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The Thirty Tyrants: The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta 🚨
Tablet Magazine tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

Machiavelli describes three options for how a conquering power might best treat those it has defeated in war. The first is to ruin them; the second is to rule directly; the third is to create “therein a state of the few which might keep it friendly to you.”

The Athenian government disloyal to Athens’ laws and contemptuous of its traditions was known as the Thirty Tyrants, and understanding its role and function helps explain what is happening in America today.

For nearly a year, American officials have purposefully laid waste to our economy and society for the sole purpose of arrogating more power to themselves while the Chinese economy has gained on America’s. China’s lockdowns had nothing to do with the difference in outcomes.

Lockdowns are not public health measures to reduce the spread of a virus. They are political instruments, which is why Democratic Party officials who put their constituents under repeated lengthy lockdowns, like NY Gov. Cuomo & Chicago Mayor Lightfoot,

are now signaling publicly that it is imperative they be allowed to reopen immediately now that Trump is safely gone.