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@7 it's more financial I think, US can't support the EU and I can't really see the US forcing anything upon China or Russia except nuclear war

commodities beats printer, AWACS or no

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@skells I’m done even feigning sides in this matter, I’m in it for studying the military strategy and geopolitics. I want BRICS to break away for all the positive and negative reasons, and I want the US to make it’s death rattles, and I want to see the patriots rally for exactly what they were against a few years prior, and I want to see what comes of it all. The US has done such an amazing job at crippling itself that it’s six-to-five and pick-‘em what would happen if a world war broke out; it’s no who is stronger, it’s can the Americans reinvigorate a national war industry given the last 40 years, and can they do it before the Chinese and Russian junk-heaps are able to do what little they would need to do? And that’s if a declaration of war didn’t crack the country into pieces and leave a far bigger mess to clean up for any invading force.

@7 also good fucking luck invading the US lol no one would try it

@7 my hope is that neither sides have it in them for a world war and a relatively peaceful, natural devolution of centralised state power occurs

tbh I think most everyone other than the upper echelons (and their respective NPCs) of US and EU are hoping for that outcome.

If it came to it both could swing hard - the historical precedent (read Franks/Crusades) is for the West to sweep all before it in decisive battles while bleeding out strategically

@7 Russia doesn't need the commodities Japan did, what it wants is BRICS to break from the West/multipolar world

US wants Ukraine to be another Afghanistan

Russia wants to show cajones in resisting US hegemony

place your bets

@7 we're in 1930 not 1938 and Ukraine is China, if I had to guess

@7 if it's the first of its kind they'd have to do it between their two nations, otherwise the logistics would be incredibly complex to ship/supply Chinese forces to/in Ukraine and vice versa

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@skells The fine line between statistically-backed predictions and persuasion.

what if they all invested in China because ray said so and now they bored waiting

@coolboymew have we reached peak journalism, or is the best yet to come?

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network inclusive tho

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"When you look back on your life you're gonna realize 30% of it was spent waiting for the cement truck to show up." ~ Mafia hitmen and construction workers

fuck, the wizards are back and they brought some weird wolf/eagle chimaera things with them

was it really so hard to just use FOSS

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Hrm. I don't think monopolies are ever "crushed" -- their death comes at the hands of successful competition from either adjacent to or in their industry, or by a government taking the reigns of the monopoly through divestiture and cartelization.

ISPs won't be "crushed"; they'll be humiliated by how simple the next technology is compared to their overcomplicated power-inspired grids.
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