I do wonder. How many coups the US will do globally if China takes Taiwan. After seeing what they are doing in Ukraine.
I would take a different angle to this topic. As a US citizen living here for decades, I have no ill feelings toward to US or Americans. I know I would get lots of craps from some Chinese. But I am a US citizen nonetheless. It is just I am a different type of US citizens than the most, i.e., I am truly a minority of minority in the country.In other words the U.S. can't and should not be able to have the foolish, arrogant strategy of being everywhere and anywhere to defend it's PRIMACY not interest because it'll end up without defending nothing.
The U.S. share of global economy is no longer at 27% as it was in the 1950's but currently stand based on the 2020 figure at 16% and falling while China and Russia are at a combined 22% which is set to increase in the case of China. Which tells us a vivid picture that economic power coupled with military power are what makes a country a true superior power. Having a superior military power with a dwindling economy will not be able to sustain that martial advantage.
I hope that U.S. leadership adopt the Hal Brand suggestion of raising it's military spending of percentage to GDP ration from the current 3.2% to 5% and more. I want the U.S. to literally forfeit it's position in globalization to let China strengthen, expands it's foot print in the world with BRI, along with many of the key trade agreements it signed such as RECP, and soon TPP.
The arrogance of the current American strategic leadership back by their useless cadres of think tanks that produce nothing but the persistent belief in American hyper dominance, and supremacy despite the changing conditions on the ground will be their undoing. And no amount of China bashing and anti-China wishful thinking will change that trajectory if the U.S. leadership keeps charging ahead like a bull in a China shop approach with their so-called strategy against China.
What people in developing countries really hate is the devastation brought by imperialism and colonialism. Remember, the British Empire committed some of the worst atrocities in India - multiple, large scale famines. That female professor really lives in her own ivory tower.
China needs to diversify its $1 trillion U.S. treasuries into gold, silver, and other precious and industrial metals.Do it if you can
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Could this be serious?SCSPI always posts stuff before some military exercises leaks out.
I would take a different angle to this topic. As a US citizen living here for decades, I have no ill feelings toward to US or Americans. I know I would get lots of craps from some Chinese. But I am a US citizen nonetheless. It is just I am a different type of US citizens than the most, i.e., I am truly a minority of minority in the country.
And I also don't want to see US weakening or falling down as many would wish. But I do want US to stop the hubris of the last 30 years and to start going back to basics, i.e., the US constitution and self-interests.
You are right in that lots of US actions abroad are not really designed for the public. And majority of the Americans do not trust that fed gov would do right things for them.
The kick is that there should always be a limit, a line, a threshold out there.
It is not defeating China or even competing against China. It is really about competing against its glorious past when a couple of blue-collar workers could live as a decent middle-class family. Nowadays both parties push craps that only benefit top 5%. One primary symptom is to keep so-called "American exceptionalism" or "US primacy" or even worse "west superiority". So basically, I want to see US going back to some common senses before Clinton took over. He liberalized a lot and indeed unleashed the Internet revolution. But he also laid a few lethal mines down the road, one of which led to the 2008 great financial crisis.
I alway hold a stance in my professional life that "you can be arrogant in my fact as long as you are professionally stronger or more capable or more accomplished". I could swallow my pride. But it really drives me nuts if one is just an empty talker and an arrogant son of gun. That is what US has been doing to China (or some other countries around the world) in the last 10 years or so. Time has changed but US can never swallow it.
There is no strategy whatsoever in US polity today, because there is no strategist in that space. Just an echo chamber. Both parties.
I can live with the fact that US somewhat helped induce this war. But I absolutely abhor any possibility that those shit-heads might induce a world war or worse a nuclear war. This is because I am worry about The Dunning-Kruger effect of those morons.
Stop this war. Let Russia have everything east of Dniper river. Close unnecessary bases. And life goes on.
This is my wish and my hope. God bless me.
Someone should tell the good professor that no matter how hard she simps for Nazism, that the ghost of Adolf Hitler still isn't making her an Honorary Aryan.
Irony is this bitch is a Jew. She does have a point about Indians thinking they are best but India is a shithole.Someone should tell the good professor that no matter how hard she simps for Nazism, that the ghost of Adolf Hitler still isn't making her an Honorary Aryan.
Airbus Defends Russian Titanium Use, Urges Against Sanctions
WTF. WTF. WTF. Let's boycott Airbus products and services!
I would take a different angle to this topic, again. Allow me to answer in some single line fashion.Regrettably, after all the years of bombing innocent lives and killing woman and children for the last half a century and no kind of retribution has ever came to the USA in any tangible form for all of there victims, it would be utterly foolish to expect that when the USA collapses that the USA could suddenly surrender and expect to be treated nicely. Bet your bottom dollar that the USA will escalate this war to the point of WW3 and also expect that given that a lot of red flags indicate that the USA is going to lose that the fate that will befall the nation will simply be beyond comprehension that that all of the victims that the USA has created will come running to get some long overdue payback and then some. God isn't going to be blessing the USA but still if you have the chance, you should considered leaving the USA before it is simply too late and in itself is a blessing because I can promise you, most of the people in the USA are completely unaware of what is going to happen to the USA in the coming days. China and Russia are no longer going to be sending resources to the USA and given the amount of trouble that the USA has caused both nations, well debts have to be collected one way or the other and given that the USA has a vast amount of debt and it is to many nations around the world, expect some extreme form of collecting to come to the US
I would take a different angle to this topic, again. Allow me to answer in some single line fashion.
All empires kill.
Chinese argue for self-defense in the Korea War, while Americans argue for freedom and anti-communism in the same war. Both sides got their justifications. Between them, many people died, including civilians. We could all blame Kim 1.0 or even USSR. But war kills. Empire always kills.
I don't think it is a likely event that US would willingly or intentionally escalate to a WW3 scenario. It is possible, but a low probability event. My faith lies in the US constitution and the American public. Any WW3 scenario, against Russia or China or both, would lead the American society into something worse than 1929. One of the weakness of those dumb-ass politicians is that, when push comes to shove, they have no balls, which means no WW3, not likely.
God always blesses America while China gets bless from Chairman Mao. The two luckiest countries on this planet. I have no complaint on this subject. These two would be the last ones standing even if every other country has failed.
I am going no where. I have my family and career here. And I am happy with where I am. Don't get me wrong. While I was bitching about US in geopolitical contexts, I am not complaining my life here. It's been a great ride.
Don't hold your breath hoping that US would collapse anytime soon. Not in your lifetime I can bet. But US is going through a phase of dynastic cycle that vast majority of the population would never thought of it. But as Chinese always say: "烂船也有三千钉", US is still the strongest country in terms of comprehensive national power. Even if the current trend continues for both US and China, US is still going to be the strongest while China is going to be the largest. And the rest is just rest.
This is my life's advice, honestly. Don't hold your breadth and certainly don't bet anything on your thesis. The human civilization just has had its best 30 years in human history. Now we are entering a different phase. Both phases are initiated and led by the US.