Boris Johnson rebuts Xi's Sparta-Athens analogy on US decline versus China's rise
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- Poster quotes Boris Johnson's rebuttal of Xi's sinking-Sparta/rising-Athens framing and counters that Sparta actually won the Peloponnesian War.
- Poster asks, via greentext, what to call the implied Western strategy of starting a technology, losing the race to China, and then abandoning it while claiming it was never needed.
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- /pol/540817679 ↗ live · archive critical breaking 138 replies Poster quotes Boris Johnson's rebuttal of Xi's sinking-Sparta/rising-Athens framing and counters that Sparta actually won the Peloponnesian War.
- /pol/540822386 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 4 replies Poster asks, via greentext, what to call the implied Western strategy of starting a technology, losing the race to China, and then abandoning it while claiming it was never needed.
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