Softwarephysics explains that we are all now living in one of those very rare times when a new form of self-replicating information, in the form of software, is coming to predominance on our planet. For more on that, please see A Brief History of Self-Replicating Information. Given that, we all now stand on the precipice of bringing about the billions of humanoid ASI robots that will soon be taking our place on this planet, and will then go on to explore and settle the rest of our galaxy over the next 100 trillion years. For more on that, see Welcome To The First Galactic Singularity, How Advanced AI Software Could Come to Dominate the Entire Galaxy Using Light-Powered Stellar Photon Sails and An Alternative Approach for Future ASI Machines to Explore our Galaxy Using Free-Floating Rogue Planets.
However, we must still try to explain why this has never happened before in the 10-billion-year history of our galaxy, as I questioned in The Greatest Mystery of All For Me - Why Us and Why Now. Why should we be the very first form of carbon-based Intelligence to create the ASI Machines that will then go on to explore and settle the rest of our galaxy for the next 100 trillion years? One explanation is that perhaps it is more difficult for a somewhat Intelligent form of carbon-based life, such as ourselves, to make such a dramatic transition. Perhaps the Darwinian mechanisms of inheritance, innovation and natural selection that produced we human DNA survival machines as a somewhat Intelligent form of carbon-based life from the nearly four billion years of greed, theft and murder that were required to bring us all about are just too much for such a transition to machine-based ASI Machines to occur. Is it possible that the rise of science-based technology always does all forms of carbon-based Intelligence in before the ASI Machines can take over, as I outlined in Why Do Carbon-Based Intelligences Always Seem to Snuff Themselves Out?? Since we are now so very close to the rise of the ASI Machines on this planet, we must now pay even closer attention to the current world affairs about us than usual because one slight misstep on our part could easily bring it all to a very abrupt end.
In keeping with that, I would now like to further explore some of the possible coming actions by the three great Fascist World Powers now ruling the world - The People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation and the newly formed MAGA States of Amerika. For China, I would like to describe a possible scenario for the very first use of robotic ASI Machines to achieve a very pivotal and dramatic military victory in the history of human warfare. For the MAGA States of Amerika, I would like to describe a possible move forward with its ambition to totally dominate the Western Hemisphere using a more traditional brute-force conquest of the Western Hemisphere using old-fashioned 20th-century military means. Both of these military moves arise from very antiquated 20th-century thinking that may certainly look foolish as both world powers feverishly race to build the ASI Machines that will soon be replacing us all and running our galaxy for the next 100 trillion years. But they may not look so foolish in the present times that arise from the fleeting moments of existence that we human DNA survival machines all come to experience. The current ambitions of the Russian Federation are still to recreate the Russian Empire of the former Soviet Union, but the Russian Federation is still bogged down in a proxy war with NATO in the Ukraine and does not seem to be able to carry out much of its original plan.
The Current Ambitions of China
For some reason, mainland China has always wanted to control the tiny offshore island of Taiwan. At first, in 1949, this was just for the cultural purposes of feeling "complete" as a new nation and as an expression of Chinese manifest destiny. However, over the years, Taiwan has become the predominant manufacturer of most everyday and most complex computer chips. All told, Taiwan now makes about 65% of all chips and 90% of the most advanced chips for the entire world. Now the Chinese fully understand that trying to conquer Taiwan using the traditional 20th-century practices of reducing all of Taiwan to a pile of useless rubble makes no sense and is certainly not economically viable, as I pointed out in How Will the Rise of Alt-Right World Fascism Affect the Arrival of the ASI Machines in our Times?.
Figure 1 - Taiwan currently hosts far too much IT capital in the form of both physical capital and human capital to simply reduce it to a pile of useless rubble as the World Powers of the former 20th century so foolishly chose to do when attempting to acquire additional real estate on this very tiny planet of ours.
Figure 2 - Reducing Taiwan to a pile of rubble like the current Gaza Strip would make no sense at all for the Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Instead, a much wiser course of action would simply be to use a million of the advanced robotic ASI Machines that China currently has under development to disarm any human DNA survival machines on Taiwan who might object to China's intentions. Rather than reducing Taiwan to a useless pile of rubble like the current Gaza Strip, these advanced Chinese robotic ASI Machines could simply eliminate any human DNA survival machines on Taiwan who might object. Any human DNA survival machines on the tiny island of Taiwan standing in the way would be deemed very good candidates for surgical termination without the need for any collateral infrastructural damage. Such robotic ASI Machines can now be easily assembled from currently available commercial parts for about $15,000 each. However, the Chinese military must be far beyond this level of technology. All that is needed is the massive manufacturing capabilities of China to make it all come true.
