Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "The New Atlas" channel.

Joseph Chamberlain tried doing that but he had a lot of opposition. It was the First World War which weakened the British Empire, not tariffs. At the start of the century, the British Empire was in pretty good health, but it had a huge economic and technological lead in the mid nineteenth century, it was unsustainable to keep such a big lead as countries like Germany industrialised and educated their populations. So it was inevitable it would lose a relative share of the world economy no matter what it did.
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@ The definition of a great power is to be able to fight a major war with its own resources. The end of great power status is actually doing so. The USA only got away with it in the first two world wars because the destruction was far from home and it joined late enough to spare most of the cost and come out ahead of all the countries which joined earlier.
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@jasondelvaux3036 I think your numbers are wrong. Japan killed more civilians. The Chinese are expanding in the South China Sea. This is a serious strategic danger to the Philippines, more important than historical grievances over a hundred years old.
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Seems if the Ukrainians were able to take Kherson they would have done it by now. They've been hammering away at that whole front for months. When the Russians were really weak just before conscription, the Ukrainians took a lot of ground until the Russians withdrew to shorter lines. That window has passed. I'll be very surprised if Kherson falls.
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Maybe they could just be used in different areas though. Yes using different systems in the same area that could definitely be dysfunctional.
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@ysw8291 And he's wrong. The USA used tariffs to build up its own domestic industry two hundred years ago when it was decisively in the ascent. There are many other such examples. 19th century Europe was highly protectionist you can't argue that it was in decline then.
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A lot of the people in the Philippines hate the Chinese because ethnic Chinese dominate the economy. Yes, the US is a cynical, imperialist power but so is China. Chinese expansion in the South China sea is a strategic threat to the Philippines. This makes the pro-US stance of the Philippines government quite rational. Brian is often worth listening to but he's too pro-China, anti-America to offer a balanced perspective.
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@har.u8926 Yes, I agree there are two sides to the issue. I just think Brian Berletic goes too far on the pro-China side. According to him, China's behaviour is never wrong, the US is always wrong. In reality, China and the US both behave like imperial bullies.
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Also just significance. Yes it is a government funded think tank. But there are hundreds of such think tanks. And they come up with an endless amount of crap. Only a tiny amount actually turns into government policy.
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