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It is Trump that is unraveling the American world order. He dislikes multi-lateral institutions and does not care for values, only interests. Meanwhile, the Ame
by Leary 8y ago
It is Trump that is unraveling the American world order. He dislikes multi-lateral institutions and does not care for values, only interests. Meanwhile, the American government has no cogent response to China's Belt and Road Initiative except for labeling it as "predatory". Something tells me the hard cash of the Chinese will speak louder in Central Asia than American rhetoric.
- api 8y agoTrump like the neocons is a reaction to a declining American world order. That being said he's doing things that will also like the neocons merely hasten this decline. You can see this pattern in corporations all the time. Companies that start to lose market share will often actually lean into the strategies and decision patterns that are causing their collapse while simultaneously canceling innovative projects that might lead somewhere new. They also often get aggressive by doubling down on efforts to lock customers in and becoming litigious, further driving away new customers and leading those with an existing investment to start making plans to migrate. Human beings react to scarcity by hunkering down, but hunkering down is almost always a losing strategy in the post-industrial age. I expect China's hunkering down to harm it as well. I think it's too early to call China as the new world power.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Trump like the neocons is a reaction to a declining American world order. Neoconservatism arose before the American world order was declining; they only became noteworthy after the end of the Cold War because that (and not any US decline, as such) created a gap between other prominent philosophies and and neoconservatives on substantive foreign policy, where previously there was more of a consensus on the outline of policy, though different philosophies supported the consensus policy.