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https://twitter.com/jamescrabtree/status/1750262799345778972The entire Paul Kennedy framing is a
https://twitter.com/policytensor/status/1711956336089378852“In 2019, only 54 percent of high school graduates were married, compared to 60 percent of those holding an associate degree, 64 percent of those holding a college diploma, and 71 percent of those with a master’s degree.”
https://twitter.com/left_hegelian/status/1659569698449571840This is not merely systematics. The antipathy that the working class has, and the sympathy that the professional class has, for the underclass is a source of persistent friction—beyond antiracism. 2/
https://twitter.com/michaelxpettis/status/1652546003663470592Every firm must carefully decide the mix: what can be simply bought on the market is stuff that’s fully commoditized and for which there are functioning and resilient markets; pencils etc. This is the first-best solution—you simply buy the pencils when you need them. 2/
https://twitter.com/policytensor/status/1650328549079777280I would suggest it does not for a number of reasons. First, either the measures are too small bore to move the needle on Chinese power accumulation, in which case, they're needlessly escalatory; and perhaps being undertaken for political reasons (Trump). 2/
https://twitter.com/ElbridgeColby/status/1650222185921880065@PatPorter76's argument is that Xi may be irrational enough to attempt the impossible? "An attack may fail badly. But wars happen because of miscalculations." It's true that statesmen can resort to extraordinary gambles out of desperation (Japan) or miscalculation (Germany '41).
https://twitter.com/izakaminska/status/1650058490864386049A bit less obviously, the same vision of a low trust society animates the broader Silicon Valley project of algorithmic management of human and non-human assets. Amazon’s model of worker control is merely an internal version of Uber and AirBnB’s purer variants. 2/
https://twitter.com/policytensor/status/1647673273583386626CIA was created by the National Security Act of 1947, as part of the big bang of institutions launched to wage the Cold War by the Truman admin. Already at this time, the jocks—the cloak and dagger guys—had gained the upper hand. 2/
https://twitter.com/ElbridgeColby/status/1643241529836707841Start with Ambivaland, a hypothetical state somewhere bw Singapore and Japan. It finds not Beijing but DC "high-handed" and it trusts the West more than it trusts China. More importantly, the choice is not choosing bw the two superpowers at all. 2/
https://twitter.com/policytensor/status/1640689314895134722As China closes gap in strategic arms with the US and Russia, the nuclear balance is shifting from a stable bipolar one to an unstable tripolar one. 2/
https://twitter.com/tolstoybb/status/1640415925290819585There are plenty of “natural” or “organic” reasons why we’re closer to Israel—it’s a rich (richer than Japan!) western democracy and a settler colony like us. It’s also a permanent junior geopolitical ally bc of its position in a volatile region. 2/