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>>11064315
yeah. i agree completely. except than in the 21C the caveat is that there's no america to intervene this time in europe to pacify everything. that's the really fucking crazy part. this is the kind of stuff that can crack the US open.

all this does is basically guarantee that the future belongs to whatever china can do with it.

historically it reminds me of the thirty years' war. the enlightenment won out over that in the end. but it won't be western-driven this time. maybe that's a good thing though. maybe once the west understands that it is a universe of minority powers and relative minority powers again we will be able to stop tearing each other apart

>we will not be able to stop tearing each other apart

well, we will maybe have a sense that mass political movements are not the way. too bad this has to be learned all over again.