Shadowman311
The fact that there are "peace talks" going on right now between the US and China tells me that TPTB are very much aware of Thucydides Trap and are increasingly nervous that that, combined with the rise of domestic radicals may end their genocidal fever dreams, and societal looting before both are able to conclude. They know that they cannot eliminate China while their homelands are flooded with extremists that hate them, and they can't wipe out the extremists (expelling most of their legitimacy and social capital insodoing) while the yellow menace circles their decaying corpse like a hungry shark, so they want to try and make peace with China and focus their efforts on their "domestic issues" (us). I don't think it'll work; China has big aspirations, and the means to carry them out, no amount of appeasement and kowtowing will make them stop, only a western menace of equal strength and fervor can bring them to heel and said menace won't be a "liberal democracy". As for domestic radicals, history is not in the favor of the entrenched establishment.
mooraycowhen
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@Shadowman311@poa.st Were the Anchorage talks "peace talks"? I think I'd characterize them more as Judeo-Neoliberal power (represented by Tony Blinken) talking down to and chastising China for having the gall to not circumcise themselves for Israel and Wall Street, and China going "lol fuck you". The Pivot to East Asia has been a running theme in the diplomatic program of now THREE consecutive U.S. administrations. As in the 30s, Jewry absolutely fears domestic counter-Semitism, but also as in the 30s, Jewry knows it cannot abide international counter-Semitism from a great power if it wishes to contain and eradicate it at home. I also fear we might be underestimating liberal democracy, even as it increasingly becomes more homosexual and brown. Liberal democracy is objectively the most resilient form of government in the modern period. It was victorious over monarchism, fascism, and communism. Now it faces a kind of strange merger of communism and fascism in the PRC. Only time will tell if liberalism can win again and even though I hate it, until it is totally defeated I will never count liberalism out.