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It's also a solution much less callous towards human life, and much less likely to cost you massively on the international stage.

However bad Twitter is, it is demonstrably better than it was before. I'm no champion for Musk, but I can recognize improvement when I've seen it.

This, once again, shows that you are fundamentally not someone to be taken seriously when it comes to world politics and military affairs, and that your screen name is poorly chosen. It is basic bitch understanding to know that if you only post a watchman a fraction of the day, that's worse...

I'm as anti-corruption as the next conservative, but from a performance perspective, that's a matter of also pushing for efficiency, not about spending less. The largest military budget+the least corrupt military/military-industrial complex is the overall objective. When you're the world...

As a serious question, why would you want anyone in the world to have a larger or more powerful military than yours?

It's not the lie that would make it hard. It's the 'face' conscious nature of Chinese culture, especially mixed with communism, and how making public statements criticizing both Chinese communism, and their leaders in particular would be a very serious issue under that set of values. Again...

I made no claim this was a perfect method, but it'd certainly help against the more face-oriented chinese communism.

Requiring public statements rejecting communism, and criticizing Xi Jin Ping, Vladimir Putin, or whatever the communist leader of the day is, would go a fair distance towards filtering out potential spies from people trying to get security clearance for infiltration purposes.

Right wing reporters, if any serious number start getting killed, will carry guns, and probably actually know how to use them.

Yes, and the US is getting better planes, missiles, and ships too. China cannot build their advanced hardware without US-designed and/or built parts, and what we provide is a lot harder to replace than what they provide. The reason I'm skeptical of them getting better, is because there has...

...What on earth makes you think the Chinese military is getting better?

The really hilarious thing about all this, is that if the CCP had a lick of sense, they could have instead hailed Xu as a national hero, and commissioned him with official authority to go around the entire country, exposing frauds, and starting proper teaching of real martial arts. It would...

Given that hundreds of millions of Chinese have been converting to Christianity, a post-CCP Chinese culture will probably look very different.

Did you miss basically the entirety of the Obama administration, where 'let's be nice to Russia' was the mood of the day? As best as I can tell, the Democrats didn't start disliking Russia until Hillary used them as the excuse for why she lost the 2016 election.

Selling into US markets was an appeal larger than being able to import US goods for much of the Cold War. And access to the dollar is not a 'burden' for the majority of the time. Yes, when idiots like Biden inflate the currency, it has drawbacks for everyone, but record high US inflation is...

...This is not something I claimed. What I said, was that free trade across the world is possibly the most benevolent thing any world hegemon has ever done, and that we paid for that ourselves, rather than demanding tribute from everyone who was to participate in it.

If you're trying to talk about what the US has and has not done as Hegemon, and you're going to act like it's monstrous because it hasn't been a pure force of pure pureness, so it should go home and let communists take over the planet, I don't really care what point you're trying to make. You're...

The first question you should be asking: "Did the US overall do more harm or good?" The second question you should be asking is: "How did it compare to other world hegemons?" Once you have some context, then you have a decent basis to move forward from.

If you're going to strip the history of the US as world Hegemon down to the last 15 years, then I can strip it down to the end of the Cold War. In which case, we've done absolutely fantastically!

China benefits from the US led world trade structure. They prospered amazingly from it, and in trying to destroy it, they're only hurting themselves. The US is the first World Hegemon to decide 'hey, free (more or less) trade for everyone sounds like something we want to enforce on our own...