SuburbanFarmer wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:21 pm
It’s the age of the Petroyuan and the sino-Russian alliance.
the de facto Sino - Russo Eurasian Pact is none the less only an alliance of convenience
China & Russia are also adversaries, so it is trilateral great power competition
becoming increasingly multilateral with a rising Indian nuclear power in an alliance against China with Japan
There’s only one currency daring to challenge the dollar in oil. And only one military force that actually concerns Americans. And we’ve driven them together, almost as if we meant to.
SuburbanFarmer wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:21 pm
It’s the age of the Petroyuan and the sino-Russian alliance.
the de facto Sino - Russo Eurasian Pact is none the less only an alliance of convenience
China & Russia are also adversaries, so it is trilateral great power competition
becoming increasingly multilateral with a rising Indian nuclear power in an alliance against China with Japan
There’s only one currency daring to challenge the dollar in oil. And only one military force that actually concerns Americans. And we’ve driven them together, almost as if we meant to.
they none less expend a tremendous amount of resources preparing for a war against each other
China is further weakened by entering into conflict with India & Japan
unlikely China will unseat the American Hegenomy in the near term, even they don't claim that
asserting China & Russia as a monolithic threat to America is called the Domino Theory
that is what you are invoking here, the Domino Theory right out of 1954
GloryofGreece wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:45 pm
The empire will come to its end primarily from within. This has been true of many.
The most important problem for all forms of life, from single cell organisms all the way up to countries and empires, is membranics. How to figure out how to let the right stuff in and how to get rid of the stuff that has to be let go. A walled city will put its most competent people at the gate. The toughest material on an animal is the skin. Empires fall because they can't keep the bad stuff out. Too many people and ideas that don't belong will try to get in and benefit from the strength of the empire.
An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna
Nie lügen die Menschen so viel wie nach einer Jagd, während eines Krieges oder vor Wahlen. - Otto von Bismarck
GloryofGreece wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:45 pm
The empire will come to its end primarily from within. This has been true of many.
The most important problem for all forms of life, from single cell organisms all the way up to countries and empires, is membranics. How to figure out how to let the right stuff in and how to get rid of the stuff that has to be let go. A walled city will put its most competent people at the gate. The toughest material on an animal is the skin. Empires fall because they can't keep the bad stuff out. Too many people and ideas that don't belong will try to get in and benefit from the strength of the empire.
If you have only one bullet left save that last one for the traitor. And not just revenge but also bc you have to get rid of him for your people to have any chance of winning.