this is what's called "getting high on your own supply"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/sunday/trump-china-america-first.html …
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It's true they don't pull their own weight, but they pull some, and I worry we'll miss that help when it's gone,
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I'm not saying "our allies are weak so we should cast them off" I'm saying "our allies aren't really allies and this dissonance results from pretending they are"
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from the perspective of wanting to preserve global american hegemony (this is something I have deeply mixed feelings about--america is comically dysfunctional but chinese domination likely far worse)
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the "america first" position takes the "liberal international community" framing at face value and concludes it is a bad deal in how much each party brings to the table
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the easiest way to counter this imo is to drop the "international community/first among equals" framing, admit to the empire, and properly run it like an empire
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liberalism on the international stage is incoherent without westphalianism. the "nationalists" want a return to westphalianism
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the "internationalists" I think would make a much better case as avowed imperialists rather than trying to contort liberalism to fit with the post-'45 order
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The next generation not getting the joke, is the undoing of many indirect systems of power and privilege.
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One would think that the empire ought to be extracting wealth from its vassals, instead of the reverse. I guess it matters in which way you consider who has the empire
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Fun fact: Iraq war and the whole ongoing drone war of the U.S was only possible, because of Allies. Ever been to Ramstein? The whole concept of the US World Leadership only works with Allies. Because Geography.
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