I hope people read this, beyond the headline. It’s really a cogently argued and insightful article.
Aware_Cheesecake_519 on
A state without laws.
Sneaky-er on
I blame Ohio.
Witchgrass on
Kakistocracy
fuckswitbeavers on
The USA is being looted by the elites. They are literally running it into the ground. For all this hype about how much we have to defeat China it seems like these guys already gave up, get the scraps while you can.
CaptMcCully on
Has been for a very long time.
Rogue Nation by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr. (2003)
I_who_have_no_need on
Stephen Walt in 2017:
Has Trump Become a Realist?
America finally has a president who grasps the basic logic of offshore balancing in the Middle East.
>There’s reason to think Donald Trump is becoming a closet realist or even — dare I say it? — an offshore balancer.
>Admittedly, it’s hard to credit him with having a coherent strategy of any kind, given the recurring contradictions in what he says and his penchant for reversing course without warning or explanation. But in the Middle East, at least, one could argue that Trump is trying — in his own ill-informed, impulsive, and erratic way — to return to the strategy of offshore balancing that the United States pursued more or less successfully in this region from 1945 to 1992.
The typical leftists with Trump derangement syndrome got it right from the start and the academics and pundit brains were totally, completely wrong. In fact the worse the derangement syndrome was, the more accurate the predictions. Curious disease indeed.
Old_Channel44 on
Fuck trump
yallmemaybe on
The US is trying to secure US hegemony for the next 100 years. It’s no mistake that the US is targeting Venezuela, Iran, and then Greenland and Canada in the near future. With those four countries, the US will have a near monopoly on oil, gas, arctic shipping routes, arctic mineral exploration, and all of the fresh water in the Great Lakes. Having these resources lets the US ride out climate-related societal collapse (breadbasket failures, wet-bulb temperature events etc) when we start seeing +3°C by the 2040s, at which point other countries will start to fail while the US remains strong.
rom_rom57 on
The new “AXIS of evil”
RINKCUS.
RUssia/Iran/N. Korea/China/US.
Baron-Munc on
Cool pirates….So why aren’t we seizing Iranian and Russian oil?
theAlexrh on
the same author wrote “Another Trump Presidency Won’t Much Change U.S. Foreign Policy – The world’s fears are mostly exaggerated.” in 2024
mirage110-26 on
Arguably the US since our existence has focused more on creating wealth than quality of life. The struggle continues.
Boundish91 on
Yup.
padizzledonk on
We’ve been 3 General Dynamics Missiles in a trenchcoat for the last 25 years
GreyTigerFox on
Plutocratic Fascist Oligarchy. The Corporate States of MurriKKKuh.
Renegade_51 on
The United States is run by robber barons. I just wish its citizens would remember how they are to be tamed and have the courage to follow through with it.
carlboykin on
Oh could it be because a pedophilic moron leads the country? Could it be they actively wage a war on average American citizens to line their own pockets? Could it be because we don’t matter to them at all? The answer is yes but tune in tomorrow to hear how our own media points the blame at us, people trying to survive.
DengistGambit on
Correction: it has always been a rogue state in the context of global politics after WW2.
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More like an oligarchy. It ain’t even left vs right no more. It’s the super wealthy vs everybody else
Archived link: https://archive.ph/VzKl6
so much winning…so much. hottest country ever.
🤦🏻♂️
I hope people read this, beyond the headline. It’s really a cogently argued and insightful article.
A state without laws.
I blame Ohio.
Kakistocracy
The USA is being looted by the elites. They are literally running it into the ground. For all this hype about how much we have to defeat China it seems like these guys already gave up, get the scraps while you can.
Has been for a very long time.
Rogue Nation by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr. (2003)
Stephen Walt in 2017:
Has Trump Become a Realist?
America finally has a president who grasps the basic logic of offshore balancing in the Middle East.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/17/has-trump-become-a-realist/
The back part of the article is paywalled but starts out:
>There’s reason to think Donald Trump is becoming a closet realist or even — dare I say it? — an offshore balancer.
>Admittedly, it’s hard to credit him with having a coherent strategy of any kind, given the recurring contradictions in what he says and his penchant for reversing course without warning or explanation. But in the Middle East, at least, one could argue that Trump is trying — in his own ill-informed, impulsive, and erratic way — to return to the strategy of offshore balancing that the United States pursued more or less successfully in this region from 1945 to 1992.
The typical leftists with Trump derangement syndrome got it right from the start and the academics and pundit brains were totally, completely wrong. In fact the worse the derangement syndrome was, the more accurate the predictions. Curious disease indeed.
Fuck trump
The US is trying to secure US hegemony for the next 100 years. It’s no mistake that the US is targeting Venezuela, Iran, and then Greenland and Canada in the near future. With those four countries, the US will have a near monopoly on oil, gas, arctic shipping routes, arctic mineral exploration, and all of the fresh water in the Great Lakes. Having these resources lets the US ride out climate-related societal collapse (breadbasket failures, wet-bulb temperature events etc) when we start seeing +3°C by the 2040s, at which point other countries will start to fail while the US remains strong.
The new “AXIS of evil”
RINKCUS.
RUssia/Iran/N. Korea/China/US.
Cool pirates….So why aren’t we seizing Iranian and Russian oil?
the same author wrote “Another Trump Presidency Won’t Much Change U.S. Foreign Policy – The world’s fears are mostly exaggerated.” in 2024
Arguably the US since our existence has focused more on creating wealth than quality of life. The struggle continues.
Yup.
We’ve been 3 General Dynamics Missiles in a trenchcoat for the last 25 years
Plutocratic Fascist Oligarchy. The Corporate States of MurriKKKuh.
The United States is run by robber barons. I just wish its citizens would remember how they are to be tamed and have the courage to follow through with it.
Oh could it be because a pedophilic moron leads the country? Could it be they actively wage a war on average American citizens to line their own pockets? Could it be because we don’t matter to them at all? The answer is yes but tune in tomorrow to hear how our own media points the blame at us, people trying to survive.
Correction: it has always been a rogue state in the context of global politics after WW2.