• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    all the western world wants is war, it’s only natural china would step up for this dead easy soft power win, which will neatly put them in the position of tech supremacy in the long term.

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      4 days ago

      The US has the reserve currency so can export it’s inflation. This is the world order they’re attempting to retain.

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        4 days ago

        yup. they extract enough oil for themselves to use and used to even have the industrial prowess to move away from it, but their global economic domination depends on their control of all oil trade.