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This tracks with some of the models we have been dealing with in the defense industry. Big reason why a lot of our national security types did not want to see T
by SimianSci 2y ago
This tracks with some of the models we have been dealing with in the defense industry.
Big reason why a lot of our national security types did not want to see Trump reelected.
I don’t think your average US citizen realizes how expensive and difficult things are going to get as US global influence eventually hits an “unrecoverable dive”
- dtquad 2y agoThere are American right-wing commentators who are praising "de-dollarization" and the rise of BRICS. It's a combination of having half your lifesavings in crypto and letting anti-LGBT/immigrant identity politics override the geopolitical interests of your own country.
- dotancohen 2y agoUS global influence, at least militarily, hit an all-time low when Biden twice said to Iran "don't", then Iran did, and Biden did not respond. Decades of investing in a Navy that is literally one of the most expensive enterprises in human history have been eroded as Biden demonstrated to the US's enemies that American deterrence means literally nothing.
- sanderjd 2y agoThis is incredibly ahistorical.
- dotancohen 2y agoWhat is ahistorical here? This is the video of Biden stressing "don't": https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWFefjhPtQk https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWFefjhPtQk
- sanderjd 2y agoThat this is "an all-time low".
- dotancohen 2y agoI see, and yes I agree. I should have said "all time low since the second world war". I did carefully state "at least militarily". The point is that US enemies are now openly mocking the US for stating "don't" so blazingly, then doing nothing. They see that the US will not use real force, so they openly defy the US now.
- sanderjd 2y agoI don't think that's right either, but it's closer.