ukraine may have blood running through the streets, but blood is better than human feces.

Pakistan relies on US ‘gifts’ so naturally they comply. They also have a pretty acute forex shortage and I remember in the beginning of the year struggling with fuel shortages.

Their decision is kind of short sighted imo, oil is heading to over 100 a barrel and these guys are going to have a fun time trying to get oil.

They could have taken the India route and could have had discounted Russian oil, instead they basically imprisoned the populist. Feel like this is a boomerang waiting to whip back into their forehead.

The usa needs pakistan on their side, if they aid russia the us will have no I.T support.

I'd say that at the widest angle, empires based on geopolitical puppeteering are inherently unstable. It could be one one commodity collapse or a famine or natural disaster, as long as the population have neither allegiance to their foreign masters nor the true fear of a suppressed and occupied population, they're eventually going to bubble up in popular discontent. Iran is one obvious example of that. Imran Khan had huge popular support and Pakistan can't just keep indefinitely locking up populists.

The vulnerability I think is becoming more and more evident to those of us that see what is on the horizon. Our debt burden and unsustainable spending will ultimately lead to mandatory cuts and this isn’t 40 years away but more like within the next 10 years. At some point the Egypts, the Pakistans, etc will have these billions in free money be severely cut back. When that happens our geopolitical soft power won’t slowly fade but could drop as off a cliff. What’s their incentive otherwise to be US aligned aside from dollars or weapons?

Maybe I’m wrong but it’s going to be ultimately domestic issues that bring and end to our hegemony at least our ability to maintain it by buying soft power.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Sep 8 2023 06:41pm

See? Biden did accomplish something.