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USA has 5k nukes China Has 500+
"I'm not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons, Colonel. I'm terrified of the man who only wants one."
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Hahah that movie was okay. I’m shocked you quoted it haha movie was mostly forgettable for me
I agree!!
Any war between US and China cannot be a direct full blown nuclear one as that would result in guaranteed mutual destruction.
Instead it will be, as it already is, one mostly fought via proxies.
One fought using hardware and tactics which inherently require refined rare earths USA does not have supply lines for.
The US needs to keep leveraging its intellectual capital (not dollar hegemony) to remain the leader in cyberspace and internet marketing and entertainment so that in case of a war, it has more allies than China.
Having more weapons might seem like a winning move but if one has no true allies, they lose.
Ref: The defeat of the well stocked Nazi army.
People fight wars, not guns and weapons. Not even an army of drones I'll argue (they can be hacked).
China has no interest in fighting the USA and the problem is America's debt problem. Seems like there'll be a lot of trade wars on the road to $1 quadrillion in debt. After which point people will maybe realize this is all crazy and they will stop chasing the high of debt cocaine. Maybe we will go back to being religious and to looking to the stars, and to having kids and not not bothering with overpriced fiat school when trade skills are everywhere.
There is no nation on earth that can fight a modern war without the supply of rare earths that are essential to the manufacture of most modern warfare materiel.
Any war between US and China cannot be a direct full blown nuclear one as that would result in guaranteed mutual destruction.
Instead it will be, as it already is, one mostly fought via proxies.
One fought using hardware and tactics which inherently require rare earths USA does not have.
USA has already lost that war for at least the next ten years as it cannot re supply itself or its allies.
USA has lost the ability to make and supply things- its neoliberal financialisation has crippled its capacity to fight a war.
US military industrial complex has lost already- just sad and tragic most of its citizens cannot see that or accept that yet- even if Trump already knows it.
@Cje95 knows it too- just that he cannot admit it because hes paid not to.
Its not all about the monetary system but about the quality and strategic intelligence and sense of purpose of your government.
Of course it's all about the monetary system. As long as there exists a money printer, someone with access is going to keep pushing the print-money button until, first gradually and then suddenly, it becomes worthless for everyone else.
See this is why the Japanese are smarter than you. You apparently can't look at a system objectively from an engineering perspective. You have to filter every idea through the Opium Wars no matter how irrelevant it is to the problem at hand.
Japan is monetarily and militarily subservient to the US.
'You have to filter every idea through the Opium Wars no matter how irrelevant it is to the problem at hand.'
That is about as classic a sly misrepresentation of what I actually say as I have seen- The Opium Wars are a very good place to start for arrogant ignorant US exceptionalists who have no ideas whatsoever what China is, but it is only a starting point toward understanding and certainly not a filter.
A money printer is a money printer. There is no strategic or sensible way for a government to print money. It always ends badly for everyone except the few people who live close enough to the printer to buy their way out of the consequences. There is no need to investigate the specific justifications for why a government prints money or what it spends it on.
It would be better if the government used the money printer for hookers and blow. Spending it on programs to build a utopia is so much worse.
It always ends badly for everyone except the few people who live close enough to the printer to buy their way out of the consequences.
Compared to what? How did the non-money-printing scenarios end, for the nations (who?) who maintained them?
In war fiat enables the combatant nation states to leverage all of their citizens monetary wealth toward victory.
The same applies in a trade war.
China and USA are already engaged in such a contest.
The dollar is losing because the dollar has been squandered upon inflating the price of non productive assets while the Yuan has been directed toward to building of productive supply chains and infrastructure.
USA cannot make useful things anymore.
It cannot make the hardware required for a modern war.
Rare earths for example.
To win you need to print and spend on useful things and USA didn't do that.
Trump is trying to turn that around now but its almost certainly too little far too late.
China has won the trade war and now USA cannot fight a military war of any scale because China holds the supply of refined rare earths required to fight a modern war...
Its not all about the monetary system but about the quality and strategic intelligence and sense of purpose of your government.
Western governments have been taken over by parasitic bankers and corporate lobbyists who rentseek and squander fiat debt issuance to inflate non productive speculative assets but fail to invest in productive industry and infrastructure.
China has won the trade war and now USA cannot fight a military war of any scale because China holds the supply of refined rare earths required to fight a modern war...