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>>tedsan+(OP)
After they build the Multivac or Deep Thought, or whatever it is they’re trying to do, then what happens? It makes all the stockholders a lot of money?

>>moffer+i4
The way I think about this project, along with all of Trump's plans, is that he wants to maximize the US's economic output to ensure we are competitive with China in the future.

Yes, it would make money for stockholders. But it's much more than that: it's an empire-scale psychological game for leverage in the future.

>>dekhn+I6
> he wants to maximize the US's economic output to ensure we are competitive with China in the future.

LOL

Under Trump policies, China will win "in the future" on energy and protein production alone.

Once we've speedrunned our petro supply and exhausted our agricultural inputs with unfathomably inefficient protein production, China can sit back and watch us crumble under our own starvation.

No conflict necessary under these policies, just patience! They're playing the game on a scale of centuries, we can't even stay focused on a single problem or opportunity for a few weeks.

>>llamai+Te
What do you think the Greenland and Canada thing is all about?

Sort things out with Venezuela and this issue resolves itself (for a little while, at least).

>>cpursl+Gk
America can subject itself to domestic and international turmoil by invading as many allies as it wants. China's winning strategy is still to keep innovating on energy and protein at scale and wait for starvation while they build their soft power empire and America becomes a pariah state. They're in no rush at all.

Our military and political focus will be keeping neighbors out on one side and trying to seize land on the other side while China goes and builds infrastructure for the entire developing world that they'll exploit for centuries.

Is this a serious suggestion? America can just keep invading people ad infinitum instead of... applying slight thumb pressure on the market's scales to develop more efficient protein sources and more renewable fuel sources before we are staring at the last raw economic input we have?

Brilliant

>>llamai+sl
America isn't invading Greenland or Canada. Taking those comments seriously takes quite a bit of mental gymnastics when you do a cursory consideration of the geopolitical and government logistical implications alone. Makes for good clickbait headlines, not for serious geopolitical risk analysis.