Nam, you don't play the long game with Asians - particularly the Chinese.
Whether China or Russia, Nikita Khrushchev's words, “We will take America without firing a shot" is probably a more dire warning today than it ever has been.