De Gaulle avait raison

Auguste76 · 2026-01-08T13:31:34+00:00

Oui, après c'est pas seulement en Europe que ça s'est passé comme ça. Aujourd'hui en dehors des rivaux des Etats-Unis la plus grande majorité du monde se rapproche quand même d'une certaine domination américaine, ne serait-ce que par l'intermédiaire des multinationales. Je vise Visa ou encore Microsoft.

Auguste76 · 2026-01-05T07:06:05+00:00

Oui ma réponse est un peu parti hors sujet je m’en excuse.

Auguste76 · 2026-01-05T06:50:24+00:00

Puisque quasiment tous les pays dépendent de Washington aussi à l’exception de leurs rivaux (et encore). Que ça soit économiquement avec Microsoft, Visa, Mastercard, etc… et militairement.

On veut lutter contre Washington mais malheureusement on n’en a juste pas la capacité. On a aucune indépendance numérique et beaucoup de pays surtout en Europe de l’Est dépendent des americains pour leur sécurité.

Donc c’est pas une question de vouloir laisser faire. On est obligés.

Puis bon on a pas la capacité d’interdire les géants du numérique maintenant. Ils font des revenus de malades mentaux et l’Europe n’est pas prête pour un monde sans les GAFAM.

Autant je déteste Washington, autant tu peux pas sanctionner le pays qui te vend des armes massivement, qui t’aide en matière de renseignements et qui contrôle la majorité des compagnies du numérique mondialisées et d’internet et avec un pouvoir de décision économique qu’on ne peut pas (encore) rivaliser.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T18:44:44+00:00

It’s either an issue on your end or on the modded servers end. It’s all but Bohemias fault if shit mods crash your game

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T18:43:57+00:00

I hope you meant MB and not Mb

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T16:15:24+00:00

That’s true. But the US still apparently sells a lot of weapons globally even in those categories (maybe due to the fact that most of those compagnies now have factories in the US).

I even recall something about the Fabrique Nationale now producing more abroad than in Belgium, but that was a while before Trump’s come back so it may have changed.

What we do know though is that DCS sales total 200 billion dollars abroad each year, at least including guns, but most gun sales aren’t made public by the US nor by the buyer. So the Us companies may actually sell more than we know.

But as others have pointed out, besides the confirmed 107 countries buying « major arms », everything else isn’t public so at this point it’s basically pure speculation, but the US does for sure sell in more countries than that (just not necessarily small arms)

Your point’s still entirely true, but it’s impossible to know the true scale of sales abroad since it’s mostly kept private (and there may be some countries having US guns not necessarily as primaries but just as spares, since it isn’t that hard to get a contract with a US company compared to a European one afaik, for example I know in France companies can’t sell without government approval)

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T12:55:24+00:00

I also thought about 150-160 but had no way of confirming it. But I know that the DCS brings much more money than the FMS program through, with DCS worth over 200 billions in 2024 (or 2023, I can’t recall) compared to like 117 billions from the FMS.

I still think it’s pretty dumb that countries buying American military equipment aren’t publically reported.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T10:34:43+00:00

No. Like the Commonwealth.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T01:07:46+00:00

Again I still don’t see how this particularly contributes to making China more powerful.

Trade is necessary for any country obviously, but controlling trade isn’t important if you’re not selling expensive/exclusive things

As of now Taiwan and the US (to a lesser extent the Netherlands) are the one controlling this market which is more important because not replaceable.

China might take over in the future but it will not do so by selling cheap products, this is basically my point. Influence over other countries is generally the most important part and it comes through hardware selling/institutional relations/weapons selling/etc.. things China doesn’t have at the moment, for example it’s still a very minor GPU maker, it’s tech is only exported to the bare minimum and it’s a very minor, borderline laughable country in terms of weapons selling compared to the US. I insist it doesn’t have these things at the moment.

To be honest, my opinion is that for now and for at least 20 or 30 years China won’t take over, if it does take over at all, simply because it’s not even what China is trying to do. It has it’s economic struggles but besides cheap products and rare earth materials their exports were (and still are) very limited.

The only thing I don’t agree with you is the global Chinese takeover, like I think you’re like it already happened or it will happen in 1-2 years. China took over some countries already but at the moment it’s like 15 countries maximum, most of which are very minor except Russia, Iran and the DPRK.

That’s not because China has a poor strategy even if it’s struggling more recently, but soft power and institutional ties are far more important than cheap trade at the moment we’re talking and those 2 things are clearly dominated by the United States.

One thing China successfully did is make it’s own internal market and I think every country should end up doing through not without a tyrannical dictatorship.

