Yes, we really reaped the benefits of being the 500lb gorilla when it came time to invade Iraq. Those were great times indeed. We will surely miss those halcyon days.
Yes, we really reaped the benefits of being the 500lb gorilla when it came time to invade Iraq. Those were great times indeed. We will surely miss those halcyon days.
Don't conflate the wisdom of invading with the abstract point that once you allow divergent muscle power and conventional wisdom, you won't simply do as you please any more.
There is no guarantee they agree with us about the next terror camp we want to destroy anywhere... or let us use their air bases, etc.
I expect they perceive themselves as vulnerable to terror as we do, esp of the home-grown kind. If they deny us use of their air bases it will change the Western world order. For all the sniping and nit-picking the details, both our continents are Western liberal democracies. As long as that holds, we have more in common than we donтАЩt
I agree. One big difference, and this was a discussion on another story the other day, is that the Western countries will now differ based on if populists have adequate access to the democratic process and win elections (USA, Italy, Hungary) or elites in a given country have control of the process (Romania, where lawfare/Russiagate succeeded, and countries still under elite controlled thinking like Canada)
The EU is as close as you can get to elite without being royalty. Depending on who's talking and what day it is the EU is seen over here as either a useful Sugar Daddy or a big pain. Non-Western immigration has thrown a real monkey wrench into a workable level of comfort with the EU. The Europeans I talk to at this point are more antagonistic than annoyed. I sense a real transition in the world - ferment, anxiety, broad dissatisfaction and discomfort, hard to know where it,s going, maybe another dark age, maybe another renaissance.
We can worry about that after they have invested here to avoid tariffs. Maybe long- term they can generate their own demand, but in the meantime, who else will buy European goods? China?ЁЯдг
Yes, we really reaped the benefits of being the 500lb gorilla when it came time to invade Iraq. Those were great times indeed. We will surely miss those halcyon days.
Don't conflate the wisdom of invading with the abstract point that once you allow divergent muscle power and conventional wisdom, you won't simply do as you please any more.
There is no guarantee they agree with us about the next terror camp we want to destroy anywhere... or let us use their air bases, etc.
I expect they perceive themselves as vulnerable to terror as we do, esp of the home-grown kind. If they deny us use of their air bases it will change the Western world order. For all the sniping and nit-picking the details, both our continents are Western liberal democracies. As long as that holds, we have more in common than we donтАЩt
I agree. One big difference, and this was a discussion on another story the other day, is that the Western countries will now differ based on if populists have adequate access to the democratic process and win elections (USA, Italy, Hungary) or elites in a given country have control of the process (Romania, where lawfare/Russiagate succeeded, and countries still under elite controlled thinking like Canada)
The EU is as close as you can get to elite without being royalty. Depending on who's talking and what day it is the EU is seen over here as either a useful Sugar Daddy or a big pain. Non-Western immigration has thrown a real monkey wrench into a workable level of comfort with the EU. The Europeans I talk to at this point are more antagonistic than annoyed. I sense a real transition in the world - ferment, anxiety, broad dissatisfaction and discomfort, hard to know where it,s going, maybe another dark age, maybe another renaissance.
We can worry about that after they have invested here to avoid tariffs. Maybe long- term they can generate their own demand, but in the meantime, who else will buy European goods? China?ЁЯдг
We can worry about that decades ago then, given all the German car plants in the southeast US. Tariffs have always existed both ways.