Global stability of always good for trade and business. The supply chains disruption with covid shows what a bit of chaos can do to businesses, so it's not entirely altruistic.
But I'm aware that this transition away from American dominance can be wild. It's inevitable that fighting for the top dog position will happen. How that plays out with shrinking population is anyone's guess.
and while America has benefited strategically, it’s also taken on substantial costs
It was an empire in all but name and was a bit more than just a strategic benefit, but every empire gets too expensive to maintain and must shrink again.
Last start American politicians started to talk about the cost and responsibilities being too much, EU countries started cozying up to China and it freaked the same politicians that were talking "I invite you to get going without us". Let's see what happens this time.
Insult Musk on Twitter, wait until posts are censored, sue X for not having freedom of speech. How's that for American values?
It was the deal made after world war 2. Europe buys your goods, uses dollar for international trade and reserve currency, buys oil from American companies and trade oil in petro dollars, making American citizens the richest in the world. In turn we have Pax Americana meaning USA beings the world's police, militair bases on European soil, and cooperation in things like climate.
If the choice is made to change that deal, a lot of things will change too. Probably not for the better.
Sci-fi comedy predicting the future again.
It's why taxes were invented. Nothing gives currency value as being beaten by not giving it back to the king's men.
Didn't Erdogan try to do the same in Türkiye? After some currency crashing and cost of living crisis he did change his tune.
That's probably the perception. Democrats have been in power for 4 years, things didn't get better for a lot of people and then they say to vote for them for more of the same. Surprisingly that doesn't help with voter enthusiasm. They'll have more chance next time with messaging things won't get worse with them after Trump mishandled stuff.
Simple, good-sounding things they want to hear is what wins elections these days.
Robocop tube begins playing. OCP starts construction of Delta City.
Anacyclosis is a political theory that describes the cyclical nature of political systems, suggesting that governments progress through a series of stages from monarchy to tyranny, then to aristocracy, democracy, and eventually back to monarchy. This concept emphasizes the inevitable decline of political systems as they shift between these forms, influenced by internal and external factors.
Vance doesn't know that