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i cant find an article on the event, but at one point mattis and tillerson and some third guy basically dragged trump into a room and deliberately walked him through the global deployment of us troops and trade and economic agreements that currently exist
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the point of it essentially is that you can see the existing stability in the world as being built on a web of diplomacy and arms of which the united states is the guarantor and lynchpin
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trade and peace dont just "happen", they occur within and atop a metasystem of treaties, finance, and military integrations if you perturbate that system a bit, smaller economies collapse and minor wars break out if you remove the core?
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if your a liberal, you built this system and its maintenance is in your best interest if your a conservative, i suggest you think about chestertons fence for three seconds if your a leftist, you might consider your terminal values and try a consequentialist mode for a moment
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probably everyone in the US would be better off if more policy were determined at the state and local level, and i see a trend in that direction regardless what is an extremely bad idea is dramatically and erratically destroying us capacity to maintain the international system
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the united states is not just about the united states anymore and while in some ways this is bad for people in the united states (I think it is a net good) pretending this is not true and kicking out the stops is insane and puerile that is all
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Tbh as an American I am no huge fan of the country in its current state but I find myself having to remind my European friends quite often that when America tanks, so do treasuries and the world economy. Hell on earth doesn’t seem like a cool trade.
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The end of the world? No. An extraordinarily messy time that will set humanity and whatever progress has been made since 1945 back a few decades? Yes.
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a lot they're basically France-sized as an economy
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