The west's position here at least in my eyes makes no sense at all. We are antagonizing everybody and fighting on the wrong side of two wars simultaneously, and losing. If there's some realpolitik endgame here I don't see it. Does the US think it can bomb its way back to the 90s?
Yeah I've been saying for a while now that current policy doesn't even make sense from the standpoint of maintaining US/Western hegemony. Ukraine is a military disaster, and worse, the sanctions against Russia have utterly failed in a way that emphatically demonstrates to the rest of the world the possibility of escaping Western economic dominance. And now we have a total abandonment of any possibility of moral credibility with the continued US support for the genocide in Gaza. Things probably won't change much (if at all) in the short term, but in the medium term or so we're going to see some serious consequences for these policy decisions, and in the long term the shadow of these events will be quite long, I'd say.
It feels like this show is being run by 2nd or 3rd generation failsons who can't quite live up to the standard the shrewd masters of the universe that were running the US post-WWII set.
I don't get what the plan is either to be honest. Perhaps from US perspective, they now realize that they lost their global hegemony and the goal is to force their vassals to cut themselves off from the rest of the world which would force them into complete dependence on the US. The worse the relations between the west and the rest of the world are, the easier it becomes to enforce bloc discipline.
IMO, I think there is something fundamental with the organization of the American political project. There is no more collective political projects compare to the liberal imperialism there is only individual interest (to climb the social ladder, money,etc.).
The emphasis of promoting PMC mindset within the bloated political bureaucracy inevitably lead to incompetence because the individuals have no incentive to better off the overall collective when it is probably easier to lower their heads and follow orders to maintain the status quo in a more and more everchanging world.
The end game here is just "China and Russia must be destroyed" China because it's an ebil gommie government and Russia because it has the potential to be a real rival to America in probably half a century.
The west's position here at least in my eyes makes no sense at all. We are antagonizing everybody and fighting on the wrong side of two wars simultaneously, and losing. If there's some realpolitik endgame here I don't see it. Does the US think it can bomb its way back to the 90s?
Yeah I've been saying for a while now that current policy doesn't even make sense from the standpoint of maintaining US/Western hegemony. Ukraine is a military disaster, and worse, the sanctions against Russia have utterly failed in a way that emphatically demonstrates to the rest of the world the possibility of escaping Western economic dominance. And now we have a total abandonment of any possibility of moral credibility with the continued US support for the genocide in Gaza. Things probably won't change much (if at all) in the short term, but in the medium term or so we're going to see some serious consequences for these policy decisions, and in the long term the shadow of these events will be quite long, I'd say.
It feels like this show is being run by 2nd or 3rd generation failsons who can't quite live up to the standard the shrewd masters of the universe that were running the US post-WWII set.
I don't get what the plan is either to be honest. Perhaps from US perspective, they now realize that they lost their global hegemony and the goal is to force their vassals to cut themselves off from the rest of the world which would force them into complete dependence on the US. The worse the relations between the west and the rest of the world are, the easier it becomes to enforce bloc discipline.
IMO, I think there is something fundamental with the organization of the American political project. There is no more collective political projects compare to the liberal imperialism there is only individual interest (to climb the social ladder, money,etc.).
The emphasis of promoting PMC mindset within the bloated political bureaucracy inevitably lead to incompetence because the individuals have no incentive to better off the overall collective when it is probably easier to lower their heads and follow orders to maintain the status quo in a more and more everchanging world.
The end game here is just "China and Russia must be destroyed" China because it's an ebil gommie government and Russia because it has the potential to be a real rival to America in probably half a century.