"The US hegemony could only remain benign for a short period as hegemony requires much coercion to prevent rivals from emerging and to sustain the concentration of power."
Exactly. The US' ruling elite made a choice, that hegemony is more important to them than peace.
If they understood war, they would have not involved themselves in this war. It's a proof in its own right, a proof in the very choice and action, confirmed and amplified by the outcome. If one knows well he cannot fly and understands the laws of gravity, he would not jump off a tall building hoping that he would be just fine.
At the end of the day, an offshoot of what Glenn Diesen is describing is the fact that the United States missed a prime opportunity prior to and during the unipolar moment to more or less follow the dictates laid out by George Kennan and John Mearsheimer where instead of trying to remake the world in the US’s image the US should have led by example and largely minded its own business.
Among many other things, the consequences of this extremely foolish and unwise set policies has resulted in what John Mearsheimer referred to when he stated that “the pursuit of liberalism abroad has hurt liberalism at home”.
Even though it might sound like nonsense, in my opinion the human race as a species needs to step back and look at where we’re headed. We need to become much more cognizant of the fact that we have the capacity to chart a course which is much more in line with that which is wise rather than that which is foolish.
This is what my free “course” lays out.
I guess what it amounts to with regard to my “course” is that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
“….. After the Cold War, the US outlined a security strategy based on global primacy in which security for itself and the world depends on perpetual US dominance…”
With all due respect Glenn, observed reality is more like this:
“After the Cold War, the US outlined a security strategy based on global primacy in which security for itself depends on perpetual US dominance AND on perpetual insecurity of every other country in the world”.
In other words the US is playing a zero sum game. And believes that sharing the pie instead of hogging constitutes, not just a loss but actually a catastrophic and unacceptable loss. It’s delusion and megalomania that we are looking at there.
We cannot begin to fix this problem until we have awareness and understanding of the above “burning platform” that most of the world, include Europe, is standing on.
Trump's tragedy turns into farce and farce into tragedy. How long before the US public turn against this monster. I mean the guy is an embarrassment and a dangerous halfwit.
US foreign policy began its current path with the Wolfowitz, Pearle documents of the 90s. You may note that it is practically independent of who is president. Trump pearl clutching is a distraction imo because not a single president has wavered from this sadistic path since the elder Bush.
True, however, Trump is like over the top and actually, quite useful as foil for the Deep State. Yes it’s business as usual but with a mad cherry on top
"The US hegemony could only remain benign for a short period as hegemony requires much coercion to prevent rivals from emerging and to sustain the concentration of power."
Exactly. The US' ruling elite made a choice, that hegemony is more important to them than peace.
They call this "foreign policy".
The rest of us call this evil.
If they understood war, they would have not involved themselves in this war. It's a proof in its own right, a proof in the very choice and action, confirmed and amplified by the outcome. If one knows well he cannot fly and understands the laws of gravity, he would not jump off a tall building hoping that he would be just fine.
At the end of the day, an offshoot of what Glenn Diesen is describing is the fact that the United States missed a prime opportunity prior to and during the unipolar moment to more or less follow the dictates laid out by George Kennan and John Mearsheimer where instead of trying to remake the world in the US’s image the US should have led by example and largely minded its own business.
Among many other things, the consequences of this extremely foolish and unwise set policies has resulted in what John Mearsheimer referred to when he stated that “the pursuit of liberalism abroad has hurt liberalism at home”.
Even though it might sound like nonsense, in my opinion the human race as a species needs to step back and look at where we’re headed. We need to become much more cognizant of the fact that we have the capacity to chart a course which is much more in line with that which is wise rather than that which is foolish.
This is what my free “course” lays out.
I guess what it amounts to with regard to my “course” is that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
“….. After the Cold War, the US outlined a security strategy based on global primacy in which security for itself and the world depends on perpetual US dominance…”
With all due respect Glenn, observed reality is more like this:
“After the Cold War, the US outlined a security strategy based on global primacy in which security for itself depends on perpetual US dominance AND on perpetual insecurity of every other country in the world”.
In other words the US is playing a zero sum game. And believes that sharing the pie instead of hogging constitutes, not just a loss but actually a catastrophic and unacceptable loss. It’s delusion and megalomania that we are looking at there.
We cannot begin to fix this problem until we have awareness and understanding of the above “burning platform” that most of the world, include Europe, is standing on.
Trump's tragedy turns into farce and farce into tragedy. How long before the US public turn against this monster. I mean the guy is an embarrassment and a dangerous halfwit.
US foreign policy began its current path with the Wolfowitz, Pearle documents of the 90s. You may note that it is practically independent of who is president. Trump pearl clutching is a distraction imo because not a single president has wavered from this sadistic path since the elder Bush.
True, however, Trump is like over the top and actually, quite useful as foil for the Deep State. Yes it’s business as usual but with a mad cherry on top
And what is worse Europe’s fascination with liberal delusions, is giving rise to autocratic alt-right all across Europe.
Yup. This phenomenon can be summed up with John Mearsheimer’s observation that “the persist of liberalism abroad has hurt liberalism at home”.