How the hell's the west going to compete with China?
We don't produce anything anymore.
They lead the world in most areas and produce many more university graduates that anyone else, and we're helping them do it!

You think if there's a world war (non-nuclear) the west would win?
- Most likely not.

Right now Russia is outproducing the entire collective west in military equipment.
What do you think China can do, if it puts its mind to it?

Look at the world we're in now.

The West can't even afford adequete missile defence.
We can't even afford to build it let alone maintain it.
And even if we could, the wests stuff is all obsolete.
It can be overcome easily with $1000 drones.

There are 1700 train derailments in the US every year.
The entire US Navy probably couldn't stop the Houthis.
You think our Pro-LGBT youngsters are up for combat with China, Russia, Iran and North Korea?
They will fight you themselves you just for costing them time on Tik-Tok.
They couldn't even take the wheelie bins out.
They can't even count a handful of coins or make their own sandwich.
It's time to start being realistic.

Dozens of countries are queuing up to join BRICS.
They aren't interested in trading in the US dollar if there's a risk their funds will be frozen.
China is dumping US treasuries, the US is having trouble selling its bonds to fund its debts.

I've just come across the following link:

http://quora.com/Is-Donald-Trump-really-that-bad-overall

It seems he's even worse. According to people who knew him.

After reading their comments, a supposedly "senile" old man
(Biden) doesn't look so bad. At least he listens to given
advice and does consult.

Depends who you listen to Foxy.

Take this article it quite fairly lays out Bidens mistakes and blames him for half a million dead and injured Ukrainians.
- It's a REALLY good read that goes over the facts.
The bloke has some credentials:

I have spent 25 years living and working in Russia and Ukraine on U.S. government business. I served two tours as a U.S. Air Force attaché at American Embassy Moscow. I have led U.S. teams on treaty inspections inside Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. I was the military representative of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff advising Defense Secretary Bill Perry during negotiations that led to the Trilateral Nuclear Statement of 1994, in which Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for commercial nuclear fuel rods and political assurances. As a result, Ukraine acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. During the Administration of George W. Bush, I managed the Energy Department’s largest nuclear non-proliferation program in Russia – securing over 80 of Moscow’s most sensitive storage sites containing thousands of nuclear warheads. I also taught Russian military strategy at the Air Command and Staff College.

http://bruceslawter.com/2024/04/09/joseph-bidens-war-the-president-refuses-to-negotiate-an-end-to-the-carnage-in-ukraine-so-congress-must-jump-start-the-process/

One of the biggest problems is that no-ones actually listening to what the experts are saying...
Alternatively you could read some Trump hating bs article for example, if that's what gets all your juices flowing.

If you're a hater, there's a market for stories for people just like yourself!
$$ Ratings Baby! $$

Melania Trump Says She and Her Sexual Predator Husband Want to Lead America “With Love”
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/melania-trump-donald-trump-2024

>>By all accounts, the only thing Melania Trump hated more during her time in Washington than being first lady was being married to Donald Trump. Unfortunately for the 45th FLOTUS, while one of those situations ended in January 2021, the other has no end in sight. And if it‘s somehow not yet clear how Mel feels about it, recall the figurative message she sent to her husband shortly after he was charged with 34 class E felonies, i.e., “f--k off.”<<

An interesting thing happened in just the last few days:
Trump went out and got some take away food Chick-Fil-A I think it was.

He talked to everyone, and everyone was excited to talk to him.
Trump may be a billionaire, but because of his hotel business, he actually takes an interest in his employees (i.e the average Joe)

- And he knows how to connect with them and get along with them;
even though he's filthy rich.

Biden tried the same thing, headed into the take away.
It was an awkward occasion, no-one wanted to talk to him and everyone felt uncomfortable because it all felt staged.

Trump knows how to talk to people?

I guess that depends on the people doesn't it.

Not to journalists, or people who ask questions,
or dare to suggest any criticism.

""I support all forms of democracy."- Even the fake ones like ours?"

Some people think its clever to create false criteria about what constitutes democracy and then assert that anything that fails to met those criteria in detail is not a true democracy. AC is in that camp.

Australia's is not fake. Its just something that those who don't know what real democracy is think.

"What's 'The Western Project'?"

Its the maintenance and advancement of western civilisation which has survived and prospered for two millennia. The amalgam of Roman, Athens and Christianity to produce the most successful and society ever, the freest people ever, the most economically vital society ever.

It always amuses me that people will merrily type away on their keyboard to denigrate western civilisation and achievements while failing to recognise that the very keyboard they abuse is the product of the society they so hate.

"How the hell's the west going to compete with China?"

Ever since I was politically aware, I've been told of the imminent demise of the US and the west.

In the 60's, the Soviets were going to surpass the US.
In the 70 and mid 80's it was still the Soviets. Vietnam and all that. I remember reading Galbraith saying the Soviet economy surpassed the US and walking around Moscow trying to reconcile that view with what I was seeing on the ground.
90s - Then the Soviets collapsed and it was Japanese managerialism that was going to supplant the US.
oops.. that came unstuck. But never fear because here comes the EU to put the great Satan in its place. How's that going?
So now we have China. Surely they'll overthrow the US. Isn't that what they all want. Except China's economy remains a shadow of that of the US and China has already passed it peak. Still the true believers in the ultimate demise of the hated west continue to believe.

I predict that in the 2080's we'll have AC's decedents telling us that it's inevitable that Nigeria will overthrow the US hegemony.