I put a lot of US’s problems as interfence from Russia and China to empower the far-right so that Russia has a customer base for oil, and China can race ahead in the green markets.
I think a world without the US would just mean that Europe and South America are targeted in the same way
The dysfunction in the US has always existed, but it never spilled over into politics quite to this degree.
Russia was found to be sponsoring the NRA, and the rise of evangelicals as a voting group seems to be a co-ordinated world-wide phenomenon.
Whilst one can blame the techbros and robber barons for exacerbating this, I’d argue that those same elites thrived more under stable economic growth than an unstable one
I put a lot of US’s problems as interfence from Russia and China to empower the far-right so that Russia has a customer base for oil, and China can race ahead in the green markets.
I think a world without the US would just mean that Europe and South America are targeted in the same way
I think you’re overestimating the influence of Russia and China and underestimating the dysfunction in the US.
The dysfunction in the US has always existed, but it never spilled over into politics quite to this degree.
Russia was found to be sponsoring the NRA, and the rise of evangelicals as a voting group seems to be a co-ordinated world-wide phenomenon.
Whilst one can blame the techbros and robber barons for exacerbating this, I’d argue that those same elites thrived more under stable economic growth than an unstable one
I think the ultimate cause for most of the world’s problems is Russia and its decrepit fascism.
I think also people forget how good the US was in being a stable pillar of free and open collaboration in the sciences worldwide.
What is happening now is a major shift in that stability