Thread by @wretchardthecat

But it would be a mistake to think the fight is solely between Russia and the USA. The big rival is China and it's interesting how this giant adversary has some kind of stealth coating which reflects less than Russian collusion.

While Russia can only aspire to penetrate the network China aims to actually be the network, to dominate the physical layer and technologies like artificial intelligence, which makes it potentially far more dangerous than the Kremlin.

forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm…

Unlike Russia, China has an internal strategy unmatched perhaps even by the United States. Beijing has a plan to become the dominant economy and technology powerhouse on the planet.

Listening to Bernie Sanders and even Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama one wonders whether anyone in the political leadership of American liberalism is willing or even able to take on the Chinese or Russians on the strategic level.

They seem almost senile, concerned with appearances, attached to fads, puttering around a curious manner. What occupies them is victimhood, sexual politics, climate engineering and virtue signalling, fine in an institution but suicidal on the stage of hard-edged power politics.

They say they are the "only adults in the room" yet the more you look the less you find.

The objection to this critique is that Sanders' et al are 'secretly sophisticated'; in possession of special classified knowledge that the public lack and policies like Open Borders make analytic sense in the nuanced universe. But this is unlikely.

pjmedia.com/richardfernand…

The lesson of the last few decades is that the Western political elites are not much smarter and often a good deal less intelligent than the first 10,000 names in the telephone directory.