RE: Childress Pledges Ammo to Ukraine
March 3, 2022 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2022 at 1:02 pm by Anomalocaris.)
China gets more benefit from trade with the US than the harm caused by American policies the chinese opposes, even one’s directed against china, such as tariff abs embargo against leading chinese tech firms, except those concerning taiwan, which china considers existential interest. so on anything short of taiwan, leverage rests with the US.
on taiwan the leverage also rests with the US because of america’s much larger nuclear arsenal. But using that leverage means china will then react by trying to match the american nuclear arsenal. which they seem to have taken the first steps to do.
So when i say America has been mad with power, i meant america thinks it is so strong that it has been flippantly, in the sense of driven by emotional idealism and short term gains in prestige and influence and not by careful strategic forethought, undertaking actions that serves to ensure it will face 2 peer nuckear powers in the foreseeable future, as oppose to just 1 during the cold war.
on taiwan the leverage also rests with the US because of america’s much larger nuclear arsenal. But using that leverage means china will then react by trying to match the american nuclear arsenal. which they seem to have taken the first steps to do.
So when i say America has been mad with power, i meant america thinks it is so strong that it has been flippantly, in the sense of driven by emotional idealism and short term gains in prestige and influence and not by careful strategic forethought, undertaking actions that serves to ensure it will face 2 peer nuckear powers in the foreseeable future, as oppose to just 1 during the cold war.
