RE: Poor Kathy Griffin
July 7, 2017 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2017 at 1:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 7, 2017 at 10:38 am)alpha male Wrote: Cool - let Germany handle world affairs. It's a thankless job. Less costly and aggravating for us if someone else does it.
You couldn't have been more wrong about something if you tried. American immanence was directly tied to both our ability and our willingness to be big brother. It was -why- we got deference at the trade table. -Why- our opinions and interests had to be properly accounted for..for better or for worse..even when we bungled it.
We purchased immense wealth and goodwill by our willingness to "handle world affairs" and, frankly, we can't sustain ourselves if we lose that. Voluntarily opting out and ceding it to some other nation is suicidal. Backing out of the TPP gave the pacific to China, for example. Babbling about a fucking wall and tariffs costs us N, S, and Central america. Losing the confidence of the EU costs us Eurasia. Abandoning the browns costs us the middle east and africa (the latter of which being the next big thing in world development).
What does that leave us with...iirc, "this american carnage". Hallelujah, what contest in hell did we win to get that one? Perhaps you need a little history lesson as to how irrelevant the US is and was when it was practicing isolationism and protectionism - and that was when we had -more- natural resources to exploit, little to no employment law, and fewer competitors .
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