Maybe Biden can earn their respect by getting into some huge trade war with a major trading partner that tanks all their ag exports! That seems to be a popular move out in those parts...
No matter what they say this isn't our fault. They wanted to hurt people by not getting a jab or two. Well, they are if you consider them people. They are using their free will to commit suicide by virus. All we are doing is asking how that's working out for them.
i am nowhere near the levers of power, so my objection to imperialism carries no weight whatsoever.
a turn from armed conflict to diplomacy is a turn away from imperialism though, and neither of us is anywhere close enough to the centers of power to usefully assess how extensive that turning away will prove to be.
The course of Empire is way beyond one President's, or Emperor's, ability to change whether that individual wants to or not. I don't think President Biden wants to, but it's a moot question.
Great Powers never willingly divest themselves of Empire, even when it becomes obvious that's the only way to avert disaster. Great Powers lose their Empires when military over-reach and over-spending prevent them from addressing their domestic issues; political and economic; and they collapse from within.
There's a reason nobody is objecting to spending $1.4 Trillion or so per year on War (counting all departments); yet we can't afford 1/10th that amount to fix our collapsing infrastructure or update our energy systems or bring our telecommunications to First World standards. Never mind getting our health care system up to par with, say, Cuba.
Biden's outsourcing of foreign policy to WestExec is a bad sign, but really; what was he gonna do? Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" is still the guiding document of US foreign policy, despite the fact it was obsolete when published in 1997 and Mr. B. himself repudiated his own doctrine on his deathbed. It's a symptom of the crisis of America's political class that we cling to an obsolete, and completely insane, foundational geo-strategy when it is obviously destroying us as a nation.
But that's what Empires do.
The best thing about Biden's presidency so far has been that he at least seems to understand that right now is the last moment America can leverage our global power and the dominance of the US Dollar to address America's pressing and mounting domestic needs. For the past 40 years we've been pretending otherwise. That, to me, is very encouraging.
Obviously we're not going to do it, but to at least acknowledge glaring reality is a refreshing change.
And to think a few years ago the UN was literally laughing at the asswipe former guy.
All this disarraying, rearraying then disarraying again...It's like wearing pants!
"Biden speech fails to solve all world's problems at UN; Can administration survive?"
Inpeaching particles are being drawn RIGHT NOW!!1
but but credibility! approval ratings!
"Allies fail to see the humor."
Norms are only for Democrats!
https://twitter.com/DougJBa...
So, he lost Iowa in the last election and would lose it if there was an election today....so?
Just tell them that this is a magnified picture of the vaccine. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
an "anti-imperialist president" is a magic pony. there are reasons for this that we can explore, if you want to gild that particular lily.
Maybe Biden can earn their respect by getting into some huge trade war with a major trading partner that tanks all their ag exports! That seems to be a popular move out in those parts...
Russia, if you're listening....
No matter what they say this isn't our fault. They wanted to hurt people by not getting a jab or two. Well, they are if you consider them people. They are using their free will to commit suicide by virus. All we are doing is asking how that's working out for them.
I'm a bit concerned about Foundation. I'm going to watch it but the trailer looks very...action explody?
i am nowhere near the levers of power, so my objection to imperialism carries no weight whatsoever.
a turn from armed conflict to diplomacy is a turn away from imperialism though, and neither of us is anywhere close enough to the centers of power to usefully assess how extensive that turning away will prove to be.
The course of Empire is way beyond one President's, or Emperor's, ability to change whether that individual wants to or not. I don't think President Biden wants to, but it's a moot question.
Great Powers never willingly divest themselves of Empire, even when it becomes obvious that's the only way to avert disaster. Great Powers lose their Empires when military over-reach and over-spending prevent them from addressing their domestic issues; political and economic; and they collapse from within.
There's a reason nobody is objecting to spending $1.4 Trillion or so per year on War (counting all departments); yet we can't afford 1/10th that amount to fix our collapsing infrastructure or update our energy systems or bring our telecommunications to First World standards. Never mind getting our health care system up to par with, say, Cuba.
Biden's outsourcing of foreign policy to WestExec is a bad sign, but really; what was he gonna do? Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" is still the guiding document of US foreign policy, despite the fact it was obsolete when published in 1997 and Mr. B. himself repudiated his own doctrine on his deathbed. It's a symptom of the crisis of America's political class that we cling to an obsolete, and completely insane, foundational geo-strategy when it is obviously destroying us as a nation.
But that's what Empires do.
The best thing about Biden's presidency so far has been that he at least seems to understand that right now is the last moment America can leverage our global power and the dominance of the US Dollar to address America's pressing and mounting domestic needs. For the past 40 years we've been pretending otherwise. That, to me, is very encouraging.
Obviously we're not going to do it, but to at least acknowledge glaring reality is a refreshing change.