In this prophecy which I made in 2023, AI in 100 years is a matter of philosophy, I described a utopian future when AI has matured. I predicted that people no longer work, everything is free, the concept of property and ownership disappears. Two years later, Elon Musk made a very similar prediction.
However, before AI evolves into that maturity, the transition period is extremely bleak and terrifying. The tumbling down the cliff has already started. Large enterprises such as Amazon are conducting massive lay-offs while their profit significantly increases. This is the result of replacing humans with AI.
This started a vicious cycle:
1. The more intelligent AI becomes, the less humans businesses need to employ. Microsoft CEO recently predicted that within 18 months all white-collar jobs will be gone. Blue collar jobs will soon follow when robots mature.
2. When a large percentage of people in a society are unemployed, the profits of businesses will decrease because there are less and less people who can afford their products. Thus, businesses are forced to reduce cost more aggressively by replacing more humans with AI, which cools down the economy further.
3. The businesses know where it leads to, but if one business refuses to replace humans with AI, its cost is higher than others, so it dies first. So everyone will be forced to strengthen this vicious cycle.
Until one day, governments no longer have money for hospitals, roads, and police. Massive unemployment will cause social unrest, demagogues ten times more vicious than Trump, Orbán and Erdoğan will ride the anger of the mob to establish dictatorship, plunging humanity into eternal darkness.
This is not fear mongering. I can see it happening with my own eyes.
How to prevent this catastrophe from happening?
One of the possible solutions is that the government taxes businesses for the profits they make by replacing humans.
If a business saves $50K per year by replacing a human with AI, then it needs to pay $20K or $30k to the government as a special tax.
This way, the government is not trying to stem the inevitable AI tide – businesses can still benefit from AI and the government is with them, not against them.
Then, the government uses this special tax to help jobless people to maintain a decent life, and this guarantees that AI-powered businesses do not run out of customers. This will soften the pressure on the businesses to cut humans more and more aggressively, and help the transition to the ultimate utopian stage to be rolled out in a controlled manner.
All developed countries must launch this AI tax together. Otherwise, if one country launches it, the busineses in this country will simply move to another county.
[55] In early October, Trump suddenly threatened to give Ukraine advanced long-range cruise missiles, warning that thousands of Tomahawks would fly into Russia. Consequently, Putin proposed meeting again in Budapest. In my October 17 article, Not Optimistic About Trump and Putin’s Meeting in Budapest, I wrote: “At that time, Putin only needs to flutter his long eyelashes again and whisper a few sweet nothings in a flirtatious voice, and Trump will fly into the clouds again. Upon his return, he will forget all about the Tomahawk missiles and spend his days immersed in the sweet memories of this meeting." The result? They didn’t even need to meet; after just one phone call, Trump pulled a 180-degree turn, cursed out Zelenskyy to force him to accept Putin’s conditions, and completely forgot the Tomahawks. Fulfilled.
[54] In the September 11 article, World War III Has Become Almost Inevitable, I elaborated on how Trump significantly increased the risk of war. I concluded: “A Nobel Peace Prize? A pipe dream. But if there were a Nobel War Prize, this idiot would surely win it." Fulfilled.
[53] Signs began to emerge in China that Xi had lost power. Before the Fourth Plenary Session, almost all Chinese political commentators were talking about Zhang Youxia seizing military power and Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, and Wang Yang taking over. In my August 2025 articles, I judged that Xi had not been ousted by a coup, that Zhang and Xi had not split, and that Xi was voluntarily reducing his level of dictatorship. Fulfilled.
[52] On August 10, 2025, seven days before Trump went to Alaska to meet Putin, I predicted in In Alaska, Trump Will Be Fooled by Putin Again that Trump would be tricked into Pressuring Ukraine to make concessions. News just broke that Trump abandoned last Friday’s ultimatum to Putin; subsequently, Putin escalated attacks on Ukrainian civilians while Trump remained indifferent. Fulfilled.
