• copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      Only if done slowly like step-by-step over the next 10 years.

      The US provide some capabilities to NATO which the others cannot substitute immediately.

      • Nanook@lemmy.zip
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        It’s the other way around. The US so depends on its war economy, it will have the hardest time diversifying its economy. War is the only thing the US knows. It’s what birth it, it’s what feeds it and it is what will bring its end.

        Morally the last time the US was part of the good guys, was when everybody but the Germans and Japanese were. Their neofascist technogarchy is fucked. Their USA Empire is already in ruins, but they’re too French about it to realise it. Thinking they’re fighting a proxy with Russia, when Russia already is a proxy of China.

        The US has shown its incompetence by attacking fishing boats in Venezuela as a show of strength. The ridicule is only drowned out by the dumbfounded gasps of disbelief. Our grandchildren will learn Chinese, lol.

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          Our grandchildren will learn Chinese, lol.

          I doubt this will happen to our grand children, or even their grand children. China has a receding population, losing 100m(!!!) between 2025 and 2050 alone and projected to accelerate further.

          I suspect instead it will be a mix of English and the service industry dominating Hindi, or “Indianish” (English spoken with all its Indian quirks?)

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        When the push comes to shove Trump’s USA will do jack shit to provide anything but insult added to injury.