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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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People think the fact that voting barely affects foreign policy is the result of shadowy overlords when in fact it's because there are a very small range of options open for rational actors
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extremely think the second
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possibly! i think it was an earlier story but this has the event iirc
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