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Good proposal! I'm sure that will be a very successful strategy for dealing with great authoritarian powers that may rule over your children's lives. If you think democracy and civil liberties in the US are bad, check in with Hong Kong. I appreciate you implicitly ceding my point though—and won't harangue you to more fully dispose of your dignity.“Yeah, but China”
“And Russia”
Fuck them to death, sorted
None of this has anything to do with capitalism. Capitalism is how countries run their economies internally. Geopolitics is how countries vie for power. The USSR was on an incessant growth tract even in communist days. Growth isn't some phenomenon unique to capitalism.It's very very primitive thinking to insist that capitalist conflict is the only way.
Increasingly power and justice are opposed, so something's got to give, your precious bad actors will hold smaller and smaller (though maybe richer and richer) constituencies, desperately ignoring the obvious and virtuous ways to sustain us all
Sorta; my point is that demographic arms races *just happen*; we can choose to play the game or not, but if we do not play, we will be outcompeted.Yes, and it sounded like you were advocating a demographic arms race.
This just isn't an accurate picture of the situation. US military power is still unchallengeable in a full-scale war, and the Chinese economy is well-known to be far more precarious than current numbers suggest.in world power terms, the US lost it generations ago, imho, this century has been about irrationally lashing out, rather than running things - reactionaries clutching at military action as a way to assert a position, any position, but not exercising a coherent policy or strategy, as no possible effective strategy exists
economically also the battle was over years ago, China's strategy to sit back and let the US mortgage itself has delivered