Love to stake my national pride on something I have a real chance of losing, for no reason.
Like, the propaganda notion that the US "won the space race" is so deeply ingrained in western, or even worldwide liberal historical understanding that it's basically unassailable. So why would you put it up for grabs again?? Just declining empire things I guess.
Haha right, there's zero benefit for US to play this up as a new space race. They could've framed it as China catching up to what US did decades ago, but clearly there's just too much insecurity at play here.
If China does beat them to the moon this time, the US will just insist it "doesn't count" because "we got there first anyway." There isn't as much danger to their national pride from losing this as you might think, Americans are masters of moving the goalposts.
Love to stake my national pride on something I have a real chance of losing, for no reason.
Like, the propaganda notion that the US "won the space race" is so deeply ingrained in western, or even worldwide liberal historical understanding that it's basically unassailable. So why would you put it up for grabs again?? Just declining empire things I guess.
Haha right, there's zero benefit for US to play this up as a new space race. They could've framed it as China catching up to what US did decades ago, but clearly there's just too much insecurity at play here.
If China does beat them to the moon this time, the US will just insist it "doesn't count" because "we got there first anyway." There isn't as much danger to their national pride from losing this as you might think, Americans are masters of moving the goalposts.