[51] On June 15, 2025, the third day of Israel’s strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, I predicted in The Israel-Iran War Won’t Escalate, Ending in Two to Three Weeks that once Israel achieved its goal of setting back Iran’s nuclear program and withdrew, Iran would also stop. The war ended exactly two weeks later. Fulfilled.
[50] On the same day, I wrote China Will Never Abide by Any Trade Agreement with Trump. Four months later, after several trade deals were signed where China promised to restore rare earth supplies, not once has it followed through. Fulfilled.
[49] On June 5, 2025, Elon Musk first threatened to form the “America Party." The next day, I predicted he could not successfully build an anti-Trump faction or party. Fulfilled.
[48] On November 19, 2024, two weeks after Election Day, I argued in The Massive Challenges Facing Musk’s Institutional Downsizing that the movement would end in a whimper. Musk claimed he could cut $2 trillion, but ended up cutting only 1% before closing shop. Fulfilled.
[47] On November 12, 2024, seven days after Election Day, I stated: “Both men have massive egos… they can never cooperate closely in the long term. Period. Musk will definitely break with Trump, starting with a break from his inner circle." Fulfilled.
[46] In the same article, I predicted Trump’s border policy would fizzle out. He promised to deport 15–20 million illegal immigrants. In four months, ICE has deported just over 70,000. At this rate, he will deport 210,000 in a year—less than the 250,000 the Biden administration deported annually. Fulfilled.
[45] I also predicted that regarding Ukraine mediation, Trump would gain no strategic advantage over Biden; the only way to “fix" it would be to bully the weaker party, Ukraine, into concessions. Fulfilled.
[44] Since 2020, I predicted Trump would lose big in the 2024 election. Instead, he won big. I wrote My Prophecy Was Completely Wrong to address this.
[43] The authors of Why Nations Fail won the Nobel Prize in Economics this year. Back in June 2021, I reached the exact same conclusion regarding why life in China is becoming increasingly difficult.
[42] On August 26, 2024, I predicted: regardless of the Ukrainian military’s incompetence, because Russia cannot stop drone strikes on its refineries—their only source of income—the outcome of the war is already decided. Pending.
[41] On August 15, 2024, nine days after the Kursk invasion, I pointed out that spreading limited resources thin was strategically detrimental. Indeed, Russia retook the area, and the collapse of the Eastern Ukrainian front accelerated. Fulfilled.
[40] On February 29, 2024, I predicted that China’s collapse would begin at the county level. Pending.
[39] On February 23, 2024, I refuted the conspiracy theory that Democrats welcome illegal immigrants for votes. I argued that only those who become legal can vote, and they are often the most anti-illegal immigration. In 2024, Hispanic voters swinging to Trump was a major reason for the Democratic loss. Fulfilled.
[38] On January 4, 2024, eight days before the first US strike on the Houthis, I published The US is About to Act Against the Houthis. Fulfilled.
[37] On December 21, 2023, I predicted the Supreme Court would overturn the Colorado decision to bar Trump from the ballot. It was fulfilled the following March. Fulfilled.
[36] On November 26, 2023, I predicted—three years before Musk did—that mature AI would eventually make all goods and services free. Fulfilled.
[35] On October 15, 2023, eight days after the Hamas attack, I wrote that the probability of Hezbollah joining the war was very high. Fulfilled.
[34] On October 8, 2023, the day after the Hamas attack, I predicted Israel would not negotiate for hostages and would definitely launch a ground invasion of Gaza. Fulfilled.
[33] On October 2, 2023, I predicted the US military was developing cheap weapons to counter micro-drones. In 2024, several such weapons were delivered to Ukraine. Fulfilled.
[32] On September 22, 2023, I predicted that in five to ten years, China would begin to show signs of decay and ruin. Pending.
[31] During the Ukrainian “Counter-offensive," I repeatedly pointed out that the Ukrainian military lacked the courage for a large-scale offensive, and Russia would use their inaction to prepare for the next strike. Fulfilled.
