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I Think They Get It Now, Part I:. In G7's aftermath, defiant despair that Trump really, truly, means what he says.
A multi part series to be posted in coming days. Part I: the USA. Here's a selection, click through for the whole thing:[Zeihan] The great upheavals of the World Wars left the US the pre-eminent power in every respect that matters. Over the course of fifty years, the Americans had gone from almost no navy, stealing Britain’s IP, and being a major global debtor to having the only navy, the technological edge, and to being an economic power on an unprecedented scale. The US had a choice: seek isolation once again and watch its only real competitor – the Soviets – slowly eat away at the periphery until they could challenge the US or find a way to take a ragtag group with long lists of mutual historical grievances a mile long and get them to work together. A real life Magnificent Seven. The new idea was as straightforward as it was revolutionary: use America’s newfound and historically unprecedented economic power to pay all the previous competing powers of eras gone by to be on the same side. Any country that had any meaningful imperial presence could only do so if it also had a significant naval force. These empires’ clashes ‐ over resources, populations and trade routes ‐ were the root causes of nearly every significant military conflict of the entire industrial period, and they culminated into the First and Second World Wars. Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-06-16 |
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