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doot | 2 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +2 
 the tension between US and China is like one of those ‘history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes’ moments. feels like US is Carthage and China is Rome on more levels than you’d think.
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doot | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Thucydides Trap is bullshit tho
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OΞHI ⚡️🧡 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What about the Kursk Plot Twist
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doot | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 that’s kinda the sicilian wars lol
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doot | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 - mercenaries are the defence companies. Chinese conscripts have a very strong sense of national identity. 
- US’s power is primarily derived from commerce, whereas China has immense man-power
- China is a rising superpower, while the US is established 
- China just copies everything the US does in defence lol
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Low Information Voter | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Twenty years ago, yes, but trendlines for both have changed for the worse.

US today does more fiat-printing than profitable commerce, and centrally-planned policy-lag is crushing China's manpower advantage,

And China is way beyond copying - other than the USA on a good day no Western country can innovate for sh_t compared to China. Of course, in an ideological one-party state that could get shut down tomorrow, but it hasn't.
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doot | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yes i think the funny thing abt central planning is that one bad policy decision can fuck everything