People freak out that China spends a lot on the military even though it’s still a lot less than the US spends, when if we’re using the US as a line for what’s reasonable China could justifiably spend 4 times as much as the US does on their military.
One day, when I have the time and the willpower to write it all out, I will regale hexbear with the story of the time I got into a geopolitical discussion with a young American, liberal, politics post-grad whilst I was in Oaxaca. I’ve refrained from mentioning it ever because it was a greatest hits of liberal brain worms and it hurts my soul to recall it. Nevertheless, China was one of the topics of discussion and she expressed her great disapproval of the size of China’s armed forces. This was at the tail end of our discussion and I had lost my patience at this point so I had to point out that any country would be wise to maintain a large army with the great monster that is the United States looming over the border, listed a bunch of conflicts that the US had instigated in my lifetime, until I was blue in the face, and then ended the conversation.
The funniest shit is that ultraimperialism did sort of existed in 1990s-early 2000s, and then America flushed it down the drain out of greed and chauvinism.
See also: Military spending
People freak out that China spends a lot on the military even though it’s still a lot less than the US spends, when if we’re using the US as a line for what’s reasonable China could justifiably spend 4 times as much as the US does on their military.
One day, when I have the time and the willpower to write it all out, I will regale hexbear with the story of the time I got into a geopolitical discussion with a young American, liberal, politics post-grad whilst I was in Oaxaca. I’ve refrained from mentioning it ever because it was a greatest hits of liberal brain worms and it hurts my soul to recall it. Nevertheless, China was one of the topics of discussion and she expressed her great disapproval of the size of China’s armed forces. This was at the tail end of our discussion and I had lost my patience at this point so I had to point out that any country would be wise to maintain a large army with the great monster that is the United States looming over the border, listed a bunch of conflicts that the US had instigated in my lifetime, until I was blue in the face, and then ended the conversation.
Anyway, fuck that smug, chauvinistic lib.
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I’d really love to dig up Kautsky and ask him how his peaceful Ultraimperialism is going.
The funniest shit is that ultraimperialism did sort of existed in 1990s-early 2000s, and then America flushed it down the drain out of greed and chauvinism.
They also want other countries to ramp up spending or cheer when they do.
See Japan saber rattling because PM and party but libs are happy. If China had said half the shit the PM had they’d say invade now