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Arming Taiwan is an Insane Provocation: For the Sake of Our Survival it Must Stop (www.counterpunch.org)
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[โ€“] HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dying empires rarely are.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's kind of the nature of the beast. Once things start falling apart then it creates an environment of discontent that opportunists exploit, and you start getting feedback loops that accelerate the collapse.