America Has Become a Dangerous Nation
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We had a good run — some eight decades or so — but it is clear by now that the United States has ceased to be the leader of the free world. A successor for that post has not been named, and it appears unlikely that the European Union, or NATO, or whatever constitutes “the West” these days will promote from within. The job might even be eliminated, one more reduction in force courtesy of President Trump.
Rather than leading the free world, the United States is striding across the globe seemingly free of restraint, forethought or strategy, exerting its power because it can….
Launching a war with only one ally and then expecting everyone else to fall in line is a perfect example of the tensions inherent in America’s new approach. The United States wants the benefits of hegemony, but without accepting the responsibilities — ensuring collective security, promoting economic openness, nurturing vital alliances — that come with it. Trump doesn’t care to be a superpower; he just likes to wield superpowers. He wants to operate in the world constrained only by “my own morality” and “my own mind,” as he told The Times recently….
What does that mean for America’s role and purpose in a world that has been too long defined by what it is not (the post-Cold War era)? It means that what we once called Pax Americana, that U.S.-led system of alliances and institutions that promoted American interests and values and helped avoid major conflicts in the decades after World War II, is gone, and irretrievably so. In place of the Pax Americana we are seeing a sort of Lax Americana, a world in which a careless and uninhibited and incurious U.S. superpower struts across the chess board, threatening old friends and enabling old rivals, seeking short-term gains, heedless of the dangers it is creating for itself and for the world.
This is a historical aberration: a superpower that freely abdicates its leadership role, because it has concluded that leadership is for suckers; one that no longer promotes its values, because it’s decided that those values were fake anyway; one that gives up on the rules and institutions it spent so long building, because it assumes they’re no longer worth the hassle.
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I do believe that once Trump is gone things will go somewhat back to normal.
We can only hope
I'm starting the conspiracy theory that armageddon begins as soon as trump gets assassinated, then we can all stand back and let the gullible thumper hoards take him out for geezus ... /s
I don't want him to be assassinated. That would make him a martyr for the MAGAites. Just like Charlie Kirk
... not if it's thumpers that take him out in their efforts to kick start armageddon.
Assuming he is replaced by a democrat POTUS and not another boot licker like Vance and others, I see things easing but you are correct not back to normal.
Democrats are always hesitant to bring about big changes and rocking the boat.. Biden had several issues he could have handled from the previous Trump administration, but he didn't even replace Trump's head of the postal service who has been slowly sabotaging the postal service from within. Obama tackled healthcare but after all negotiations enacted a healthcare plan that wasn't even a shadow of its former self.
That's a problem. Democrats should grow a spine and get shit done!
I want the next POTUS to legalize cannabis. Biden should have done that
If the right type of democrat gets elected POTUS in 28, I can see serious changes and revamping of our government.
After watching Trump run wild over bout everything and the GOP sitting around sucking their thumbs and just watching and doing and voting how they were told 99% of the time, believe Dems might grow a spine. It will be difficult for the Repubs to say much after being the 47 crutch, that enabled him to disable US inn so many ways where we cannot stay.
They've shown how they can not allow a president to put forth a Supreme Justice with many months till an election to shving them through right before one. They've allowed Trump and his entire family of corruption along with his oligarchs to do as they wish all while compiling enormous amounts of wealth to their already ridiculous wealth, and not even much attempt at being stealth. The taken from the poor to give the uber rich uber more has made quite a few, very sore. The lawfare and 47's use of the DOJ to go after Trumps enimies while withholding the Epstein list while also overlooking so much blatant BS to go on is disgusting. The GOP has not a leg to stand onwhen it comes to their doas we say not as we do. The abuse of the emoluments clause is off the charts as they take US deeper into the abys wear on TRumps heavy pants there is more than his piss off the clowns who cried and cried about Hunter Bidens 20 mill while the Trump regime has made close to 5 BILLION all while hiring the worst to do his illegal bidding US a goodbuy for they, and left with Billions more is the rest of the USA of too many uneducated sheep, who would rather die than utter a negative bleep about the won lost liter, Supreme Quart immunity cheater, lying full of deceiter, as a complete bottom feeder that the Dems have better be fed up enough to push through and change thestuff that 47has completely exploited, cause if they don't handle these obviously incredible holes in our system, our system will fall, to the detriment of the world, as inn ALL.
