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Last time the US won a war without the assistance of any allies (and not against yourself), it was 1848 and you were fighing Mexico. The US economy is only the
by ben_w 10mo ago
Last time the US won a war without the assistance of any allies (and not against yourself), it was 1848 and you were fighing Mexico.
The US economy is only the largest if you don't adjust for purchasing power, at which point the US and EU are in joint second place way behind China, and separated from each other by a rounding error despite Brexit.
If the US wants to go alone, sure we'd miss you, but it's welcome to go in peace… so long as it doesn't steal Greenland on the way out.
- jacquesm 10mo agoThis is effectively a defection, which in game theory may make sense but we're talking about a lot of lives and the established world order here. You mess with that at your peril, the idea that you can just pretend we're playing a game of Risk here is idiotic. But once you get past a certain point momentum takes over. We may already be there, maybe not quite, but this is about as dangerous as it has been in a very long time.
- ben_w 10mo agoI agree, but due to the revealed preference of the current rhetoric and how this becomes a defacto method of departure, rather than the choice to depart itself.
- jacquesm 10mo agoIt's a decision either way, whether announced or not doesn't really make a difference. There was some measure to ensure that Trump could not take the US out of NATO, he seems have been trying to find some alternative that has the same effect and he may well have found it.