• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Can they actually do... Planning? At all?

    For wars? Absolutely. For anything else? Not really.

    Long term planning at the national level has never been a strength of the US because of the rotating nature of the politicians in the system; even when both parties agree on a perceived threat to their hegemony, they react to it differently (and often condemn the other side for their reaction)