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You're going to loose to Russia and China in time.
by corimaith 1y ago
You're going to loose to Russia and China in time.
- RealityVoid 1y agoThis is spoken as if history converges to a point and then it _really_ gets to the end of history. There is no end, there will be endless fights and conflicts and one country taking the upper hand is just a temporary state.
- corimaith 1y agoDosen't mean you specifically will survive till the next conflict.
- vkou 1y agoRussia is a one-trick petrostate that has been stuck in a three-year quagmire of a land war against the poorest country in Europe (that is a quarter its size).
- rolandog 1y agoCompletely agree... though I wouldn't underestimate them: Their main strength, I'd argue, comes from their very successful use of the Firehose Of Falsehood (effectively managing to make the US self-own itself by turbocharging neoliberalism, among other things). They "James-Bond-Villain'd" the US (announced how they'd "take over the world") 28 years ago [0], and... well... look how that's going. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
- vkou 1y agoNothing there seems to be dramatically different from the sort of wankery produced by think tanks like PNAC and their ilk. And it's not like the US or the UK or the USSR have ever shied away from using soft power to destabilize other countries. The game everyone's playing is not that different, and Ivan isn't making some 400 IQ move in it.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoChina already lost to China with their upcoming demographic nightmare and Han-centric/low-immigration society.
- breppp 1y agoIf we are at apocalyptic prophecies, the world demographic situation might be resolved by AI and diminishing need for working hands
- theoreticalmal 1y agoDid you type AI when you meant to write the cotton gin? Or mechanized agriculture? Or the Industrial Revolution? The automobile? Every single technological advancement has promised “fewer hands, more leisure” and we’ve always found a way to make that claim false. I have no idea how one can continue to claim it
- breppp 1y agoBut the industrial revolution did substantially reduce the need for working hands in agriculture. If AI does the same for other industries it can offset a reduction in population, or a reduction might actually be beneficial
- 1718627440 1y agoPeople like to point that out, as if they found the hidden flaw, but which western country doesn't have a demographic nightmare?
- nradov 1y agoI guess that's always a possibility. Another more likely scenario in the next few decades is that Russia and/or China will collapse into violent revolution or civil way — as has happened multiple times throughout their long histories. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping aren't immortal. They have effectively concentrated decision making in their own hands and purged all other internal power centers, leaving no clear succession plan. When they die there's no way to predict what might happen.
- watwut 1y agoThe most corrupt government in American history (Trumps) is the one that is the most eager to give Russia everything they want. They are kind of trying to make America loose. Morally purer government would do better in the competition between Russia and America.
- mielioort 1y ago[dead]
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoWe lost India to China because we were impulsive. Beijing’s “wolf warriors” had already done generational damage to China’s strength. We could have held the high ground for decades more.
- quickthrowman 1y agoRussia is essentially a mafia with a gas station. The problem is, this mafia has a shitload of nuclear weapons. Without those, their vast land holdings east of the Urals would’ve already been taken by China. Both China and Russia have concentrated vast amounts of power into a single person, it gets bloody and chaotic when the ‘one powerful man’ dies and there’s a power struggle.
- mielioort 1y ago[dead]
- rstuart4133 1y agoI would not have believed it, but now looking like Ukraine could win it's war against Russia: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/07/drones-target-oil-refinery-in-western-siberias-tyumen-region-in-what-may-be-ukraines-farthest-strike-yet-a90743 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/07/drones-target-oil-... "Win" here doesn't mean military victory over Russia. It means Ukraine's slow destruction of of Russia's oil and gas infrastructure and the West's sanctions make it too expensive for Russia to continue, so they withdraw from Ukraine and Crimea. What a difference just 4 years the accelerated pace of technological development makes that happens in war makes. 4 years ago, Ukraine would have ended without the influx of Western weapons. Now the West looks at the Ukrainian battle fields, and ponders the relevance of their weapons against a $10k drone, made in Ukraine.
- myko 1y ago> Crimea Russia staying in Crimea, which is part of Ukraine, is a loss for Ukraine. But at least a return to a more stable period before the latest invasion by putin.