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FriedButter said:
Long politico article. Seems interesting if anyone wants to read it.







The US can win the war against China if they can outproduced cheaper military equipment… because China is totally the one paying $100,000 for a screwdriver lol.


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Make no mistake, that article is trying to sell one thing and one thing only, and that is to give more money to the MIC.
 
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solarz said:
Make no mistake, that article is trying to sell one thing and one thing only, and that is to give more money to the MIC.
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It’s not simply “more money” but “unlimited money.” Lol

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall

Kendall recently urged Congress to give the military the authority to start new developmental programs before a budget is approved. “Time is going by, and all those things that we worked hard to understand and formulate good solutions to, we’re not able to act on them yet,” Kendall said
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U.S. aims to rejoin UNESCO to push back against China​

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration says the U.S. will rejoin the U.N.’s educational and scientific organization after a five-year absence that began while Donald Trump was president.

The State Department said it had delivered a letter seeking re-admission to the Paris-based body, known as UNESCO, late last week. The June 8 letter from Deputy Secretary of State for Management Richard Verma proposed “a plan for the U.S. to rejoin the organization,” the department said.

“Any such action would require concurrence by UNESCO’s current membership, and it is our understanding that UNESCO leadership will convey our proposal to the membership in the coming days,” the department said in a statement.

Details of the proposal were not immediately clear. The U.S. owes a significant amount of money to the organization for arrears in dues payments. But earlier this year, the administration set aside $150 million in its current budget plan to pay for a return to UNESCO.

The U.S. and UNESCO have had a turbulent relationship over the past four decades after sparring mainly over ideological issues during the Cold War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more recently.

Former President Ronald Reagan withdrew the U.S. from UNESCO in 1983, but former President George W. Bush re-joined in 2002. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agency in 2017, citing its alleged anti-Israel bias. Israel announced its withdrawal at the same time and the withdrawals took effect in January 2018.

The Biden administration said when it took office that it intended to rejoin UNESCO. And, in March, when the budget for the next fiscal year was presented, Under Secretary of State for Management John Bass said the administration believed that rejoining UNESCO would help the U.S. in it global rivalry with China, which has invested large sums into U.N. organizations.

Rejoining UNESCO will “help us address a key opportunity cost that our absence is creating in our global competition with China,” he said.

“If we’re really serious about the digital-age competition with China, from my perspective, in a clear-eyed set of interests, we can’t afford to be absent any longer from one of the key fora in which standards around education for science and technology are set,” Bass said.

“And there are a number of other examples in that space of UNESCO’s mission where our absence is noticed and where it undercuts our ability to be as effective in promoting our vision of a free world,” he said.
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I once checked if Chinese bridges actually collapse more. I found American ones collapse 5x more frequently.
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This weight will go even higher in US when more EV Trucks and SUVs enters American market. I doubt any other market can compete with US in terms of avg weight of vehicles.
This is 5 year old data.
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In the last decades, cars have put on an enormous amount of weight. By now, the average European car weighs about 1,400kg (3,086lb). In the US, they’re even a weight class higher: 1,850kg (4,079lb).
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This is rather expected. This sort of thing recalls up memories of being colonised for India so they're unlikely to go for them. This is good for self-determination but bad for you know, actually being able to stand up to China.
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India should not be worried about China, because it is such a prime example of the power of freedom and democracy!
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667899582427303937

FriedButter said:
Long politico article. Seems interesting if anyone wants to read it.







The US can win the war against China if they can outproduced cheaper military equipment… because China is totally the one paying $100,000 for a screwdriver lol.


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For warmongers like the author of the Politico piece above and Elbridge Colby below, they will be very disappointed by ordinary Taiwanese's actual attitude about peace. In a decade, instead of fighting a war over the Taiwan Strait, it's far more likely that China will be busy building a moon base.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667623234831876097

Some Ukrainians support the Nazis and thinks like the Nazis.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668033160456687618

Today's fine example of Western values:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667889922592899077
 
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