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They aren't there to strike anything. That would be disastrous for US forces. They are there to posture and prop up USA's image as the sole superpower, and to
by pphysch 3y ago
They aren't there to strike anything. That would be disastrous for US forces.
They are there to posture and prop up USA's image as the sole superpower, and to keep the security competition from deflating. Without this military show, people in East Asia would wake up one day and ask, wait, why do we care so much about what distant Washington thinks? Because the economic & cultural game has already been lost.
- nradov 3y agoReally? Because it doesn't look like China is on track to win. And more and more countries in the Asia Pacific region are lining up to be US allies because that seems like a better alternative than becoming Chinese satellite states. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-05/china-slowdown-means-it-may-never-overtake-us-economy-be-says?embedded-checkout=true https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-05/china-slo...