“It Is Still a Unipolar World”
Not for long.......
Soon, very soon, to be replaced with multipolarity. Bet.
“....The past few months haven’t taught us that the United States is finagling a new world order....”
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A lot of bunk in this article, but this one is a doozy.
The article is a bunch of counter-intuitive horse manure.
I cry foul! And demand reparations.
It is unipolar, absolutely. And china is the one with the lock on the pole.
I think this article drives hard at the fundamental pathology distracting too many freepers.
What seems to happen is that when Democrats are elected President, we are somehow obligated to cheer for our international enemies: China, Russia, Iran.
That is completely pathological.
Neither China or Russia or their combination comes close to equalling US power. It is terrible that Biden is president but it never justifies cheering for our enemies.
Friedman is locked into the idea that we are more powerful than other countries.
That could be true. Pit us against the coalition that could form against us, and it may not be.
I doubt that Putin or anyone in his admin said anything like what is said here.
He is no dummy. He knows that his enemy (actually the enemy of the human race) is BeijingBiden.
Most likely he said: “This WHouse admin is....yada yada.”
No, it’s not. Watch.
I would add to my last post that I do disagree with multiple statements in the article, though they do not disprove the overall assertion.
One glaring example is “massive amounts of weapons to Ukraine”. This is nonsense. So far the best we’ve sent are mid-end lower power versions of HIMARS, and mid-end versions of the M777. All of 20 of the HIMARS, in particular. Poland, by contrast, has ordered up 500! They understand the score...
One can get back to me when we’ve sent 100 HIMARS with generous amounts of our better ammo, and kits for 1000 decoys. Or maybe 100 of the M777-ER.
OTOH, we hear unending claims US cooperation with Europe, and a unified Europe vs. Russia, are about to blow up. What was that last vote of the EU concerning training & support for Ukraine? One abstention (Hungary) and SFAIK, no “no’s”.