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> it's very clear that the world is tilting back towards power politics rather than multilateralism and cooperation. We never had multilateralism and cooperati
by jdietrich 10y ago
> it's very clear that the world is tilting back towards power politics rather than multilateralism and cooperation.
We never had multilateralism and cooperation. It seemed that way to the US, in the narrow window between the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of China and Putin. The world seems very cooperative when you're the only superpower standing. We're not seeing a fundamental change in the nature of global politics, just the diminishing power of the US.
- blackflame7000 10y agoVery true. You can't have multilateralism and cooperation when no one else is even on your level. Its like cooperating on a software project where only one person knows anything about programming; its very one sided. We are simply seeing the effect of 12 Trillion in debt to the Chinese leading to huge growth for their economy. Russia is still 1/15th the GDP of the US and desperately needs reduced sanctions and for the price of oil to increase. That is why they were happy about Rex Tillerson being SOS.
- anigbrowl 10y agoI'm European, not American, and I disagree completely.