What two superpowers?
Why of course the US and Bhutan.
As a USA citizen I spit out my drink when I read this. Had no idea what Bhutan even was. It’s now on my list of places to visit.
They don’t have visitor visas
Bhutan might have to move over. Yemen’s getting the upper hand over the US the past few weeks. :)
America and Communism obviously 😎
One thing you can personally do is try to cultivate friendships on both sides, and make an effort to share and appreciate the culture, history, and daily challenges of each. If we have populations that really don’t want to fight, maybe that will help de-escalate things a bit.
China is my neighbor now (I immigrated to Asia). Some of their literature and history is really quite interesting! I’m not an expert, but I could make a suggestion or two if you like.
What Chinese literature do you enjoy?
Sun Tzu’s Art of War /s
Three Body Problem is a recent popular Chinese sci-fi series with a good translation that I can recommend.
I agree. I’m Canadian and recently started dating a Chinese woman and learning about eachother’s cultures and languages has been a really interesting process.
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Unfortunately it may be impossible because of game theory. In a perfect world everyone would get along and no one would have to dump billions into the military. That’s impossible because there’s always a “rat” that uses this opportunity to invade and conquer defenseless territories. A rat kind of like Russia or soon potentially China.
Because of them now everybody has to invest in their military and we are all worse off because of it, this can also apply to nukes. One power will exploit their nuclear advantage over one who doesn’t, which is why the USSR and CCP, DPRK, and Pakistan developed nukes, their rivals had one too.
I encourage you to watch veritasium’s video on the concept of game theory and how it affects most things in our lives.
Only by ceasing to exist.
I suspect this question assumes that all “superpowers” are the same, namely that they’re all capitalist imperialist states.
Just wait until the US stops being a superpower. It’s inevitable.
What two superpowers?
I’ll assume we’re talking about the USA and China here.
It may sound reductive, but a peaceful coexistence between liberalism (aka capitalism / other ideologies where private property rights are enshrined) and communism (in this case used as a blanket term for ideologies which are against the concept of private ownership of the means of production) is not stable and will inevitably collapse.
All that needs to happen to avoid a war is for the US capitalist class to keep their grubby greedy hands to themselves. They can’t do that though, for capital must grow. They must find more raw materials, more human labour, and more consumers to maintain their profits. They are incapable of cultivating good relations with anyone, let alone anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist entities, because every relationship they enter into is an economic one in which they want to be the exploiters, the winners, extracting obscene wealth from the losers.
The rest of the world is moving in a positive peaceful direction, but I’m concerned about what the capitalist empire will do as it becomes more and more desperate. It’s already done some of the most horrific things in human history while in a position of unchallenged or nearly unchallenged hegemony. I can’t imagine what it will try when it realizes it’s about to lose everything.
Isn’t China the biggest capitalist country in the world?
No, China is socialist.
The USA or India are by economy and population respectively the largest capitalist nations.
I’m confused… Do you know what the terms that you use even mean?
To get a baseline here… Do you think France is socialist or capitalist?
China has been mixed market economy for decades. You were talking about private property ownership. Are you not aware that China has one of the highest home ownership numbers in the world?
Someone is inevitably going to link this article here, so it may as well be me: https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/
China has been mixed market economy for decades. You were talking about private property ownership. Are you not aware that China has one of the highest home ownership numbers in the world?
Right.
And if the user of the home owns it, then it’s not being used as capital.
So it has one of the lowest rates of homes being owned by capital. Good point.
Who is the second super power?
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United States
So, again who is the second?
Andorra
there’s only been one, post world wars. ussr/russia has always been a wannabe–with nukes.
Yeah, OP doesn’t mention who the 2 superpowers are. Leaves us to draw our own conclusions as to who they are, and currently only one nation has any real ability to project power wherever they need it. So, other than the USA, who is a superpower?
I think it’s pretty clear that US doesn’t have any real ability to project power wherever they need it. US is very clearly overstretched in Ukraine and the Middle East already, and it’s only going to get worse from here. US lacks the industrial base needed for high intensity conflicts, and existing stocks of essential things like artillery shells have been depleted over the past two years.
Then we don’t actually have any superpowers. Because if the US isn’t one, none of the other countries who think they are, would even come close.
Edit: about the artillery shells, we don’t know how many they actually have.
China is the biggest trading partner for the majority of the world, and it’s an industrial juggernaut. That’s what an actual superpower looks like. Meanwhile, we know that US has been running around pulling artillery shells from South Korea and Israel last year, and that the entire US production capacity for shells is far below the rate of fire in Ukraine. These are basic facts openly acknowledged by US officials. If US can’t even produce basic shit like artillery shells, it’s not capable of engaging in any serious conflict.