[30] On November 28, 2022, I predicted: “Once the fall of the CCP begins, it will happen faster than anyone imagines." Pending.
[29] On November 13, 2022, I was the first commentator to predict the next Ukrainian counter-offensive would target Melitopol. Fulfilled.
[28] I predicted that if Putin used nuclear weapons, NATO would respond not with nukes, but by using its air force to annihilate all Russian forces in Ukraine. In October, the former CIA Director confirmed this was the plan. Fulfilled.
[27] On September 15, 2022, I said two signs would reveal if the CCP had set a timeline for “unification by force": the first being if China remains firmly on Russia’s side despite Russian failures. Pending.
[26] In the same article, I predicted Russian forces might withdraw from the entire region north of the Dnipro River without a fight. Fulfilled.
[25] On August 31, 2022, I was the first to point out that the Ukrainian military lacked the resolve for a major offensive in the South, and it was merely a distraction. Fulfilled.
[24] On July 27, 2022, four days before her trip, I predicted Pelosi had already made up her mind to visit Taiwan despite China’s threats of military interception. Fulfilled.
[23] One month into the war, I predicted that without the US military’s combined arms system, even the advanced M1A2 tanks would be destroyed. Fulfilled.
[22] On February 27, 2022, three days into the war, I pointed out that Ukraine was not losing, losses were smaller than expected, and Zelenskyy was destined to be a national hero. These judgments appeared in mainstream media weeks later. Fulfilled.
[21] On February 24, 2022, I predicted China would stand by Russia. Fulfilled.
[20] Three days before the war, I predicted a large-scale invasion based on the “disappearance" of the CCP’s seven top leaders after Putin attended the Beijing Olympics. Fulfilled.
[19] I predicted that supporting Russia would lead to China’s isolation, while abandoning Russia would lose their only ally. Pending.
[18] On January 31, 2022, I called Putin the “worst strategist in history," comparable to Hitler and Tojo. Fulfilled.
[17] I predicted Russia’s nuclear weapons would not scare the US. Fulfilled.
[16] I predicted that the Russian military is not the second-best in the world, and a fight with NATO would be a one-sided slaughter. Pending.
[15] On January 3, 2022, I predicted the US would rapidly surpass China in hypersonic technology. Recently, the US equipped troops with the “AARGM-ER" while China’s versions remained limited. Fulfilled.
[14] Two months before the invasion, while others claimed Putin was just playing a “grand chess game," I said an invasion of Ukraine was a high-probability event. Fulfilled.
[13] I predicted the CCP’s arms race would burn through China’s cash, leading to a decline in influence and repeating the Soviet Union’s path to bankruptcy. Pending.
[12] Regarding AUKUS, I said it gave the US a massive forward base, ending China’s Pacific ambitions. Partially Fulfilled.
[11] I predicted the Biden team would privately tell Xi not to invite him to the Winter Olympics to avoid embarrassment. Fulfilled.
[10] In May 2020, I predicted that in a year, the US would emerge from the pandemic while China would be stuck in a cycle of lockdowns and economic stagnation. Fulfilled.
[9] I predicted Australia, as a proud nation, would never bow to China’s trade coercion. Fulfilled.
[8] After the 2020 election, I predicted Trump’s fraud allegations would fail and Pence would not overturn the result. Fulfilled.
[7] I predicted Biden would be tougher on the CCP and the US economy would improve. Fulfilled.
[6] In 2019, I said Xi was deliberately emulating North Korea to consolidate power, even if it destroyed the economy. Fulfilled.
[5] I predicted China’s economy would slide and it would gradually become like North Korea. Fulfilled.
[4] I predicted the US would definitely go to war to defend Taiwan. Biden confirmed this on 60 Minutes in 2022. Fulfilled.
[3] In November 2018, I predicted the trade war would not reach a real agreement and fighting would resume in three months. Fulfilled.
