You really wanna try this with China now?

Is there another end game here?

'China’s coast guard said it conducted law enforcement patrols east of Taiwan that included simulated ship inspections …' on.ft.com/4bMzX7C

Gilpin’s very first hegemonic war corresponds to our strategic situation today. Now with the added fear of nuclear annihilation.

“When the war broke out, neither side could have had any idea how [this 27 year] war would develop. They lived exclusively with the thought that the

The spreadsheet is from data.unhabitat.org/pages/urban-en….

'each increase of 10 μg per cubic meter in annual exposure to PM2.5 [std air pollution unit] … was associated with an increase in all-cause mortality of 7.3%' (nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…). In Delhi, the mean exposure is over 160! For reference, in New York, it is 7. 👀

Davis in 2006: “the giant amoeba of Mexico City … is extending pseudopods that will eventually incorporate much of central Mexico … into a single megalopolis with a mid-twenty-first-century population of approximately 50 million – about 40 percent of the national total.”

I can’t even … it was fun for a few days but what is even going on here anymore. Shouldn’t Dale Copeland be on a book tour?

Every other megacity has grown dramatically in population size over the past two decades except Mexico City. Why? Its population has actually reduced marginally to 21.6m. What explains this anomaly?

'For Atlanticists, most of them aging men but with no shortage of youthful pretenders among them, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been the equivalent of a blood transfusion.'
Masters of War, by Thomas Meaney (harpers.org)

Looks like this AI thing is really working out.

Actually a good question. The answer is that we don’t have any good countermeasures here. The plan is to keep calm and carry on, just like we did around the Pelosi visit. And this is just one of the many, many options available to Beijing. You reap what you sow.

“Nudes in Bio” accounts are

Was it not precisely the shock of Trump that forced US elites to abandon neoliberalism? The case for accelerationism is actually fairly solid: what we have now is Trump and Trump lite. Dems need to learn that this is a losing hand before the party can be fixed.

One of many, many ways in which Britain is more democratic than the US. In part, this is due to the parliamentary system. But an even more important factor may be Labour before the Blair capitulation—a true working-class mass party of the sort we’ve never had.

And in that too they were wrong. Specie is not what funds, or has ever funded, investment. Even at the height of the gold standard, it was credit—anchored on the Bill on London—that funded investment.

🤣 It's almost as if we didn't launch this cold war.

“US must withhold forces from Europe that may be needed for Asia, even in the event of Russia attacking first.” ⁦Elbridge Colby⁩
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A two-day 'punishment drill' aimed at intimidation of the new Taiwanese leadership is the media line. Color me skeptical.

Cee Mann China is only a thousand times as powerful as Japan was relative to the US in 1941. Our stupid elites misjudged Russian strength. That blew up in their face. And now they’ve misjudged Chinese strength. There is no upper bound on the costs of this catastrophe.