All potential great powers are insistent on suicide for some reason US: (waves hands) Russia: on year 3 of losing a conventional war to Ukraine China: run by a deflation stan EU: can't stop trading with a country that wants to kill them India: national defense policy run by Republic TV - ThreadSky

mckay4senate.bsky.social • 13 days ago

All potential great powers are insistent on suicide for some reason

US: (waves hands)
Russia: on year 3 of losing a conventional war to Ukraine
China: run by a deflation stan
EU: can't stop trading with a country that wants to kill them
India: national defense policy run by Republic TV

Reposted from Saw Gerrera Innocence Project

Must be wild to see your geopolitical rival commit suicide like this lmao

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jboothhistory.bsky.social•13 days ago

Brutal that the UK’s suicide doesn’t even make the list

ted.knaz.me•13 days ago

Who? Never heard of them. Wait, aren't they the Russian money laundering city-country?

artsvandelay.bsky.social•13 days ago

I guess you have to be a potential great power to be on the list.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•13 days ago

We’re definitely on the fast track in a way that these other countries aren’t though.

billthepony.bsky.social•13 days ago

There's a difference between us committing suicide and currently non-hegenonic powers fumbling with their new found role.

tombellino.bsky.social•13 days ago

Add to the EU: Xenophobia, even among its most beleaguered societies like Italy that desperately need an infusion of people. They'd rather go extinct than let anyone move in, even the ethnic diaspora!

irvingfisherfan.bsky.social•12 days ago

The history of the 21st in the future:

Indonesia does nothing, wins

drwalpurgisnacht.bsky.social•13 days ago

UK: tried to steal the Suez Canal, has proceeded to ignore all signs of decay for 70 years.

doomscroll.bsky.social•13 days ago

Deflation might actually be fine, at least for a while. I wanna see Xi try it

seanmac31.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is the Rational Actor Model.

williameburns.bsky.social•13 days ago

I see a real opening for Indonesia here.

yrabl.bsky.social•13 days ago

Well, in the past they were run by in bread cousins with no proper education and an increasing amount of health issues

tomscud.bsky.social•13 days ago

time for some order and progress

ceroespada.bsky.social•13 days ago

I need Mark Carney and Perro Sanchez to take control of world affairs stat

jack-a-dandy.bsky.social•13 days ago

...Did Persona teach me more about humanity than an entire political science program?

fresnofred.bsky.social•13 days ago

EU: everyone involved has a psychosexual block on the idea of spending money

leahmcelrath.bsky.social•13 days ago

States have a lot of unmetabolized death instinct. They either project it outward and go to war or they tend to become self-destructive.

gravitasproblem.bsky.social•13 days ago

Bakunin-I-warned-you-about-states-bro.gif ass moment in history

vmr10.bsky.social•12 days ago

How do you know about republic tv lol

ynot1989.bsky.social•13 days ago

Japan's time has come.

idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social•13 days ago

Their GDP has been stagnant since the 90s, so they're due, I guess.

dmnd.me•13 days ago

I am ready for the Japanese century and all of the density and transit that entails

deadersesq.bsky.social•13 days ago

They're suiciding by not allowing for any immigration due to ultra nationalist policy despite a plummeting population

ynot1989.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh that will bring them down for sure, by since they were the first country hit by demographic collapse, they were the first to at least attempt some form of economic restructuring, namely adopting a highly automated and exportable industrial plant.

enceladusty.bsky.social•13 days ago

Thanks for the belly laugh

ynot1989.bsky.social•13 days ago

Not joking.

doomscroll.bsky.social•13 days ago

Japan might be facing a debt crisis though

ynot1989.bsky.social•13 days ago

Most likely, but as the only economy in town with relative stability in this crazy-ass world they'll have a far easier time working with other powers to keep their financial system upright, if for no other reason than other powers will want at least one stable partner.

azery.bsky.social•13 days ago

pre-ww1 vibes of everyone just being really stupid at the same time

langoustine.bsky.social•13 days ago

It was the fuckiest-around of times. It was the findiest-out of times

winterreisende.bsky.social•13 days ago

I hope the term 'imperial suicide' catches on in scholarship

technicallyowen.bsky.social•13 days ago

Uk now poorer than Greece entire economy being held up by money laundering American candy shops

alonlevy.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hey, technically we're exporting to Kyrgyzstan. But yes.

eaglebeaverman.bsky.social•13 days ago

The EU’s problem is more a cultural aversion to deficits than it is a choice of trading partners, plenty of polities have been successful while maintaining trade relations with places that want to kill them

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