• PhaseFour [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The main factions that want Trump to remain in power:

    • Evangelicals that want the overthrow the Iranian government immediately.
    • The part of the intelligence community that recognize containment & isolation will not work against China, instead want immediate war.

    These groups have coalesced into a single bloc in the Trump administration. They are the only factions in the ruling class that will lose ground in a Biden administration.

    Bill Barr & Mike Pompeo are probably the most powerful people in this bloc. Curious to see what they can pull off.

    • Rev [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Why would the second group necessarily lose ground with Biden, didn't he go especially hard on China during his campaign?

      • worker_democracy [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Not hard enough for them. Biden would try to economically contain and control China, but apocalyptically warmongering nuts in Trump's admin probably think we can win a full-on war with another nuclear superpower. Hell even Neoliberals understand there's no "winning" a shootin war with China, but I don't think Neocons do.

        • Rev [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          In that case they would be right though: China only started rolling out their new high tech ICBMs last year and is still very vulnerable to a first strike, so for these ghouls now would be the best time.