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How is the USA going to contain China? The way they behave suggests to me that they plan on withstanding a nuclear attack.
How many reactors does the EU have to breed plutonium?
How many uranium sources do exist that the US cannot convince to sanction the EU?
How many years does it take to create the nukes for a full scale attack?
Nukes are a nice idea but for the coming years they won't be there to solve any problem. The EU has to focus on resolving the conflicts with reason.
I've seen nothing that suggests USA plans to withstand a nuclear attack from China. I wouldn't expect them be either because they can't.
How exactly the capability can be developed when adversaries don't want you to is certainly something that needs to be thought about. One part of the puzzle is France that has been signaling they are willing to provide a nuclear umbrella for Europe and just announced some partner countries as well as the expansion of their stockpiles.
I of course don't disagree that conflicts need to be resolved with reason if possible but developing a nuclear deterrence doesn't exclude doing that.
They have given up respecting other countries. Once China has surpassed the USA how will they be able to keep allies?
The US are going to lose their power unless they fight China. Would they fight China if China could erase them?
Or they could just be incompetent when it comes to geopolitics just like they are on so many other issues. There's a lot that they're doing that just isn't defensible rationally. Tariffs, vaccination and medical research, driving away the educated immigrants, energy independence....
That entirely depends on requirements.
Are a valid strategy and were the preferred solution to balance trade when the decision had to be made in the past. Unfortunately I don't remember the name to look for on Wikipedia.
Madness but could also be crowd control. They got the support of the vaccine crowd and split them off the left leaning independent thinkers.
Same with immigrants in general. It's bad for the economy. But they got ICE and there are no news about an actually happening brain drain.
Can't push independence if they want all countries to be dependent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
If Trump would blunder away American dominance the intelligent people and the billionaires would have pushed for an impeachment.
In a world of hybrid wars and deception I don't believe in stupidity without hard proof.
Look, you're welcome to think Trump is a very stable genius that is actually playing 4D chess with all this. I don't think I'm interested in continuing the discussion in that case though.
I don't think that Trump is that genius. I just think that Trump's behaviour can't be used to believe in an incompetent US.
The Trump administration's policies are Trump's policies. There is no US separate from that. I think that should be very clear to anyone who has watched how much he has reshaped the federal government in a year.
JD Vance shows the influence of Thiel. Why should there be no influence on other positions?