this is just going to be 2 powers trying outfuck each other for pure material benefit
yea exactly
ofc not
I'll use the US for now on but I assume you guys could have implied what I meant from there
Nuke China
No 🥱
well the issue is that if they end up defeating US
Get this in VC @oistoy
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
https://tenor.com/view/hulk-hogan-guitar-gif-4340836
Even if America collapses, China won't be able to conquer the world
they aren't going to move on to fighting ideological war from that point onward
it dosen't have that sort of power projection
Never claimed that
I know, but a lot of people nowadays think that
Well I never mentioned it would totally be an ideological war in the 1st place
like I can't imagine China doing nation building in Middle east, trying to turn Iraq into a Maoist-Dengist people's republic
Lmao
since we've been living in through the 2nd Yellow peril
I wish they would
That'd be interesting
because it would be funny
China dosen't care about ideology anymore
nobody besides US does
really
^^
that's why US is loosing their conflict with Chinese
the same way Soviets did
ideological flexibility?
yea
@Pacem old pfp was better
Soviets didn't support regimes that weren't Marxist Leninist
while US supported Franco, Salazar, Pinochet
purely out of strategic consideration
the Chinese will now support anyone from Pakistani islamists to radlibs in Germany if it gets them closer to their goals
while US will be restricted to supporting opposing ideologies on a purely covert level
I heard they supported Franco and Pinochet but Salazar? I thought Salazar didn't really want business with the US in general as they were divorcing themselves from American political influences
https://www.thisworldthesedays.com/discordisgoingtobeshutdownon2021.html
America refused to sell NATO weapons to Portugal and openly supported decolonization movements in Angola and Mozambique
so yeah America was never really alligned with portugal other than on paper in NATO