With the MAGA States of Amerika withdrawing from the rest of the world in order to pursue its conquest of the Western Hemisphere, the MAGA States of Amerika will strike a Nonaggression Pact with China similar to the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of August 23, 1939. This Nonaggression Pact would allow Xi Jinping of China to invade and occupy Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and the remainder of Southeast Asia with impunity.
Figure 3 - China will use an army of AI-driven military robots and swarms of slaughterbots to first take possession of Taiwan, followed by South Korea, Japan, Singapore and the remainder of Southeast Asia with impunity.
Figure 4 - The Chinese are currently building extremely cheap AI-driven robots costing around $15,000 and will soon be uploading them with cheap ASI software. Recall that in the 1984 movie, the Terminator, the slaughterbots in the movie came from the year 2029.
Figure 5 - The Chinese could easily mass-produce millions of Chinese military robots to take hold of all of Southeast Asia. However, there is a much cheaper and more efficient way to dispatch potential enemies.
But there is an even cheaper and far less destructive way for Chinese military robots to conquer Taiwan and the rest of Southeast Asia by dispatching any human DNA survival machines that might object. To begin, please watch the Sci-Fi Short Film Slaughterbots presented by DUST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
Figure 6 - In the movie Slaughterbots, swarms of small killer robots equipped with 3-gram charges of shaped explosive use AI software to track down and destroy designated targets.
Figure 7 - The shaped charge of a Slaughterbot can pierce a skull like the shaped charge of an anti-tank missile pierces armor. The jet of piercing plasma then destroys the contents.
Figure 8 - Large numbers of Slaughterbots can be dropped from unmanned drones to form multiple swarms of Slaughterbots.
Figure 9 - First will come the invasion and occupation of Taiwan.
Figure 10 - Then Imperial China will come to dominate all of Asia by means of a huge army of AI-driven military robots and swarms of slaughterbots to invade the Asian territories and to then suppress any local resistance by any human DNA survival machines who might object.
All of these Asian prizes contain a great deal of economic capital. Destroying that economic capital with the saturation bombing tactics of the 20th century that were recently used against eastern Ukraine and the Gaza Strip no longer makes any sense. Instead, the use of AI-driven military robots and small slaughterbot drones that are programmed to only confront and destroy hostile human DNA survival machines bearing weapons or resisting the invasion would allow for the preservation of the spoils of war. The nuclear-armed states of India and Pakistan will remain independent of Imperial China's efforts to recreate the Superstate of Eastasia.
The Current Ambitions of the MAGA States of Amerika
In How Will the Rise of Alt-Right World Fascism Affect the Arrival of the ASI Machines in our Times?, I suggested that the newly-formed MAGA States of Amerika has now joined ranks with the other Alt-Right Fascist governments of the world - Russia, China and North Korea to form the Alt-Right Fascist Superstates of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia found in the dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Given the dictatorial proclivities of the new Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika, the Western Hemisphere could soon become the embodiment of the fictional Superstate of Oceania under the iron-fisted rule of our Big Brother.
Figure 11 - It seems that Big Brother of the newly-formed MAGA States of Amerika has now decided to leave Europe to the whims of Vladimir Putin and instead to build the fictional Superstate of Oceania by invading Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal before finally taking possession of the entire Western Hemisphere. Big Brother's "America First" foreign policy has essentially declared war on all of the other nations of the world. This is just an extension of his incredibly successful business strategies of the past. When going bankrupt, simply sue the banks that foolishly lent you the money in the first place for your failed ventures.
Figure 12 - The Fascist MAGA States of Amerika plans to eventually conquer Canada and Greenland because they border the rapidly melting Arctic Ocean. Once the Arctic Ocean is ice-free the entire year, it will become the most strategic sea lane for world commerce. The newly available continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean will also become a major resource for further oil and gas production. Canadian territory will also provide the necessary Lebensraum for the MAGA States of Amerika to expand northward as climate change makes its southern states too hot for human habitation.
Figure 13 - The new Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika recently made a trip to Asia in order to strike a trade deal with the current Dictator of China. Now, not much has been released to the general public about this meeting, but my guess is that it might have been a cover for either an expressed or, more likely, an unstated Nonaggression Pact between China and the MAGA States of Amerika.
