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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70 years of pretending our protectorates and largely autonomous vassal states are "allies"
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and the system now being dismantled by taking such rhetoric at face value and (rightly) concluding if we're just first among equals these "allies" aren't pulling their own weight lol
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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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Replying to @alicemazzy @KoriSchake
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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