Really good Wikipedia page for the investment firm that owns Panera

there's a substantial economic and technocratic competition where the US is getting dogwalked but yeah, the only real sputnik moment of domestic investment to counter china is the current AI bubble or something

the meme of the cartoon america just shooting itself in the face in front of a horrified china is great because china is horrified. like they aren't ready to move in with the butcher's knives they're like we had a steady thing going you assholes

there's gotta be some people in there who are like wait we thought it was gonna be us running the show in like the 2050's not NOW

the Chinese model seems to explicitly state that there is no need or desire to rock the boat internationally in any way until China is strong enough but I wonder if they really mean that or if its just an ideological screen for return to national interest

it'd be great but I'd like a principled ideologically driven anti-imperialist bloc even more. I'd like a lot of things. but a weakening US in a liberal framework just means, like you said, some big guys start acting self-interested.

I'd love to also be in the bargaining stage about Chinese foreign policy right now but I'm not!!

I guess I can post here

Sending dollars out for the rest of the world to use as a reserve currency and sucking in the bulk of the world's resources was the SWEETEST SCAM AMERICA EVER HAD GOING FOR IT and this absolute fucking boob kicks it over because he thinks the "dollars go out" part means we're the ones being scammed.

I'm working on some stuff hopefully it will get a home soon

Portuguese merchants in Asia in the 1500’s

yeah absolutely. I remember seeing the cope cages in late 2023 and being like ohhhhhkay here we go. the IDF as a ground force seems basically broken but the problem is their air force isn't.

it is! it is but nobody gets it! nobody even understands the things that are happening right now. it really reminds me of Yurchak and Zubok's retelling of the beginning of the end of the USSR