• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    all the western world wants is war, it’s only natural china would step up for this dead easy soft power win, which will neatly put them in the position of tech supremacy in the long term.

    the us is literally just dropping these as they fall, and china has positioned themselves to pick it all up.

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      6 hours ago

      The US has the reserve currency so can export it’s inflation. This is the world order they’re attempting to retain.

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        yup. they extract enough oil for themselves to use and used to even have the industrial prowess to move away from it, but their global economic domination depends on their control of all oil trade.