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That's it. That's the actual headline. Nothing I say can make it more absurd than it actually is.

The war-game participants include representatives from investment banks, in addition to current and former executives from pharmaceutical companies and retired four-star US military officers. The committee declined to name the financial executives who will participate.

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The bipartisan delegation

Capitalist Party of America prepares for battle with the Communist Party of China.

That's ultimately what this is right? It's the state wrangling its disparate bourgeoisie and attempting to steer them into a unified force of capitalism.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

My read is that the MIC capitalists are very on board with war against China (or at least ratcheting up tensions) but the Industrial and Finance Capitalists are not. This might be an attempt to get the latter groups on board.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

“As the committee has learned, when you scrutinise and follow the billions of US investor dollars flowing to CCP-controlled Chinese enterprises, courtesy of reckless Wall Street firms, it leads to nowhere good in many instances,” he said.

That's just the free market doing what it does! What are you? A bunch of commies? A bunch of commies trying to interfere with the invisible hand? Do you hate freedom?!? frothingfash

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Dictatorship of bourgeoisie on full display.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

So, it looks like they're trying to scare these folks out of investing in China? The wargame will probably have the same rigor as the Millennium Challenge.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"In three years we gonna do a phyrric military loss here but which will ensure we retain our colonies properly chained with full fascism, so you better not have any phisical capital in these parts by that moment"

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

bottom-speak: "Pweeese invest more in Rwaytheon."

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I mean these people will invest in oil until the second before it ends the world, so I don’t really see them pulling out voluntarily unless China restricts foreign manufacturing and transactions

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

These dang capitalist are being real mask off these days, huhlenin-confused

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

And still very few notice. Amazing

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

They're too busy buying into it and repeating the little-known truths of how evil China is to everybody else

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

I was hoping that the headline actually meant that executives would be thrown into battle on the front linesdeeper-sadness

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

amerikkka-clap

This is so fucking pathetic lol most cucked nation on Earth no shame at all che-smile

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

fundamentally unserious country

Death to America

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Four star military officers?

Meh don't care unless it's above 4.5

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

They might want to focus more on how they are going to overcome the serious production gap lol.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I keep forgetting that yanks assume wealth = competence, lmao.

The worst thing the Soviets did was teach Ayn Rand how to read.

Surely these wall street folk must be good at strategy and wealth isn't just a lottery.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Please let me play this boardgame, I will do my best to crush the yankees into the dust like the time I won Twilight Struggle on the first turn.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

"I coup Washington"

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have family in Taiwan, fuck these ghoul pieces of shit playing with their lives, may each and every one of them be strapped upright in a wind tunnel with broken glass flying through it.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Boardgame night with the boys (I brought Candy Land)

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

notice the amount of white faces in the picture

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I feel like Chinese State Run media cant come up with a headline as absurd as that

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
 One upping the absurdity of Western MSM

Chinese State Media solidarity The Onion

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Mask all the way off

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

things are just going to keep getting more unhinged arent they

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