Zoom into Kansas City on a map, then zoom into any random city in China, tell me the US is winning anything but a "How many toddlers can you starve?" competition. We ain't.
Everytime China builds another reactor, we build another parking lot.
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Yes, but our parking lots are owned by private rental companies, because we have Freedom™️
All this being said, they still suffer from the same delusions of grandeur that European politicians did when going along with the US with their war in Ukraine.
I just read an article (non-ML, not sure of the guy's politics) and it's still resonating with me. For instance this part:
The grisly list of western political disasters of the last twenty years, from Iraq to the 2008 financial crisis to Libya, to Syria, to Brexit, to Covid to the rise of so-called “populism,” is distinguished less than by malevolence or stupidity (though both were present) than by an arrogant belief in the rightness of the opinions of the Professional and Managerial Caste (PMC) and by their ignorant but strongly-held views about the world, which the world itself had a responsibility to adhere to. Why bother with the labour of finding out the facts when are sure you know them already?
It’s one thing for governments to accept that they were wrong about some issue of fact, even if it’s not easy: it’s quite another to accept that they were deluded and that their brains were out to lunch. When your public estimate of Russia, and your comments at the beginning of the war, are not based on any actual knowledge or any professional estimates, but just on ideological assumptions, then you lose the ability to respond and adapt as circumstances demonstrate the falsity of your assumptions.
So even with these facts, that the US economy would collapse overnight if the US provoked a war, and that they wouldn't stand a chance in a war, don't think for a moment that they wouldn't go through with it. They're that stupid. None of this is rational.
This is why I've come to realize that our leadership here in the States, the current regime, is not acting in a logical, material manner. Think about the TikTok ban that we keep hearing about. Assuming they could do ban TikTok, it would be a terrible parlay. It would be an absolutely terrible parlay because TikTok and social media are basically the largest release valves for revolutionary action in this country. You know how many people go on TikTok and they post a video about how the world sucks and they get some likes and some comments and then they feel better. Take that away from them. Instagram has already said that they're not going to have political content on their feeds unless you opt into it. This is the fundamental contradiction of capitalism. We are told that we have free speech, yet the FBI knocks on people's doors if you say the wrong thing. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But going back to the lack of materialism and materialist view of our leadership, you could see it all the time with, like you said, the Russia stuff. I think that some of the people in the upper leadership do really believe that Russia stole the election from Hillary. They're not acting in a materialist manner and this can be a problem for us because we're all about the materialist view and we're all about looking at things in a rational perspective. But if we're the rational ones and our enemy isn't, that could put our enemy at both an advantage and a disadvantage. Something to think about.