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I’ve lived in Germany for a while and grew up in Central America (though in an American colony). From my perspective the U.S is in a state of imperial decline.
by suture 4y ago
I’ve lived in Germany for a while and grew up in Central America (though in an American colony). From my perspective the U.S is in a state of imperial decline. The republic is indeed failing. In fact, I think it’s dead but most people just don’t realize this. I can list a number of reasons for this belief and I could be completely wrong.
However, reasons for my beliefs are not due to a lack of knowledge of the world outside the U.S. Empires die eventually and change happens. The major power and structural problems in the U.S. are not sustainable and will eventually have to change. Whether that change comes peacefully or violently I can’t say.
- refurb 4y agoI assume you get most of your news from mass media and their "BREAKING" headlines? If so, I'm not surprised you hold that view. Accusations of the US "in decline" were happening back in the 60's and 70's when things were much worse than they are now, like order of magnitude worse. As I said, navel gazing and lack of perspective tend to dominate news in coverage of the US.
- suture 4y agoI don’t watch television news or any television news program or talk show. I don’t listen to radio news or radio talk shows either. I don’t read the news as such. I will read comments that people write on this site and some others but I am not a consumer of news as such. As I said, I can give reasons for my beliefs and those reasons are not due to ignorance.
- refurb 4y agoI will read comments that people write on this site and some others but I am not a consumer of news as such. The only information source about the US is based on comments on social media? No wonder your view of the US is so pessimistic.
- wing-_-nuts 4y agoThe empire might be failing, but it is possible for the US to peacefully step back, like the UK did after WWII. One thing I wonder is, who steps up? China, for sure, though it's grappling with population decline as an existential crisis. The EU? The EU has never 'stepped up' for anything. The US sat patiently by and tried to let Europe deal with Milosevich. That utterly failed. The EU was also almost ripped apart by the greek debt crisis, so it too is having real issues. A post US hegimon world is going to be a very different world, and not necessarily a better one.
- guerrilla 4y ago> The US sat patiently by and tried to let Europe deal with Milosevich What do you mean? NATO bombed the shit out of what became Serbia, they withdrew from Kosovo and he was arrested two years later...
- wing-_-nuts 4y agoNATO, lead by the US after we waited ages for the European community to sort things out. Europe really dropped the ball there, and proved themselves almost wholly incapable of dealing with an internal security problem.
- guerrilla 4y agoHmmm, I guess and maybe you remember better than I do but how is that not the same thing as NATO and the UN dropping the ball? Is it not the case that everyone waited a year to do anything?
- wing-_-nuts 4y agoThe UN will never solve anything because it requires unanimous support from russia and china on the security council. nato is a defensive alliance that only really comes into effect when a member is attacked. I'm not even sure what pretext allowed nato to get involved here, but Europe basically twiddled their thumbs while genocide happened on the european continent. This only really changed when the US got involved to keep things from spiraling out of control like 1914.