You know folks say this about every empire ever with about the same level of truth? As in the mostly rhetorical kind of truth?
I was thinking of this in particular:
On an economic statistics basis, the reduction in poverty over recent decades is unprecedented. And it is largely due to China, and does not seem to be based in imperial expansion.
This is the growth story of poor nations, especially when developing after world war, civil war, and indiscriminate purges, just like in the US of 150 years ago. It sounds, as I said, it sounds significant in the particular. In particular, much room for development in the most populous country. Listen to the fascist edgelords touting the trapping of the late 1800s US lazy-fare-for-thieving-bigots. (or similar from new-deal-dems and Europeans regarding the postwar booms) It is the one non-bullshit instance of a-rising-tide-raises-all-boats, but the effect is repurposed to nationalism or other purposes.
This is your thread. It’s not my intention to take a steaming dump here. I just don’t understand your willingness to fall back on team sports. I’ll leave it alone from now on.
The remnants of the American peace movement have gone into overdrive this week:
https://twitter.com/benjaminnorton/status/1044715050580287488?s=21
Malcolm’s last speech…
He begins by apologising for his clothes…because his house was bombed the night beforehand, leaving his better suits reeking of smoke.
Strategically interesting:
The latest episode of Hell of a Way to Die had a fair bit about Vostok, too.
I agree with your skepticism re: the bias of Foreign Affairs (and/or their sources).
However…
Aerospace and similar are very difficult to coordinate. The cooperation as it came and went and came back always had a more commercial/technological/industrial-operations flavor to it. But it’s always been there. It only really becomes a risk as both empires go full laissez faire fuckhead owner-culture. Jest like us.
also the Branch Davidians, and of course MOVE