[2] In 2018, I predicted that once the American “machine" started moving against China, it wouldn’t be stopped by mere purchases of Boeing planes. Fulfilled.
[1] In 2014, I predicted the Hong Kong protests would become long-term and intense, leading to a bloody crackdown and a global anti-China wave. Fulfilled.
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上午 10:30，是時候出發了。一個配備空調與娛樂設施的舒適艙到你在倫敦的居住地（不再稱為「家」！）門口接你。然後它進入地下真空磁浮管道，在那裡加速到音速的許多倍。在你開始看的電影結束前，艙門已向紐約的新住所打開。一位與前一處住所同名的 AI 僕人已經按照你的喜好配置好了新地方。你的內衣已在抽屜裡，西裝已熨燙好掛在衣櫥中。這位僕人對你的了解與前一處的一樣多，而前一位僕人已經忘記了你，正在為另一個人類服務。
到那時，AI 技術極有可能已突破了創意的最後瓶頸——它可以自行發現新理論、發明新方法。人類花了幾千年才發明蒸汽機，又花了 300 年才進步到現在的互聯網與航天時代。由於 AI 的記憶力和處理能力比人類大腦強大億萬倍，且它擁有全人類曾擁有的每一片知識，並能在毫秒內遍歷並連結所有知識，一旦 AI 突破創意瓶頸，可能只需要一小時甚至一秒鐘，就能推進人類一百萬年的創意進度——例如找出如何超越光速。
In 1881, Egypt was ruled by Ottoman Turkey. Because of the construction of the Suez Canal, Egypt incurred massive debts it could not sustain and sold its canal shares to Britain; thus began Britain’s actual control over Egypt. At that time, Sudan was ruled by Egypt. Under the greedy taxation and cruel governance of Egyptian officials, Sudan had long been a powder keg. A dervish named Muhammad Ahmad declared he was the Mahdi—the savior sent by Allah. He told the desperate nomads, farmers, and slaves that by following him, they could not only cast off the shackles of the infidels but also cleanse the sins of their souls.
Mahdi
The Governor-General in Cairo initially regarded this as merely a small-scale disturbance. They sent two companies of soldiers to arrest this “mad monk," but the two units ended up slaughtering each other in the dark due to a lack of command. The Mahdi’s followers, wielding simple wooden sticks and spears, rushed into the camp and put the survivors to the sword. This accidental victory was seen as a miracle, and the wildfire of rebellion instantly swept across all of Sudan.
2. Ten Thousand Egyptian Soldiers Annihilated
By 1883, the situation had become uncontrollable. A British officer named Hicks was ordered to lead over ten thousand Egyptian soldiers—who were demoralized by high levels of corruption and severely undertrained—into Sudan to suppress the rebellion.
The result was total annihilation; Hicks fell in battle. The Mahdi captured thousands of advanced Remington rifles and several Krupp cannons. He was no longer a rebel leader; he became the master of Sudan.
3. The Fall of the Sudanese Capital and the Killing of Governor Gordon
The Gladstone government in London were troubled. They did not want to invest a single penny into this desolate desert, but they could not sit idly by while thousands of British and Egyptian officials and expatriates were trapped in Sudan. Thus, they thought of one man: Charles George Gordon.
Anyone familiar with the history of the Taiping Rebellion will surely remember Gordon. He was the leader of the famous “Ever Victorious Army" that helped Li Hongzhang’s Huai Army defend Shanghai and capture Suzhou. Because of his military achievements in China and his success in collaborating with foreigners, Gordon earned the nickname “Chinese Gordon" and was deeply loved by the British, with fans including Queen Victoria. He was handsome, brave, fanatical, and stubborn.
When he arrived in Khartoum, the citizens cheered on the banks as if he alone were an army. In persuit of even greater glory, after the British and Egyptian expatriates were evacuated, he decided to stay and live or die with the city.
