When the UK government returned its Hong Kong colony to China on 1 July 1997, it did so with the full knowledge that they were turning the colony’s population over to a Chinese communist tyranny that had killed more innocent people than either Stalin or the American Medical Association. Beijing has never given up its prized status as leader in the field of annihilating the innocent, and, indeed, is perfecting its murderous skills against the Chinese Muslim population residing in the country’s western Xinjiang Province, a place now reported to be an enormous concentration camp.
The British gave up the colony because they could not afford its cost, because they feared China would use its military to annex the colony, because it was being shamed by the Western media as an anachronistic “colonial power”, and because they knew that the UK military had been cut to the bone after the fall of the USSR and so Britain’s only effective military response to a surprise Chinese annexation would be a decidedly counterproductive nuclear response.
The bottom line here is that British government leaders knew that once Hong Kong was awarded to the butchers of Beijing, there was nothing the UK could do to stop China if it reneged on its pledge to leave Hong Kong more or less alone for 50 years. Despite the protective-language that Britain’s political grandees used as they dumped the people of Hong King into China’s murderous maw, the Brits knew that their words were lies exactly the same as those they used to pledge to come to Poland’s aid in the late-summer of 1939. The truth is simply that Britain knew that it could not fulfill its 1939 pledge to help the Poles stop the Nazis from invading Poland and slaughtering Poles, and it knew that its implicit 1997 pledge of protection would not stop the Chinese communists from invading and occupying Hong Kong and thereafter tormenting its people in the name “reeducating” them.
Despite their comfort with betraying the people of Hong Kong in 1997, British leaders knew the UK would be savagely attacked by the media and world political leaders if China reneged on the 1997 deal and annexed Hong Kong — before the 50-year interim period expired –and Britain failed to try to save the Honk Kong population. British leaders knew, however, that the UK government still had a winning card to play. That card, of course, was and is the conceited and hubristic bipartisan American governing elite and its utter and unshakeable devotion to its ability to flatter itself by describing the United States and its president as “the leaders of the free world.” Think not? Recall how many tens of thousands of U.S. military personnel have been killed, wounded, and maimed since 1945 in unnecessary wars for no other reason than to allow these elitists to proudly bray that America would always – no matter the human and monetary costs — be the paladin of the free world.
Mr. Trump, this stage has been set for two-plus decades, and it now appears that the long-prepared tragedy is about to be performed on your watch. On this issue, Mr. President, America must come first. Your administration had nothing to do with stringing along the Hong Kong population as it walked toward catastrophe. Neither did your administration urge the genius leaders of the U.S. business community to create their offices, factories, and other investments in Hong Kong and mainland China.
If China moves into Hong Kong, Mr. President, let the cards fall where they may; that is, there must be no American money or blood expended to save a population the perfidious British consigned to the hell of the Chinese communists, and no U.S. cavalry to save the assets of U.S. companies who greedily sought riches overseas at the cost of kowtowing to and bribing the Beijing gangsters and exporting millions of America’s blue-collar jobs. Both made their own beds, let them now crawl on their bellies into them.
It seems fair, Mr. President, to use a few of Samuel Adams’s words to give some familial advice to those who are often referred to as our “British cousins”, as well as those American businessmen who have sold out middle-class Americans for foreign profits and communist masters. You should inform them, Sir, that no help will be coming their way from the republic to try to stop or reverse the course of events in Hong Kong. Tell them, Mr. President, that America comes first, and devils like them can take the hindmost.
On 1 August 1776, Samuel Adams told the Congress in Philadelphia that,
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” (1)
Enough said.
Endnote:
–1.) http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/547
