Invading Mexico or Columbia ranks higher.

The US has been conducting military actions in both countries for nearly a century. How many times do you have to bomb a place before you’re officially counted as “at war” with them?

Invading China probably takes top spot though.

We really really really don’t want China to regain control of Taiwan. I think it is very possible we get into a shooting war if a Chinese friendly government ever wins an election on the island.

Falklands on notice

“It’s only sunny during the day” is a line uttered ad nauseum by people who didn’t see lithium batteries falling through the same price drop.

you techno utopians are funny.

I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago. And electric cars. And cloud computing, even.

It was never going to be economically viable. Always ten years away from viability. Not competitive with whatever the industry leader was at the time.

Really putting all your chips on “nothing ever changes”

But will Fusion ever be cheaper than solar?

Eventually. But, much like traditional fission power, you’ll need a very large and complex piece of infrastructure to deliver it.

You won’t be able to put a fusion plant in your basement like you can put solar on your roof.

Practical power production through nuclear fusion still requires significant developments for it to be realised at scale, though several startups are already planning to deliver it within the next few years.

US-based Helion Energy secured the world’s first purchase agreement for nuclear fusion energy in 2023, promising to provide 50MW of fusion power to Microsoft by 2028.

I mean, time will tell. But that seems a bit sooner than 2100.

You’re not going to believe this, but people who didn’t vote for Trump are also losing their jobs

Can’t believe we have a press corps that is slavishly loyal to the institutions of power. One wonders who bankrolls their salaries, promotes their coverage, and advances their careers with special access to high ranking officials?

Oh, wait. I’m seeing it here. The military industrial complex.

One begins to question how she was awarded the prize in the first place

US doesn’t want a Russian outpost

Is that what Guantanamo Bay is for? To beat back the Russian invasion?

Cause I remember it being used for something different

Cuba has been the end game for Trump since his first term. Any liberal who continues to endorse and support the blockade is as MAGA as the rest of these chuds

There’s good, actually.

Smaller communities don’t fill up with annoying bots and toxic personalities

Communities driven by bots should die

They can’t even shut down the base in Greenland. There’s a reason DeGaulle kicked the US out in 1966. And why Okinawa residents have been lobbying to shut down the local base for decades.

Europeans have been under military occupation since the end of WW2, telling themselves the gun pointed at the back of their heads was aimed at the USSR, even after it dissolved.

Now they’re going to have to deal with a foreign hostile occupation whose roots have grown deep

UK is the largest European holder of US debt and a close ally in our wars of imperial expansion

They targeted a very poor neighborhood with a large migrant population.

The democrats are not going to hold power again.

The Controlled Opposition will be allowed to have a small majority in one of the Congressional branches, so they can be made complicit with the current regime.

2019 was the roadmap.

You can’t say this. You can’t do this. It’s exactly what Trump wants. Stop resisting. Stop resisting. Stop resisting.

Bang bang bang

The global power that hasn’t participated in numerous atrocities does not exist.

Almost as though power is accrued at the expense of the vulnerable.

The difference here is the loss of domestic law and order and its cascading downstream effects for global cooperation and trade

The only countries that the US has alienated are ones it is explicitly sanctioning. Nobody else is actually cutting ties.

China is the obvious beneficiary.

China’s the trade-alternative for countries under US sanctions, precisely because Trump’s done a ham-fisted job of diplomacizing with his counterparts overseas. But a future Pete Buttigieg administration can patch that up if he chooses. There is more to be gained by doing business with the US than with Venezuela or Iran or Cuba. Chinese leaders know that and act accordingly.

But could get a whole lot worse a whole lot faster

Sure. Or it could come to a grinding halt if Trump loses control of Congress and falls into lame duck status three years early. Already, we’re seeing sharp divides even inside the GOP, which already operates on thin margins in the face of a Dem election wave.

Plenty of precedent for an unpopular President to get sidelined by skilled and ambitious legislators. And the US has demonstrated time and time again that it has the manpower and the infrastructure to rebound quickly under strong, competent leadership.

We’re almost certainly going to face a nasty recession going into the next few years. But we’re still a massive, hugely populated, highly technical, heavily industrialized economy. Losing unipolar status isn’t the end of the empire. A bad few years of economic contraction isn’t the end of the world.

Now… the long tail of climate change… that’s another story. If the Colorado River dries up before it reaches Arizona, we’re going to see some shit flying.

And I can’t even start to worry about the climate right now.

That’s a shame, because we are fucking in for it as the Colorado dries up in our winter heat wave. Nevermind what’s going to happen to Poland or Macedonia. I’d be worried what happens between Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California during the next growing season.