I'm still pissed off that the only thing Biden did at the end, when the whole world saw Trump for what he is and what he was going to do, is hand out a bunch of pardons for family and friends. YES, they should have gotten those pardons, including Hunter, but he did nothing else to protect the country from Trump's megalomania.
what could he have done and I ask this honestly and not as a smart ass because I'm uninformed. You know stuff
I'm sure there are other things he could have done, especially about all the incompetent federal justices Trump appointed.
They all sound good to me.
Bizarre view of realty. It's almost like an intentional disavowal of everything the Democrats stand for and what they do in office. You should probably familiarize yourself with their record. .
Missed one.
As soon as Trump started campaigning on releasing the Epstein files, Biden should have.
Well, since once again you have commented without providing anything to back your claims up, perhaps you're the one who should research their record. Or else you would have provided examples.
But he didn't.[✘]
You don't know what democrats have done and tried to do the last two times they had power?
It's really amazing to see.
... so is your constant need to change the topic. I'd stop if I were you ...
Reminiscent of the USSR days
In other words , the old Cold War era ran by the military -industrial complex , which in my humble opinion came to power during WW2 when this country was caught flatfooted in production capability .
and it has never been the same since .
Kinda. The USSR ran rough shod over Eastern Europe post WWII. I was young then, but I do know they ran tanks into Czechoslovakia to put down protests and did the same thing in Hungary. And let's not forgot Poland during the Solidarity period.
And don't forget the Berlin Blockade. And the Cuban Missile crisis. And Afghanistan
Man! They were truly horrible!
I tend to separate what happened on the eastern front between the soviets and the germans from the rest of the war. Mainly because it was a front where revenge was paramount and the end results which also carried over to the after war period because of the political leadership.
Call it total war of domination and control .
No, there will be no return to the pre-2016 (pre-Trump) status quo. President Trump did not create the instability and questioning of American hegemony. He has only revealed that a financialized service economy, controlled by middlemen, cannot generate enough wealth to support a global American hegemony and does not provide a truly broad prosperity. During the 21st century the United States monetary policy has mostly exported inflation though dollar diplomacy. American beneficence using deficit spending ultimately served the purpose of devaluing national debt. But that policy ignored the simple fact that printing more money only dilutes real wealth.
The United States has become a paper tiger. The financialized American hegemony has created a hollow world of money without intrinsic value that has become powerless to address hard problems The United States has been reduced to buying band aids and quick fixes with borrowed money rather than building long lasting solutions to problems. When 400% of official poverty level becomes the de facto 'poor' then something is drastically out of whack with our economy, our currency, and our national priorities. That weakness in our own economy becomes magnified when maintaining a global hegemony.
From day one, President Trump has spotlighted that the United States is no longer economically competitive. Trump did not cause this declining competitiveness. Trump's efforts to turn around America's waning capacity to create wealth - perhaps using the proper tools in the wrong way - has revealed weaknesses in American hegemony that can't be hidden any longer. Now that all the world can see those weaknesses, a return to the status quo seems highly unlikely.
Yes, he has shown that we sure as hell ain't the country we once were in so many aspects beyond economical.
His exposing how ignorant our countries citizenry have become, to be taken as in be so damn dumb, to believe a con who duped so many out of so much, not good, just plenty. His manipulation via American policy through his tweets is making his cronies and family enormous amounts while the average citizen sinks further. Our we are #1 and better than others is total BS too many believe and the flattening of the earth with the internet has shown there are many who work harder and more efficient than our system where we have become deficient in education and drive, we need much change if we are to survive.
Greed, and manipulation of our pols via lobbyist brought forth politicians bought who instituted laws and policies that helped create the fallacy that corporations are people too. Sending our good jobs to the cheapest bidder all with the bottom line the driving force and with this more wealth they kept manipulating laws to further decline our countries as long as they benefitted, and they certainly have, leaving US ina downward spiral whilest so many in denial. Just my two sense, it's all i can afford