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The Internet is disrupting Blue America’s media and money while China is overtaking Red America’s manufacturing and military.
  • AI and crypto, driven by the Internet, are eroding traditional media revenue and the financial model of Blue America.
  • China’s massive investment in robotics and drones gives it a decisive advantage in manufacturing and defense, effectively winning the war of parts.
  • Both forces are accelerating at similar speeds, creating a simultaneous pressure on the two domestic factions.
  • The result is a loss of control for the US over both its cultural narrative and its industrial base.
  • Policy responses that ignore either front are doomed to fail.
Balaji SrinivasanThe Peter McCormack Show00:20:46

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The internet is doing AI and crypto, which are going to take over all media and all money. China is doing robots and drones, so they're going to take over all manufacturing and all military. Balaji Srinivasan
China has already won the war. You can't fight a war with China because they make all the parts. Balaji Srinivasan

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