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Anthony Beavers's avatar

Spot on analysis. But what's really crazy about all this is that we are doing it to ourselves. We didn't lose a war, or go through a huge economic decline. Trump got in because most working-class White Americans are clueless bigots. And they, along with almost all the rest, don't give a rat's ass about the rest of the world. Hell, most of them couldn't find Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico or the Panama Canal on an unmarked map!

So the U.S. is at the beginning of a whole series of self-inflicted defeats in foreign policy that will completely destroy what was until now a pretty solid rules-based governance of the most advanced portions of the world - a rules-based system that has been central to our country's economic dominance and security since WWII. The international (dis)order is rolling back to what it was in the late 19'th century, but this time with nukes. This is not security. This is disaster!

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Daryl Le Cornu's avatar

Excellent analysis, especially the paragraph about slippery slopes becoming cliffs.

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