Is there any reason to believe reunification is likely to happen soon?

China is playing a different game, a long game.

Let’s say for argument’s sake that Genocide Joe is too worried about reelection and decides to actually not send direct American assistance. Isn’t “Israel” potentially biting off way more than they can chew?

The US has tried and failed for decades, you can’t defeat a tactic by just fighting them like a traditional army. The US sunk 20 years, $10 trillion USD, and oceans of blood into Afghanistan and achieved nothing. You also can’t force a people to “turn in the baddies for peace” by just flattening them like the US did in Korea and Vietnam… all it does is make the population hate you more and side with the side that fights them.

It’s like Israel are Klingons or something that cannot visualize any solutions but violence and war.

Maybe the whole “segregate higher education behind an increasingly insurmountable paywall” wasn’t that smart an idea when you need scientists, engineers and medical professionals if you want to dominate in the sciences.

But sure, I guess we have a lot more crypto techbros and social media “influencers” than China. Don’t complain when the easily foreseeable results reflect your decisions.

All this bloodshed and misery and the US will still end up losing the fight. Russia had a reasonable demand to not have NATO on its doorstep. Finland and Sweden (until just recently) were examples of the fact that Russia isn’t willing to attack a neutral nation.

That’s it, at the beginning of the war, Blinken could’ve just offered Ukraine’s neutrality (and possibly guaranteed independent protections for Donetsk and Luhansk) in exchange for Russia paying reparations. That would’ve been reasonable, but the US doesn’t do anything reasonable.

How is it that they seem to be acting in such a way that Russia not only has nukes but the largest stockpile in the world.

What is there to say? There’s no evidence Yiyosaki was wealthy until he started making money from his books, courses and MLM. And his “poor dad” was actually pretty wealthy.

Yes, and no. The US still has a massive pool of might to pull from hypothetically, the issue is a cultural rejection towards putting boots on the ground among the civilian population. Without a VERY convincing narrative, a significant portion of the zoomers will become radicalized… and they know that.

It didn’t used to be that way, capital has become so powerful it actively threatens capitalism.

I'm glad that the head of capitalism is bleeding itself out, but its truly bizarre the decisions that they made. They should've hugged Russia and built them up like Japan after the collapse and they would've had a stalwart ally in the region with a shitton of oil and natural gas. And they really did drink the Kool-Aid that the PRC would inevitably become liberal if the economy kept growing.

I truly believe that the elites ACTUALLY believe the propaganda is poisoning the American Empire.

It’s like NATO is acting like Russia doesn’t have nukes. How much longer are they going to push Putin until Russia is forced to drop a “warning bomb” in an unpopulated field in Ukraine somewhere?