This is another copy and paste job, with a hat tip again to commenter NFO and Moon of Alabama. This time it’s a relatively brief excerpt from a very long essay titled The EU after Ukraine. The excerpt, the concluding section, is brief relative to the entire essay. I thought that this European perspective on American might be interesting to readers. It exhibits the usual biases, but that’s reality, too. The author, Wolfgang Streeck, is “director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne”—why did I never associate Max Planck with the study of societies? Is it just me? Anyway.
"where what Europe can deliver to the United States would clearly exceed what Russia can deliver to China"
What, exactly, can Europe deliver to the US? Anti-democratic globalism? A Green New Deal ideology that takes us back to an early 1900's economy and standard of living? Cutting edge LGBTQi+? A degree of medical tyranny about which Fauci would only dream in the US? A culture being demographically overrun by younger, confident, fertile Islam?
A China - Russia axis would control large percentages of the world's supply of rare earth minerals and potash fertilizers. Throw in Saudi and there is plenty of oil to power their ambitions. Thanks to globalist Chamber of Commerce-driven outsourcing, China has stolen more than enough US technology and process knowledge be dangerous. Oh, and Russia hypersonic weapon capability seems to outstrip ours and pretty much everybody agrees that Russia and Chinese cyber weaponry is world class.
I wouldn't want to live in either China or Russia, but I wouldn't bet against them given the devolution of American / Western culture.
"Russia, in turn, could benefit from Chinese technology, to the extent that it would be made available."
??? Chinese what? This guy just discredited himself. Russia doesn't need CCP technology. Quite the opposite. It really reveals just how pathetically uninformed and chauvinistic most Western opinion has become.
"where what Europe can deliver to the United States would clearly exceed what Russia can deliver to China"
What, exactly, can Europe deliver to the US? Anti-democratic globalism? A Green New Deal ideology that takes us back to an early 1900's economy and standard of living? Cutting edge LGBTQi+? A degree of medical tyranny about which Fauci would only dream in the US? A culture being demographically overrun by younger, confident, fertile Islam?
A China - Russia axis would control large percentages of the world's supply of rare earth minerals and potash fertilizers. Throw in Saudi and there is plenty of oil to power their ambitions. Thanks to globalist Chamber of Commerce-driven outsourcing, China has stolen more than enough US technology and process knowledge be dangerous. Oh, and Russia hypersonic weapon capability seems to outstrip ours and pretty much everybody agrees that Russia and Chinese cyber weaponry is world class.
I wouldn't want to live in either China or Russia, but I wouldn't bet against them given the devolution of American / Western culture.
Think of the fabulous wine, sardines, and caviar Europe can deliver to the US.
California (my former state) wines are better, Russian caviar is better, the sardines are a push ;-)
Fair enough.
"Russia, in turn, could benefit from Chinese technology, to the extent that it would be made available."
??? Chinese what? This guy just discredited himself. Russia doesn't need CCP technology. Quite the opposite. It really reveals just how pathetically uninformed and chauvinistic most Western opinion has become.