No, Trump wants to leverage US strength for the benefit of US people and stop the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden agenda to give away American assets to other countries for praise and cash to their exclusive elite cabal.
That is a really stupid way of thinking. Basically, you are promoting isolationism and segregation. Also, whatare "American assets"? Most assets in the USA are owned by individuals and organisations, not by the federal government,
Good article. The ideas and ethos of liberalism (restraints on power), republicanism (mutual restraints on power), and pluralism (all people have rights and freedoms) do not get spoken about enough. To conceptualize liberal orders, I think of a family business. If one person is always trying to get more, to not work with the other members, causes problems, eventually the rest of the members will quit doing business with the person always acting in self-interest; and an effort to work together without the singular actor will often move forward. Liberalism is realizing the collective can create more than the singular. Working on the shared ideas, rules, norms, processes create the collective constitution or understanding. Do we need to highlight, judge, and realize the individual skill and capacity to work within larger than the self-systems and organizations? Now more than ever do we need to restrain power, realize mutual restraints on power, realize the reality of pluralism, and continue to build an international liberal, republican, and plural order. Lots of good work to do in the future!
Everything in this article is true, except for its central conceit.
"Throughout most of history, powerful countries dominated their regions, and there was little their weaker neighbors could do about it. For hundreds of years, this system produced an endless boom-and-bust cycle of expanding and contracting empires. But after World War Two, the United States and its allies developed a set of rules, norms, and institutions" -- the "rules-based international order."
So who makes the rules? In that regard, the US was heir to the British Empire (and European overseas colonialism in general) -- a far-flung enterprise that was NOT based on dominating its region.
But with the end of European-style overseas colonialism (and the petering-out of its residual benefits-- to the point where Western Europe has been running on fumes), Trump seems to be betting on a return to the older, land-based model.
Yes, as another commentator notes, "Trump wants to relaunch policies that predate the USA’s superpower status" -- and yes, "If [that overseas paradigm is] terminated, so is the USA’s superpower status and it will be a regional power again."
But -- sad to say (and frightening as this is to contemplate) -- what if he's right?
This article nails it: Trump wants to relaunch policies that predate the USA’s superpower status, without acknowledging that they would end it. What he seemingly fails to realise is that the USA’s liberal policies have provided it with a lot of soft power which in effect leverages its hard power. If those policies are terminated, so is the USA’s superpower status and it will be a regional power again, opposed moreover by its former allies. No free lunches…
Really dangerous and reactionary development. At the same time, everyone who is opposing Trump, Xi and Modi needs to offer new visions for the planet. International/governmental cooperation is not enough and glocal decentralised cooperation between humans is possible as via social platforms
No, Trump wants to leverage US strength for the benefit of US people and stop the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden agenda to give away American assets to other countries for praise and cash to their exclusive elite cabal.
That is a really stupid way of thinking. Basically, you are promoting isolationism and segregation. Also, whatare "American assets"? Most assets in the USA are owned by individuals and organisations, not by the federal government,
Good article. The ideas and ethos of liberalism (restraints on power), republicanism (mutual restraints on power), and pluralism (all people have rights and freedoms) do not get spoken about enough. To conceptualize liberal orders, I think of a family business. If one person is always trying to get more, to not work with the other members, causes problems, eventually the rest of the members will quit doing business with the person always acting in self-interest; and an effort to work together without the singular actor will often move forward. Liberalism is realizing the collective can create more than the singular. Working on the shared ideas, rules, norms, processes create the collective constitution or understanding. Do we need to highlight, judge, and realize the individual skill and capacity to work within larger than the self-systems and organizations? Now more than ever do we need to restrain power, realize mutual restraints on power, realize the reality of pluralism, and continue to build an international liberal, republican, and plural order. Lots of good work to do in the future!
Hahaha, the deep state strikes back :)
Trump is not against "the deep state". He just wants to create a right-wing populist version of it
Everything in this article is true, except for its central conceit.
"Throughout most of history, powerful countries dominated their regions, and there was little their weaker neighbors could do about it. For hundreds of years, this system produced an endless boom-and-bust cycle of expanding and contracting empires. But after World War Two, the United States and its allies developed a set of rules, norms, and institutions" -- the "rules-based international order."
So who makes the rules? In that regard, the US was heir to the British Empire (and European overseas colonialism in general) -- a far-flung enterprise that was NOT based on dominating its region.
But with the end of European-style overseas colonialism (and the petering-out of its residual benefits-- to the point where Western Europe has been running on fumes), Trump seems to be betting on a return to the older, land-based model.
Yes, as another commentator notes, "Trump wants to relaunch policies that predate the USA’s superpower status" -- and yes, "If [that overseas paradigm is] terminated, so is the USA’s superpower status and it will be a regional power again."
But -- sad to say (and frightening as this is to contemplate) -- what if he's right?
This article nails it: Trump wants to relaunch policies that predate the USA’s superpower status, without acknowledging that they would end it. What he seemingly fails to realise is that the USA’s liberal policies have provided it with a lot of soft power which in effect leverages its hard power. If those policies are terminated, so is the USA’s superpower status and it will be a regional power again, opposed moreover by its former allies. No free lunches…
Really dangerous and reactionary development. At the same time, everyone who is opposing Trump, Xi and Modi needs to offer new visions for the planet. International/governmental cooperation is not enough and glocal decentralised cooperation between humans is possible as via social platforms