AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
It’s not just Trump that thinks hindsight is 20/20. Like if Americans had a do-over, they could’ve controlled the outcome in their favor? It’s like a lot of both Democrats and Republicans believe if Nixon didn’t go to China, that would’ve prevented what China has become today and China wouldn’t be the challenger to the Western world order like it is now. The fact is if Nixon didn’t go to China, the US would’ve probably been nuked by the Soviet Union by now. It’s that simple. Nixon going to China is what ended the Cold War. The Soviet Union wouldn’t have gone bankrupt scrambling to counter the US because of the new Sino-US alliance. So would they rather have gotten nuked instead? The US economy grew many times over exploiting slave labor from China. US companies wouldn’t have gotten as rich if they didn’t have China to exploit. The problems they face today in fact would’ve happened earlier because nothing changes that everything they did would’ve cost them more not less meaning lower profit margins and not as much money they would’ve made since Nixon didn’t go to China. Because of the money they made because of China also meant that they didn’t ever see foreign markets as important to them like they are today. Look at how the US being able to sell agricultural goods to China plays life or death to American farmers today. Without China countries like India would still be seen as third world shitholes with no hope. That’s a small example of what it would’ve been like without Nixon going to China.
