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>The free world's enormous advantage in military competition with China is that they have each other, they have allies. More precisely, their advantage is that
by LogonType10 5y ago
>The free world's enormous advantage in military competition with China is that they have each other, they have allies.
More precisely, their advantage is that they have America, whose political polarization is being hastened by internal and external actors every day.
- wolverine876 5y agoThat is the basis of the international order since WWII based on the US economic resources (~50% of the world GDP around 1945, IIRC). But Europe and others have come a long way since then, work together (e.g., the EU!), and could clearly support themselves.
- LogonType10 5y agoIt's really too bad you can't win wars with printed money.
- dash2 5y agoThat’s exactly what the US did in WWII. And Britain in the C18.
- rsj_hn 5y agoEveryone suspended convertibility during WW1. The U.S. also in the Civil War.
- wolverine876 5y agoWhat wars have been won without it since the gold standard was abandoned?
- redis_mlc 5y ago[dead]