Were there anything else in Afghanistan worth holding.
I feel sorry for the women and girls of Afghanistan. Want your daughter to get a good education? Sorry, Taliban says no.
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Were there anything else in Afghanistan worth holding.
I feel sorry for the women and girls of Afghanistan. Want your daughter to get a good education? Sorry, Taliban says no.
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The U.S. healthcare industry is not “fully private” by any stretch of the imagination. Social security is also a pension, not healthcare. It’s simply a pension created in the 1930s under a drastically separate set of actuarial assumptions than exist today and legislation simply hasn’t gotten around to modifying it.
Nah. Healthcare is a drag on gdp to the extent it’s “bloated” since it would represent inefficient allocation of labor and capital resources. If health ar
Wrong. They are some of the slowest depreciating assets. For example, half of US housing stock is over 70 years old, and even after China’s 4+ decades of highly intensive building - it can’t match the U.S. in airplane passengers carried or nuclear energy and the stories of banks with legacy cobol systems is quite common. Technology developments and capital stock improvements, once made, are largely permanent. And the U.S. has both of those in substantial abundance.
For example, the ability of Microsoft to generate billions of dollars from Windows OS sales is directly causal to what Microsoft did in the 1990s with its original C/C++ programs. Similarly, Citibank’s dominant position in international payments is due to in part, legacy cobol systems going way back to the 1960s. Those advantages will endure, regardless of what anyone does policy wise, and provide an enduring competitive advantage to the American economy (not that the U.S. economy lacks competitive strengths across industries).
No. Since there is a substantial amount of capital deepening and technological deepening in the U.S. - it doesn’t implicate “non-depreciation”
The U.S. can do cooperation and conflict at the same time; just like any other state. Cooperation but not at any cost.
Nope. US corporate finance departments and municipal governments are among the best long term planners anywhere, with capital improvement projects that stretch out decades, see for example (). They largely have to do so - after all, multiple service provisions such as elementary and secondary education and transportation are guaranteed by state constitutions into perpetuity and thus require long term planning and corporate finance departments that issue bonds with century+ maturities clearly need to match expected future project cash flows with debt obligations (decades into the future).
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So... are you competing against yourself? Are you competing against other old developed countries? Or are you competing against China?
China slowed down going from fast and dirty to high tech, and also to restructure the real estate sector to improve the lives of the common people in China. America's unable to do the latter and way past the former.
It's playing its role in keeping the money in the hands of the rich. China comes out way on top without using such a cursed weapon.
Define previously. It's not a day or 2. Venezuela didn't used to be a problem. Iran used to be an American ally.
Except the US is getting weaker in comparison to the world, which includes China. Sanctions don't stop people from doing anything; they make people choose to use the US system or else. When there is no alternative, sanctions are powerful. When China provides one, US sanctions are a joke.
Destroyed... Russia???!!! Do you even see what Russia and Ukraine look like? You haven't put a scratch on it; only wisened it up. The US has destroyed Ukraine and Russia is growing and growing apart from the US and European economies towards China's. Ukraine doesn't matter (although the US can't back out now because it told everyone that it's the most imporant thing to all democracy and freedom). Russia was basically neutral, even tried to join NATO. The EU was a US asset in the tech war. China is the only threat to American dominance. Now, Ukraine's being beaten to shit, Russia with a surging economy (basically twice as fast as your 2-2.5% "brag") and a military revamping, can't possibly be more pro-China and anti-US/NATO, the EU's too drained to innovate so it's useless in the tech war, and China's reaping the major benefits of a Russian economy that has come to us as its sole supplier and partner in all major areas.
1. That's not true in terms of education because OECD has countries like Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden.
2. Why do you keep ragging on your own dogs? Look at China; we are the competition. What kind of person looks at his rival, immediatly looks down cus that's just too much to handle, then kicks his own dogs in frustration?
Everything fell apart and went anti-US before the last batch of American planes even left the tarmac in retreat.
You have the US confused with NATO. Don't steal the credit of 30 other countries now.
"Was." 20 years down the drain.
The US did it with 30 allies. Russia's fighting all 30 critters plus the US and Ukraine. Once it's over, Russia will have a lasting hold of Ukraine again due to cultural similarities, unlike the US in Afghanistan.
Oh, it was much more expensive than you think. It kept your eyes off of China. Afghanistan was never going to destroy US hegemony, but all China needed to do that was time, and Afghanistan bought some.
So why do you keep losing international competitions in reading, science, math? Stupid kids, stupid politicians or both?
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one reminder: US was only able to occupy Afghanistan because Russia allowed it.
If Russia closed its borders, US would've been forced to leave because it couldn't force Russia to open them and there's no other way to send logistics safely to Afghanistan.
So then why did they leave, and leave in such a rushed and embarrassed manner?
You cope so hard for the US you're actually contradicting yourself. If it was so easy and cheap, why didn't they stay in Afghanistan?
Last I checked, Russian economy is growing despite sanctions from the US, which you previously said would collapse any other nation, but that seems to be a lie.
Russian has enlarged their land and incorporated more people into their country than their lost, resulting in population growth.
Is that your definition of destroyed? If that's the case, the Ukraine must be the richest, most stable country in the world and Gaza is better than Luxemburg. And the US must have been demolished!
That long US involvement in that region had prior Saudi establishment support. It is another thing that US could not execute it according to there standards. That Saudi king Moscow visit in 2017 things begin to shift. that was real visit with huge delegation like 1500 or more. no one say officially but for observation it would seem the theme of that visit was Gold. In recent visit to Mosque Putin received a Golden Holy book. even before Arabs managing Afghan airports they were inviting Russians. i am sure there is alot to gain for Russia if Afghan transform into Great Power.
The examples you gave precisely proves my point:
- Every nation has a healthcare industry and pension, US is not special for either, US is broke precisely because its unable to afford the little pension it offers at a retirement age of 67
- The fact that US banks still run on Cobol mainframe is why US struggle to adopt mobile payment, the fact that Microsoft is still reliant on Windows was why Microsoft got left behind in mobile, the fact that GM and Ford relies on ICE is why they're unable to switch to electric.
Your using those as examples of wealth is precisely why America is a one off lottery winner who ran out. At its core America does not understand real technological wealth isn't Cobol, or Windows, or ICEs, real wealth are the people who created them and the education system that created the people. America won the lottery when it was able to attract global talent after WW2, but its primitive culture never understood how those came to be, and as such never invested in real human capital that underpined them. Now as talent start to pool in other nations, America invariably find itself unable to keep up any and all technologies, as ASPI's study clearly demonstrates, and fated to spend its last days trying to squeeze a few last drop of usefulness out of ancinent tech like Cobol.
- Lastly to claim US has long term plans for education or infrastructure just shows you're not an American, because no American, from any party, any background, has nor will ever make that statement. America's horrific PISA scores and state of US transport infrastructure are also objective metrics that does not have room for debate.
* And no, spending 10 years to build 1 mile of HSR is not long term planning.