so historically you could resolve disputes between states with a conventional war. that was fairly effective one way or another but nukes have fucked that up for major powers. very difficult to go to war with a nuclear power if you are a nuclear power too. risky
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if this is how things play out with eg the us and china you get to test the interesting question of how socially robust a *relatively* open information ecosystem is during an information war, compared to a relatively closed one
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your response might be of course a closed ecosystem is more resilient because it can throttle information flows but im skeptical of this because theyre relatively vulnerable to preference cascades
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like how many us allied regimes have been replaced with ccp allies vs how many color revolutions have been kicked off since 2008
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relatedly i sort of suspect the fact that most chinese upper class ppl seem to come to the us for school is both a sign of us dominance culturally and a major vulnerability for chinahttps://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1378976326581809155?s=19 …
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i have no idea why china under xi permits this. it seems nuts.
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yeah massive outflows of upper class chinese money to us real estate seems instructive wonder how thats going lately. interesting metric to track even if I dont understand all the implications https://twitter.com/pegobry/status/1378978110822027264?s=19 …
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“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, “Culture Is Our Business”, 1970, p. 66
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You're forgetting economic sanctions which are, nowadays, the main club you whack other countries on the head with.
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didnt forget but yeah i dont know that they do anything tho
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