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I can’t think of an era in history with so little global geopolitical ambition. There’s usually been a bunch of hungry wannabe imperialists messing ariund.
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China’s ambitions are a joke compared even to third rate colonial powers like Italy or Denmark a century or two ago. They want one island, some borderlands, and minerals from Africa. The BRI doesn’t even rise to East India Company level ambition. Mostly a bunch of bad loans.
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There’s good things about lowered aggression levels, but also a dark side — sign of general exhaustion of all ambition. What if we’re a geopolitically retired planet?
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Well was eg the Dutch–Portuguese War and other wars fought over spices conflicts over suddenly-abundant commodities or was it for fear of scarcity of them if the other guy took control? How about oil as an implicit motive for some ME wars post-WW2?
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