It’s been very funny following this saga the past few days.
It’s basically playing out exactly the same way as Biden’s attempt to isolate Russia. The whole history repeating as a farce thing in action.
Yep, the US is losing its global power gradually.
i wish it was faster
Now, now, Rome didn’t fall in a day
Don’t we all…
It’d be nice if china could also like, not take that power so we don’t just end up with the same situation but with a dictatorship at the helm?
China isn’t a dictatorship. It’s not a perfect utopian wonderland, but it’s certainly much better than the US, both for its people and other countries. China would absolutely be preferable.
I love how you can spot a .ml user without checking their instance
The issue is that somebody kinda has to fill the vacuum if we want to have literally any hope at surviving our rapidly oncoming self-created climate disaster. I don’t exactly love the PRC either, but you have to admit that right now, they are the ones best positioned to find and implement a technological solution to our crisis. It’s certainly not going to be the U.S., Europe is going to have it’s hands full trying to deal with Russia, do you think there’s any other power strong enough or better than China even left?
If my options are the Chinese model, or the extinction of the human race, then I’ll choose the PRC.
To add, Europe is generally a shadow of its former dominance, it doesn’t have the ground to stand on its own without capitulating to a greater power. Either they continue to be vassalized by the US, they reach reconciliation with Russia (who currently does have the resources like oil and the industrialization to fulfill Western Europe’s needs), or a pivot to China.
We can see this in how quickly the EU folded to Trump’s tariffs, while also opening dialogue with the PRC. They are picking which of those two to really side with, even though they would prefer to keep it balanced, the US will not allow that.
There is no technological solution. There’s only reduction of consumption.
Prc will not reduce.
Right way to measure governments is oligarchist corruption. All CIA approved democracies fail at this, and so not in the slightest a beneficial model. Trade shouldn’t be viewed as bad. Corruption and subjugation are bad, and trade deals should be looked at only under that framework.
Why not just measure corruption, full stop? Why specify oligarchy corruption?
China still also falls apart under that viewpoint.
Hey Russia wasn’t tariffed
Neither was Cuba or the DPRK, they have already been sanctioned. The tariffs are (supposedly) for countries the US actually does trade with.
What do you think there is to tariffs after the past three years?
So we aren’t talking about the recent ones which affect the rest of the nations then?
The west put all the sanctions they could think of on Russia for the past three years. I ask you once again, what you think there’s left to tariff?
