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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))10/02/2018 2:49:38 am PDT

re: #55 goddamnedfrank

I definitely agree the US is in decline in terms of global dominance, and see that as a good thing generally. What’s genuinely horrifying is that we’re not doing it gracefully and are instead shitting all over alliances painstakingly built up over the last century.

Yes, instead of recognizing the fact that we became the world’s leading power much by default (as a rseult of the self-destruction of Europe in the first half of the 20th century and the collapse of the USSR at the end of the century) we are both retreating into isolationism in trade and diplomacy while still trying to maintain military dominance.