Isolationism has consequences | Xi Van Fleet

	Xi Van Fleet ⁦‪@XVanFleet‬⁩ Isolationism has consequences—a history lesson After the disastrous 1919 Paris Peace Conference, President Wilson failed to prevent Japan from seizing control of China's Shandong Peninsula from defeated Germany. This betrayal sparked a surge of anti-imperialist sentiment in pic.x.com/EhCf0ZYOI8   19/6/2025, 3:51 am

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Isolationism has consequences—a history lesson

After the disastrous 1919 Paris Peace Conference, President Wilson failed to prevent Japan from seizing control of China’s Shandong Peninsula from defeated Germany. This betrayal sparked a surge of anti-imperialist sentiment in China, which the Soviet Union quickly exploited by introducing Communism as the supposed solution to China’s national humiliation and internal strife.

In the years that followed, American foreign policy was dominated by isolationism. China was seen as too poor and too remote to warrant serious attention from Washington. By the time the United States re-engaged with China during World War II, Communism had already taken deep root.

Decades of missteps and miscalculations by American political leaders have since allowed Communist China to rise unchecked. Today, it stands as the most formidable threat America has ever faced—joined by its close ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Isn’t it fitting to call Communist China the “Great Satan,” and Islamic Iran the “Little Satan”?

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My comment: Xi Van Fleet lived in Communist China during the infamous and deadly Cultural Revolution. She knows what Communism does. (As do I, for I lived there when she did).

Xi came to America as a refugee and has been grateful for that refuge. Unlike the horrid Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who came as a refugee from Somalia, to whom America gave refuge, and changed the laws of Congress to allow her to wear a headscarf, but never stops hating on the US. As she has been doing just recently, hence on my mind. Honestly....