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I don't want to stir up controversity even more, but with POTUS reigning by decree most of the time, and a self-referential two-party politics cartel, isn't the
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
I don't want to stir up controversity even more, but with POTUS reigning by decree most of the time, and a self-referential two-party politics cartel, isn't the US already into a constitutional crisis of sort? I mean, the US administration has every reason to question China's asymmetric conditions for investment, and the West turning a blind eye towards China totalitarism due to greed and economic necessity, but the current president's ad-hoc actions against partners (NATO, Canada, EU, Mexico, and others) don't amount to a strategic goal so much as a short-sighted signal of "doing something" in election campaigning. In fact, these actions have made it more difficult or even impossible to side with the US. The TikTok ban, apart from its terrible looks (intrusiveness into an already US-dominated market), seems to only follow Trump's desire to black-out an alleged anti-Trump social platform in upcoming elections. The reasoning for allowing Russia to meddle with elections OTOH should be even more concerning in geo-political terms: that Russia's pro-Trump stance is because Trump staying in power will only serve to weaken Western countries.