Mao ended a chaotic period of warlordism and united the Chinese people. Despite some mistakes, he created the necessary culture and enviornment for China to have a shot at competing as a major power on the world stage. You may not like the way it was done, but you also don't appreciate that the Chinese people see themselves as a larger organism with no regard for the individual.
Che Guevara enabled Cuba, and helped several other countries, to define their own destiny free of western exploitation, particularly by a mafia run industry of vice. Even more importantly, he saved his people from the cultural acid that is liberalism.
Stalin purged all the violent psychopaths that had been placed into power by the revolution. It would have been insane to allow those people to run the country. He even reversed some of the cultural decay caused by the revolution. His greatest achievement was rallying his people to defeat an existensial threat to the motherland.
Xi is doing a great job of caring for his people. He has not only repelled all attempts at western subversion, but has captured the elite of rival powers. The Han have never been in a more powerful position.
Oh, so that's why he refuses to do anything about China's aging population, water problems, and housing speculation? China is a paper mansion on a house of sand and Xi's bloviating does nothing to solve the main issues of his country.
He has not only repelled all attempts at western subversion
Only because he's been actively subverting the West with rampant drug smuggling while using Western property to launder money.
As always, the important question is, "compared to what?"
Oh, so that's why he refuses to do anything about China's aging population
Would you prefer he does the Canadian solution by suiciding them all? Every country has a demographic problem of some sort. At least Xi isn't intentionally mutilating the next generation and trying to replace his people with foreigners.
water problems
How's that American southwest doing again? Xi is playing his hand as best he can to secure resources for his people, which is quite an accomplishment considering Europe is made of coal and about to freeze.
housing speculation
Throwing stones in a glass house.
Only because he's been actively subverting the West with rampant drug smuggling while using Western property to launder money.
In the wake of WW1 there was a serious threat of Soviet backed communist uprisings throughout Europe. The Biennio Rosso almost destroyed Italy until Mussolini saved the day. Bavaria had a close call with Rosa Luxembourg. The German people were rightly terrified. In 1933 the Holodomor was in full swing, and Germans who had been invited to work the land in Ukraine wrote back to their distant cousins that the judeo-Bolsheviks were starving them. That was the final straw needed to propel Hitler to power.
The Fuhrer put an end to the child prostitutes and had bonfires for child porn, both of which were largely the result of Jewish influences. By wretching German monetary policy from the control of Jewish bankers, he was to able to recover the German economy from the effects of Versailles.
Intervening in neighboring countries was completely justified. Czechoslovakia was treating Germans in their territory unfairly and the border areas were majority German. With the British guaranteeing them, Polish communists were emboldened to murder and torture Germans in lands that had been cruelly ripped from the Fatherland after WW1. The Soviet army was very explicitly an offensive force. Both Poland and Finland had learned twice that Russians massing on the border would soon surge across without warning. Attacking first was the only hope for the survival of the German people.
Hitler's biggest mistake was misjudging Churchill and Roosevelt's lust to obliterate the European continent with a second world war.
That's easy.
Mao ended a chaotic period of warlordism and united the Chinese people. Despite some mistakes, he created the necessary culture and enviornment for China to have a shot at competing as a major power on the world stage. You may not like the way it was done, but you also don't appreciate that the Chinese people see themselves as a larger organism with no regard for the individual.
Che Guevara enabled Cuba, and helped several other countries, to define their own destiny free of western exploitation, particularly by a mafia run industry of vice. Even more importantly, he saved his people from the cultural acid that is liberalism.
Stalin purged all the violent psychopaths that had been placed into power by the revolution. It would have been insane to allow those people to run the country. He even reversed some of the cultural decay caused by the revolution. His greatest achievement was rallying his people to defeat an existensial threat to the motherland.
Xi is doing a great job of caring for his people. He has not only repelled all attempts at western subversion, but has captured the elite of rival powers. The Han have never been in a more powerful position.
o7 mega based!
If Mao had better ideology and economic policy he would have been great.
It takes a strong man to unite a country, too bad he untied it around really shitty ideas which led to famine.
Oh, so that's why he refuses to do anything about China's aging population, water problems, and housing speculation? China is a paper mansion on a house of sand and Xi's bloviating does nothing to solve the main issues of his country.
Only because he's been actively subverting the West with rampant drug smuggling while using Western property to launder money.
As always, the important question is, "compared to what?"
Would you prefer he does the Canadian solution by suiciding them all? Every country has a demographic problem of some sort. At least Xi isn't intentionally mutilating the next generation and trying to replace his people with foreigners.
How's that American southwest doing again? Xi is playing his hand as best he can to secure resources for his people, which is quite an accomplishment considering Europe is made of coal and about to freeze.
Throwing stones in a glass house.
The revenge for the opium wars is going great.
You're a born spin doctor.
Now do Hitler!
In the wake of WW1 there was a serious threat of Soviet backed communist uprisings throughout Europe. The Biennio Rosso almost destroyed Italy until Mussolini saved the day. Bavaria had a close call with Rosa Luxembourg. The German people were rightly terrified. In 1933 the Holodomor was in full swing, and Germans who had been invited to work the land in Ukraine wrote back to their distant cousins that the judeo-Bolsheviks were starving them. That was the final straw needed to propel Hitler to power.
The Fuhrer put an end to the child prostitutes and had bonfires for child porn, both of which were largely the result of Jewish influences. By wretching German monetary policy from the control of Jewish bankers, he was to able to recover the German economy from the effects of Versailles.
Intervening in neighboring countries was completely justified. Czechoslovakia was treating Germans in their territory unfairly and the border areas were majority German. With the British guaranteeing them, Polish communists were emboldened to murder and torture Germans in lands that had been cruelly ripped from the Fatherland after WW1. The Soviet army was very explicitly an offensive force. Both Poland and Finland had learned twice that Russians massing on the border would soon surge across without warning. Attacking first was the only hope for the survival of the German people.
Hitler's biggest mistake was misjudging Churchill and Roosevelt's lust to obliterate the European continent with a second world war.
Brilliant!
You have a fine talent for steel-manning (a stupid term) rebuttals to arguments so well-worn they might as well be on stone tablets.