A crisis or two and western capitalism will need a very large fish to fry to increase the profits. Either China or Russia. I don't think they can figure out how to accomplish this without whole of the world getting nuked.
Well maybe you could write off the world getting nuked on your tax return as a loss.
My worry is that in the decades to come, as the decline of US empire becomes more and more apparent while China's star only rises, the US might decide the fallout doesn't matter anymore and be willing to risk nuclear war in a last desperate bid to maintain supremacy.
The capitalists don't have a nation, they would move their factories and themselves to hell if that increased their profits. As they move out of the declining US, the chances of US nuking the world in my opinion decrease. That's the good part.
The bad part are all the evengelical Christians trying to bring in the apocalypse by any means necessary, they could trigger MAD out of spite and bring in their armageddon.
Soviet union was sane enough that they didn't nuke the whole world out of spite. It's even magic that all the nukes in various soviet republics didn't get into some terrorist's or corporate hands.
A crisis or two and western capitalism will need a very large fish to fry to increase the profits. Either China or Russia. I don't think they can figure out how to accomplish this without whole of the world getting nuked.
Well maybe you could write off the world getting nuked on your tax return as a loss.
My worry is that in the decades to come, as the decline of US empire becomes more and more apparent while China's star only rises, the US might decide the fallout doesn't matter anymore and be willing to risk nuclear war in a last desperate bid to maintain supremacy.
The capitalists don't have a nation, they would move their factories and themselves to hell if that increased their profits. As they move out of the declining US, the chances of US nuking the world in my opinion decrease. That's the good part.
The bad part are all the evengelical Christians trying to bring in the apocalypse by any means necessary, they could trigger MAD out of spite and bring in their armageddon.
Soviet union was sane enough that they didn't nuke the whole world out of spite. It's even magic that all the nukes in various soviet republics didn't get into some terrorist's or corporate hands.