Depressing how as soon as a new election rolls around 80% of people left of Warren forget that the democrats didn’t do anything as “harm reduction” last time around. Hopefully it ends soon :doomer:
Depressing how as soon as a new election rolls around 80% of people left of Warren forget that the democrats didn’t do anything as “harm reduction” last time around. Hopefully it ends soon :doomer:
I guess the candidate you think will be less able to manage the empire outside the US
The US needs a president willing to negotiate with every nation instead of acting unilaterally for domestic politics. The only hope of curtailing the imperial abuses of NATO or any of the other Western defensive pacts is to subsume them into a larger security framework with China, Russia, African Union, etc. That is going to take someone like FDR or LBJ in quality, so we are probably pretty fucked.
Old school take-and-hold-lands Imperialism like in Ukraine 2014-? and Afghanistan 2000-2020 show that it doesn't really work that well in the modern era. The proliferation of cheap force multipliers like Stingers and Javelins make holding lands wickedly costly for invading forces. China spent decades slowly building out their blue water navy, and now their fleet is more modern and more numerous than even Russia's .
Maybe China will be the adult in the room and offer security frameworks to cool down tensions. That would be the smart play. China spent trillions building infrastructure while the US and Russia wasted trillions in imperial quagmires. That is the way forward. Not building drone fleet carriers with lasers or whatever the DoD is wasting money on now.
Honestly I was just hoping for an idiot who would mess up US attempts to retain hegemony with incompetence I don't believe the US esstablishment will let someone like you're describing through the cracks
A lot of progress towards internationalism for the working classes has been co-opted by transnational defense companies.
I don't think the defense companies would let an executive in any NATO country attempt to do the sane thing and work towards comity with peer-level partners like China, India, AU. Too much lucre is flowing. Building infrastructure for the proles doesn't make enough billionaires like making killer robots does.
building infrastucture was what allowed capitalism to initially take off the rail networks were pivotal to their transitions into world powers. In America it allowed a vast continent to be truly connected and for the entire impperial core it made it so coal and goods could be rapidly transported and used in industry.
Infrastructure of the imperial core is vastly important for the health of the empire. The Romans weren't building roads for kicks after all. Neoliberalism is in some ways destructive to capitalism's ability to compete on the world stage as it turns capitalism's consumption on the mechanisms of the state which are needed to enforce it's will. A bit like an ouroboros.
transport and energy infrastructure might not be directly part of the military industrial complex but ultimately what's bad for the industrial complex is bad for the military industrial complex. And a lack of infrastructure is not good for industry