Exactly, all these factors preclude the US from actually being able to reindustrialize in a meaningful way. The observation that the US is doubling down on AI to address the trained worker shortage is interesting. I haven’t really thought of that, but now that you mention it that makes perfect sense. It is a misguided tactic as I don’t actually see AI becoming advanced enough to handle such tasks in the near term. However, even if that was possible then it wouldn’t give the US an edge over China where this tech is being developed just as rapidly. In fact, I’d argue China is in a much better position here because of its large population which provides larger data sets to work with. China also has the advantage of already existing advanced automation that can be coupled with AI systems the likes of which have no equivalent in the west.
We can already see the US destroying the productive capacity of Europe, and I’m sure that will extend to other vassals as well. However, the US won’t be able to do that to China or Russia short of starting a nuclear holocaust. So, a likely scenario might be that the US retreats from being a global hegemon, and retrenches around parts of the globe where it still has strong influence. This is in line with Trump’s quips regarding Canada, Greenland, and Panama Canal incidentally. He’s basically drawing a line around the sphere of influence that the US sees as its core interest.
Yeah, I keep looking for the strategic nuclear angle in Greenland, but the shipping angle and the natural resources angle might be the stronger ones.
Panama is obviously a naked attempt to control trade in their sphere of influence.
Canada is just another Europe that the US won’t let fall into the Chinese sphere of influence. And if that’s the best it can do, then that’s all the proof we need that the USA is cooked
Exactly, all these factors preclude the US from actually being able to reindustrialize in a meaningful way. The observation that the US is doubling down on AI to address the trained worker shortage is interesting. I haven’t really thought of that, but now that you mention it that makes perfect sense. It is a misguided tactic as I don’t actually see AI becoming advanced enough to handle such tasks in the near term. However, even if that was possible then it wouldn’t give the US an edge over China where this tech is being developed just as rapidly. In fact, I’d argue China is in a much better position here because of its large population which provides larger data sets to work with. China also has the advantage of already existing advanced automation that can be coupled with AI systems the likes of which have no equivalent in the west.
We can already see the US destroying the productive capacity of Europe, and I’m sure that will extend to other vassals as well. However, the US won’t be able to do that to China or Russia short of starting a nuclear holocaust. So, a likely scenario might be that the US retreats from being a global hegemon, and retrenches around parts of the globe where it still has strong influence. This is in line with Trump’s quips regarding Canada, Greenland, and Panama Canal incidentally. He’s basically drawing a line around the sphere of influence that the US sees as its core interest.
Yeah, I keep looking for the strategic nuclear angle in Greenland, but the shipping angle and the natural resources angle might be the stronger ones.
Panama is obviously a naked attempt to control trade in their sphere of influence.
Canada is just another Europe that the US won’t let fall into the Chinese sphere of influence. And if that’s the best it can do, then that’s all the proof we need that the USA is cooked
That’s my line of thinking as well.