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Those were the days! That is the kind of leadership we would like from the US. Not only paying lip service, but leading by example: ceding power and transferrin
by gonvaled 8y ago
Those were the days! That is the kind of leadership we would like from the US. Not only paying lip service, but leading by example: ceding power and transferring it, step by step, to international, independent bodies, as it happened when the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO were created (not that those are without political influence at the moment).
That is the kind of US that we admire. But that US does sadly not exist anymore, and the world is awaking to that fact.
- EdwardDiego 8y agoOh, I definitely agree, especially with Trump in office, that the US century has ended. Trump is perhaps the symptom, not the cause. I just worry about what comes next - in my corner of the world, China is actively seeking influence, perhaps even dominance, and frankly, the values of China are so antithetical to the values of my country that the idea of a protectionist inward facing US scares me - because the EU certainly isn't about to project power and influence into an ocean that doesn't lap their shores. The EU, while I admire it, is very much all about Europe, and bugger the rest of the world. Or so it seems to this one very subjective Kiwi.