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Don't you believe in free speech?

See, that's the problem for trolls like you from authoritarian countries. You mess up because you think everyone else in the world is an authoritarian, because that's all you have ever seen in your life.

When a Westerner says that so-and-so "Has a lot to say for a guy who just got through doing eight months", you think I'm calling for the guy to get arrested, jailed, tortured and possibly executed for saying something I object to, because that's how things work in whatever place you live.

Whereas, what the Westerner is merely saying is that a guy who couldn't figure out how to keep his butt out of court-ordered imprisonment might not have much advice to offer worth listening to. About anything. The Westerner isn't thinking about imprisoning the guy, just laughing at him.

But we can't expect you to know that, coming from where you do. By the way, where do you come from?

Don't you believe that people from all countries should have freedom of speech?

what country are you from?

Sterl like many revisionists are quite glib with their 20/20 hindsight on the Dominoe Effect. The notion wasn’t that Vietnam falling to the Communists would lead to Red Armies on the shores of the US in years or even decades, it was that if the undeniable expansionist goals of Russia and China were not checked, the US would eventually become isolated and vulnerable.

I'm from the USA, born and raised here

expansionist goals of Russia and China were not checked, the US would eventually become isolated and vulnerable.

Given that NATO not only stopped Russian expansionism in Europe in its tracks,

false flag terrorist actions

JTT/Camlok has never ever answered that one.

if the undeniable expansionist goals of Russia and China were not checked, the US would eventually become isolated and vulnerable.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a $1 trillion project to build rail and sea routes, ports, roads, energy projects, business parks across 70 countries, and China is using it to influence foreign policy, control transport routes and develop a military presence in strategic regions. Sixteen U.S. senators have asked the administration to pressure the International Monetary Fund to stifle it. The IMF strategy is fruitless; it won’t stop BRI. But the senators are right to worry.

To counter BRI, Trump must reverse his “America First” isolationist foreign policy. As Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Ely Ratner warns, due to BRI and America First, the U.S. is losing its geopolitical battle with China and "many foreign policy achievements over the last 75 years will be lost and … will take generations (at least) to revive.” China’s President Xi Jinping – with projects like BRI and direct foreign aid – is filling the vacuum left by Trump’s policies.


America First has diminished America’s influence and seeded disrespect for the U.S. around the world. By abandoning the Trans Pacific Trade Partnership, the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran nuclear deal, we lost forums in which America could communicate, influence, and lead. We also lost credibility and the respect and trust of the members of NATO and the World Trade Organization from the insults Trump hurled at them. After we left TPP, China, which was not in TPP, quickly entered trade pacts with16 countries responsible for a third of global GDP. All of them excluded the US. Our departure strengthened China’s ability to bully countries in the region.

it is a bit ironic that isolationism was once not desirable in the US

"Our departure strengthened China’s ability to bully countries in the region."