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by twblalock 3529 days ago
> Except it's going to go hand in hand with nationalism and fear-mongering.

So did the first space race, and it went pretty well, and cooperation between the US and Russia still took place eventually.

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uhhh, well I'm sure the space race didn't help in reducing tensions.. but you know all the proxy wars and thousands of soldiers dieing prolly played a bigger role.

There really shouldn't be an use vs. them with China. That's incredibly toxic thinking (trying to create an new Cold War)

> There really shouldn't be an use vs. them with China.

I never said there should be. All I said is that nationalism and fearmongering did not prevent the first space race from going well, and did not prevent eventual easing of tensions.