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We were the economic and military hegemon. Perhaps it wasn't as bad as you say.
by outer_web 1y ago
We were the economic and military hegemon. Perhaps it wasn't as bad as you say.
- lazyeye 1y agoIt is likely worse. Much worse. For anyone interested, here's an interview with Bob Lighthizer on what has been going on with global trade over the past few decades:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IUh8kNSqY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IUh8kNSqY I'd be interested in comments on what he has to say rather than attacks on his character and the usual shooting the messenger etc.
- outer_web 1y agoCare to summarize his points? I hate youtube and especially hate rando video links from the internet.
- lazyeye 1y agoNope..it requires effort to understand things beyond partisan tropes.
- outer_web 1y agoI didn't realize I was only engaging using partisan tropes. Thank you for educating me.
- t-writescode 1y agoFor what it's worth, I would prefer to have a summary as well, rather than listening to Tucker Carlson and someone on his show for an hour and a half. I read his book, Ship of Fools, years ago and what I gathered was that he saw a lot of the same general negatives as the next person and made a lot of sense; but his solution was always an ethnostate, veiled or otherwise, to fix everything - or I suppose "immigration is the harm" and "people not like us", etc. If there's useful information from what he says, I'd love to hear it, but I don't want to hear the other half again as it's exhausting.
- lazyeye 1y agoI've never once heard Tucker Carlson frame an argument along the lines of protecting an ethnostate (if thats what you mean) and his contribution is minimal. The majority of the talking is done by Bob Lighthizer (as you'd expect given he is being interviewed).