1. I want to make one thing perfectly clear. I'm not against cos-play or LARPing if it is done in the right spirit, as dorky hobbyists who like to dress up on weekends. What I object to is foreign policy LARPing.pic.twitter.com/Zpfu70AYoD
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4. The NATO argument is a tell. "The alliance has been adrift for years. Countering China would give it focus." In other words we have a military system which serves no real purpose, a solution in search of a problem. China is a convenient problem.pic.twitter.com/XoFpvzdVXu
5. If you needed to contain China, the first thing you'd do is strengthen alliances in Asia, not bring in fucking NATO! It's the goddamn North Atlantic Treaty Organization! But Asian countries have little appetite for new USA alliance, so we get Cold War cos-play.
6. The larger logic here is that USA elites are nostalgic for the Cold War -- a period of strong bipartisan consensus and a convenient threat that kept population docile & checked demands for change. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-cold-war-larping/ …
What if we just financed education and science because those are good things in and of themselves? Or is that just too far a reach in this country that anything good has to be justified by its ability to make us better able to kill people half a world away
Pretty sure the US is already disappointed that the rest of NATO especially in Europe is not very interested in China . China is simply not a military threat to NATO countries and who gives a damn if China overtakes the US in in economic power
dude, there's been dozens and dozens and dozens of articles about strengthening Asian alliances, as well as concrete actions, and Blinken *literally just came off* an Asian ally tour. Don't pick one WaPo article as if it represents 'the elite'
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