Insert ‘pithy’ joke about “free markets” riiiiiiiiiight here. The past year, year and a half, has been little more than Amerika brazenly displaying its ‘grade schooler at recess’ mentality with regard to taking every single under-handed trick to attempt to maintain hegemon over China and Russia.
The decline is happening all around us, and we have the forces of Red Scare-goggled reaction to thank for it.
So, they are officially admitting socialism needed only few decades to rise one of the poorest and most backward countries into the status of “developed”?
Distinctly what it’s sounding like to me-- and one hell of an own-goal if you really mull it over. Spend upwards of 70 years attacking, warring with, attempting to discredit, and assassinating the figureheads of socialist thought; oppress one’s own subjects-of-empire when they start looking to socialist thought in spite of the Cold War raging around them-- only to piss it all away in a fit-of-pique bill that amounts to little more than an Amerikan temper tantrum.
Monty Python couldn’t write funnier.