We Americans used to at least try not to look for "foreign monsters abroad". I was raised on that sort of old fashioned idea. Do you ever feel like an impossible person from a land that never existed?
yakko
joined 11 months ago
Custard's last stand
Fundamentally unserious "just admit defeat" type of offering. The real signal is that the US is still a painfully unreliable ally.
It still is a right wing position, but the trouble is not right or left specifically, it's that the empire is overextended with its military obligations, the dollar has been badly debased, the US pays more in debt than its GDP, and despite all our spending, the US couldn't possibly meet all of its military obligations if more than one big thing happened at a time. The dollar is still the world reserve currency, but only because there's not yet a credible replacement.
The sad fact is that instead of minding our business, America wanted to be an empire - and empires have a pretty standard lifecycle. I don't think it's a question of if, but when, it goes the way of Spain and GB.