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Kind of right, kind of not. There are unarguably factions in the US that consider fascists like Putin to be friends, not enemies, and would happily consider an
by TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
Kind of right, kind of not. There are unarguably factions in the US that consider fascists like Putin to be friends, not enemies, and would happily consider an international alliance.
And US force-projection has few defences against the kind of subversion of key figures that Putin has decided to specialise in.
The US will continue in some form. But the post-Enlightenment liberal/rationalist/progressive current in the US and Europe is in deadly danger.
- scotty79 3y agoPutin is trouble for US because they are used to picking their own enemy. And now they already have one, thank you very much. So Putin is very much a superfluous nuisance. I'm sure there was one faction that considered pivoting from China to Putin, but it doesn't seem very strong. The stronger faction is just hoping that it will end one way or the other soon enough so they can come back to fully exploiting potential of having China as the enemy. While for Europe the threat is existential if not in the short term then surely in mid to long term. Many countries with local ambitions smell blood in the water and they start to pop up their heads. Putin is the largest one, but there are so many recently. US has pretty much no hopes of maintaining control over it all. It's not even trying. It divested from Ukraine, tentatively invested in Israel, pretty much ignoring everything else.