You brainwashed Wumaos are just jealous of Indian free speech.
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You brainwashed Wumaos are just jealous of Indian free speech.
Veterans' benefits aren't bad
Some of the issues are related to service delivery. VA hospitals can vary in quality
67% of VA hospitals are 4 stars are better based on Medicaid ranking, but conversely it means a 3rd are not that highly ranked.
There are also A LOT of bad actors that suck away GI bill money for useless degrees and other shenanigans
Speaking of cheating, I didn't see this posted
Veterans simply have better labor market outcomes than the general population writ large in both wages and employment status. It’s a pattern that’s consistently persisted for decades and servicemember counts in Afg. were so low that it wouldn’t effect either the median or mean population parameters (and for that matter, after people age out of their 30s, their incomes are stable throughout the rest of their working lives).
Talk is cheap. What do you think happens when you in wartime openly endorse a genocidal pariah? You get war declared on. And before we even consider Russia, consider that China can bomb the Baltics from bases in Xinjiang, it's a distance not much further than from Israel to Iran's easternmost border.
So they can talk the talk but will they walk the walk and paint the massive target on every civilian head they have?
Probably not because they don't even dare officially intervene or complain against a much weaker Russia.
It's a choice between staying neutral in a "clean" war and maybe losing some quality of life slowly across decades after China wins, or get bombed today by a rabid China in a dirty war and defintely lose most of your living standards, literally.
This isn't consistent with real US behavior. US repeatedly seeks deescalation because their elites constantly flip flop on their estimations of what and how much they can do against China. Nearly everything they do is to map out a picture of how far they can go to steal from China without inviting a punch in the face, for a good reason, because they waver on whether they could survive that. If US had no desire to deescalate, they would attack today. They have nothing to lose, except the ability to deescalate, and the gap is only growing wider day by day. The reason they don't is that they are fearful - they need to hold on to the rope of deescalation.
US ability to call a draw with MAD I would not really call escalation dominance, it's just negating China's conventional escalation dominance, so a more correct term would be escalation negation. But America will not use this card unless China is pressing up into the mainland US. Neither US elites, upper class or common folk would tolerate a mass suicide pact with China over something happening in Asia/Pacific.
As bangladesh has seen, a demographic dividend can quickly turn into unemployment and political unrest
absolute and total collapse of the VC environment in China with no parallel magnitude anywhere else. Current Chinese firms at the technological frontier - EVs and semiconductors - rode the VC wave many years ago at the peak; the current compete dearth of equity funding suggests the future years will not be so productive.
Innovation requires an entire ecosystem of a supportive business environment, financial intermediation, human capital, among others. human capital is simply not enough (and the lack of firms now means there will be a lack of “know how” human capital for China years into the future due to a lack of firm-specific experience)
Innovation requires an entire ecosystem of a supportive business environment, financial intermediation, human capital, among others. human capital is simply not enough (and the lack of firms now means there will be a lack of “know how” human capital for America years into the future due to a lack of firm-specific experience)
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You're reading the chart as the number of startups in China rather than startups in China. If the number kept increasing or held steady, that's a bubble. Maybe tens of thousands of new startups in a year is a reckless expansion of capital. I.e. How many fake semiconductor companies were those in 2022? How many of those are new restaurants/shops replacing ones that were closed in the pandemic?
A better graph would be the total number of startups in China. Even better would be the total revenue generated by startups in China, as most startups almost always fail.
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Israel is actually the perfect analogy. Despite currently commiting genocide, NATO countries are openly supporting them with lethal aid. Expect more of the same should it be Chinese on the receiving end of genocide.
I'm not seeing a desire to de-escalate from the US. If anything, all policies in effect are escalatory. Can you point out any bills since 2015 that tried to de-escalate and is still in force today?
It isn't a mutual suicide pact yet, that's the point. As of now, China is decidedly at a disadvantage when it comes to a nuclear exchange.