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nam 2.0
Clearly you do not remember Vietnam
Before the war started, they thought they could mobilize the protesters by just whacking some top officials. That failed. Then they thought that they could mobilize the usual proxies like the Kurds against Iran. Unfortunately, the Kurds have been used and dropped multiple times in history already. And they see what happens to a US proxy in Ukraine. So it failed. Now Hegseth has fired the top general and replaced him…
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China doesn't think in that way. It doesn't make permanent alliances. It is always open to reach limited, scoped deals in fields where it benefits them.
Yeah that sounds like a pretty good deal . Drop the bankrupt Russians and do a deal with us Europeans, a much richer market, to brace against US economic warfare.
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Familiarize yourself with this: https://www.worldometers.info/oil/ Top reserves by country, historical data on consumption (including by country). These basic data points explain US foreign policy better than anything. There is no data or trends that supports the notion that oil is becoming irrelevant, much less quickly. US with it's current reserves and oil consumption rate would last roughly 12 years, btw.
Let me show you this figure in response: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/United-States-Farm-based... US farm horse population over time. Looked like it was gonna grow endlessly in the 1920s. It didn't because the whole thing became obsolete.