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Originally Posted by El Muffin
“The shit has been ripe “every few years since goddamn desert storm just like mfs mention NK every year as if they are on the brink of launching those mfs . Reminds me of chyeah and elenin
Im skeptical
I like how you put Biden and assertive in the same sentence too lol nice touch
All jokes aside .. I hear you on the capitalizing on our powerful military Talking point but this wouidnt be ww2. I don’t see a war on that scale ever contributing to the economy like that ever again...
Proxy wars or lopsided contests till the death of us . Watch
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Biden is assertive in the sense that he follows the classical consensus on American foreign policy where when our adversaries do something that hurts us we do something back. Trump follows a different school of thought.
The difference between current situation and the previous era of single polar US dominance and former colder war era is the increased number of players in large power competition. It's easy to maintain a stalemate when no one can compete with the US (any war is a guaranteed lose) or when there is an opponent of equal strength (mutual assured destruction).
Once you get to a 3 polar world, two people have incentives to gang up on the other person and make it a 2 person game (then hopefully win that contest and be the sole power).
China is entering the game now. That will have effects on the power dynamics.