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Why do they keep doing this just before visiting? Is it some sort of power play?
And this time in the middle of an actual genocide they're enthusiastically supporting
Jesus fuck
on one hand shipwreck tells a compelling story that biden and his circle are exceedingly competent political operators playing a 5D chess game to ensure dollar supremacy. On the other hand they constantly do deranged shit like this.
They're the pawl to the republicans ratchet. They exist to prevent a shift to the left. They might not get elected this time, but that's ok, the ratchet will turn and all those ungrateful protestors will come crawling back just to make it stop. Then they get to cement the republicans gains while threatening further harm if not re-elected.
Idk, they do keep doing the unexpected thing and it keeps kind of working out for them
if they keep things off-balance no one really knows what the fuck is going to happen
I'm not sure I buy this for two reasons. First, I am somewhat unconvinced that the recent dedollarization activity was organized enough to be effective at all, regardless of the actions of the US in response. And second, the amount of money being spent on war is almost a rounding error for the total number of dollars in existence. So I think the dollar hegemony is weak but has not yet been threatened, in other words.
Tbh Biden does have a lot of foreign policy experience, as does his cabinet. So a lot of what’s happening isn’t really all that surprising when the US is in the geopolitical situation it’s in and throwing its weight around more frantically than before.
What loses me is when things like Argentina going the way it has or Israel instigating Iran is somehow Biden pulling the strings and not just him taking advantage of a situation.
I believe its to not seem weak on "the china issue" to the local audience. Like "We're going to try diplomatic means with the chinese (again), because we're the good guys who don't want a war, but don't you worry we see them for what they really are."
Then any concessions the US makes to the evil chinese "regime" are reasonable realpolitik necessities because of very complex diplomatic issues with a country thats notoriously tough to reason with and at the same time any concessions the chinese make are not good enough because it didn't bring that evil "regime" to its knees.
Empire flails as it goes down
Core of the state is rotten through, their ideology is hollow and meaningless and endlessly self-referential, the president is someone whose brain is mush and would have been dead a decade ago if he wasn't incredibly rich and powerful, etc. etc.