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We’re joined by Foreign Exchanges’ Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner to discuss Trump’s troop-disrespecting, Austrian domination of the Balkans, who the REAL losers and suckers are, and the roll[sic] of the military in America’s declining empire.
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Derek and Daniel are great guests. If you can throw Derek a few bucks, please do.
Yes, Amber and Matt (even though he can make me chuckle from time to time) were superfluous. They've let Felix host Derek on his own before, not sure why they changed it this time.
Yea, there was a good question asked in the beginning and they tried to answer before amber & Matt shouted over him to make a joke and then they kept going and it never really got answered.
The ending of this one was a bit worrying and depressing. What the hell do we need another cold war for?
If you keep the populace anxious and afraid you don't need to demand compliance, they'll cede it.
Time to add "China isn't actually a threat" to my list of talking points I guess.
Link , for anyone curious.
Unfortunately our Chapos are no stranger to the uninformed hot take. In a way their ignorance supports the thesis that our military class is mostly invisible because it's voluntary.
42k in household income is apparently "middle class" according to the Council on Foreign Relations
Bear in mind they are defining middle class as the middle of the income brackets. Whether a family can comfortably live on that income is no longer true in many cases. But I think it is interesting that the poorest Americans are underrepresented. There's probably a good reason for that, but I wouldn't rely on the Council on Foreign Relations to identify it.
The idea of a Cold War with China makes a lot of sense. But there is no way that a war like that wouldn’t go hot. Waaaay to many factors that would get America to fire first or escalate until China or a proxy attacks us.
Big doubt. China is a lot smarter than our current leaders, but the US in its true stupidity still would not launch an attack since it would cripple our economy.
China will continue to chip away at US support on the national stage until it is clear to others who is inevitable to win in the contest and other countries will throw in with China.
Four more years of Trump will accelerate that for sure. As he pulls out of every international coalition China swoops in to fill the vacancy.
I didn’t mean it is a good thing. I meant that the powers in charge would need a type of enemy like the USSR was to us in a Cold War. Allows us to increase military spending to keep the endless wars and military industrial complex booming. We would be able to take new territories or coup existing ones into our sphere of influence. But since US manufacturing has waaaaay more production done in China than anything we really had with the USSR, I’m not sure how that plays into it.
Could someone expand on what Matt means when he says that the FT is more honest? I would love to read more on that (especially since I have access to the FT through my University).
there are capitalist media aimed at the rubes, and capitalist media aimed at decision makers. FT is the latter
Financial Times, it's a pro-capitalism/openly and proudly lib outlet.
It's okay to link them and all, it's almost impossible for leftist spaces to be echo chambers.
The things I like about these kinds of episodes: I become aware about some things I didn't quite know much about before.
The things I hate about episodes like this: A new dread
