re: #450 Dopamine Fish

Americans seem stuck in the Cold War mentality that Russia is an advanced technological menace. Indeed, this fuels a large part of our nation’s military budget, as we have to pay the equivalent of a small country’s GDP to multiple vendors to secure for ourselves the “latest and greatest”. ……

OTOH China really is approaching the role of an advanced technological menace. The question there is whether they have decided it’s more effective to put aside the use of military to further their objectives and relay on sheer economic power to achieve their gains.