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Originally Posted by TexasSP
The analogy to me is like a car with transmission problems being fixed with 22's and a new paint job, then telling the owner it's not really his and will be given to others to use, but he will have to pay for these additions while the new users pay nothing.
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That about sums it up. I also consider that maybe they go out of their way to some extent, to be as controversial as possible to buy themselves time.
The "compliance at gunpoint" is as Soviet as it gets, many of us have seen this coming for many years. So maybe the natural progression of any 'great' superpower is to be swallowed whole by it's own government. I seem to vaguely recall other societies this may have happened to ??