Kill the lib in you. Even if the people, broadly speaking, are better than this (doubt, read settlers etc), the political system is not in any meaningful sense democratic and bears only surface level resemblance to popular will.
Westoids love to make fun of Russia for supposedly expecting a 3-day war in Ukraine, but like, that’s precisely the premise here. We saw what happened when China closed a few ports for Covid. How long do they expect a war over the South China Sea to last?!
