Obviously it is and has been for quite some time.
Why not?
Yemen is a ■■■■ hole, why do I care if the Saudis take it over?
they’re not in the pacific?
no, no obviously, and not at all
you don’t understand how the dollar being the worlds reserve currency helps prop it up?
Hegemony is at best a temporary status. Political will ebbs and flows, nationalism ebbs and flows, economic/military might ebbs and flows.
How so?
The talk didn’t stop with Trump.
Hell one of the one things I gave Trump credit for is he intuitively understood American Hegemony was unsustainable.
yes it did. during trumps tenure we defeated isis, forced china into a trade pact, forced canada and mexico to renegotiate trade deals, forced mexico to police its southern border and enter into an agreement to house migrants before they could invade our southern border, saw a major eu power leave the eu partially in favor of better trade relations with the us, began the process of forcing the eu countries to trade with us on bilateral basis’ watering down their power as a block, refitted the US military, bought middle eastern countries to the table to normalize relations with israel, and many other things leftists scoffed at. all exercizes of american power. not much waning going on.
what trump knew instinctively that leftists seem to not get is US economic power is unmatched, and its not just a piggy bank to entice, its also a club to enforce. leftists like to tout the nations “moral authority”, as if they have morals to begin with. they don’t, its a game of appearances, and the world doesn’t give a ■■■■ about morals or appearances. woke lefties like to pretend they do, but it all comes down to two things. benefits and fear. other nations have two questions: “how does it benefit us to play ball with the US” and “whats the risk if we don’t”
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It seems you have contradicted yourself. You said we need to get back into our own box yet the last sentence you say isolationism is bad?
You’d rather live in Russia than the West?
Or china for that matter?
It seems inarguable they are far more regressive.
We as in the UK.
We are obsessed with being a “big” player on the world stage when we’re not that relevant these days.
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For reference, here is the full text of the English version of Putin’s speech along with a summary of key points from a Russian source:
One of Putin’s key points is that “elite change” is coming in the west. Is that even possible?
‘Elite change’ awaits the West
Policies undertaken by EU and US leaders are exacerbating inequalities and divisions in their societies, not just in terms of welfare but in terms of values and orientations of various groups, Putin said.
“Such a detachment from reality, from the demands of society, will inevitably lead to a surge of populism and the growth of radical movements, to serious social and economic changes, to degradation and, in the near future, to a change of elites,” the Russian leader said.
We have once again become a “sleeping giant” without suitable leadership. Our military capabilities are second to none but given who is running our government at the moment it’s not likely they would be properly utilized should the need arise.
If we don’t awaken from this nightmare of pronouns and drag queens, we will no longer be a major player on the world stage.
Yes, a long-term trend has been the rise of Asia and other regions compared to the US and Europe.
At the end of World War II, virtually the entire world was under control of European powers or former colonies ruled by people of European origin.
Asia, Latin America, and Africa will become more important in coming years. Russia is aligning with rising economies in those regions.
Say what you like about globalisation but it has lifted billions out of poverty.
The future will be here. The economies on the grey side of the map will be growing much faster than those in green.
not all, and not china. most can grow faster, and it won’t matter a whit since they basically are third world ■■■■■■■■■ to begin with.
Western capitalism and western technology have gone worldwide.
As the rest of the world catches up, the US and Europe are going to become a smaller share of the world economy. Short of a global thermonuclear war, I see no way to reverse this trend.
