I was once the guy saying that the world had changed and this was no longer feasible.
I have come to the conclusion that the US should essentially focus more on Latin/South America (resources and low cost labor) and stay friends with the Euro's as well as Japan, Australia and S. Korea but withdraw from the world stage largely. There is no way to remain innocent (the good guy) and meddle on the world stage. You will ultimately have blood on your hands and the real decision maker becomes greed...
Basically we need to stop being the worlds cop and we need to stop pretending that everyone of these wars where we talk about some despot or oligarch as a “madman” is us being the nice guy defending human rights, democracy, bla bla bla. We get into these conflicts because we have economic interests, especially post WWII and Cold War. We have basically become an empire with an expeditionary armed forces that are holding down the security in our “world order.” If China stuffs 1 million people in camps because of their religion, we won't even say much. Why? because China is our #1 trade partner.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037
If Saudi Arabia oppresses religion, women, gays, doing things like hacking off body parts and throwing people from roof tops, we won't say shit either, because they matter a lot to us economically. Heck, they can hack a US resident working for a news paper into pieces, in a fellow NATO country, and we would roll out the red carpet for those involved tomorrow if they landed in DC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45812399
Meanwhile our news will talk about those "Russian oligarchs." hahaha
I'm a Cold War baby that grew up overseas. I don't even remember Radio Moscow or Pravda being this bad and we used to sit in the West laughing at that crap!
We are an empire.
I hate it. Hate it like you can’t imagine. See, my folk fled Europe to get away from grandstanding elites who wanted us to march all over hell for dots on a map that didn’t do anyone any good but the bragging rights (in my Great Grandpa’s diary about the Kaiser). Another side were free soilers, dedicated to a man working to support himself and his own, and with his own power.
But the effete international elite seem to want to improve everyone. Turn them into mirrors of themselves, sipping soy latte’s and buggering themselves. “Helping” people all over the world, while our cities burn, our children don’t know what bathroom to use, and our working age men die of despair because they have limited opportunities.
I do not like neighbors that try to meddle in my affairs, but cherish those who mind their own gardens and help me mind mine. We went from the shining city on the hill to the annoying Karen in the HOA.
And now, those same Karen’s want to spill more of our blood in a losing war MONTHS AFTER RETREATING FROM THE LAST ONE. If NATO goes into the Ukraine it won’t be a grand hunt like our last war. Where there are nice comfortable FOB’s secure. It will be a war like the old times.
I don’t get the sudden rush to start WWIII. I do not like Putin, or Russia. They are trash. But our supposed allies just chopped off a bunch of heads the other day, and our biggest trading partner has concentration camps that a lot of companies funded.
We need to leave the HOA and mind our own farm.