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Unlike America, China has actually endured genuine mass hardship on a catastrophic scale, in living memory. Every time a few Marines get blown to bits it\u2019s a month of weepy mourning and a crisis for the government. Imagine when it\u2019s the entire pacific fleet.

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God, do you know how pathetically weepy the Israelis get about their casualties? And yet.

Anyway, like that’s what I’ve been saying, it became clear last decade we were sliding down that path but we managed to self-arrest and start dragging ourselves back up.

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