Recent content by shangrila

Man, we had decades of these things called "proxy wars" before we got 2 decades of the U.S. going crazy wasting its strength in the absence of a peer. Proxy wars are how peer powers fight each other without risking nuclear war, but if you don't think proxy wars can break superpowers, you should...

Have you heard of these geographical features called the Red Sea, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Suez Canal?

Well, some of the bad shit is clearly just Trump, not just necessary bribery of recalcitrant House and Senate Republicans. The coal and agricultural subsidies for example. I mean, Trump is still trying to somehow get his base to accept giving agricorps free reign to use illegal labor, there is...

Man, you know the Republican Party was literally founded by people that opposed slavery almost entirely because of unfair competition with free labor. The mainstream position was indeed mass deportation of blacks. So it's pretty hilarious to think it's some gotcha to think the other side has...