One of the strangest things in the modern world is the utter denial of the evils of communism, despite the copious evidence to the contrary.

We continue to live in a world with a number of existential risks which have come out of communism.

North Korea exists because the CCP made them and continue to support them. Equally the Ukraine war is totally predicted on CCP support. The Russian mess is a direct result of the break down of the USSR...

And of course we can see in countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe how ordinary people's lives have been destroyed by this ideology, only the latest victims of a failed ideology which has killed 100's of millions of people.

It's fashionable now to whine and moan about the perceived evils of democratic, capitalist countries but so much of seems to be a product of extremely spoiled people who simply have no idea how bad things can be.

Not to forget the Cuban missile crisis which is easily the closest the world has come to utter annihilation!

And afterwards it turns out Castro was TOTALLY willing to use the nukes. It's fucking insane really.

Of all Kissinger's crimes, bringing in the CCP (emphatically: not the Chinese state, rather the awful CCP govt) out from the cold was easily the worst, and possibly the biggest blunder in human history.

It legitimised and empowered the communist govt, subjecting the Chinese people to an indefinite future of oppression and the world to its whims, the extent of which we are still yet to see play out.

Communism is an evil that needs to be shunned, not embraced, and sadly (and rather ironically) money is why people turn a blind eye to what the CCP are now.

If Nixon/Kissinger had not done so, that govt would have eventually been overcome and both China and the world would have a far far brighter future. Alas.

@ljs Nah, you just don't understand that the evil thing of capitalistm is that it ruins lives even half the world away, even those poor bastards in the socialist countries, aside normal folks in the rich democratic ones. Communism is an ideal that heavily depends on voluntarility which in turn depends on freedom. People cannot be free while there is a man with a whip and the whip can be jails and the whip can also be life energy (money). Being rich and pointing fingers at others is extremely easy. Countries with colonial history enjoying their walth built up by others have created this illusion that their way is the right one and others have the same opportunities. Communists are evil, Africans are stupid, Asians are ... too many, totally nothing to do with everyone being robbed by Euroamericans. So we, the west, are the good guys and therefore our elites must be the best and whoever things otherwise must be bad.