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OBIT: The formerly United States of America
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 5-5-2021 Sparks Tribune / Expansions in blue

WARNING: This English translation from state-sanctioned Mandarin was prepared from memory by people who read the original stolen by the spy who was executed for his crime. Do not be caught with this in your possession. Memorize and destroy. Anyone using anything but the official language may be executed.

APPROVED BY THE PEOPLES' BUREAU OF TRUTH, an introduction to western history class presented by Prof. Zoroaster Chang at Formosa University, July 4, 2121.

Good morning students. Welcome to western history.

This course will focus on how China, under the leadership of our eternal and holy leader Xi Xin Ping, brought China to world dominance over the last century.

As you probably already know, it all began when the nation once known as the United States developed the most lethal virus the world has ever known at Fort Dietrich in an area called Maryland.

The capitalists transported the disease to Wuhan, China, and with the help of counter-revolutionary Moslem Uighurs and decadent Christians, released it in a popular marketplace. It spread worldwide and killed hundreds of millions.

Fortunately, our eternal and holy leader Xi was first to recognize the threat and immediately took steps to stop its spread in China while at the same time developing the Xi Victory Vaccine which saved millions of lives.

Variations are still in use today, including that one you received on your first day here.

China's greatest rival a century ago was a North American nation once known as the United States.

They did not have the vision of our eternal and holy leader Xi, and refused to enforce measures to eradicate the virus and keep their citizens safe.

Rather than developing mass immunity through countermeasures and vaccinations, they impatiently pursued their decadent lifestyle.

The virus resurged many times, killing tens of millions and sapping the American empire of its vitality.

This came at a time of great political unrest.

After a rare liberal victory in 2020, reactionary capitalists again took control of the government, developed a siege mentality and banned all immigration.

Critically needed workers were never admitted in order to fill the many gaps in society left by the plague.

Our eternal and holy leader Xi recognized the potential of those who wanted to live in an enlightened industrial society and he gladly welcomed immigrants from all over the world, not only to China but to our many new colonies in Africa, Asia and South America.

The last vestige of what was once known as liberal democracy came in 2029 with the assassination of newly-elected President Jacqueline Aretha Kennedy.

By then, the devastated capitalist state was a nation in name only.

A national referendum was held in 2032 and by a large margin, Americans approved a template to dissolve.

For a good example of the results, we will review the history of one of the worst regions of the country, a place once known as Nevada.

The northwestern part of that arid region opted to become part of the new nation of Ecotopia, comprised of northern California through western Canada.

Southern Nevada, once known as Las Vegas, cast its lot with MexAmerica, which merely restored historical and cultural ties of the southwestern United States with Mexico and Central America.

Most of the northeastern United States became part of Canada, from Illinois to Virginia, with the exception of southern Ohio.

The southern climes made common cause with the mountain west, save for the state of Colorado, and became the nation of New McConnell.

Our eternal and holy leader Xi quickly recognized tremendous opportunities for the International Peoples Republic.

He renovated deposed U.S. President Joseph Biden's infrastructure plan and turned it over to Chinese construction companies.

Our eternal and holy leader Xi's leadership brought economic prosperity to most of the world while outliers languished.

He was once asked about taking control of the dissenters by force. He wisely demurred, noting that all would soon come to Beijing. He was, of course, correct as always.

Today, there remain very few pockets of resistance to the new order, again, all caused by the formerly united states.

Biden withdrew from Afghanistan which left a power vacuum.

Our eternal and holy leader Xi considered filling it but determined that it would be too costly.

Biden took a lesson from the potent womens' militia of Syria and trained Afghan women to organize their own army.

They defeated the Taliban in 2037. Today, the female-dominated elected governments of Syria/Lebanon and Afghani/Pakistan remain the two biggest obstacles to the prosperity brought by the Century of Our Eternal and Holy Leader Xi.

Afghani/Pakistan President Benazir Thunberg O'Brien will meet with our exalted and praiseworthy foreign minister Gingrich Yangtze in Beijing next week.

I look forward to your becoming fully immersed in the enlightenment of the paradise on earth created by our eternal and holy leader Xi.

As he always admonished us to remember, Mao is Great.
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Take care of each other and be careful out there.

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