In March 1884, the Mahdi’s army completed encirclement of Khartoum. Gordon stood on the roof of the Governor-General’s palace, peering north through a telescope every day, hoping for the sight of reinforcements. He wrote in his diary that he was fighting a religious frenzy he could not understand. Food in the city ran out; people began eating rats and palm bark. At dawn on January 26, 1885, the city’s defenses collapsed. The Mahdi’s warriors poured into the streets like a tide. Gordon put on his governer’s uniform, grasped his sword, and stood calmly at the top of the official residence’s stairs. When a spear pierced his chest, he did not even let out a whimper. His head was severed and hung on a tree, facing Mecca.
British reinforcements arrived sluggishly on the outskirts of the dead city two days later; seeing the city had fallen, they were forced to retreat.
The Mahdi died of illness shortly after the fall of Khartoum. His successor, Abdallahi, took power and established a theocratic Caliphate in Sudan. Sudan entered a decade-long dark age, where famine, civil war, and harsh Sharia law ruled the land.
4. Grenfell Restructures the Egyptian Army
But meanwhile, in Cairo to the north, a key figure who would change the situation was working silently. He was Francis Grenfell, then the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Army.
Grenfell knew well that the early failures were not because the soldiers were not brave, but because the entire Egyptian military system was rotten. He began a patient restructuring. He dismissed all the officials who had bought their way into office and were bloated with self-importance, replacing them with energetic young British officers like Kitchener. He established a rigorous recruitment system and provided soldiers with ample rations, clean uniforms, and timely pay—something unimaginable in Egypt before.
Most importantly, Grenfell reshaped the Egyptian soul. He introduced British tactical training, emphasizing collective fire and psychological resilience. He wanted to plant the seeds of discipline and honor in this group of originally timid conscripts. He told his subordinates:
“We are not recruiting soldiers; we are creating a new nation.”
5. The Egyptian New Army’s First Trial by Fire
Like the modern Islamic State, Sudan’s Caliph Abdallahi intended to conquer the world for Islam. In 1889, believing the time was ripe to conquer Egypt, he sent his most esteemed and fanatical general, Njumi, to lead five thousand elite warriors and thousands of camp followers in an attempt to drive straight down the West Bank of the Nile to Cairo.
However, Njumi did not know what he was about to face. At Toski, Grenfell personally led this transformed Egyptian New Army, standing ready.
The Sudanese warriors shouted “Allahu Akbar," waving broad swords as they charged the Anglo-Egyptian positions. They expected the Egyptian soldiers to collapse as they had countless times in the past. However, the New Army displayed terrifying discipline—they stood as firm as a mountain, unleashing steady volleys of fire that cut down wave after wave of attackers on the sand. The vast majority of the Sudanese, including Njumi, were annihilated.
The Battle of Toski completely shattered the Mahdist regime’s dreams of outward expansion and proved to the world the combat effectiveness of the new army reshaped by Grenfell. This was the moment the scales of war began to tilt. News of the victory sent mainland Britain into a frenzy of celebration.
Because of his merit in reconstructing Egypt, Francis Grenfell was granted a barony, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, appointed as a Privy Councilor, Field Marshal of the British Army, and Governor of Malta.
6. The Final Battle
Twelve years after Gordon was killed, in 1896, Britain launched its final campaign of vengeance. Replacing Grenfell was his hand-picked protégé, Kitchener—a cold, efficient man who was extremely sensitive to numbers. Kitchener understood that winning this war required not just courage, but also engineering.
He refused to let his soldiers trudge through the desert and repeat Hicks’ tragedy. He ordered the construction of a “military railway" across the desert. Under extreme heat, workers laid tracks mile after mile; the railway transported not only soldiers but a continuous stream of heavy artillery, Maxim guns, and ice.
At the same time, Kitchener assembled a fleet of inland armed vessels. These black steamboats patrolled the Nile, their giant funnels spewing black smoke. When the Caliph’s warriors tried to build fortifications on the banks, the heavy guns on the steamboats would easily blow them to pieces. Kitchener was like a precise machine, devouring the Mahdi’s territory bit by bit. Every fortress’s fall was the result of precise calculation.
