I’ve been harsh on Westerners. Not sorry, but let me elaborate on the nuance. The Western mind is not built to run the Chinese software. Full stop. You are not designed to process that level of embedded ruthlessness. You can't compute the idea of shaking hands with someone you handpicked as a senior leader in your own business, who then turns around and ignores your rules, lifts your IP, and laughs at your naivety. You still believe in meritocracy, equal opportunity, democracy, liberty. You can’t even compute someone playing by entirely different rules behind your back (or in your face). Ironically, if anyone could save you from yourselves, it’d be the educated Balkan elites - the real ones, I mean. Preferably women, because we can't get distracted by p*ssy (not sorry). Our brains - and our languages, fyi - wire us to read both East and West without getting high on either story. Put me up as barrister for Brussels or Beijing and I can prosecute or defend both, equally convincingly. Not because we’re special or smarter. Because we don’t buy fairytales, whether they’re sung in Eurocrat or Mandarin. And when required, yes - we can be just as ruthless, if not more. Will you ever let that happen? No. Pride > survival. So the battle’s already lost. We’ll watch you moralize yourselves into a ditch while the other side counts the spoils. The biggest irony is that we’ll outlast you both, lol. If Balkaners are good at something, it's walking through the ashes of empires.