The potential is definitely there in the middle east

@Spooky Melon deadass we have a compromise

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@ArmouredHeart you're a fool if you think our funding of Israel is motivated by economic necessity

**Sandlands will become a jewish 🅱ethnostate**

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Also someone said how shitty the us government is at money management and yes I agree

That would be me

We need to purge the bureaucracies

Yeah that’s right

An america-anchored middle east will be an important bulwark against chinese economic aggression in Africa in the next few decades too

@Snake absolute agreement

Decentralize government authority and tax spending, return power to the states.

But I don’t understand why you care about the Chinese anyway, militarily they’re hard as hell to fight. But economically we can crush them

(all bureaucracies are shit at it tbh, but you need them to handle the money in the first place, so all i can wager is "make the bureaucracies better via regulation and purging and shit")

@Snake any war with the chinese would be primarily economic before it were military, I think. I think we're headed for a trade Cold War with them.

@UnfilteredGarbage

open war won't happen with china unless somebody majorly fucks up anyway. and nobody wants it either

@UnfilteredGarbage yeah you’re correct, and we’re bleeding them out

@ArmouredHeart this is also why China's economic expansion needs to be rebutted

They're fueling absolutely destructive industrial policies in nations that are not socially developed enough to be responsible

I think China will collapse in on its self, it has a massive banking and housing bubble

Some espionage to make it pop is what we need

(so do we lmao)

The chinese are basically every sci-fi bug race, they just consume everything in a region and move on when everything's dead

@UnfilteredGarbage so thats why they love starcraft

While there's certainly valid criticism of american industrial expansion, it pales in comparison to the degree that China destroys ecosystems and natural resources

Both due to policy difference and the sheer size of the chinese population

@UnfilteredGarbage isn't the only thing fished in the china sea jellyfish?

Also 🇨🇳 = Gimped Tyranids

Racism? Now I can finally agree...

LOL

Fucking roasted from orbit

Also the chinese cook dogs

Which is probably the most culturally offensive action I can think of from all of human history

@ArmouredHeart to be fair, thats a shitty portion of africa, a lot of it is better than that

@Spooky Melon yeah, the parts where white people live(d) are much better

Africa has a rising obeasity crisis