• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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    There is literally nothing the US can do about China. China has a bigger industrial base and a more advanced military, and on top of that, the US is dependent on China economically while the reverse is not the case. The US lacks material capacity to fight China. And there is zero reason to think that Chinese intelligence is any worse than what the US has. Everything we’ve seen over the past decades shows that China outplayed the US on every front.

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        True, but the article that’s the context of this thread seems to suggest that even die hard neocons are starting to realize they can’t take on China.

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      @[email protected]

      i don’t doubt that there’s much that can be done against china’s ascendancy on the world’s stage; what i doubt is the epstein’s oligarchy’s ability to act rationally about it.

      trump has exhibited several times that he drinks the kool-aid intended to fool the western working class into docility and it’s only a matter of time until a competent president and administration that also drinks the kool-aid comes into power.

      couple that w isreal’s willingness to gamble away their source of power – the petrodollar – and willingly become a global pariah through genocide, ethnic cleansing and the samson option; fills me with a sense that they would rather destroy the world than let someone else control it.

      and a kool-aid drinking administration will regretfully push the nuclear button out of some deranged “common sense” alignment with this kind of brainworm.