You don't get no answers if you don't ask no questions.

The central pillar of the corrupt new order is the American elite’s relationship with China. . . .

What matters now are platforms. And for the purposes of information warfare, what’s important is not the content but rather the availability and reach of the platforms, whose job is to protect the American ruling elite’s wealth and preferences by spreading whatever propaganda the elite sees as beneficial. By threatening to split the United States from China, Trump earned the enmity of America’s China Class, which is working hard to remove him from office, and replace him with someone more pliant.^[1]

The Russia, Russia, Russia hysteria is fake. The notion that Russia is "expansionist" is ludicrous. More like it, it's hated by the oligarchs and corporate giants because it demonstrates what a firm, reasonable, restrained, nationalist foreign policy looks like in contrast to the U.S. and its stupidity in wasting gargantuan amounts of money and good will to vindicate airy fairy notions of "responsibility to protect," America's "leadership" of the world (demanded by no one), and the "exceptional" nature of Yanitedstates.

Applying the useful analytical principle that what is not being said or complained of is probably the key to understanding any particular problem or situation, we find that there is a raft of breast beating about Russia but none about China. Chinese intelligence had a connection to Mochtar Riady, the Indonesian version of Croesus, who saved Bill Clinton's primary campaign long ago with a timely donation of cash. And Mum was the word. Also, Johnny Chung made it a habit to show up with bags of cash for the Clintons. More silencio over the ensuing decades.

And good luck finding much of an explanation of why tens of thousands of U.S. factories HAD to be relocated to the Chinese mainland. The U.S. Dept. Commerce sounded no alarms on this amazing transfer of wealth and technology to a @#$% communist strategic competitor. Neither did the Dept. of Labor nor any industrial union. And where were the Dept. of Defense and the Intelligence Community when Chinese spies were flooding our universities and corporations stealing whatever wasn't nailed down?

No one was minding the store and that, sports fans, is par for the course in early 21st-c. America.

Since people don't generally sell out their core constituencies without some major incentives and, as the quote above suggests, those who today continue to benefit from such lucrative arrangements get very agitated when their rice bowl is threatened. That Trump did by generally questioning why we waste our blood and treasure on a bunch of free-loading, welfare-state Gutmenschenen and commited communists. What an astonishing thing to do. The idea that it's not America's Manifest Destiny to be everybody's bitch. Imagine that!

Call it basic Trumpism, this rude questioning of holy arrangements, and it's something that's not going away. Just maybe enough Americans have woken up to question (1) why millions of foreigners HAVE to be allowed to flood the country to take American jobs, drive down wage levels, and suck up welfare benefits and (2) why American factories HAVE to be shut down and moved to the shores of a communist country. What exactly was the quid for that quo? Somehow I think the secretive U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a pretty good idea of what it was.

Notes
^[1] "America’s China Class Launches a New War Against Trump. The corporate, tech, and media elites will not allow the president to come between them and Chinese money." By Lee Smith, Tablet, 9/15/20.