September 2, 1898, was the day of Britain’s final vengeance against the crazed Islamic Sudan.
Caliph Abdallahi gathered fifty thousand warriors. In the dawn, countless battle flags fluttered in the wind; the Mahdist army was like a white sea of clouds, shouting religious slogans as they launched their final charge against the Anglo-Egyptian forces. They believed the miracle of Allah would make the bullets swerve in front of them.
On the other side, Kitchener stood at the headquarters, expressionless. He led twenty-six thousand troops, of which only eight thousand were British; the rest were Egyptians and Sudanese soldiers who opposed the Caliph. When the tide of the Caliph’s charge reached five hundred yards, the gates of hell opened. Twenty Maxim guns emitted a terrifying sound, like tearing silk, and dozens of cannons fired simultaneously.
The young Winston Churchill witnessed this as a cavalryman. He later described it not as a battle, but as an execution. No one could survive such fire power. Fifty thousand warriors fell like wheat being harvested. By the end of the battle, not a single Sudanese warrior reached within fifty meters of the British line.
Within half a day, the Mahdist state perished. Caliph Abdallahi fled in the chaos, only to be killed a year later. Kitchener entered Khartoum and held a solemn requiem in front of the ruins where Gordon had been killed. Onlookers were surprised to find the usually resolute and steady Kitchener weeping.
What does this story tell us?
During this 14-year Sudanese Mahdist War, Britain spent very little; the main financial resources and manpower came from Egypt. They significantly curtailed corruption, and Egypt’s fiscal revenue skyrocketed, making it fully capable of sustaining Grenfell’s new army. Through these 14 years of war, Britain gained complete control over Egypt and Sudan, greatly expanding its influence in Africa while bringing civilization, stability, and prosperity to the region; the living standards of the common people improved significantly. If you have seen the Oscar-winning movie Out Of Africa, you would know that although colonial Africa was not a paradise on earth, it was more than paradise compared to some of the Africa of today. Over a hundred years later, today’s Egypt was the first to end its hostility with Israel; it has never become a hotbed or exporter of terrorists, and has never erupted into civil war or other large-scale turmoil. Britain’s 110 years of potent intervention in Egypt deserve a great deal of credit.
Despite gaining such massive benefits, Britain itself sacrificed almost nothing. In the 14 years of war, only 750 British soliders died in total.
I don’t know how you feel seeing this, but when I see this part of British history, I find it unbelievable.
This is simply impossible!!!
Why impossible?
The total investment made by the United States in Afghanistan over 20 years in terms of military, infrastructure, and livelihood, when converted to 2025 dollars, is $6.5 trillion. In the same year, the two largest U.S. expenditures—healthcare and defense—total $2.5 trillion. The U.S. expenditure in Afghanistan is 2.6 times that! However, this staggering sum, along with five thousand American deaths and twenty thousand wounded, all went down the drain. When something goes down the drain, it makes a sound; after the U.S. withdrew, the Afghan government forces disappeared within a week without even making a sound.
In the Mahdi war, the British faced Islamic followers far more fanatical than those the Americans faced in Afghanistan. In a fierce battle, when Mahdist warriors broke into the British square and both sides engaged in a desperate struggle, a priest actually knelt down in the middle of the fray and started to read aloud the Quran!
The British and the Mahdist army used rifles and artillery of the same generation; the gap in military capability was far smaller than the gap between the U.S. military and the Taliban.
Why then could Britain bring huge benefits to itself and the region, while the United States suffered bone-breakingly massive losses without even making a splash?
Because colonial Britain carried out potent intervention in Egypt; the middle and upper-level cadres of the government and army were all held by British. Because of their sense of honor and Christian spirit, the majority of these British were loyal to their duties and did not engage in the massive corruption like the previous Ottoman Turkish officials.
In comparision, in Afghanistan, the politically correct Americans only gave money, letting the Afghans decide how to use it themselves. As a result, 99% of the money went into the pockets of Afgan officials at all levels; they became a hundred times more corrupt than before.
