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I agree that the US are powerful enough to bully everyone else. Up to a point.
by mytailorisrich 4y ago
I agree that the US are powerful enough to bully everyone else. Up to a point.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> the US are powerful enough to bully everyone else. Up to a point This is an adversarial model of international relations. It’s dated to the imperial era. One can model any countries’ relationships with it. (It’s vaguely tautological.) And it will make them all sound imperial. (For example, France with her former colonies. Or Norway with Denmark: they’re nice because it is below the limit of what they will tolerate from one another.) For sake of argument, let’s embrace this flawed model. Using its lingo, the entire point of this discussion is whether that point of decoupling is before or after Beijing invades Taiwan. Whether France has the strength to stand up, or is constrained in its policy options in response to an invasion.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoI an just stating facts and the way the US, and others, operate according to their relative strength. I am hoping France has the strength to stand up for itself.
- RedCondor 4y agoThe United States is a paper tiger.