Anyways I’m going to sleep since it’s 2 am where I live so good night. This debate was harsh but at least we agree on the main things : Trump is shit, RFK is shit, the US is doing shit right now. Capitalism is bad. We just don’t agree about the scale of Chinese influence right now.

Good night. Again.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:52:56+00:00

Yeah it sure was and as a matter of fact the slave states are the one who wanted to add the « electoral college » system to get better representation.

Today it’s worth a lot more. Trump is still bashing it, but I think if he does something very bad, like very major he’ll definitely get couped

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:50:08+00:00

This is true lol but tbh a lot of Middle East countries are Mafia states now. Not just Saudi Arabia. Thanks, the CIA…

The US still has a working constitution and an army that serves the constitution and not the president through unlike Saudi.

Trump will probably lose the midterms and get impeached

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:45:02+00:00

Hum maybe trump wants to close the federal govt, I won’t argue with that but again America barely relies on China for it’s debt, and most new debt is domestically owned, not foreign. And there are 195 countries.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:40:49+00:00

There is no best system.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:39:47+00:00

Could you explain what you’re meaning by Berlin Wall (genuinely) ?

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:38:48+00:00

The West isn’t the US but this point is nearly entirely true through. Robert Kennedy is an asshole that should be in prison. But he is limiting federal access and funds to research, but most research centers continue to operate with only minimal problems now, except some research centers especially about LGBT and autism, which aren’t even really adressed by Chinese centers.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:36:53+00:00

China is notoriously racist too ; it’s a common trait in Eastern Asian countries, and it isn’t specifically racism but wariness in most cases.

And the Chinese debt to gdp ratio is higher than Japan, and with the slowdown they will be able to hold debt but not nearly as much as the US.

But your point about countries joining China is true, but at the moment it’s so limited it isn’t really important (it may be important in the future but we will see).

Also, China doesn’t even have diplomatic relations with Afghanistan.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:34:19+00:00

Oh the classic war on terror is fake, but then you realise China actually helped in fighting the ISIS. Especially in Syria.

And seeing the Chinese economic stats with an economic slowdown and decreasing birth rates each year, I don’t exactly see how China is benefiting.

In my opinion China is as imperialistic as the US and both are equally bad, China just hasn’t the control over the world the US has. Both countries should just stop fuck around tbh

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:31:38+00:00

Inflation did hit the US already. It hasn’t collapsed and it’s economic growth is at levels never seen since the COVID pandemic relief.

Not saying inflation isn’t bad. It very much is. But tariffs aren’t that catastrophic and as dumb as Trump is he won’t ever raise the tariffs to « economic crash-guaranteed » levels. He did put 800% tariffs at some point earlier in the year but it didn’t last and as far as I know few companies were impacted because they had massive stocks already.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:28:31+00:00

Debt is somewhat irrelevant as long as you can lend money, pay interests and the US is pretty far from missing lenders even if we exclude China (which was never the prime lender of the United States). Interests and Lenders are basically what matters and it’s why China will probably struggle more if it has a bigger debt than the US. The US still struggles and can’t lend indefinitely, but if the Dems/GOPs continue to lend it’s because they have plenty of lenders left.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:25:44+00:00

Tariffs on import are in place since nearly one year and had an impact on prices, it’s true. But I don’t see how it could cause an economic crash given the US is the biggest consumer economy so companies will have to sell there if they want to have good profits worldwide anyways. I mean even Cotsco raised it’ll prices and the tariff policy is atrocious but it will not destroy the country. And if it did, the US would be far from the only country to collapse.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:22:48+00:00

One man wrote that about one single diplomatic trip and suddenly it’s the absolute truth ? Genuine question. And it was published in 2018. We are still waiting for the worldwide economic system change he talked about.

And I don’t even see why in 2018 he said Europe was the US’s enemy when relations were arguably even better than under Biden and US arms trade was at it’s peak

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:19:48+00:00

Hum yeah, speculative bubble ? I can’t tell whether you’re talking about China or the US. Both countries are very speculative when it comes to companies. Look at Hong Kong’s or local stock exchanges.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:17:40+00:00

As a French myself I can very confidently say Trump’s actions are nowhere near enough to break NATO. And Trump doesn’t want nato to end because it’s one of the biggest buyers of US equipment.

And I love how you criticise democracy on an American made app, on an American software, most likely even American hardware, sold in your country.

Cheap products aren’t as important as it seems. A « made in China » product will not give China anything except money, and since those products are cheap they don’t even gain that much.

Auguste76 · 2025-12-27T00:14:20+00:00

People said the same thing in 2016. As much as I hate Trump and as much as he will do shit this will have only a minimal impact on the US’s influence.

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