So, you mean, the international stage is turning back into a state of nature with no supreme arbiter, and that all nations of the earth are afforded their "separate and equal station," as the Declaration of Independence states?
Or do you intend to say that America is the rightful global sovereign, and that no other nation has the right to determine its own affairs and act in their own self interest without prior approval from the United States? And further, that American citizens should spend their lives and treasures to enforce tangential "stability" and "interests" across the globe, perpetually?
It sounds to me like you're describing the end of the "international rules-based order." I fully agree that this will have it's costs--possibly drastic--if not approached appropriately. But I think it's an open question as to whether or not the arrangement for the past 70 years ought to be the status quo forever, or whether or not the burdens the USG has taken on in that time has had a tangible benefit for American citizens, who should be its first priority.
There is indeed a lot of chao but not a lot of ordo coming from this Administration. But when you have a system like the late Soviet Empire crumbling--yes WboM think of Trump as the early Gorby of the US(S)A with JD Vance as a potential Yeltsin waiting in the wings--then mistakes are bound to be made. But rather than deal directly with the Russians and Chinese on the long American retreat/retrenchment to the Western Hemisphere from 80+ years of occupying bases across Eurasia we're instead negotiating by way of the Gulf Arabs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqiMQoMXmw
So, you mean, the international stage is turning back into a state of nature with no supreme arbiter, and that all nations of the earth are afforded their "separate and equal station," as the Declaration of Independence states?
Or do you intend to say that America is the rightful global sovereign, and that no other nation has the right to determine its own affairs and act in their own self interest without prior approval from the United States? And further, that American citizens should spend their lives and treasures to enforce tangential "stability" and "interests" across the globe, perpetually?
It sounds to me like you're describing the end of the "international rules-based order." I fully agree that this will have it's costs--possibly drastic--if not approached appropriately. But I think it's an open question as to whether or not the arrangement for the past 70 years ought to be the status quo forever, or whether or not the burdens the USG has taken on in that time has had a tangible benefit for American citizens, who should be its first priority.
There is indeed a lot of chao but not a lot of ordo coming from this Administration. But when you have a system like the late Soviet Empire crumbling--yes WboM think of Trump as the early Gorby of the US(S)A with JD Vance as a potential Yeltsin waiting in the wings--then mistakes are bound to be made. But rather than deal directly with the Russians and Chinese on the long American retreat/retrenchment to the Western Hemisphere from 80+ years of occupying bases across Eurasia we're instead negotiating by way of the Gulf Arabs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqiMQoMXmw