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hoolstoptheheels

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Is actually more of a force for globalization than we are under Trump.


Their belts and roads initiative; they, unlike us, stayed in the Paris accords, etc. To be sure their motives are far from pure and they are as brutal an authoritarian regime as there is in the world, even though they pick and choose their spots to be openly brutal. But they are not clawing at the world structures in place since the multi-decade tragedy last century which was initiated by the rise in nationalism and militarism a little over 100 years ago.

We were the most important driving force in creating those global structures which ushered in about 75 years of unprecedented peace and prosperity, so nobody can do the damage to it that we can, with a president this committed to destroying it. We are effectively partnering with Russia in this effort. Not saying via formal collusion, but Trumpistan at least shares that goal with them.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 10/09/2019 1:45PM]

(In response to this post by Lupos)

Posted: 10/09/2019 at 1:35PM



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