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John F. Goodwin's avatar

I hate to root against my country bur I hope that some so-called leaders will recognize their aggregious strategic errors and begin to fix it It is staggering how billergerant we are and appear not to see that China just needs to close its ports and the US is in serious trouble. Sadly Trump's is far to stupid and arrogant to wrestle with this issue. Love your work Neil.

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Neil Zhu's avatar

I really hope some Western leaders can learn to be humble, to think from other people’s perspectives, and to truly learn from them, using that understanding to improve their own people’s lives.

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Celia Trout's avatar

It's hard to imagine that the kind of reindustrialization you describe will ever happen in the US. It would take visionary political will and leadership, along with massive government financial investment. It took a World War to build up those systems in the 40s and 50s. What will it take now? Thank you for another great article.

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Neil Zhu's avatar

Thank you, Celia, thank you for reading this. true it will require someone who truly is a visionary, and has the whole country back up him/her.

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Margot007's avatar

It would require an entire overhaul of the US economic & political system - the only way. We must abandon crony casino capitalism and move toward the light that the CIA & MI6 have spent decades trying to snuff out . . . A socialist/communist society.

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Raul Sanchez's avatar

Excellent article , thank you for the information, pls

Keep it coming

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Neil Zhu's avatar

Thank you Raul!

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Molly Meldrum's avatar

Thankyou Neil for this excellent summary. Sadly, it seems the erosion of US military capabilities due to these structural issues makes the likelihood of global conflict even more inevitable. Of course, this is nothing new.

"If the development of the United States should be halted, the powerful forces at work within it will seek a way out through war." Antonio Gramsci, Secretary of the Communist Party of Italy, 14 August 1924 - 8 November 1926 [predicted the rise of fascism under Mussolini, and Hitler].

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Stephen Walker's avatar

Gramsci was quite right that the US empire will seek a way out through war, but for a variety of reasons, including those outlined by Neil, the US will fail, and that will hasten its demise. The US military-industrial complex is a financialised, corrupted tool of the oligarchs that is not concerned with producing effective systems but with extracting enormous profits from the money laundering scheme known as “the US government and its vassals”. The US military-industrial complex relies on key components and materials imported from China. That supply is now unavailable. Checkmate.

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Neil Zhu's avatar

We all see this become reality sooner or later, one way or another. It will take another 5 years for Chinese engineers to solve chip issues. At that time, there will not be much leverage from the White House. The administration should really focus on its people more.

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Neil Zhu's avatar

true, very interesting, thanks for bringing this up

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Cathy's avatar

Instead of ‘fearing’ China why not admit their superiority and work together for the good of all. I’ve heard China China China my whole life. They have been around the block many times over. And it shows. Let’s learn something from China. Start with health care and education.

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