At this point in time no other country should take the U.S. seriously. Right now, we are not a serious country. We are a joke because we have fools running the entire show.
Yup. The USA has no one in the White House apparatus with any coherent plan. For anything. I guess the plan might be tear it all down. Outsource the profit hubs to the billionaires and let the skeleton that is left lie in rot. Part of it is we never finished the Civil War. Another part is the haves have never felt the have nots deserved the basics to live their lives. As the rest of the world figures out how to untangle itself from the USA, the USA factions will eat each other’s faces.
Do you know how Hitler's third Reich compared with Trump's government's decoherence? I'm hoping Trump has it worse so his regime collapses sooner. Plus there's no Marshall Plan awaiting us
As usual, the mainstream media adopts the official framing without the least awareness that it’s pure propaganda. Or is that awareness just bad for business?
This is a brilliant analysis of the current state of U.S. negotiations in any sphere you want to talk about, be it conflict, trade, governance etc. No one can negotiate in confidence with the U.S. on anything as long as this is the case. The worst current example of course is Iran, but you can apply this problem to anything the current administration does. Statecraft has been replaced by gullibility, grievance and grift.
Thanks for putting forth this perspective.
How will sanity ever be restored after such a destructive and foolish chapter in U.S. history?
On 12 September 2001 I said “if the USA is a serious country they will put both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan back in their boxes”. They remained unboxed.
I have not thought of the USA as a fully serious country since.
Note: I have spent large chunks of my childhood then adult life living in the USA and have known many senior members of the US “national security establishment”. (Some have even agreed with me about this.)
At this point in time no other country should take the U.S. seriously. Right now, we are not a serious country. We are a joke because we have fools running the entire show.
Yup. The USA has no one in the White House apparatus with any coherent plan. For anything. I guess the plan might be tear it all down. Outsource the profit hubs to the billionaires and let the skeleton that is left lie in rot. Part of it is we never finished the Civil War. Another part is the haves have never felt the have nots deserved the basics to live their lives. As the rest of the world figures out how to untangle itself from the USA, the USA factions will eat each other’s faces.
Do you know how Hitler's third Reich compared with Trump's government's decoherence? I'm hoping Trump has it worse so his regime collapses sooner. Plus there's no Marshall Plan awaiting us
As usual, the mainstream media adopts the official framing without the least awareness that it’s pure propaganda. Or is that awareness just bad for business?
This is a brilliant analysis of the current state of U.S. negotiations in any sphere you want to talk about, be it conflict, trade, governance etc. No one can negotiate in confidence with the U.S. on anything as long as this is the case. The worst current example of course is Iran, but you can apply this problem to anything the current administration does. Statecraft has been replaced by gullibility, grievance and grift.
Thanks for putting forth this perspective.
How will sanity ever be restored after such a destructive and foolish chapter in U.S. history?
On 12 September 2001 I said “if the USA is a serious country they will put both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan back in their boxes”. They remained unboxed.
I have not thought of the USA as a fully serious country since.
Note: I have spent large chunks of my childhood then adult life living in the USA and have known many senior members of the US “national security establishment”. (Some have even agreed with me about this.)
The state was replaced by a corrupted church!
I like your writing and thinking. However, I am confused by your last line.