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The Soviet Union tried launching a 1 MW CO2 laser in 1987. We've been able to build megawatt lasers for 40 years. Simply pumping up laser power is not the issue that makes lasers hard to use. Atmophere itself will generally make using lasers in atmosphere difficult. Eh, the ground pressure...

Yeah. Debts can be a very temporary problem. People cant sieze chinese assets. All the factories and human capital is already built up. And they have a huge built up ownership in foreign assets as well. Companies that are based on real assets can go through bankruptcy relatively unscathed...

Why? His tenure tracks the worst period of crime in US history, the build up of a vast communist subversion, and the general subverision of democracy as power moved from politicians to the perminant deep state, of which we see over and over that the FBI is one of the central sources of...

Sorry. When did Hoover become someone worthy of praise, outside of the kind od grudging respect you give a Stalin for their shear ruthless power hunger?

Yeah, when did Hoover suddenly turn into a good person?

I mean, if the Chinese plans go to, well, plan the Latin American Countries will be demanding they intervene against the US. It seems a bit strange to see Latin America as a land of US friendly nations. When in the Cold war it represented trival commitments of resources for the USSR to stir shit...

I mean, you can't have the Uighurs leave if there are no Uighurs. This kind of heavy handed action has been wildly successful in the past. France for example has to a large degree kept itself together despite many revolutions because they were very successful at eliminating local cultures and...

Is it a threat? Id say yes. China is certainly large enough and has enough resources to be a threat. However, so is Iran: its just that Irans path to do so is very small, and the scale they could break the hegemony is relatively narrow (our ability to operate freely in the middle east gets...