• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    3 days ago

    Why is the MAGA administration so hell bent on pushing China to the top as the global power?

    I understand that Cluater B is going to Cluster B, that is how their wiring works. But why is everyone else around Trump supporting this agenda that only weakens and demeans the United States?

    • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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      Something you need to understand about the Americans here is that they’re not some scheming rats planning the most optimal way of bringing their autocratic future to bear through some hyperdimensional game of chess. They are idiots, all of them, with zero foresight, just reacting to things in impulsive, corrupt ways. The most foresight they have is displayed when they short stocks.

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      3 days ago

      By design.

      2016 Trump wrecked the US under Putins orders.

      2025 Trump is wrecking the US in spite for losing in 2020.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        24 hours ago

        tell that to French royalty or the Czars of Russia or the King of Italy or the last Chinese dynasty.

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          They are trying to get greater control over the US economy / resources / society. Such an oligarchy is inefficient, so the US will get outcompeted by China. But that is a price they are willing to pay, as long as they benefit personally.

          Put another way, the cake will become smaller, but they’ll get a bigger slice of it.