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This is how you accelerate the end of the US empire. It's bad for us, but tbh, good for the world. The pulling out of America from international institutions an
by tehjoker 2y ago
This is how you accelerate the end of the US empire. It's bad for us, but tbh, good for the world. The pulling out of America from international institutions and disrupting the scientific pipeline will erode America's ability to perniciously influence world institutions and reduces our ability to brain drain the rest of the globe for the benefit of 4% of the world population (and really, the major benefits go to the top 20% of that 4% and the bulk of that goes to the 1%... 0.1%....).
- int_19h 2y agoThe world won't really be any better off because there are other empires vying for the top spot, and they will simply replace US if the latter drops the ball.
- tehjoker 2y agoIt's not really clear that the situation that has been in place since WW2 that was mainly due to the destruction of Europe and Europe and America's intentional underdevelopment of the rest of the world is a situation that will persist. Most likely the new world will be multi-polar, which has its own challenges but also opportunities.
- int_19h 2y agoWhat difference does it make, though? In any given place, you're either under the heel of one of the empires, or (worst case) in a place where they contest for control via proxy wars.