3 ms·

>power at any cost. I mean, but they're not feeding into the US's power. So they're like, buying into a depreciating asset. This actively signals the US is los

by xracy 9mo ago

>power at any cost. I mean, but they're not feeding into the US's power. So they're like, buying into a depreciating asset. This actively signals the US is losing power to China given that it's _formerly top ally_ is making trading partnerships with one of it's nominal "enemies". Anyone who can think more than a month out, can see this will result in the US losing power in the long run.

Insanity 9mo ago
Thinking more than a week out is already a challenge for the current administration. A month would be a Herculean task.
ehsankia 9mo ago
> So they're like, buying into a depreciating asset Part of the issue is that the average age of the House is ~55 and for the senate it's above 60. So they have a lot less incentive to care about that, or about climate change.
- lumost 9mo ago
  I wonder how much this makes them resistant to understanding global change. Even in my own short lifetime, China went from a place of villages and cheap factories for low end products to the plausibly dominant center of technology and manufacturing. Those in congress may still imagine a world where China’s strength is no more than an illusion.
andrewflnr 9mo ago
Personal power. Specifically winning elections at any cost, including the cost of more important forms of power.
fakedang 9mo ago
Reminds me of Russia post-Soviet collapse when all of the SSRs rushed to form their own blocs or align with the West, while the Russians thought they would continue to align with their former overlords in Moscow. USA will definitely turn into the new Russia if it continues to go on this path. It has already exhausted most of its cultural and moral capital, and its tech sector is already under threat in its major allies. It will continue to stay relevant for maybe a generation or two but it will turn largely irrelevant by the turn of the century, just like the British Empire or Russia today. Assuming, of course, that it doesn't correct course.

by xracy 9mo ago

Insanity 9mo ago

Thinking more than a week out is already a challenge for the current administration. A month would be a Herculean task.

ehsankia 9mo ago

> So they're like, buying into a depreciating asset Part of the issue is that the average age of the House is ~55 and for the senate it's above 60. So they have a lot less incentive to care about that, or about climate change.

lumost 9mo ago
I wonder how much this makes them resistant to understanding global change. Even in my own short lifetime, China went from a place of villages and cheap factories for low end products to the plausibly dominant center of technology and manufacturing. Those in congress may still imagine a world where China’s strength is no more than an illusion.

andrewflnr 9mo ago

Personal power. Specifically winning elections at any cost, including the cost of more important forms of power.

fakedang 9mo ago

Reminds me of Russia post-Soviet collapse when all of the SSRs rushed to form their own blocs or align with the West, while the Russians thought they would continue to align with their former overlords in Moscow. USA will definitely turn into the new Russia if it continues to go on this path. It has already exhausted most of its cultural and moral capital, and its tech sector is already under threat in its major allies. It will continue to stay relevant for maybe a generation or two but it will turn largely irrelevant by the turn of the century, just like the British Empire or Russia today. Assuming, of course, that it doesn't correct course.