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I mean… not false
Absolutely no reason to expect that the US will survive as a country at this point.
Given that universities in US are effectively run as a business nowadays, the fact that they’re becoming insolvent should be more than mildly concerning.
That’s precisely what Bessent and Lutnick running around promising would happen.
The US military-industrial complex operates as a wealth transfer scheme, designed to funnel taxpayer money away from public needs and back into oligarchs’ pockets. This creates perverse incentives to develop overly complex, expensive weapons systems produced in small batches with lucrative maintenance contracts. The result is fragile equipment that’s costly to maintain which is precisely what you don’t want in actual warfare. Given that systemic pressures remain the same, I expect that the dynamic isn’t going to change either.
The irony is that this mirrors Nazi Germany’s WW2 mistakes. Their pride in advanced, precision weapons worked against smaller nations, but failed catastrophically against the Soviet Union’s strategy of mass-producing ‘good enough’ weapons at overwhelming scale. When quality met quantity in a war of attrition, quantity won decisively.
these are the minds of people running the US government
21T in 17 years does seem fantastical to me as well.
I think the scale of it is almost certainly bullshit, but given that we know there are billionaire bunkers, I can imagine that there would’ve been some program in a similar style for the political class.
Seems unlikely, but they don’t give a timescale either. If they’ve been building this shit since the height of the cold war in the 60s, it certainly could be in trillions now.
The EU’s seizure of Russian foreign assets, without legal justification, isn’t helping either. By unilaterally appropriating these holdings, the bloc has set a precedent that any nation outside the West would reasonably question: what assurances exist that the EU wouldn’t replicate this tactic against their assets in the event of political conflict?
I don’t expect that China would want their currency to necessarily become the reserve since it would mean it would have to be freely convertible. However, digital RMB cross-border settlement system is now connected to ten ASEAN and six Middle Eastern countries, potentially bypassing the SWIFT system for about 38% of global trade. I expect, China will use the drop in demand for US currency to urge further dedollarization.
Seems like China is best positioned to capitalize on the collapse of confidence in the US as the global reserve. It’s the only major power that can guarantee economic growth and stability going forward.
21·14 days agoI’d argue this is a good example of LLMs being used by artist to create nice looking art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=envMzAxCRbw
love to see me some oligarch infighting 🍿
I mean, Id did this for years with Quake engines as well, so we kind of know how this works out. The assets tend to be the really difficult part for open source community to replicate. Still cool that they’re doing it though.
Incidentally, this is where AI tools could really help open source community to make it easier to create nice looking open assets for the game engines like this.
What’s happening now is very promising, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali now have an alliance and they’re getting support from Russia and China. Meanwhile, the US and Europe are visibly pulling back from Africa having depleted much of their resources in their proxy war with Russia.
As China floods the world with affordable solar panels and wind turbines, the decaying American empire clings to its oil-soaked throne like King Canute, commanding the tides of progress to recede.
This is a literal battle of light against darkness, where the forces of progress clash with the death-rattles of doomed capitalism. Every kilowatt China exports strikes a blow for humanity while every US tariff reveals their allegiance to planetary destruction.