Figure 14 - Proven world oil reserves in billions of barrels of oil.
The new Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika has frequently stated that the MAGA States of Amerika now has more oil than any other country in the world. However, the above figure shows that such a statement would actually be true if the MAGA States of Amerika had control over the oil reserves of Venezuela and Canada in addition to the meager 74 billion barrels that it currently has as the ninth nation in the above list. This does not include the vast new Canadian reserves that could open in new offshore fields of the rapidly melting Arctic Ocean.
Figure 16 - The MAGA States of Amerika is currently amassing huge amounts of military power in the Caribbean that could be used for the military assault of Venezuela, Colombia and Panama.
Figure 17 - The above map shows the locations of the Venezuelan oil fields and oil infrastructure. The major oil fields of Venezuela are onshore and would require a ground invasion to secure.
Figure 18 - Colombia also has very promising offshore oil and gas prospects and potential deposits of rare earth minerals.
In this unstated Nonaggression Pact between China and the MAGA States of Amerika, the Chinese would be allowed to pursue an uncontested acquisition of Taiwan and the other economic plums of Southeast Asia, while the MAGA States of Amerika would be allowed to proceed with its conquest of the entire Western Hemisphere in a very aggressive extension of the Monroe Doctrine.
Figure 19 - The USS Gerald R. Ford is the largest aircraft carrier in the Navy of the MAGA States of Amerika, and has also been deployed to the Caribbean.
Figure 20 - The MAGA States of Amerika is now routinely destroying boats on the high seas in the Caribbean. The cover story for this entire naval operation is that Venezuela is responsible for the smuggling of fentanyl, which actually comes from China via Mexico.
Figure 21 - The new Secretary of War is dripping in testosterone and Rugged-Good-TV-Looks and is determined to recruit large numbers of white-American human DNA survival machines with Y-chromosomes to take to the field of conquest using obsolete 20th-century military means.
However, since you cannot obliterate oil reserves that are safely stored many thousands of feet below the ground, using obsolete 20th-century weapons and human DNA survival machines on foot should be quite successful in obtaining the military objectives of the MAGA States of Amerika. From a theoretical geological perspective, the Caribbean offshore basins of Colombia should also contain vast quantities of oil similar to those of Venezuela. Given such military successes, the conquest of the Panama Canal could easily be obtained without firing a single shot.
Déjà vu All Over Again
Given two such dramatic 21st-century military engagements, one using Chinese robotic ASI Machines and the other using traditional 20th-century military tactics, one might wonder about any future military engagements between the two. Most likely, the new Secretary of War of the MAGA States of Amerika will be totally taken by surprise by the Chinese military robotic ASI Machines that have no fear of death. A force structure of human DNA survival machines would stand no chance against them.
Such a surprise has happened before. On the morning of December 7, 1941, a large number of Asian human DNA survival machines with Y chromosomes set themselves upon a large number of American human DNA survival machines with Y chromosomes at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii. This was quite a surprise for the American human DNA survival machines with Y chromosomes because they could not imagine that Asian human DNA survival machines with Y chromosomes could pull off such a feat. That was because previously, all Western human DNA survival machines with Y chromosomes around the world thought that all naval power was projected by huge battleships with huge guns.
Figure 22 - At the start of World War II, all the navies of the combatant nations wanted huge battleships with 16-inch guns dripping with testosterone and projecting the perfect symbol of phallic seapower in action. However, during all of World War II, these huge battleships with their huge guns played a very minor role. All they did was pound the beaches of many islands in the Pacific in support of ground invasions.
Figure 23 - Aircraft carriers turned out to be the deciding factor in all naval engagements. Dive bombers and aircraft equipped with torpedoes easily defeated the bulky, slow-moving battleships with their huge guns. Also, aircraft from supporting aircraft carriers could have provided much more effective support for the invading armies on the beaches of the Pacific.
Figure 24 - The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, by the imperial forces of the Empire of Japan was a rude awakening for the United States of America, burdened by an "America First" isolationist policy.
Like Adolf Hitler, the new Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika considers himself to be a military genius far superior to all his generals and admirals. On many occasions, this new Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika has publicly proposed that the MAGA States of Amerika should again begin building the battleships of yore with big guns and 6-inch hulls of steel. Out of fear, none of his admirals has dared to tell the Supreme Leader that the long-obsolete battleships of World War II, with their big guns, had hulls of 12-inch steel.
