Reply #22: okay, this is largely neutered and I'm not digging up references, either [View All]

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But anyway, here goes.

The SCO axis is a competing oligarchy of a largely similar form to the Anglo-American-European axis. There is no Bolshevik Revolution that's going to happen, nor will a Communist Revolution happen in China, either. If such is attempted, it will be smashed by force, and effectively. Instead, their oligarchies have control by force over their populations where the Anglo-American oligarchies developed socioeconomic control over their populations.

They are manuevering in a direction not entirely different from America's manuevers around WWII. That is, expansion of the middle class so that it can be harvested decades later in much the same manner as the US middle class is now being harvested.

Not sure where to go from here; I'm most tempted to start digging for references but am constrained with respect to time and effort.