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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US has no serious immediate dangerous neighbors. it literally has two large oceans separating it from any nearby competition. When you’re this safe at home, you get to play with stupid ideas knowing that even if you fuck up you’ll still be fine.
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Shipping our entire manufacturing to China, including that of basic medications, is dangerous to all of us. The unhinged migration from Latin America is bad for all of us.
War is not the only consequence of foreign policy. We aren’t in danger of war, absolutely. But we are eating the rest of the consequences with a huge ladle. I mean, first we give money to Iran to build Shahed drones. Then we give Ukraine money to shoot down Shahed drones. We do that right after we gave Ukraine money to destroy its own means of bringing down Shahed drones.
This money could have gone to rebuild our roads but we are playing these moronic games instead.
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The US Navy is retreating thousands of miles from China. At this point only Japan and the Philippines are defensible US allies in Asia. Military adventures in SE Asia like Vietnam are impossible because aircraft carriers in the South China Sea would be sitting ducks for Chinese missiles.
https://www.newsweek.com/satellite-photos-show-us-reclaiming-world-war-two-airfield-china-war-pacific-ocean-1952556
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“this same country is clutching onto failed, absolutely failed, dumb ideas about how things work”
I have the idea we’re entering an age of planned mass destruction of knowledge… not to be too dramatic but it’s hard to not notice… the internet made all types of knowledge freely and widely available and…. that’s over. It’s all being money-fenced and/or just eliminated.
In such a time, people cling to failed ideas because it’s all they have. You might have people making interesting observations about daily trivia but no grand theories because those require integration of different types of knowledge.
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