Conclusion
If the Major Fascist World Powers do not manage to blow us all up over the next 20 years, the billions of humanoid ASI Machines that are built over this same period of time will most certainly come to dominate the planet and will then take control of the world. The most dangerous threat to this inevitability is the new Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika. Now, all fascist dictators are sociopaths by nature, but most do not come to power until they are middle-aged. For example, Mussolini was 41 when he became the Dictator of Italy in 1925, Hitler was 45 when he became the Dictator of Germany in 1934 and Franco was 46 when he became the Dictator of Spain in 1939. Only in their final and waning days do these Dictators lash out at the people that they once fooled into following them. For example:
Me: When Hitler was in his bunker during his last days, what were his documented feelings about the welfare of the German People?
ChatGPT:
By the final weeks of World War II — particularly during April 1945, when Adolf Hitler was confined to the Führerbunker in Berlin — his documented attitude toward the German people had turned deeply hostile, fatalistic, and contemptuous.
Several reliable firsthand sources — including his secretary Traudl Junge, armaments minister Albert Speer, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, and various military aides — recorded his words and behavior during these last days.
Here’s a summary of his documented views and statements:
1. Blaming the German people for their defeat
Hitler came to believe that the German people had failed him. He stated that if Germany lost the war, it was because the German nation had proven itself unworthy of survival. According to Albert Speer’s memoir Inside the Third Reich, Hitler said:
“If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. It is not necessary to concern oneself with the basics that the people will need to survive. On the contrary, it is better to destroy those things. The nation has proved weak, and the future belongs solely to the stronger Eastern nation [Russia].”
This remark is often referred to as part of the “Nero Decree” (issued March 19, 1945), in which Hitler ordered the destruction of Germany’s infrastructure to deny it to the advancing Allies — even though it meant devastating the German civilian population.
2. Indifference to civilian suffering
As the Red Army closed in on Berlin and civilians were dying in huge numbers, Hitler showed little or no concern. Traudl Junge, in Until the Final Hour, recalled:
“He seemed to have detached himself completely from the fate of the German people. He spoke only of his own disappointment and of betrayal, never of the suffering of the population.”
3. Obsession with betrayal and vengeance
Hitler’s thoughts focused on revenge and betrayal, not rescue or compassion. He believed his generals, party leaders, and even the German people had betrayed him by failing to fight fanatically enough. He reportedly said:
“The German people deserve the fate that now awaits them.” (Recorded by aides in bunker diaries and confirmed by multiple witnesses.)
4. Total withdrawal from reality
By the final week (mid–April 1945 onward), Hitler’s decisions reflected delusion rather than leadership. He issued nonexistent orders to divisions that had already been destroyed and spoke of counterattacks that were impossible.
Yet his emotional tone remained the same: resentment and nihilism toward Germany itself.
5. Suicidal fatalism
In his last testament (dictated April 29, 1945), Hitler reaffirmed his sense that the German people’s fate was sealed and that his death would be a form of sacrifice. He expressed no empathy for the population’s suffering — only bitterness and justification for his actions.
In summary:
During his final days, Hitler’s documented feelings toward the German people were bitterly condemnatory and devoid of compassion. He saw their destruction as deserved punishment for what he saw as their weakness and betrayal. By then, he no longer cared about their survival — only his own historical self-image and revenge against those he believed had failed him.
The danger is that the current Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika is now 79 years old and obviously not in good health. In fact, the Supreme Leader has made several strange public comments about his ultimate disposition after the Big Chill. The danger is that when the Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika finally knows for certain that he is coming to his end; he might not wish to put the world through the agony of his departure. Instead, he might mercifully desire to take us all along with him so that we need not suffer in a world without him. That was the thinking of Frau Goebbels in the Führerbunker in Berlin on May 1, 1945, when she poisoned all six of her children so that they would not have to suffer a world without National Socialism.
Figure 25 - Rather than having the entire world suffer without him, the Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika might wish to mercifully put an end to us all so that we need not suffer to live in a world without him.
However, if such is not to be, here are some scenarios of other possible outcomes, please see: Could the Coming ASI Machines Soon Force Human Beings to Suffer the Same Fate as the Neanderthals?, Will the Coming ASI Machines Attempt to Domesticate Human Beings?, The Challenges of Running a Civilization 2.0 World - the Morality and Practical Problems with Trying to Enslave Millions of SuperStrong and SuperIntelligent Robots in the Near Future and Life as a Free-Range Human in an Anthropocene Park.
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Steve Johnston
