Don’t think they will be that stupid to bend this time. A war on European soil would catastrophic for them, and import 3x of the price for oil, the only winner is the US and it dog UK
No this would badly hit the UK but the UK government is too corrupt to care. And increased ties to US financial institutions would benefit the people in the UK that matter
lol i said that just to head off the inevitable "the usa still has a lot of power" comments. But yea it does seem like i'm seeing increasingly more and more countries turning their shoulders in a way i never saw when i was a teenager
I wouldn't say we've hit full "Suez Crisis" quite yet, but it's being teed up nicely. The only way to avoid it would be for the US just to go home and stop with the aggression, but nope.
We'd already exhausted our credibility via Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama was supposed to reestablish it internationally, but what little he did manage (Iran deal, tax haven crack downs, TPP) either failed or got immediately rolled back in the subsequent administration.
Tack on COVID, America's shit handling of climate change, and the next looming global economic downturn, and the US is running out of chits to cash in. Foreign leaders abroad are asking the same question Americans at home are being forced to answer. What the fuck has the US Government done for me, lately?
feel like i'm watching the usa's ability to bend other countries to its will diminish slowly in real time
It's like a dozen Suez Canal crises slowly reaching a crescendo all at once.
I want to be hopeful, but I know Europeans have a way of disappointing when it comes to not capitulating to Uncle Sam (like on the Iran Deal).
Don’t think they will be that stupid to bend this time. A war on European soil would catastrophic for them, and import 3x of the price for oil, the only winner is the US and it dog UK
No this would badly hit the UK but the UK government is too corrupt to care. And increased ties to US financial institutions would benefit the people in the UK that matter
keep in mind as this is happening a coup in Burkina Faso is going down. They are always coming out on top somewhere
slowly?
lol i said that just to head off the inevitable "the usa still has a lot of power" comments. But yea it does seem like i'm seeing increasingly more and more countries turning their shoulders in a way i never saw when i was a teenager
You're right, it's rapidly becoming strength instead of power, soon all we'll have is the big nuke stick to wave around
I wouldn't say we've hit full "Suez Crisis" quite yet, but it's being teed up nicely. The only way to avoid it would be for the US just to go home and stop with the aggression, but nope.
We'd already exhausted our credibility via Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama was supposed to reestablish it internationally, but what little he did manage (Iran deal, tax haven crack downs, TPP) either failed or got immediately rolled back in the subsequent administration.
Tack on COVID, America's shit handling of climate change, and the next looming global economic downturn, and the US is running out of chits to cash in. Foreign leaders abroad are asking the same question Americans at home are being forced to answer. What the fuck has the US Government done for me, lately?
It's beautiful