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  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It has lost billions building its wildly ambitious Belt and Road Initiative aimed at linking East Asia to Europe and investing, perhaps foolishly, in seaports around the world. “

    there's that imperialism brain again, only able to think in terms of direct profit extraction

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I've always wondered, is reddit-brain reflective of U.S. foreign policy brain, or has U.S. foreign policy brain just been infected by reddit brain.

          • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, but OG reddit culture prior to direct U.S. domestic intelligence ops is also an abstraction and derivation from SA and 4chan, which has always been 'anti-normie'. Unless those cultures are also ops. I really think it's one of those dialectical 'chicken-egg' situations.