prc30 on Nostr: If it is any solace, you are not alone when you say “too woke for the conservatives ...
If it is any solace, you are not alone when you say “too woke for the conservatives and too based for the progressives.”
Your primary thesis here, I believe, is the comparison to Rome and the hubris and hypocrisy which bubbled up over time to the point where those in power were simply unable to see reality as it were.
This has been my focus as well on what I view as a concerning shift toward greater aggression by American with China. There is just so much to included on that topic, but what I would share at this time is how Taiwan has been leveraged in an eerily similar way as Ukraine. While the arguments remain “protecting democracy”, it is clear to anyone doing the homework that America made the decision to unilaterally change the four decade long policy of “strategic ambiguity”. Unironically this was done under Trump 1.0 when he and Congress passed the “Taiwan Travel” legislation.
Geographically, China is already surrounded in the East China Sea even without Taiwan formally in the fold. Military installations in South Korea and Japan in the north all the way down to the Philippines and Australia in the south. My assessment has been, and remains, that America “woke up” in around 2015 to find that China had reached a point of being a genuine peer competitor. Attempts to compete are not viewed by American policy makers as feasible given various – and growing – domestic constraints. This then leaves a pressure campaign meant to taunt Beijing. Thankfully Xi and his team have refused to take the bait. I did have to laugh at the FT article from a few months ago where Xi literally told Von der Leyen that he knew what American policy was attempting to play at.
Just a long winded way to say that I see and mostly agree with your points here. Just hoping that I am able to get the message out more widely on how what it is you shared here is playing out with China, Taiwan and America.
Your primary thesis here, I believe, is the comparison to Rome and the hubris and hypocrisy which bubbled up over time to the point where those in power were simply unable to see reality as it were.
This has been my focus as well on what I view as a concerning shift toward greater aggression by American with China. There is just so much to included on that topic, but what I would share at this time is how Taiwan has been leveraged in an eerily similar way as Ukraine. While the arguments remain “protecting democracy”, it is clear to anyone doing the homework that America made the decision to unilaterally change the four decade long policy of “strategic ambiguity”. Unironically this was done under Trump 1.0 when he and Congress passed the “Taiwan Travel” legislation.
Geographically, China is already surrounded in the East China Sea even without Taiwan formally in the fold. Military installations in South Korea and Japan in the north all the way down to the Philippines and Australia in the south. My assessment has been, and remains, that America “woke up” in around 2015 to find that China had reached a point of being a genuine peer competitor. Attempts to compete are not viewed by American policy makers as feasible given various – and growing – domestic constraints. This then leaves a pressure campaign meant to taunt Beijing. Thankfully Xi and his team have refused to take the bait. I did have to laugh at the FT article from a few months ago where Xi literally told Von der Leyen that he knew what American policy was attempting to play at.
Just a long winded way to say that I see and mostly agree with your points here. Just hoping that I am able to get the message out more widely on how what it is you shared here is playing out with China, Taiwan and America.