• mute_compulsion@lemmygrad.ml
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    19 days ago

    Exactly - Trump’s big missing link is a cohesive industrial policy, so how long does it take him to directly welcome hitlerite ambitions and attempt to create some sort of centralised amalgamation of capital interests under the (inevitable) umbrella of mass militarisation? I mean, the MIC is already there…

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      18 days ago

      I feel like it’s too late for that. The US is not an industrial powerhouse. Even if it manages to get it’s shit together, it’s financial systems have reached a complete breaking point. They can’t support an MIC once people start breaking things

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        18 days ago

        Yep, true. And at the same time, outsourcing has done so much damage to their manufacturing industry that to save it, several costly interventions would be needed - while they are instead betting all financial injections on AI.

        Goated strat from the world’s most enthusiastic cokeheads.