30/ It feels especially selfish coming from a country that could wage 2 world wars and a Cold War at a safe remove and then reshape entire continents to its liking in the aftermath, without even gaining the label of “colonial power”
Well now we’re into the specifics of cost-benefit tradeoffs of isolationism vs interdependence. In that sense it’s always been optional for all sufficiently large countries. Only the cost of isolationism varies. It’s going up for everybody now.
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To circle back to the original, most people don't come close to understanding cause-effect on a local let alone global scale. Even the Americans that do come close are spoiled. We get to collectively do pretty much what we want and like all spoiled people be believe we deserve it
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