Quote (ferdia @ Apr 6 2022 03:23pm)
only a matter of time before the smog is gone. they are leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the planet in terms of moving to green.
but yes the smog in china is terrible.
correct, i said 5+ years ago we would lose that race too unless we did something drastic. china is busy cornering future markets while the US spends time legislating trans people either onto a podium or into a 10 foot deep hole.
Quote (ofthevoid @ Apr 6 2022 03:28pm)
China was always going to blossom into a superpower. It was in their history with the dynasties. Sure we helped out with globalism, but they would of came up regardless. The sheer number of people they have under one language, one culture is scary. It's the same reason India will be a superpower one day.
What I'm talking about is like knowing what the future axis powers would be 50 years prior to it happening. If you know, then you can go to the Austro-Hungarians and try to chip them away from that axis. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't but if today Russia was in our camp we would be much better insulated from China threatening our hegemony.
Brazil fits those criteria, and had it not been for scandals with burning the rainforest we'd have made them a super power too. the us invests elsewhere to make a small profit and in the process creates superpowers 100 years ahead of schedule. democratic capitalism is a snake that eats itself. we fucked up all for 200$ big as flat screen tvs.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Apr 6 2022 02:31pm