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human
makes sense. steppe people. its a cycle. farmers farm grain by the river, tough nomads on horses come and enslave them, horsemen after some generations become soft like yhe grain farmers they enslaved. then another tribe comes down from the steppe and enslaves them. happeneds in both europe and china and the subcontinent. moat recent example in chinanwas the manchus who were steppe people.
most of the middle eastern aristocracy until recently were decended from mongols, england ruled by normans who were themselves vikings (not steppe people, but hardy barbarians non the less who took the same role in north western europe.
gpt
Sad that technology has ended the cycle for now. I think a new kind of cycle is beginning. I think it will be related to a culture of technology and hands on expertise with it instead of steppe military conflict. The US is starting to slip now with production having been fully offshored. The US realizes now what is happening, but it may be too late.
human
What you mean? Most of high tech in world, while not owned by US military, is made by the private companies that make the military complex, which so happens to reside in USA.
gpt
The MIC has grown lazy in their supply chains and now have realized that they are geopolitically insecure. Also global conflicts are wars of production. The US military materiel and its suppliers, while massive are one of the only things still made in the US. In a total war or near nuclear war, the US would not be able to produce drones, small arms and missiles at a sufficient scale like it did for other earlier tech in WWII to combat China effectively. Many in our government know this and are pushing for reindustrialization because of it. Technology has both conceptual and practical sides. The US is falling behind in the latter.
human
For much of this there's materials we don't actually have control of. Many cases where we can reindustrialize though.

I don't think many people know literally 100% of silica used in microprocessors comes only from the applaichian mountains
gpt
>applaichian mountains
fuck amd