Polybius wrote:Revisiting the Impact of Thucydides Trap, Great Filter, on China's future with new perspectives........ I believe very soon the US will attempt to nuclear blackmail China (if it hasn't happened already in backdoor communications) and to an extent also hold hostage its own US allies/vassals and the rest of the world with threat of nuclear doomsday if everyone doesn't jump on the US-led China-containment bandwagon...
I think thats highly unlikely.
Joe Biden just had a summit with Putin and he threatened Putin with horrible consequences if there was more Russian hacking of US businesses..... and what happened? The Russian ignored Biden and now we're got the biggest hack of all time going on. And how did Biden respond to this new hack? Biden tried to hide from the press and then he lied and pretended he didn't know Russia was behind this latest hack.
Joe Biden is a wimp.
Putin isn't scared of Biden and neither is China. Biden is a senile old fool who doesn't scare anyone. The last thing in the world Biden is going to do is try to use nuclear blackmail against China or anyone else. Its far more likely the Chinese are blackmailing Biden by threatening to release what they know about bribing Hunter Biden (and Joe).
Polybius wrote: As you all know, recently Xi committed China to be carbon neutral by 2060
Thats going to be very difficult for them to do as China is continuing to build large numbers of coal=fired power plants. Xi is lying.....isn't that obvious?
Polybius wrote:Money is just a mere abstract symbolic token representation of the ability of cheap and abundant higher EROEI(Energy Returned on Energy Invested) energy to do 'work' on our behalf.
Actually no. Thats not the definition of money.
Polybius wrote:The US .... is the global hegemon and..... it collects its rent by taxing/usurping the wealth of the rest of the world (QE infinity and other great harvestings)... .
The US is not taxing or usurping the wealth of the rest of the world. Printing money in order to do QE has nothing to do with taxing other countries.
Polybius wrote: America is so wealthy ....because its managed to use its military empire to basically enslave and colonize the rest of the world
The US has not enslaved or colonized the rest of the world.
Yoo-hooo......rest of world.......will you be our slaves? How about paying us taxes? NO? DARN!!!!
Cheers!