This a crucial point: USA commitment to global order depended on bipartisan elite consensus from 1945-2016 which allowed policies to survive despite popular opposition. Trump has broken than consensus. https://twitter.com/pstanpolitics/status/1005623915564040192 …
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All threads need more Jack Kirby.
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It must be dismaying to the United States of Europe types that they have their one chance to fill the roll at the very moment the project is falling apart.
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I mean it's essentially the same devolution from unipolar to multipolar as after the fall of Rome right?
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Yes, but internet-facilitated globalism cuts against regional hegemony
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Bless your naive, naive heart. Obama didn’t even undo half the bad blood that W did. American hegemony is not recovering from this.
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With the decline of governmental power, the other alternative to a global hegemon ala "Pax Americana" is international mega-corporations owned and operated by oligarchs and kleptocrats. We're already halfway there on those.
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Worth going back to some of Kindleberger’s 1970s arguments about this - e.g.https://www.dropbox.com/s/mxo1x0n34bcwg4s/Week_1_Kindleberger.pdf?dl=0 …
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China is not just rich; it has made unprecedented investments across the globe that are setting the stage for China to be the next US. This will happen sooner than most Americans realize.
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It's aging fast and about to go through a fuckton of demographic-related stresses though, on top of the creepy AI thugocracy and reeducation camps.
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