• ✺roguetrick✺
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        411 days ago

        Xi is more than happy to have a scapegoat for his economic troubles so the people and the powerful don’t hang him. Trump sometimes wants to speed run into the hanging and then realizes he really can’t piss off his own power base if he wants to keep his neck.

    • JaggedRobotPubes
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      614 days ago

      If they suck at each other, then that’s way less bad. Root for simultaneous knockout punches.

    • @Daryl@lemmy.ca
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      -313 days ago

      And what, exactly, is wrong with cheering for China? They have never invaded a foreign sovereign nation in their entire 400 year history. They have been invaded by a lot of other countries, however.