The obsession with a Navy that can fight three different wars on opposite sides of the planet is outdated and the product of paranoid, reactionary, imperialist foreign policy.
Our biggest trading partners are increasingly our biggest geopolitical rivals. At some point, we either need to reconcile these contradictions or surrender intentional trade as a possibility into the next century
Success
Why China’s property crash must be kept top secret
Cheap Housing… Bad?
Peaceful?
This analysis contends that China’s aggressive actions represent a deliberate violation of international maritime law and the South China Sea Code of Conduct.
A South China Sea code of conduct has been under discussion for over two decades.
You broke a set of rules we haven’t even defined yet!
Not doing terrible things to their citizens?
China signs police patrol agreements with nations
In 2016, an Italian police official told NPR that joint policing would “lead to a wider international cooperation, exchange of information and sharing resources to combat the criminal and terrorist groups that afflict our countries.”
Those monsters.
Slammed
slammed
Wait till you find out about Cam girls
Reason from 2001 to 2025 has been a wild ride. I gotta wonder what changed?
If the NSA fires all it’s Transgender staffers, we’ll be lucky if the agency knows what Linux is by 2030
Excited for a Pokemon with more explicit advocacy of Eugenics
“We’re releasing a Vaporion that can get pregnant”
Roman Pagans were famously awful for women’s rights. And the New Atheist movement is full of sex pests on both sides of the Atlantic.
Toxic Masculinity exists independently of religious doctrine
Unfortunately, we saw during the health care debate that they are not. You regularly had polls showing majority public discontent with the status quo, only to see every reform policy’s approval collapse after sustained negative media and marketing.
People will tell you they hate the system. But any attempted reform is shot down as “too extreme” and “bad for the economy”
Requires a fully funded and staffed public postal service in a county that’s dismantling, privatizing, and outsourcing core components of public sector package shipping
we elected the billionaire party
Hasn’t been anything resembling a free and fair election in this country since at least Bush v Gore.
You’re fooling yourself if you think “we got what we voted for” when Congress has approval ratings in the single digits
A recision is when your neighbors lose their jobs
A depression is when you lose yours.
Achieving levels of “out of touch” heretofore considered unimaginable
Seems like I touched a nerve
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That’s… debatable. Unless you’re holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth, nobody is really going to complain when you feed a valuable commodity to the secondary market at a discount.
The real pain the US has felt comes from the crimps in the Supply Chain. Yemen shutting the Suez Canal has done incalculable harm to US trade. If we saw similar pressure in Panama and Singapore?
Even beyond that, climate change is going to hit North America extra hard over the next few years. Probably the meanest thing a foreign country could do right now is whisper in the ears of every Great Lakes resident “They’re coming for your water”.