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Re:The Lights Wink Out in Asia by edrxty on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:38AM (#34786209)
Actually read the article, not much to see here. Basically just some lofty prose on a Japanese defense strategy document but without much in the way of insight into anything going into the geopolitical situation.

Also, the extremely forced looking diagram at the top has literally nothing to do with their thesis other than being low hanging fruit for a counterargument.

Re:The Lights Wink Out in Asia by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:04AM (#34786363)
Is Puerto Rico inside the "non-integrating gap"?
Re:The Lights Wink Out in Asia by edrxty on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:39AM (#34786561)
It's from c.2005 but still doesn't make any more sense with that context
Re:The Lights Wink Out in Asia by antonvs on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:39AM (#34786929)
Barnett’s audience was the defense department, and he was telling them things that would make them feel important and virtuous. Basically internal propaganda.
Re:The Lights Wink Out in Asia by jmnicolas on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:14AM (#34786421)
I blame people like the author for the coming world war (technically we're already in it but it's not massive yet).

They just regurgitate narratives without ever having an original thought and they don't understand they're lead to war step by step.

Then, once the war reaches their country they will wonder how all of this could have happened.

It seems humans never learn.

Re:The Lights Wink Out in Asia by yetihehe on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:45AM (#34786604)
What narrative would prevent this war according to you? (I'm not mocking you, just looking for narratives to spread).
Re:The Lights Wink Out in Asia by aaa_aaa on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:41AM (#34786948)
At least they used a decent map projection.
Re:The Lights Wink Out in Asia by Georgelemental on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:11PM (#34793442)
The author doesn't endorse the diagram, he presents it as an example of the globalist idealism that he believes events have discredited