the end of american empire
Guess who just today cut off America's supply of rare earth metals? China. Guess who's buying rights to oil fields in Texas? China. Guess who's the number 1 consumer of world energy? China. Guess who owns more dollars than any other nation? China.
I introduce to you the new world superpower: China.
America has lived by an odd philosophy for many years, wondering why God put our resources under other people's soil. Now we'll get to see what it feels like, as a more powerful nation begins eying us for the sole purpose of figuring out how they can exploit us to sate their own desires.
I wrote my final paper in geology class a few years ago (college: the second attempt) in part on China's plans to mine the surface of the moon for tritium to feed its nuclear fusion plants. They're far behind schedule, but at least they have a perfectly logical utility to their space ventures. America doesn't.
I've warned about it repeatedly, but hopefully our nation will finally get serious about the state of our material resources (which are depleting rapidly). Maybe now we can have a real space program, please?
Liberals are prepared to understand the inevitable future in a way that conservatives will entirely fail to grasp. Our future be constrained (finally) by resource limitations which are good for the environment, as Green folk have been warning for decades. Our future will be multicultural (finally) with a pseudo-communist nation leading the planet. Our future will be dominated (finally) by a nation that doesn't spend an absurd percentage of its gdp on its planet-wide military complex. Why bother, when the natives willingly sacrifice their future to the god of exponential money supply growth via legally enforceable bank contracts?
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords. Ni hao. (Free Tibet!)