RE: Hey Trumptards - Enjoy Your Sore Assholes
May 17, 2018 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2018 at 1:56 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 17, 2018 at 1:39 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I;m foolishly optimistic..but I think we can turn it around. I don;t think we'll ever regain our former position or status, but a respectable downgrade like the UK's is well within our reach...unless we keep screwing the pooch.
We lost forever the ability to actually regain our former position in the 1960s as much of the developed world made good the ground lost during wwii and our unique position in 1946 as the largest major power and the only major power spared the ravages of total war came to an end.
What we had since the 1960s and before 2016 was the ability to hang on to major parts of the hegemonic position we gained before 1960 through a singularly enlightened understanding that a hegemonic power can only stay great and not be toppled through a death of a thousand cuts inflicted by all the other powers in the world if it used its hegemony in a way that profits and enriches most other major powers, it supported a global order that is essentially fair to the majority of influential players and provides room for them to grow and gain on the hegemonic power, and the other powers do not feel the hegemonic power is fundamentally enimical to the core interests of other powers.
That was before 2016. After 2016 we’ve largely dismantled our capacity to hang on to what we could never regain once lost.
