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I've no love lost for the current government of China. If this is a flat out full frontal biological attack by the U.S. aimed at sinking the CCP and causing a revolution in China, that is (in my opinion) at least a glass half full for the Chinese people. With the social credit score and absurd levels of tracking and what-not it is probably now or never to get rid of the CCP and try to live like something other than caged animals.
Do you honestly think this is helping or hurting the CCP? Lets go down a list of all the things it does in their favor...
-Excuse to round up dissidents for "quarantine" never to be seen again
-Excuse to lock everything down and take even more control
-Excuse to lock down the global supply chain and delay the world from becoming independent of China
-Effectively ends all legal dissent
-Depopulation of dependents and an increasingly rebellious population they are losing control of
-Provides a good scapegoat for the failing economy
-Provides good fodder for spreading stories it was a Western attack to incite hatred & nationalism
-Provides a "controlled" environment to practice their bio-warfare defensive and offensive abilities
The CCP was already sinking. This looks more like a MAAD economic/biological weapon to me than something designed to strip power from the CCP. Totalitarians thrive in disasters because it gives them an excuse to take more control, especially when they are already on their way out. Cornered animals get desperate, and gangster governments stop functioning when the money stops flowing, which was already well under way. This outbreak solves a lot of problems for them.
No, I don't 'honestly think' that. There are a bunch of very different hypotheses which I consider roughly equally likely at this point.
The hypothesis I put forth a month or two ago still stands. China is attacked and goaded under the influence/direction of a third smaller country. The goading influences China to retaliate. Things escalate and both countries severely weaken or destroy one another making a vacuum for third country to fill in. I'd be looking hard at a the country who by 'good fortune' has a vaccine ready to go in three weeks (that was crowed about more than three weeks ago.)
I consider the United States to be in an extremely precarious position. The effective leadership of the U.S. (many of them holding dual citizenship) actually
wants the U.S. to fall so that a certain third country has a vacuum to fill in. But it's a balancing game. The wealth of the U.S. can and should be milked for as long as possible, but the country should be utterly cratered at the right time so they have no practical way of retaliating once the duplicity of third-country is to obvious to hide.
Anyway, that's why I got the hell out of Dodge. Looks like none to soon either. I did anticipate fireworks in 2020. Lots and lots of predictive programing about it.