I mean he did do his stuff with infrastructure bill but then decided to not disburse any fucking money, cause mckinsey would lose consultancy fees. If this were trump (or any craven politician), there would be training courses for 500k (which is like 50 bln) workers with hard hats (each of which said biden) in the first 3 months, who would go around fixing potholes. he did try to ram some progressive stuff, but then folded at the first manchin, lost 15 bucks minimum wage (which alone would have won harris campaign), and decided to become grandmaster of the great game in the last 2 years.
He didn’t lie, he just didn’t fight for something he didn’t care about, he cared about war and being prepared for another war (with chips act).
I mean nothing will fundamentally change was said behind closed doors to donors, it was not popular talking point promoted by him, he campaigned on soul of democracy and build back better and 15 dollar minimum wage
My only small hope was they could be hub for all business, for small countries doing cool stuff and be too big to be sanctioned over it, but they apparently want to coexist, and not antagonize anyone too much. So they could buy oil from iran or russia, but won’t throw couple of billions to tweak usa nose in cuba or buy oil from venezuela
Don’t see how that would work out for them tbh, elites can be bought out, people can’t.
Amerikkka will just coup the goverments, nationalize and reprivatize bri and tell china whatcha gonna do about it nerds?
A four-star general who flew Black Hawk helicopters and served in Afghanistan, Richardson has frequently warned against Chinese and Russian security threats in the region during her three-year stint at Miami-based Southern Command, which ends on November 7.
In April, Richardson visited Ushuaia, Argentina’s southernmost city, where China had proposed building a port to supply the Antarctic. Following what Argentine media reported as strong lobbying from Washington, Buenos Aires opted instead for a US-led facility and also put on ice Chinese plans for a multi-use port 200km up the coast at Río Grande.
Richardson said she had been “absolutely worried” about the Chinese proposal in Ushuaia because of its strategic location close to the Strait of Magellan and the Drake Passage.
The general said she remained concerned about Chinese and Russian activity in Cuba, which has included building spy stations to eavesdrop on the US, and Russian warships visiting Havana. “It’s in the red zone for our homeland . . . We have a lot of nefarious and malign activity and we have no place for it in the Caribbean and Latin America.”
She has also tried to alert Latin American governments to the security risks of adopting 5G infrastructure from Chinese companies such as Huawei, which could open “back doors” into countries’ sensitive data and facilitate hacking or the theft of military or commercial secrets.
Huawei has said there is “no comprehensible evidence or plausible scenarios” in which its technology would pose a security risk.
“Digital authoritarianism — that’s absolutely what China is doing,” she said. “You’ve got a Communist government selling these 5G solutions. They don’t respect the rights of their own people and we somehow think they will do that for [us]”.
The general accused Beijing of “holding countries at risk” in the region when they were desperate for technology, deepwater ports or energy investment. “This is how they get their hooks into the countries,” she said.
In August 2022, India and the US protested when the Yuan Wang 5, a Chinese naval vessel with antennas used for tracking and surveillance, docked at Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port. The Beijing-funded port was taken over by a Chinese company after Colombo defaulted on debt payments.
China denies the Yuan Wang 5 is a spy ship but agreed it would not conduct research while it was at Hambantota.
“The [Chinese] come in with big bags of cash and the BRI and they look like they’re saving the day because countries don’t have a choice,” she said.
“Strategic competition matters. Democracy is under attack and we have to be investing and competing on critical infrastructure projects for like-minded democracies.”
I think he is closer to idealized paleocon, with complete isolationism as preferred option. Paleocons did criticize bush, so not unlikely tbh.
I mean russian mil telegram was waging poster war on some unseen idea that trump is good for them, so presumably someone inside russia still thinks that.
Okay, if you don’t do first strike london, mr. trumpo, return to gold standard, do one good thing from project 2025 I will personally renounce communism, and call you a good boy
I’m mildly scared of senile warmonger doing operation “poison the well” tbh.
“Jacks, you haven’t see true inflation yet, just let iran explode uae and saudis, how do you like them apples?”
More troublingly, aside from great power politics, sky rocketing oil prices would be great for american porkies. It would implode half the global south and europe, although it would benefit china and russia somewhat
(Evidently, he didn’t want that during pisrael unprovoked attack, but we don’t know the why, was it elections or genuine aversion)
I will personally renounce communism, and call you a good boy
Maybe they waited until sf kneecapped itself and it was safe to do?