Yeah, I've really swallowed the doomer pill lately. I'm going to keep doing my best to be a positive force, but I can't go so hard it stresses me out anymore. It feels like an unwinnable war.
And on top of economic development, imperialized countries will have more room for political independence, being able to skip UMF loans and work around US sanctions.
It's not Americans doing it. It's the unelected government in DC (Obama's people called them "the blob", Trump's people called them the "deep state", take your pick) and they pay little or no attention to the preferences of the American people.
In her study of the Vietnam wars, Marilyn B. Young wrote that by the early 1950s, the US foreign policy establishment “had accepted a set of axioms … as unquestionable as Euclid’s.” The first axiom, she wrote, could be summarized as follows:
“The intentions of the United States are always good. It is possible that in pursuit of good ends, mistakes will be made. But the basic goodness of US intentions cannot ever be questioned. The intentions of the enemies of the United States are bad. It is possible that in the pursuit of bad ends, good things will seem to happen. But the basic badness of enemy intentions cannot ever be questioned.”
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Yeah, I've really swallowed the doomer pill lately. I'm going to keep doing my best to be a positive force, but I can't go so hard it stresses me out anymore. It feels like an unwinnable war.
The US empire is losing its power to control other countries.
China's power is growing, and with it, economic development in poor, imperialized countries will grow.
You just have to remember the US isn't the whole world, and you can bloom instead of doom.
And on top of economic development, imperialized countries will have more room for political independence, being able to skip UMF loans and work around US sanctions.
I am slightly emboldened knowing they can't even get high on their own supply anymore and are getting depressed because they realize they are useless.
It's not Americans doing it. It's the unelected government in DC (Obama's people called them "the blob", Trump's people called them the "deep state", take your pick) and they pay little or no attention to the preferences of the American people.
In her study of the Vietnam wars, Marilyn B. Young wrote that by the early 1950s, the US foreign policy establishment “had accepted a set of axioms … as unquestionable as Euclid’s.” The first axiom, she wrote, could be summarized as follows:
“The intentions of the United States are always good. It is possible that in pursuit of good ends, mistakes will be made. But the basic goodness of US intentions cannot ever be questioned. The intentions of the enemies of the United States are bad. It is possible that in the pursuit of bad ends, good things will seem to happen. But the basic badness of enemy intentions cannot ever be questioned.”