having an incompetent political leadership is extremely bad in the short term because there the ones making decisions but it strikes me as a somewhat self-correcting problem in our case to the extent that it causes an incompetent administration to be replaced with a better one
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a grossly incompetent military _per se_ is a much worse longer term problem because it is seems more difficult to resolve
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so to the extent this holds what you end up with might be china acting aggressively, expecting political leadership to crumple at some point in the future, finding this is wrong in one way or another, and running into the teeth of a very capable military
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this is a much worse outcome than them simply correctly anticipating that no their enemy's military is in fact pretty lethal because now lots of people are dead and the global economy is wrecked
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their bellicosity over the last week has been a really bad idea for everyone and feels pretty self-defeating I think posting on twitter about how you are going to Crush people sort of has an effect of making people consider actions that might lead to them not being crushed
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read this earlier, probably influencing my viewshttps://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4271720
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I was the under the impression that this has been their takeaway from our Middle Eastern adventures for years. I don't know that the withdrawal changes much in that regard.
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