Russia is not our worst enemy
But despite its aging arsenal of nukes, it’s really a broken-down, impoverished ex-superpower with a GDP smaller than Canada’s. It has nothing the West wants or needs but oil, natural gas and maybe caviar.
Russia doesn’t have the rubles or gold to spend on a big war or even a little one -- but China does.
Russia isn’t in every other American’s pocket, either. But China sure is -- and I’m not just talking about its business partners running the NBA or the Biden family.
Unless you’ve been living on a desert Pacific island since my father left Washington, you know our entire economy is dangerously dependent on China and its factories.
Forget Chinese-made imports like iPhones, Nike shoes and Black & Decker tools.
Just check out where most of those home coronavirus test kits Joe Biden has promised he’s mailing to each of us were made.
Of course the most dangerous product China has exported to us – and the world – was Covid 19.
It’d be hard for Hollywood to make up something as crazy as this true story: China gives us a deadly virus that kills nearly 1 million Americans and then sells us boatloads of the test kits that tell us if we have caught it.
Meanwhile, it’s Communist China – not authoritarian Russia – that has been flexing its military muscles and expanding its influence in Asia and around the world for a quarter century.
China’s dictators have taken over Hong Kong and snuffed out most of its people’s freedoms.
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