The Death of the Global Cop

The American Mind ^ | 08/11/21 | Angelo Codevilla

[PoliticallyShort]

Here and now, more than usual, a nation’s relation with others flows less from choices about policy than it does from the character of its people and ruling class. Scarcely any foreign policy is possible for a people who hate one another. All but the most basic functions are beyond being supported by a population—of ever lower intellectual and moral capacity—that has lost confidence in its leaders. Today’s U.S. ruling class is thoroughly corrupt and absorbed in domestic revolution. No serious statesmen would display their own country’s internal divisions as does the U.S. by flying the LGBT flag. It is not reasonable to expect foreigners to take seriously American statesmen who do not take seriously their own country’s unity and interests.

Having witnessed the abandon with which the ruling class abstracted from reality to weaponize U.S. relations with Russia, it is impossible to imagine that it would refrain from doing the same with any other matter that it deemed convenient. U.S. relations with China depend on various Chinese interests’ outright purchase of practical allegiance up and down and throughout America’s political and social hierarchy.

[dynachrome]

“The Death of the Global Cop” is a good thing. Especially in any muzzie country.

[DesertRhino]

Massive internal repression, financial ruin, endemic corruption, and leaving Afghanistan in defeat.

USSR 1989? No... USA 2021.

We pissed away the single greatest moment in modern history as communism imploded, China was a backwards worthless nation stuck in poverty, and America was riding high.

Pissed it away.

[marktwain]

Yes, because our ruling elite did not want an ascendant America.

The wanted global government, and were saddened to see the Soviet Union collapse.

The US governing class could have insisted China reform its politics to gain world markets.

Instead, they gave away the store. More properly, they sold it for a pittance.