That's it. That's the actual headline. Nothing I say can make it more absurd than it actually is.

The war-game participants include representatives from investment banks, in addition to current and former executives from pharmaceutical companies and retired four-star US military officers. The committee declined to name the financial executives who will participate.

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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    The bipartisan delegation

    Capitalist Party of America prepares for battle with the Communist Party of China.

    That's ultimately what this is right? It's the state wrangling its disparate bourgeoisie and attempting to steer them into a unified force of capitalism.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      My read is that the MIC capitalists are very on board with war against China (or at least ratcheting up tensions) but the Industrial and Finance Capitalists are not. This might be an attempt to get the latter groups on board.

  • RollaD20 [comrade/them, any]
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    10 months ago

    “As the committee has learned, when you scrutinise and follow the billions of US investor dollars flowing to CCP-controlled Chinese enterprises, courtesy of reckless Wall Street firms, it leads to nowhere good in many instances,” he said.

    That's just the free market doing what it does! What are you? A bunch of commies? A bunch of commies trying to interfere with the invisible hand? Do you hate freedom?!? frothingfash

  • JohnBrownsBussy2 [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    So, it looks like they're trying to scare these folks out of investing in China? The wargame will probably have the same rigor as the Millennium Challenge.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      "In three years we gonna do a phyrric military loss here but which will ensure we retain our colonies properly chained with full fascism, so you better not have any phisical capital in these parts by that moment"

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      I mean these people will invest in oil until the second before it ends the world, so I don’t really see them pulling out voluntarily unless China restricts foreign manufacturing and transactions

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    These dang capitalist are being real mask off these days, huhlenin-confused

  • duderium [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    I was hoping that the headline actually meant that executives would be thrown into battle on the front linesdeeper-sadness

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    amerikkka-clap

    This is so fucking pathetic lol most cucked nation on Earth no shame at all che-smile

  • judgeholden
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    9 months ago

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  • RNAi [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Four star military officers?

    Meh don't care unless it's above 4.5

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    10 months ago

    They might want to focus more on how they are going to overcome the serious production gap lol.

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    I keep forgetting that yanks assume wealth = competence, lmao.

    The worst thing the Soviets did was teach Ayn Rand how to read.

    Surely these wall street folk must be good at strategy and wealth isn't just a lottery.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Please let me play this boardgame, I will do my best to crush the yankees into the dust like the time I won Twilight Struggle on the first turn.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    I have family in Taiwan, fuck these ghoul pieces of shit playing with their lives, may each and every one of them be strapped upright in a wind tunnel with broken glass flying through it.