Discussion about the 5th gen war
My worry is exactly that more wealth and continuing dominance will mean even more luxurious living for the overlords of US society.
The women.
Meaning they'll be able to sit on ther fat asses and doom scroll much more, as well as put longer and girthier cucumbers up their vaginas for their OnlyFans patrons to view while jerking off.
@adam-l It's a brief projection into the future. Permafrost is declining, resources will become accessible and those without will be behind. It's a simple equation! The ECHR, EU, NATO and progressives can wring their hands and have all the committee meetings they want, and then continue to decline through inaction thereafter.
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They kind of did it to themselves. They made such unpopular policies before getting total control first
They should have waited for the total control part before ramming through the most unpopular idiotic policies but they got cocky
"We absolutely need to have it. We can't live as a nation without it".
Call me something, but I'm quite excited about the current happenings. It means the cogs are finally turning and the neoliberal status quo is about to get crushed by its momentum. It feels somewhat like living in the future. Might does indeed make right, and all of the post-modernist gnashing of teeth over moralising and charity will be quashed by empirical evidence. It's all been stagnant and declining for long enough, in my humble opinion!
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It's the Lebensraum argument this time, ffs... I can't even
@Vermillion-Rx "Doesn't sound that conducive to doing this for oil"
whatever new company will put hands on it they would have to replace the machinery anyways, so destroying old stuff is actually beneficial. Other point is the incapacitating refueling of enemy combat vehicles and aircrafts just in case. Refineries will be going on 100% in around 2 years time.
Any geopolitical motivation is going to boil down to a resource in one way or another
Geography in itself is sometimes a reason (mountain chains, sea passages, islands etc.).
Also, there's a lot wealth to be transferred from the taxpayer to the military-industrial complex, by having to replace destroyed military equipment, and infrastructure.
There doesn't necessarily have to be a resource grab for some very wealthy and powerful people to make a lot of money off of war.
Even hard Trumpists in my country have trouble stomaching this move.
Trump might believe that diplomacy is finished, and raw power is the way to go... but as long as China doesn't think so, Trump might have a problem. "The Chinese will fuck you harder" is not a way to appoach international alliences. There's a limit to how reckless you can be till others start to think that they are better off away from you.