Here’s the funny thing about these “think tanks”: they think the world still runs on 1991 logic while living in 2026 reality.

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Here’s the funny thing about these “think tanks”: they think the world still runs on 1991 logic while living in 2026 reality. Only in Washington can a group of overpaid analysts watch America: • threaten to buy Greenland, • turn Canada into the “51st state,” • kidnap Venezuela’s president, • sanction half the planet, • deploy federal troops on its own citizens, • and quietly panic about losing its hegemony… …and somehow conclude that China is the one facing “massive costs” for taking back its own territory. The delusion is almost poetic. These clowns still believe in a world where “democracies” move as one, when even NATO countries now whisper that the US is their biggest strategic risk, not Russia, not China. Trump slapped 20% tariffs on his own allies and they still dare fantasize about a united sanctions front? Please. China is the largest trading partner of 157 countries. China is the spine of global supply chains. China produces over 30% of the world’s total manufacturing output. Who exactly will “punish” China? Spain? Australia? A Europe that can’t even agree on farm subsidies? A United States that can’t even produce its own antibiotics? As for war? another joke. The West dreams of “costs” for China as if this were 2003 Iraq. But if a conflict ever became prolonged, China is the only nation on Earth capable of out-producing everyone combined. The country that builds cities in weeks versus the one that can’t build a bridge without a congressional hearing? And yet these same think tanks look at all of this, and still churn out PowerPoints about “China paying a heavy price.” No, the only people paying a heavy price are those still living in outdated fantasies of Western dominance.

1:35 AM · Jan 22, 2026

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