So is it Official Yet? China and Russia are our Enemies Again?

[Junkdrawer]

I have such trouble keeping my Axis of Evil straight.

Perhaps there should be some Enemies of the USA du Jour website? (Wait, France is now OK, right?)

[struggle4progress]

1. Well, it's complicated: sometimes we go out together but the chemistry isn't always good.

[Junkdrawer]

2. Two minute indifferences are always awkward...

One never knows what to do with one's hands.

[Warpy]

3. You nuts?

We have always been at war with Eurasia!

[Junkdrawer]

6. I suspect Boomers will make the transition back easier....

Millennials will be even more confused....

[KittyWampus]

4. what a juvenile question. In case you weren't paying attention, China is manipulating currency

I'd go on… but you probably really didn't want any kind of intelligent remarks and thought your OP would get a laugh. Or something.

[Junkdrawer]

8. I'll take that as a yes. n/t

[KamaAina]

5. Oceania was at war with both Eurasia and Eastasia.

Oceania had always been at war with both Eurasia and Eastasia. Quite half the posters had the wrong faces on them. Clearly the agents of Goldstein and/or Li Quan had been at work.

[sibelian]

7. No, France is baddie moo cow cos of industrial espionage.

No irony, it seems. They do not stroke the magic American unicorn and do not LOVE. Their beards must be set alight, etc...

[Scurrilous]

9. When did they become our friends? n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Well, we did cozy up to Gorbachev in the days of perestroika,

and to Yeltsin as well after the breakup of the USSR, and it did seem like maybe we could metamorphose from the Old Tom and Jerry to the New Tom and Jerry...

[Igel]

12. That damned button!

It was supposed to say "reset" but it was translated "peregruzka" instead.

"Overload."

Originally billed as a mistaken translation, perhaps it was merely a prescient translator at work?

Or perhaps he was trying for "perezagruzka"--"reload" (as in "reload" a page or piece of software, which usually restores initial settings ... none too good, with Russia).

[quinnox]

11. the authoritarians love having big bad enemies

to concentrate on. I'm just wondering when they are going to suggest invading Russia for not turning over Snowden.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. I can imagine what Ronald Reagan would say