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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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/ …
Right. Because we’re like, “C’mon, do you want to end up like Vietnam?” and the rest of Asia is like, “Yes.”
TRUTH There are lots of problems we could retool the military for (at the very least some of the money) Public Works ala army corps of engineers
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