• Yes, this is crucially what is often forgotten

    If you are actually directly participating in a war, then it’s nothing but destructive

    “War is good for business” would apply mostly to china in this case, and a little to Africa and maybe South America depending on how involved they’re gonna end up being

    • @notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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      214 days ago

      Yup, the country whose infrastructure is getting obliterated does not profit from war.

      Care to elaborate on the South America/Africa part?

      • Well I’m mostly thinking they’re gonna benefit depending on how ignored they end up being in any potential conflict, as a consequence of not being in that conflict. That’s mostly speculation, I don’t have anything to actually back it up beyond my meanderings

        • @notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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          214 days ago

          I see what you mean, benefitting through not getting involved. I can totally see that going for South America Unfortunately, Central Africa would get deeply pulled into such conflict given its vast rare earth resources, so I doubt they could benefit.

          • Yeah, possibly. Either way hard to predict how such a hypothetical would end up. Maybe you’ll get stuff like china coming in and providing guarantees to Africa etc

            Either way, probably a mess

            • @notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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              214 days ago

              last time I visited West Africa there was an incredible amount of Chinese investment going in. With the US abandoning soft power, I can’t see how China wouldn’t use this vacuum to take over the US’s role.