latin is logical

learnt french, was disgusting

latin is pure

until it became vulgar

nahh m8 miss me with that

@Ben Garrison never been diagonised with anything

like that

Russia has more nukes

🤔

The world did not fall apart at the gradual dismantlement of the british Empire.

Frankly theyre selling the rope that they hang themselves with

Pentagon disagrees

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2017/10/05/a-significantly-weaker-america-major-study-warns-of-eroding-us-military/

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/pentagon-study-declares-american-empire-is-collapsing-746754cdaebf

They directly quoted the study "“[A]ll states and traditional political authority structures are under increasing pressure from endogenous and exogenous forces… The fracturing of the post-Cold War global system is accompanied by the in­ternal fraying in the political, social, and economic fabric of practically all states.”

It literally says post cold war

Here's the foreword of the study "The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) faces persistent fundamental change in its
strategic and operating environments. This report suggests this reality is the product of
the United States entering or being in the midst of a new, more competitive, post-U.S.
primacy environment. Post-primacy conditions promise far-reaching impacts on U.S.
national security and defense strategy."

Post primacy is jst another way to say "our hegemony is weakening."

https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1358

This is literally a study funded by the Pentagon at the US army college

I dont know who else would be a 'believeable' source

Tbh poverty in the world has only been rapidly decreasing in China or by Chinese actions, else where poverty has been nornalized.

Just because China is doing X well doesnt mean someone wants to live in China.
1) I speak no mandarin

2) my family is all here

3) Why not improve the current society.

Mev

I blame it too

The issue is that Trump doesn't actually change the political environment as much as we wanted or hoped

He's still saying the same free market capitalist rhetoric that other establishment figures would say.

What it comes down to is just believing that America can never change no matter which party is in power.

Americais the richest country in the world but still has poverty 🤔

I mean is it such a crime to suggest a country with such immense wealth could phase out poverty?

Muh moan

Ussr had way more firsts than America and had a way less developed economy 🤔 this is a bad comparison

Having read jean rosseau social contract then it has a chapter on righteoysness

Jean argues about might makes right

The US military often is about might

But does that make them righteous?

Like in the case of a highwayman robbing me they have might over me at that instance but nothing suggests they are not criminals 🤔

Everything is plural

Such as?

@Donaldus Triumphus wanna see something crazy

Yes ussr had millionaire

http://jot101.com/2013/01/soviet-millionaires/

Hang on a second
Democracy is good
Unless in corporations?

Tbh lets disect the ussr political and economic system

https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/1936toc.html

English translated ussr constitution yeet

ARTICLE 10. The right of citizens to personal ownership of their incomes from work and of their savings, of their dwelling houses and subsidiary household economy, their household furniture and utensils and articles of personal use and convenience, as well as the right of inheritance of personal property of citizens, is protected by law.
ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and **payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality.**
Howsoviet milliobaires exist 🤔

I dont see how USSR restricts people from creating so much value they become 'rich'. 🤔

That's dumb especially in a developing nationstate

As in lets take China they have capitalists but the CPC still guides the capitalist to do certain things that benefit the nation as a whole

Similar to Korea in the 1960s 70s

South Korea

That is a much more useful methodology when building the foundations of an economy

Because free market isnt useful for Chinese growth

Literally

Hold on here

Medium is not all one news agency it is lots of individual journalist or publishing outlets tbh

There's not much difference between them tho

^ or concepts given up by the public sector

^ this

For example why china doesntblike feee markets

Country B: The country’s trade policy has literaly been the most protectionist in the world for the last few decades, with an average industrial tariff rate at 40–55 per cent. The majority of the population cannot vote, and vote-buying and electoral fraud are widespread. Corruption is rampant, with political parties se ling government jobs to their financial backers. The country has never recruited a single civil servant through an open, competitive process. Its public finances are precarious, with records of government loan defaults that worry foreign investors. Despite this, it discriminates heavily against foreign investors.

This country you all know

It is America... But in 1700s to 1800s

If America didnt use free markets ro develop it's economy then why would China

China is sprinting then

🤷

China is also building a huge international web of alliances through mutual development and gaining huge popularity in developing LEDCs

Dont you worry China has said they are aimmimg to match US's military by 2040 or 2050

That's why theyre building loads of high tech planes and aircraft carriers

Also wtf us has biggest gdp

Uh no
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

If you meant gdp ppp

Purchasing power parity

That's nominal gdp

You didnt specify nominal or PPP and many economists are in debate about which is more useful

PPP takes into consideration how much of those productive produfts people can purchase

🤷 nominal GDP is pretty unstable and not precisely useful unless adjusted. PPP is the more useful adjusment of nominal GDP

Especially in domestic economies like China and India

Stock markets actually make no sense nor are useful for thingsclike the wellbeingbof citizenry you know things pragmatic China focuses on. 🤔

I mean if I went to detriot and focused just on that i might get the tge impression America sucks.:thinking_face

Have you been to every region of China tho

When china has the largest hydroelectric and solar plants underway but 'dirty and awful.'

@Donaldus Triumphus it shows China is undergoig change

Which means we ought not to jump the gun

And actually see this transformative process through

Major US citiea have traffic 🤔

Houston to Los Angeles to Washington have it pretty bad lol

China168.7817
United States157.67
Traffic index
https://www.numbeo.com/traffic/rankings_by_country.jsp
🤔

> traffic is bad

> people cant afford cars

Wtf is this non sequiter

https://qz.com/1217257/china-is-beating-back-traffic-in-its-most-congested-cities/

I guess china isnt doing anything to improve

Not as good as the US
> developimg countrt

I stay away from anecdotes and look for quantatives data because that's all that is truly objective.

No we say that China is catching up very quickly

Certain aspects like high speed rail are better though. I guess