Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The RETURN of the AMERICAN EMPIRE? The END of AMERICA FIRST - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. All propped up by an explosion of debt, making our children pay for a short burst of political gain... which he promptly failed to defend when a pandemic made paramount the protection of our human capital as opposed to "normal" commercial vibrancy.
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  2. More like the peaceable global economy is done for. The Pound and Yen are decadent, the Euro is uncoordinated, and nobody really trusts the Rupee or the Renminbi. The resulting chaos will likely lead to more conflicts gone kinetic as the values of payments lose predictability.
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  3. That's probably why RCEP needed to be so weak, hardly better than the WTO baseline. Nobody trusts that China won't use it to exert political impositions later on.
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  4. Not to mention these include the Defense Attaché liaison offices at the 100+ US embassies, as well as military reservations that between exercises are merely empty fields.
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  5.  @Arcaryon  Right, modern China is like china -- hard and impressive but also very fragile and brittle. The PRC keeps saying to itself that it is loved around the world... but I've lived around the world and the locals express resignation at best and extreme suspicion at worst over Chinese intents with their countries, and it all smells a lot like the colonization which they have recent memories of if not lived through. It seems like the Party is waking up to the fact that money doesn't buy love, hence their increased aggression in securing their interests, because unlike America they don't have an attractive modern culture to retain peaceable engagement when the money stops flowing.
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  6. China might surpass America for a bit, but it faces increasingly strong headwinds with things like an aging population, an unattractive modern culture, explosion of debt, and overall lack of trust. I wouldn't be surprised if America regains its dominance simply by waiting out the PRC's peak 📈💸📉
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  7. The "same" rules become an issue when China gets included, as they always want to "negotiate" them at their leisure through the lens of vague philosophies and even then enforcement gets interpreted very loosely.
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  8.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  China isn't short on hubris itself. The Party's paternalistic approach leaves a lot of its people bitter (but too scared to say so), and its exclusive tribalist pride will alienate it from receiving help from abroad when it eventually needs it like so many failed empires and dynasties before. In their narrow pursuit of money and political stability, they ended up developing strong headwinds like an aging population, unattractive modern culture, explosion of debt, and overall lack of trust. I wouldn't be surprised if America regains its lead position by simply waiting out the PRC's peak 🇨🇳📈📉 And much to the chagrin of the Mainland government, Táiwān's very existence proves that Chinese people can in fact thrive without the Party 🇹🇼
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  9. Yet America retains its "imperialism" because those countries fear the alternative... who aren't nearly as interested in letting you express yourself ☭
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  10. What's back is America's progressive itinerary, not just stuck on the ground with its toxic baggage 🛫
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  11. It's a global force. Empires aren't so keen on conversing and negotiating agreements with their counterparts abroad.
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