death?

yes

the eastern bloc died

the soviet empire

lol, it morphed, not died

US needs to oppose China now or China will "peacefully rise" by gobbling up all of asia and africa and bully europe around, and ultimately start a war with US

it morphed into russo-china

it did die what exists now is just a product of russia reasserting itself

During Trumps WH summit where Tim was at, the media was outside stuck and bitching at everything they could hear.
OH THE SALT
https://youtu.be/0d2eTFA7eIM

dab

and funnily despite the fact that russia is quite a bit weaker than the ussr they're managing to expand

And we care for the rest of the world why? Trade ties would be enough to keep a lot of the allies, and we could still oppose China without being super involved

Cut trade ties

Watch China fall

It helps the US if the world likes the US

and if you surrender the world to China, you're just feeding a bigger monster that will eventually try to eat you too

i would be fine with pulling out of the most the world and focusing on building a sphere around the anglosphere and western hemisphere

China has initiated huge wars every single time it "rose", which is like 4 or 5 times

they started with aggression towards neighbors, gobbled everything up they could, they found the biggest target, started a war, lost, and fell apart

it's an enormous mistake to let them do that again

China is a non threat rn if the US stops trade with China China's whole economy crashes when America feels slight shockwaves at most

I think that's an exaggeration. there is a risk of China leapfrogging the US with different military tech. and china's economy is super self sufficient, way more than the US

if china and US cut ties tomorrow, china would be fine, US would have lots of major shocks as the cheap chinese crap isn't available anymore

it would adjust of course, which is good, but it would take time

And we'd still trade with the world if we need to and have actual allies that would fight for US, like the UK would sail to the US mainland to protect the US but most of our "allies" wouldn't

Fuck the ones that wouldn't

only if you hadn't already sold the world down the river

they certainly wouldn't sail to help trump. they hate him with every bone in their body

even the UK I think literally couldn't help

their own defense department has warned that their own multiculturalism may prevent them from taking military action in certain parts of the world

US would feel pretty big Short term effects if they cut ties with China but the Chinese economy is only strong at the moment because it uses the US as a foundation

ie: imagine the UK decided to join the US in some war. basically most of the UK would riot. left wingers, muslims, young people, pretty much all immigrants of any kind, etc, have no investment in helping the UK help the US. only the old generation would

Remove that and China is still economically strong

I think we're past the point of no return with China's self sufficiency

But not superpower level

yes continuing to feed into it is a bad idea and the US needs to foster self sufficiency again

dunno i've found WGAP side-splitting the second i heard him talk about them politicians

which is why trump's tarrif strategy is a good one

The other thing I mentioned was military tech. US seems to be a bit stuck in the 20th century. China is leapfrogging straight to space weapons and hypersonic rail guns.

If china can develop effective anti-ship railguns, that pretty much counters the whole strategy of the US military. If they can railgun the aircraft carriers, what's the US gonna do?