Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, and film industry
In the old day we would terminate ****ing communists. Now we tolerate the bastards.
Change Soviet to CCP, and get me the next Joe McCarthy
No, we do worse.
We knowingly elect them into high positions in government, and then try to point the finger at Russia.
This. Leftist revisionist history demonizes him, but McCarthy was right about too much. Venona hasn't been completely decoded, but what we know is scary.Let's not forget that McCarthy was mistaken only in that the problem was worse than he realized. Further, we had the intercepted cables with the locals and Moscow to prove this treason and for some strange reason turned a blind eye.
I am honestly surprised China hasn't made a huge move following their highly successful propaganda campaign to convince the West to self-destruct their economies and poison their internal politics in a mad, suicidal panic over covid. We now know the SolarWinds system has been fully, admin-level compromised by a foreign power for the last 10 months. We now know the government, including the incoming administration, is absolutely rotten with CCP operatives. By dropping a huge infrastructure cyberattack and having their operatives wreck government systems, compounded by a toilet economy, they could easily create a situation where the American people are too disarrayed and demoralized to respond to the CCP seizing Taiwan or expelling all foreign navy forces from the South China Sea.
After a year of unemployment, pandemic panic, bread lines, and spotty/no electricity, the American people would give China whatever it wanted to avoid getting involved in a new war.
We're waiting for the other shoe to drop on this years-long campaign and I feel like it could be any day now. When will they ever have a better opportunity to break containment and challenge the West?
That's not how China works.
They want to knock the US out of the global trade game, absorbing all of our value and worth, to continue to grow their economic power.
Why would you attack the US if you can take everything you want from it peacefully? Not to mention, they want US consumerism as high as possible as it drives their economic power.
Because ultimately China has expansionist goals that cannot be accomplished peacefully.
Because ultimately China has expansionist goals that cannot be accomplished peacefully.
Do you think you know China's interests and intents better than they do? China could already take Taiwan if they wanted to. (It's just studded with enough Patriot batteries that it would take weeks to complete and severely damage their image in doing so). They are not doing it, because they do not deem it in their interest to do so.