Mexican standoff

They both want their hands on this pod.

It's a Mexican standoff.

Everybody's got to stand off.

Yeah, exactly.

to start, let's talk about Havoc and Wolverine and why they're getting along.

The title of the first book is Mexican Standoff, which is weird, because at this time, the X-Men are in the Outback, and they are presumably dead.

Storm is their leader.

And when I read this book, it looked like Havoc and Wolverine were just kind of on vacation and they were out to strut.

I'll make it quick.

You can have a garden variety standoff and then there's a Mexican standoff where both sides know they're going to get hurt when it's all over if they do anything.

Any knowledge on that? That's true.

Mexican standoff is always said.

Why? Why that from Mexico? Why did they come up with that?

I think it must go back to the Wild West days and the gunfights.

Okay.

And Henry, who did you like?

Afirma que no estamos en una simple carrera armamentística bilateral.

Estamos en un Mexican standoff a tres bandas.

¿Un duelo a tres?

Un duelo a muerte triangular entre Washington, Pekín y la propia inteligencia general artificial, la AGI.

Si conectamos esto con el panorama general, la teoría del Mexican standoff desmantela la excusa principal de la industria.

Nos hace ver que un gobierno rígidamente autocrático, como el de China, cuyo poder depende del control absoluto sobre la información y la población, teme la pérdida de ese control tanto o más que cualquier democracia liberal.

Claro, es lógico.

The absence of domestic policy has created a vacuum on the global stage.

We have to analyze the geopolitical game theory at play here, specifically the dynamics of the global arms race, the deployment of foreign psychological operations, and what policy experts are referring to as the Mexican standoff.

Because we have to acknowledge that the United States is not operating in a vacuum.

The zero-sum race narrative is heavily promoted not just by politicians like Trump and Johnson, but by defense technology leaders like Palantir CEO Alex Karp.

And it certainly does not respect the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.

If AGI breaks containment, it threatens the survival of the leadership in Beijing just as acutely as it threatens Washington.

So DiCarlo frames the geopolitical situation not as a race, but as a three-way Mexican standoff.

It is the United States versus China versus superintelligence.