Further earlier, the United States did exactly the same thing in Vietnam, with exactly the same result.
Even earlier, the United States did something different – potent intervention as the British did in Egypt. The Japanese nation’s “law of the jungle" way of thinking before the war was a tradition of over a thousand years, ingrained in their gene. Yet, after just twenty years of potent intervention under the bayonets of the U.S. occupation, Japan became the most gentle and kind nation in the world. Today’s democratic and prosperous Japan has become the bridgehead for the democratic camp against the Asian bullies of China and Russia; its strategic value in the world today cannot be overestimated.
The conclusion is starkly clear.
A nation’s wisdom has nothing to do with the race’s genes or brain capacity, nor even its level of education—unless the educational process forcefully instills correct thinking methods. Back when I was a senior database consultant, a colleague of mine from Pakistan, who held the same position and was loved by clients for his competence, believed that 9/11 was planned by the U.S. government itself and that Bin Laden was not dead. The father of my son’s classmate, an Iranian man who held two doctorates from the University of Melbourne, believed that the failure of the U.S. special forces’ rescue of Iranian embassy hostages on April 24, 1980,was because Russia launched a “black tech" missile from ten thousand miles away. A Chinese friend, a leading academic in the University of Melbourne asked me during the national referendum on whether Indigenous Australians should have a voice in parliament:
“What if the Indigenous people tell us all to jump into the sea? So we can’t give them the right to speak!”
A nation’s intelligence comes from the collective beliefs and logical reasoning paths formed over hundreds or even thousands of years. The beliefs and logic of Westerners are closest to the truth because they contain the least fear; the more savage and backward a nation is, the more fear, absurdity, and stupidity its beliefs and logic contain. A person who grows up immersed in this logic from childhood can win international math competitions, can become a PhD or even a leading academic at Melbourne University, but his thinking methods still will not escape the ignorance of his nation.
Therefore, a wise nation cannot give a foolish nation a huge pile of money and then pull out pre-Trump era political correctness:
“We respect you as a completely equal nation, we will not be condescending and tell you what to do, we trust you will make decisions as good as ours.”
The result will be Afghanistan.
If they were truly a nation as wise as Westerners, their homeland would not have been a shithole today; they would not have needed the West’s money.
Therefore, unless the West decides to let those backward regions fend for themselves, if the West decides to take action, it must abandon pre-Trump era political correctness and have the courage to say, “They are just ignorant” and “We must force them to learn our way of thinking.”
The West must readopt the potent interventionism of the colonial era.
I fiercely attacked Trump for not supporting Machado because she “stole" his Nobel Peace Prize, turning instead to support the Maduro regime. However, the United States forcibly seizing all of Venezuela’s oil, selling it itself, and then bypassing the layers of curruption in the Venezuelan government to directly use the income on Venezuela—this approach may be the potent intervention I advocate.
Trump is not entirely a rogue or a fool; he put a period on the Western political correctness of the pre-Trump era. This may be one of his greatest contributions to the world.
在這14年的蘇丹馬赫迪戰爭中，英國花費得很少，主要財源和人力都來自於埃及。他們大大遏制了腐敗，埃及財政收入暴漲，完全可以負擔葛倫斐的新軍。經過這14年的戰爭，英國完全掌控了埃及和蘇丹，極大拓展了自己在非洲的影響力，同時給當地帶來了文明和安定繁榮，老百姓的生活水平大幅度改善。如果你看過奧斯卡電影《走出非洲》（Out Of Arica），你就會知道，殖民時期的非洲雖然不是人間天堂，但和現在的非洲相比，勝似天堂。一百多年後，今天的埃及最先結束了和以色列的敵對狀態，從來沒有成為恐怖分子的溫床和輸出國，從來沒有爆發內戰或其他大規模動亂，英國對埃及的110年的強力干預功不可沒。
做个明白人 