[onefortyone]

I come from an ex-communist country. So this is probably (hopefully) the only moment my talent of spotting this kind of shit is useful. The thing is that whatever bad behavior the USA committed in the past, and then anxiously analyzed and mulled over for decades... the Chinese are doing day by day, routinely, without ANY remorse or second thought. With the Russians it was different. Sorry to say this, but compared to the Chinese, they had soul. I do not foresee anything like the collapse of the Soviet Union in China. They are too "rational" for it. Not to mention their numbers. Our only hope is Jesus Christ. US and China at war? I don't know. China at war? By their logic of expansion, I'm afraid it is guaranteed.

[yibg]

Seems strange to me to assign any emotion to the political entity of a huge country. I don’t even mean what it means. What does China / America/ Soviet Union feeling remorse even look like?

History has shown us that any super power will go to war. The Romans, the British, the Americans. Maybe we’ve learned our lesson from history or maybe today things are different due to greater education, multiculturalism and just rapid communication. Either way we shouldn’t be pinning our hopes on “Jesus Christ”, as again I don’t know what that means. Would he come down and disarm everyone or something?

We avoid conflict by having rational open dialog, educating people and increasing transparency and accountability. The way to increase the probability of conflict is by having this tribalistic us vs them mentality. Everything they do is bad, they are evil and we are just.

[nineparts]

When that political party is set on dictating not only how every citizen but how every ethnic should behave... well...

[andarleen]

I cant tell wether the statement that Russia had “soul” is because of the stockholm syndrome or something else, but how can you say that considering millions of people have been deported to gulags in the early days of communism, and hundreds of millions are still suffering today because of communist regimes Russia imposed on their countries? Do I get a sense of someone decrying the collapse of the SU? The political entity that literally massacred the cultures of millions of east europeans? Think again about what you wrote.

[nineparts]

I get what you are saying but those countries were more like colonies than a part of Russia. My opinion is that they should have been left alone, like every country should, especially in that time when technology wasn't so hazardous and so widespread.

The fact that you managed to understand that I decry the collapse of the Soviet Union when my post said the exact opposite, namely that I can't see how in China an event like that could take place -- and this was the foundation on which I based my affirmation of Russians having a soul -- tells me that your agenda stands firmly on the side of the CCP, in detriment of everybody else. Quite sad, really.