08-13-2020, 12:24 AM
(08-12-2020, 10:53 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(08-12-2020, 08:39 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: I keep saying that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs are paranoid and desperate, and highly emotional, and highly delusional, and this article is a good example.
I would feel better if that description couldn't be applied to Trump as well. Such an attack would be fairly absurd, but Trump will be getting desperate. Preparing for such an attack is not totally absurd.
Plagues are bad times for initiating wars. They add new danger to war, already dangerous to soldiers.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.