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Empire maintenance is hard. USAID was a form of soft power that prevented the necessary use of blunt force. Given the rhetoric against China, the consolidation
by JohnBrookz 2y ago
Empire maintenance is hard. USAID was a form of soft power that prevented the necessary use of blunt force.
Given the rhetoric against China, the consolidation of power and rise of nationalistic fervor. I suppose we’re just a few years from war with China. Presumably under a false flag operation ala Gulf of Tonkin style.
Fascism is capitalisms iron fist.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoWar with China might be necessary to purge US fascism.
- jimmydoe 2y agoChina has its own internal nationalism pressure against foreign aid.