CarmineCatboy2

To be honest I just think that in the short history of US hegemony there's been a massive political hazard when engaging in consumption led growth. The moment your country is unable to finance itself the US swoops in and seizes everything like a vulture. Sure, with export oriented growth means you're dependent on the US for its financial system and debt driven consumption. The hazard isn't gone there either. But go back 40-50 years in time and every peripheric developmentist country was permanently crippled by the US Fed. As bad as things have gotten for the likes of Japan and South Korea, they haven't devolved into Brazil or Turkey - which, for that matter, are two best case scenarios.

China at one point looked up towards the developmentist third world. It is now looking down on them and asking what went wrong.

The double circulation strategy is something the chinese government has talked about directly. So it is something that they are doing. But, medium term, they also have to slowly wean themselves off a western led finance, banking and trade system first. With the way things are set up now, the US gets the short end of the stick of any trade war against China. If things are progressing further, why rock the boat and risk changing that calculus?

damn this is positively brazilian. george santos' influence can't be overstated

I'd wager that this is neither good, nor bad, or even malicious. It's just the status quo. Does Israel even want normalization with the country it is invading? So there's no reason for the US to demand it. Besides, Trump is talking to al-Sharaa and Bin Salman at the same time and it doesn't seem like Saudi feels like normalizing with Israel either.

Even their doomsday 'evil China scenario' involves the country curing cancer.

US embassies sanctioning themselves from doing business in a foreign country (coup plotting) was too good to be true.

I think that on some level people sorta assume that someone like Jeffrey Sachs - neoliberal economist at the vanguard of pillaging the USSR - had the perfect redemption arc. You can easily imagine a true believer in neoliberal economics, but also politically reasonable in a way that he'd make suggestions that the dismantling of the USSR would never abide. It makes sense to, because that's kinda like how Jeffrey memorializes himself. Then that person lived long enough to see China's ascension and the US' insanity disprove all of their fundamental beliefs in life.

The cherry on top is that same Jeffrey Sachs goes onto debate against someone like Mearsheimer on the notion that China is inevitably going to behave in the same pattern as the US and the European empires did, fundamentally on the belief that current China treasures peace more than any western elite group ever did.

i think withers look pretty realistic

what we need is a church-military complex of priests and engineers. if every body of water is either a canal or a dam then it is no longer within a natural vessel. and with enough priests we can continuously bless them all. vampirism shall then be banished unto the bottom of the seas

Would the Administration reach across the aisle and re-rename the comm to TrueFibs?

hypothesis one: pinterest was flooded with AI art and now so is google search

hypothesis two: your boss wants you to use AI. having AI write your article and then having AI make the image makes for two uses out of the 50 in your production quotas.

We basically can't. Both in terms of expertise and in terms of financing. And it would be bad business besides, since China is a main beneficiary of these projects they also have an interest in their completion. It doesn't make sense for Perú and Brazil to finance this themselves.