Yeah, but it's not really possible to counter the industrial policy of a middle-income country by only looking at rich countries. The only part of Europe + North America with the right level of development for this is Ukraine, which only has 40 million people. Poland is too rich.
You're thinking about the US or UK. I'm explicitly mentioning a political campaign in Sweden, where feminism is almost universally SWERFish (as in the UK) but not at all TERFish (unlike in the UK); Sweden is moving toward self-ID and also has MacKinnonite views of sex work and sex workers.
>$40B a year - 30% of its entire GDP
Yes, Oman has a strong position as it can freely choose which side to be on, and this lets it demand more. If it's unhappy, it cooperates with KSA on a Hormuz-bypassing pipeline and railroad.
The EU isn't as relevant to China strategy tbh. About the most relevant we are is that stronger EU-scale security lets the US move resources from the Army to the Navy and Marines.
More on-topic: the criticism of Lean In is that it's not really liberal-feminist in the sense of centering broad equal rights laws, but rather sells itself as "I'm rich, I'm a woman, you should be like me." The proper heir of 1970s liberal feminism is DEI with its anti-harassment training.
The Liberals in Sweden campaigned in 2014 on "feminism without socialism." This mostly meant trying to Europeanize Sweden's sex work criminalization.
Then in 2022 it meant going into coalition with the extreme right in exchange for the education portfolio in order to keep voucherizing the system.
Better than Lea Rosh, an Aryan German woman who took a Jewish name, without converting, to peddle German guilt.
Dual use infrastructure is a legal military target. For example, the Tehran oil depots were also used for storage for IRGC. Not a lot of infrastructure can be identified as civilian-only, which is why the pieces of it that are - hospitals, schools, civil defense - are so sacralized.
3. Economic decoupling requires being able to imitate middle-income mass industrialization in an allied country. Nothing Western is viable at scale. India might do it but is pursuing a different growth strategy. This raises the importance of economic and political integration with Southeast Asia.
2. The word "India" doesn't appear anywhere in the article. This is in error. Core to any anti-China grand strategy is cooperation with India, which unlike Japan or European countries does not view itself as a junior partner, and can just nope out in the short run as it has this decade.
Some comments on @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com's generally good piece on China hawkery: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-next-dem...
1. There's an immigration angle there - in 2019-24 China outgrew the US per capita by 3%/year, but the US had higher population growth due to immigration, until Trump II.
“The Trump administration’s incompetent displays of dominance have set us the farthest back that we have been geopolitically in the postwar era (. . .)Close allies—including Canada right next door—have been sent running into the arms of China.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-next-dem...
1. Haters gonna hate; it's a good article.
2. Nitpick: in per capita terms, US growth 2019-24 was 1.8%/year, Chinese growth 4.8%. The absolute GDP growth gap is smaller because of population growth, which requires large net immigration, the opposite of what the US and Canada have done last year.
And parts of Gaza just to get Smotrich to stop complaining that the settlements aren't being rebuilt.
Only the other encampment leader, who left over disagreements with CUAD over 7.10 and such. The only thing I defended Khalil over, ever, is the legality of the ICE arrest. Extremists and stochastic terrorists deserve due process and rule of law protections too.
Feingold can run again! I'm still mad he lost.
>PLO
1982 called.
Iran is both spiritually Palestinian and spiritually Israeli.
Yes, but. Soviet hostility to Bundism predates its anti-Semitism - it was already present in the 1920s, when it followed the Leninist and Trotskyist line of treating anti-Semitism as a form of reactionary nationalism that must be suppressed.
Wait, are you of indigenous heritage or of Orthodox Jewish background?
For generations, Israel's conducted its foreign and security policy on the assumption that it can't afford to ever lose a war.
If the US loses this way, so does Israel.
I could live without your calling the Gaza Disengagement a forced expulsion program.
I mean, to be fair, Altneuland's literary merit is questionable.
He indeed has not. He has voiced support for a country that's been spuriously accused of same, with a prosecution that cites dissents to ICJ precedent with the support of human rights organizations that made up Ukrainian war crimes in order to both-sides the war in 2022.
Zelensky is complaining that the UN voted down a resolution to condemn an illegal blockade. That's all.
Qatari state propagandist Hasan then compares Iran to Ukraine; the only connection between the two is that Iran is participating in Russia's war and attempted genocide in Ukraine.
People who aren't dead-enders or hipsters don't really cite the Mensheviks as inspiration for ideology or a political program, for that reason. Compare, for example, how often people in broad left media cite the Mensheviks with how often they cite Nordic social democracy or the New Deal.
Excuse me, but Ukraine did not blockade grain exports to blackmail Putin. The comparison of Iran to Ukraine offends.
I assume if this actually happens Israel will keep an emotional support piece of Lebanon.
Yes, but the UK and Germany did extensive upgrades to the classical network too to get to this point.
One person's "hate" is another's "call Trump 'daddy' repeatedly."