Hindsight
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My understanding is US power is based on having it both ways and making both sides pay for it. Lefties call it something like Liberal Imperialism. Classicists probably call it a variation on being caught on the horns of a dilemma. We in the UK see our politics operating the same way on a domestic level ever since Blair and his spin doctors. The only exception was Dunblane.
It's how minorities get preferential treatment and consideration here in the West whilst never being tolerated in authoritarian/totalitarian regimes.
We in the West are moving to the right, away from liberal democracy so we'll have to get used to this.
China and Russia don't want to divide and rule. They don't want to accommodate both sides of an argument and profit from both. They want to consolidate what they have and expand to have more into one homogenous whole, into one big unifying state, centrally controlled and top down enforced. Our political masters in our liberal democracies don't understand how they can rule over us, given their core doctrine of diversity, equality and inclusion. In fact their DVI is what is causing the far right to get more populist.
Ask any successful productive farmer how he grows his business and he'll sound more like Russia and China then any spokesman from the US or the UK.
Well I will stick with the malevolent force I know and live under, LGBQT rights an all. You are very welcome to toddle off to the other lot Soapsud if you wish and take Brian with as he seems very much to prefer the other lot. The malelovent lot from Russia, China, Iran et all don't look that good to me even if you think productive farmers are similar - you coming all GB News crap my friend.