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The focal shift from Russia in Europe to China in Asia is less a mechanism for coping with defeat than the pathological reaction of a country that, feeling a gnawing sense of diminishing prowess, can manage to do nothing more than try one final fling at proving to itself that it still has the right stuff — since living without that exalted sense of self is intolerable.
Strange. You’d think the US would be pretty good at dealing with defeat, given how often they’ve had their ass handed to them after 1945.
Ah, but it’s only the working class that loses!