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Q: Is the American Century Over?
Yes.
Maybe whatever was going on in your little bubble is. But if you talk about America, that's called projection: a common trend among delusional people (aka leftists) to assume their issues are everybody else's issues.
mattsm84:
After the second world war the US built a lot of international political and economic institution to maintain stability and order as well as promote re-growth. This is not an opinion or something that only exists in my bubble. Trump says he's going to walk away from these things. Again, not an opinion.
RiriRiri:
Of all angles you could have picked... world stability? Really? After supporting Hillary "We Came We Saw He Died Hahahahahaha" Clinton? Are you taking me for an idiot or you are just that delusional?
After WW2, in which US intervention in Europe was merely about looting stuff and/or being a pain in the ass of those who had already won anyway, some institutions were built in order to mostly settle and maintain hegemony and a superiority over the communist USSR. These institutions have since been largely deviated from their original goals and have been serving more as a cartel pushing the now dying globalist agenda.
Yeah, Trump says NATO is mostly obsolete and most of the post WW2 deals must be either rethought or just dismissed, or are you implying we still live in a world where the Japanese and the German military are a relevant threat? Is there anything beyond that that's not just plain logic?
As for the IMF, WTO and other bullshit economic structures that either no one trusts anymore or that countries largely ignore already, good riddance as well.
Anyway, let me feed you on some insider intel: more butthurt elections are still to come next year, and most likely these institutions are dead anyway because they were not only a bad deal for the USA but also for everyone else since they were mostly serving the cartel of sociopaths that used to run things and now hopefully won't. Better get ahead of things.
Relax, you swing the pendulum of politics too far left then it swings back right, like Carter to Reagan, If the right goes too far right, it will go back left again. There is nothing knew under the banner of the heavens. All the naysayers of Trump are actually less doom and gloom than the the naysayers of Reagan. Hell, Carter predicted a nuclear war if Reagan defeated him, how did that workout, huh.
mattsm84:
But Reagan didn't campaign on a platform of starting nuclear war. Trump very much campaigned on a platform of cutting taxes, reducing international trade, or "rethinking" our role in NATO, or any other number of military alliances, because he thinks they're obsolete. Let's assume he'll do the things that he says he'll do.
ambivalentmace:
I hope he does, America has been paying for security for the world too damn long and we can't continue doing this with our debt. The world can find a new world power police force, we are closed for business, let the Russians fix the Middle East.
Shining_brow:
But Ambi, you make it sound like the US's "world police" was done out of the goodness of their heart.
It's never been about that - it's always been about securing US interests - pipeline here, military base there, new regime that allows US businesses to exploit the locals everywhere else...
Granted, there was a perceived threat that no longer exists (Russia) and the whole communism Cold War crap. But, again, that was a perception.
Here's a question for you... if the US has a deal in place (like a contract), is it ok for a new president to come along and just wipe it cos they don't like it? And, thus, effectiively does that mean any arrangements with the US are only as good for as long as the guy who signed it remains in power - a max of 8 years?
ambivalentmace:
a contract, you mean an agreement to protect Ukraine if they get rid of their nuclear weapons signed by Bill Clinton, or an agreement to protect and defend Ukraine if they give up their military stockpiles signed by Hussein Obama, those kind of agreements. The question should be will Trump stand by agreements we have already broken, if he bails on Nato, it will be in writing. even a bankruptcy is in writing. The question is do we need the American military in Germany in 2045, 100 years after ww2, if not when should we leave, we need to scale down on a schedule, we can't continue to pay for all this shit.
Every poster, who rotted for Killary should be reprimanded for 100 pints by admin, as 'matt', 'expat-wifey', 'warm-water' and more .... 
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The Emperor is wearing no clothes.
Does anybody else think, c&p could be an Art?
Hotwater:
Warm-water? To be honest I was luke-warm about Hillary but better than the hot-headed fart
icnif77:
'Randel Patrick McMurphy' and 'warm-water' .... scene from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' .... L-aughing A-ss& M-y O-ff' Often. Here. ----->LAMOOH
Is that you mattsm84:
We'll probably still be in the basket, but its hard to see the US maintaining primacy as the reserve currency after it decides to cut taxes and shrink its economy by reducing how much it engages in international trade. This was an unnecessary own goal for us.
icnif77:
I posted this graph around 2011-12 on the thread 'Can Rmb replace US$ ...' or similar.
Traders in US and elsewhere talk about 'dying' US$ since some 15-20 years ago. 
Reset is coming, hopefully without WW.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/is-the-dollar-really-losing-its-reserve-currency-status-what-will-replace-it.html
icnif77:
Oh the irony of it all.
Who is still President of his country…
Who is next on the neo-liberal warmonger regime change list...
Hopefully (and I am American)
Two wishes: the century of democracy and the century of balance of power.
I hope developing and under-developed countries and regions will get to the same level as developed countries while transitioning to democracy and like that we'll have different regional powers -> North American, South American, West and East European, South, East and Southeast Asian, African, Middle Eastern. That ought to put some balance
