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Good, if the US is weak enough maybe we wont try to start a war
by tehjoker 1y ago
Good, if the US is weak enough maybe we wont try to start a war
- cosmicgadget 1y agoA strong US keeps China out of Taiwan and Russia out of Europe, so at least there's that.
- conorcleary 1y agoA weak one invites them.
- tehjoker 1y agoNeither of these are problems that concern us, and to a great extent are manufactured by us.
- KPGv2 1y agoMy friend, China invading Taiwan would be catastrophically ruinous to the American economy and would almost assuredly trigger a hot war because of it. Biden was trying to fix this problem by on-shoring more chip manufacturing, but Trump put a stop to that.
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- cosmicgadget 1y agoI am sort of curious to hear your isolationist alternate history of WWII and the decades after.
- rchaud 1y agoIf the Taliban were too much for the US to handle, I don't see how a direct confrontation with a nuclear power is on the table.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoThe US would have a hard time occupying Russia or China, for sure. It's very ignorant to think that has any bearing on the direct confrontation part.
- cjbgkagh 1y agoThe problem is if the US thinks they’ll be weaker in the future then it would be in their interest start the war sooner instead of waiting. I think it’s China who is taking the long term approach.
- tehjoker 1y agoMy understanding is the pentagon was planning for 2025 and it slipped to 2026 a few years ago.
- brazukadev 1y agoMy understanding is that by delaying it they already figured out it can't be done anymore
- cjbgkagh 1y agoThat was my read on it as well. Wait too long and the margin for success will disappear, if it was ever there at all.
- chii 1y agothe US being weak is why new wars start. Like it or hate it, the reason there was many decades of (relative) peace after the fall of the USSR is due to the US being the only superpower. Obviously, china doesnt like that.
- rchaud 1y agoDecades of peace? The US were bystanders in the wars in Rwanda, Bosnia and East Timor in the 90s, and invaded Iraq and Afghanistan within 12 years of the fall of the USSR.
- chii 1y agonone of those are on the scale of the cold war. People in the west lived very peaceful lives, which was my implication of the decades of peace.