Name: US Seeks “Super Weapons” to Reign as Sole Superpower
Uploaded: 2024-09-05T06:03:29+00:00
Duration: 43 min 45 s
Description: - The US realizes its window of opportunity following the Cold War to assert itself as sole global superpower is closing (if it hasn’t closed already); - It seeks to find a way to match or exceed the

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- The US realizes its window of opportunity following the Cold War to assert itself as sole global superpower is closing (if it hasn’t closed already);

- It seeks to find a way to match or exceed the military capabilities and industrial capacity of both Russia and China through “innovation;”

- The US refuses to recognize the fundamental flaws in its own system as well as the premise upon which it seeks primacy in the first place;

- Start-up companies seeking to out-innovate and/or out-produce China propose unrealistic measures that either won’t work or that China is already employing itself on a much larger scale;

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