re: America is run by Lawyers

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We are 36 trillion in debt. Are we likely to exist as we know us in the next 10-15 years?

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China is far worse in absolute dollars and even worse than that as a percentage of GDP. Their demography won't allow for a consumption-led recovery and the world, particularly the E.U. and U.S., is in the process of weaning themselves off of Chinese goods, so there can be no export-led recovery either. They're cooked.

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They manufacture stuff and building trade routes such as a port in peru. Buying gold as well.

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They manufacture shitty stuff and the world is starting to buy less and less of their products. Building a port in Peru doesn't make them a superpower, particularly when we could deny them the use of it if we were so inclined.

Andrei Martyanov is former Soviet Navy who lives in the state of Washington. He has been a very interesting follow since the start of the Ukraine conflict. He's a little hard to understand at times, but he has been constantly making fun of American leadership and the military and how it's in decline, although I think he does respect the Navy. He basically says it's a bunch of elites who suck each other off with their international studies diplomas from degree mills, but don't understand how anything in the real world works -- and why our military fails all the time. He would agree with you that engineers, mathematicians, and physicists, etc. should be running things. Boeing is a great example. This is his website.
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Warfare is a geopolitical tool of the first order; only wars of scale can measure the real strength of nations. For decades American claims of hegemony, and by extension that of the West, have been based on what has now proved to be a carefully constructed mythology of economic and military supremacy. This is Andrei Martyanov’s fourth book addressing this issue, now as it concerns the war in Ukraine. In America’s Final War, he lays out in detail the underpinning causes and extent of its self-deception.

Washington’s eight years of preparing Ukraine and its armed forces for war with Russia was a mistake of historic proportions, due to its misperception of American military power based on its 1991 Gulf War victory against a minor military player. Washington believed its own propaganda about crippling sanctions on Russia, about the viability of its Ukrainian proxy army, and the economic and military weakness of Russia, spelling doom for the American empire and its “rules-based order”.

Martyanov lays out Washington’s utter incompetence and shocking military amateurism. But then, he claims, the US doesn’t do strategy; it does business plans. Through 2022-2023, Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) exposed US and NATO forces as legacy armies stuck in the 1990s, still viewing the world from that vantage point. The massive destruction of the West’s high-cost weaponry ensued, annulling their vaunted superiority. Western armaments, from anti-tank Javelins to APC Bradleys to air defense complexes such as the Patriot PAC3 or NASAMS, performed dismally and proved unready for what has become the largest military conflict in Europe since WWII. By 2023 the Kiev regime could no longer exist without the West’s support, both financial and in war materiel. By 2024 Russia will have not just exhausted Ukraine, but also demilitarized NATO as a whole, exposing the industrial and military impotence of the US and its European vassals.

The finance and tech-based economy is not a real economy; expeditionary warfare and doctrine is not real war. The global balance of power has shifted to Eurasia. Western Europe has become a collection of weak and fast deindustrializing economies which will increasingly become irrelevant against the background of the explosive economic, technologic, scientific and military development in Eurasia.

The world has noticed what has been exposed, and because of that, life as we knew it is no more. The rule of the West of the last half-millennium is over.

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The Belt and Road Initiative only works for China if they have the power to force these countries to honor the agreement.

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They won't. They're too geographically isolated and can't project power past the first island chain or into the Indian Ocean. On land they're surrounded by powerful enemies (Russia and India). They could theoretically push into the 'Stans, but that doesn't really do much for them.

Lawyers tend to have one of the 3 lowest scores on psychopathy tests which should tell you everything you need to know about our government.

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They could theoretically push into the 'Stans, but that doesn't really do much for them.

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Well also Russia would have something to say about that

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We do not have a military that projects with our ground forces primarily.

When we fight, like legitimately fight, we use our navy and airpower.

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Maybe stick to law.

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Fixed it for you.

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You did not.

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We are already bankrupt, both fiscally and morally.

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China is worse in both respects.

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He would agree with you that engineers, mathematicians, and physicists, etc. should be running things. Boeing is a great example. This is his website.

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Nice. Thanks for the link

So it’s not the Jews? Japan just said it was.