But what government are you comparing the PRC to? There have/has been plenty of governments in the present and the past in human history
I'm not comparing it to any particular government. I'm just saying it's bad enough, and that it can very well turn much worse, as in completely irrational and/or desperate.
I never thought of that. I didn't think it could be worse than what it already is (unless they go full on North Korea)
It can always be worse. Doesn't mean it necessarily should or will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)
Dead Hand (Russian: Система «Периметр», Systema "Perimetr", lit. "Perimeter" System, with the GRAU Index 15E601, Cyrillic: 15Э601),[1] also known as Perimeter,[2] is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control system that was used by the Soviet Union.[3] General speculation from insiders alleges that the system remains in use in the post-Soviet Russian Federation as well.[4][5] An example of fail-deadly and mutual assured destruction deterrence, it can automatically trigger the launch of the Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) by sending a pre-entered highest-authority order from the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Strategic Missile Force Management to command posts and individual silos if a nuclear strike is detected by seismic, light, radioactivity, and pressure sensors even with the commanding elements fully destroyed. By most accounts, it is normally switched off and is supposed to be activated during times of crisis; however, it is said to remain fully functional and able to serve its purpose whenever it may be needed.[6] A similar system existed in the U.S. known as the AN/DRC-8 Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS).
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In the perspective of nuclear deterrence, it's a crazy doomsday machine, it's a giant "don't fuck with us" weapon system.
Crazy yes, but rational... As long as you make sure your adversary knows full well that you have that sort of crap in store. It's deterrence.
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Now when this type of stuff turns totally batshit insane irrational, is when you build them and tell... Nobody. It's no longer deterrence, it's full blown psychopathy
>There have been cryptic clues over the years that Perimeter still exists. Which illustrates one of the curiosities of this system, which is that the Soviet Union kept its existence secret from the American enemy whom it was supposed to deter.
Maybe the US failed to get some "cryptic clues", maybe they did and didn't believe in those... And maybe we inadvertently dodged a nuclear holocaust on this one
That's interesting, I never knew of this
You know what's scarier than china?
The multiculti open borders policies of the entire west
Take arabs for instance, as backward as they come on many levels
In 40 years maybe arabs will run out of oil, but they'll still have a country
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Today descendants of european tribes are barely tolerated on the land of their ancestors by the new comers. And it's not going to get better.
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/02/24/aristotle-on-immigration-diversity-and-democracy/
Aristotle is greatly concerned with the preservation of civil peace in the city-state. One of the most common causes of “faction” and civil war, he says, was the unhappy consequences of unassimilated immigration and the consequent diversity. Aristotle’s prose is perfectly clear:
>Heterogeneity of stocks may lead to faction – at any rate until they have had time to assimilate. A city cannot be constituted from any chance collection of people, or in any chance period of time. Most of the cities which have admitted settlers, either at the time of their foundation or later, have been troubled by faction. For example, the Achaeans joined with settlers from Troezen in founding Sybaris, but expelled them when their own numbers increased; and this involved their city in a curse. At Thurii the Sybarites quarreled with the other settlers who had joined them in its colonization; they demanded special privileges, on the ground that they were the owners of the territory, and were driven out of the colony. At Byzantium the later settlers were detected in a conspiracy against the original colonists, and were expelled by force; and a similar expulsion befell the exiles from Chios who were admitted to Antissa by the original colonists. At Zancle, on the other hand, the original colonists were themselves expelled by the Samians whom they admitted. At Apollonia, on the Black Sea, factional conflict was caused by the introduction of new settlers; at Syracuse the conferring of civic rights on aliens and mercenaries, at the end of the period of the tyrants, led to sedition and civil war; and at Amphipolis the original citizens, after admitting Chalcidian colonists, were nearly all expelled by the colonists they had admitted. (1303A13)
Thus, immigration of different peoples was a common source of conflict, often leading to civil war and concluding with the ethnic cleansing of either the native peoples or the invaders.
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If I were china you know what I would do?
Build a good enough internal market/demand and wait it out
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