the posthumously beloved mexican dictator, porfirio diaz, proved that the military alone wasn’t sufficient when he instituted his successful “bread or stick” policy; i forsee the american military being that stick and the financial inducement as the bread, luring other countries away from continuing to trade with china on mutually favorable terms.
you’re 100% right in the end since there’s a time limit; but unlike diaz, the american pockets are practically infinitely deep and our military is absurdly large and well placed in our equally absurdly large number of bases all around the world; along with a large enough desperate population that will serve as cannon fodder for that military.
the posthumously beloved mexican dictator, porfirio diaz, proved that the military alone wasn’t sufficient when he instituted his successful “bread or stick” policy; i forsee the american military being that stick and the financial inducement as the bread, luring other countries away from continuing to trade with china on mutually favorable terms.
you’re 100% right in the end since there’s a time limit; but unlike diaz, the american pockets are practically infinitely deep and our military is absurdly large and well placed in our equally absurdly large number of bases all around the world; along with a large enough desperate population that will serve as cannon fodder for that military.
I’m more of the mindset that the US, at this point, is a Paper Tiger. It has strength to project, but not an industrial base to maintain it.