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U.S. East Coast. The least bad international system would see the Global South - I know, a blurry concept - playing great powers off against each other and developing a measure of leverage and autonomy. But U.S. to remain hegemon for at least a generation.
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Democrats are beneath contempt. Both they and the MAGAs nedd to disappear.
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So, who'll be made to read out the names?
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Europeans just couldn't believe their mother would ever abandon them, no matter what signs were emerging. So, it's one thing to mock Western European foreign and security policy communities, but on a certain level, their stance is understandable, if possibly fatally short-sighted.
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...if she were to ever pull the troops out. Obviously, there are all kinds of strategic and economic reasons why U.S. hegemony has benefited Western Europe, but I believe current analysis is not taking the emotional component of the relationship into account.
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Not familiar with "Reverse Kissinger," but: For the past decade or so, I've come to see the Transatlantic partnership as a parent-to-child relationship. The idea is that European Atlanticists see America as their mother and feel as though she would abandon her children in the dark forest...
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Like the number one reason for declining fertility is declining marriage rates and the number one reason for declining marriage rates is that uneducated men have high rates of being lazy unemployable misogynists. No amount of legacy media articles telling educated women to put out is gonna fix it
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Bush 43 on Liberia's Charles Taylor - warlord, criminal, but his 1997 election win was by all accounts legitimate.
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Oui, bien sûr! Mais je répondais au commentaire qui mettait la responsabilité de la catastrophe d’hier sur les seules épaules de Macron. Starmer aussi avait essayé d’amadouer Trump cette semaine.
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Et Starmer, dans tout ça?
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Short of civilizational collapse, people aren't ready to make that leap yet. It's a huge psychological step for most Americans. But I expect. the debate will take place.