alt Hacker NewsOkay but the world doesn't work like this.
Anyone in academic international relations knows Realism is the only thing that matters.
I suppose since HN is a Western tech website, they don't know international relations and believe in International Relations Idealism/institutionalism.
It's genuinely US vs China now.
You can go full neutral Ukraine and see how that works out. You can side with China who has 0 political freedom and did 100,000,000 forced abortions.
Gosh if Kamala was elected, there'd still be a war in Iran, but we'd pretend it's different. Obama bombed Syria and no one cared.
The orange man is unbelievably incompetent, but this happened in Athens with Alcibidies and Cleon. Do we hate giving the uneducated masses a vote?
> Gosh if Kamala was elected, there'd still be a war in Iran, but we'd pretend it's different. Obama bombed Syria and no one cared.
Are we really going to pretend the 51st state rhetoric would be the same with any Democrat in the White House?
> Do we hate giving the uneducated masses a vote?
No, I but I do think they've had some dogshit candidates picked for them, especially recently