452 - Sucker-Bait feat. Derek Davison & Daniel Bessner (9/7/20) by Chapo Trap House
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We’re joined by Foreign Exchanges’ Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner to discuss Trump’s troop-disrespecting, Austrian domination of the Balkans, who the REAL losers and suckers are, and the roll of the military in America’s declining empire. Please subscribe to Foreign Exchanges on substack: https://fx.substack.com/

We’re joined by Foreign Exchanges’ Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner to discuss Trump’s troop-disrespecting, Austrian domination of the Balkans, who the REAL losers and suckers are, and the roll[sic] of the military in America’s declining empire.

Please subscribe to Foreign Exchanges on substack: fx.substack.com/

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The idea of a Cold War with China makes a lot of sense. But there is no way that a war like that wouldn’t go hot. Waaaay to many factors that would get America to fire first or escalate until China or a proxy attacks us.

    • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Big doubt. China is a lot smarter than our current leaders, but the US in its true stupidity still would not launch an attack since it would cripple our economy.

      China will continue to chip away at US support on the national stage until it is clear to others who is inevitable to win in the contest and other countries will throw in with China.

      Four more years of Trump will accelerate that for sure. As he pulls out of every international coalition China swoops in to fill the vacancy.

      • RedArmor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I didn’t mean it is a good thing. I meant that the powers in charge would need a type of enemy like the USSR was to us in a Cold War. Allows us to increase military spending to keep the endless wars and military industrial complex booming. We would be able to take new territories or coup existing ones into our sphere of influence. But since US manufacturing has waaaaay more production done in China than anything we really had with the USSR, I’m not sure how that plays into it.