Stupid, improvident, gullible and weak.
At least, I hope this serves as a lesson and nobody ever listens to the United States and believes its “guarantees.” For thirty years every US administration repeated, “disarm, please do it as a gesture of good will, please disarm, it’s really important, and we’ll protect you in case you need it.” The result is the largest war in Europe since WWII, devastation, deaths, and a total collapse of the US method of guaranteeing peace.
Since 1991, the US policy failed massively on China because the ideas it relied on were low-quality. It failed on the post-Soviet space because, again, the ideas it was operating on were bad. Failed on Iran. Failed on Latin America. Every single failure is owed to the fact that the thinking behind policy was flawed, superficial, just simply bad.
Things aren’t going much better domestically. The country that is an intellect magnet like no other. A country with the best higher education on the planet, the best scholarship, the best conditions in human history to produce ideas, to think, contemplate and create. A country that has the most solid, advanced thinking than any other in every area of human endeavor. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, this same country is clutching onto failed, absolutely failed, dumb ideas about how things work.
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