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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by pmontra on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:14AM (#22582132)
Especially because they are in the position to help other countries now, when everybody else have to think only about their own citizens. They sent doctors to Italy with medical equipment (Italy sent some help to China earlier on) so they're going to take some credit for the recovery. Then there will be the real recovery. Western Europe was rebuilt with US money after WW2 and the USA consolidated an hegemony which is still lasting now. I bet that China will be more than willing to help in the next years.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by lmz on Sunday March 15, 2020 @05:18AM (#22582344)
Maybe China will emerge as the winner because they kept the number of victims down, just like the US emerged as the winner of WW2 after its industry was spared destruction by bombing.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by pmontra on Monday March 16, 2020 @04:57PM (#22597662)
Seconded, but the USA also had the will to push their hand. They could have said goodbye and went back to the Americas, instead they did their best to control the world. Of course everybody in that position would have done the same but they had a competitor (the USSR) so it didn't come for free.
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