• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    If the US and China goes to war, the US empire (possibly the entire Western empire) will collapse. Mark my words.

    • 陈卫华是我的英雄@lemmygrad.ml
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      If only considering conventional weapons, China would absolutely whip America’s ass in a war over Taiwan, but America has a nuclear policy that basically goes, “if we’re losing a war, we’ll nuke them”. So, a direct war between the US and China might not end too well for China and humanity either. America is a falling power, and that’s what makes it so dangerous.

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        They’ll never use those resources to bring the country up though. They have the best arable land to population ratio by far yet there are tons of people starving and malnutritioned. They have the most plentiful oil fields yet gas prices are unaffordable for many Americans

        Those resources will empower individual people and not the country. It’s a different scenario to China or Russia where those resources has been nationalized to bring up the standard and quality of living of everybody

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        The USA is deeply incompetent on most levels.

        The USA used their unique position after WW2 to create the mess we’re in now (literally on the brink of extinction). The only thing they are capable of is extracting profits and propagandizing their own population and their allies.

        Look at what Russia has done in just a few months. They have the west shitting their pants. China is maybe the most competently ran government on earth.

        Edit: sorry, autocorrect changed competently to ‘conveniently’ at first before I noticed 😔

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        All I know is they’ve been getting their asses kicked against comparatively weak and tiny countries lately, and they think they can take on both China and Russia at the same time?