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19. This is literally what China is doing.

Reply to Lucky Luciano (Reply #13)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 11:54 PM

23 hrs ago

We waited and watched for the Soviet Union to collapse, and they did.
China is now waiting and watching. And probably laughing.

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