So many policy wonks and Senators want to talk things like number of Navy ships,
but this is as much or more of a weakness in our strategic competition with China
but this is as much or more of a weakness in our strategic competition with China
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1416412377256534016
1) Our science advantage was utterly crucial advantage in every aspect (military, economic, cultural etc) of Cold War. Undermined now
2) a major party divorcing from basic science (and thus reality) undermines every policy, from weapons to energy to climate to health to cyber etc
2) a major party divorcing from basic science (and thus reality) undermines every policy, from weapons to energy to climate to health to cyber etc
Think of the longterm, strategic loss we’ve suffered by one political party deciding to argue the elementary school level basic science of a greenhouse effect or how a virus spread.
I obviously love warships, but that mattered far more than a few more LCS.
I obviously love warships, but that mattered far more than a few more LCS.
That’s why I am so unimpressed with the attempted tough guy talk, and now thinktank job/book monetizing,
on strategic competition with China from same folks who actively undermined the US in this competition, in so many ways, from the science to our democracy.
on strategic competition with China from same folks who actively undermined the US in this competition, in so many ways, from the science to our democracy.
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