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> because US policy are mostly only until next election elections in the US are like earnings calls for public companies and drive the same short-term thinking
by subpixel 6y ago
> because US policy are mostly only until next election
elections in the US are like earnings calls for public companies and drive the same short-term thinking.
- me_me_me 6y agoI would disagree wholeheartedly with you on that point. Consider thefact that US external policies are always the same, Bush was the 'opposite' of Obama and yet US is still in Afghanistan and they still commit war crimes across the globe despite the fact since Bush Jr there was Lib/Rep/Lib presidents. US - which still shapes worlds events by far - can start wars and fly drones in foreign countries that kill people there. Russia can only send 'green men' to Ukraine or provoke a short term strike with Georgia. This is not a result of a short term thinking nation.
- TearsInTheRain 6y agoThe US is more than just its government. It is easy to argue that we are in a cultural decline as well. We all have agency in that regard.