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blackbootz  ·  2974 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Strategy of the United States

How do the progressives fear global irrelevance? I follow that neocons fear it, in the way that not having the potential to project vast amounts of power is "crippling" to America -- or also in the way that Trump et al. claim that the United States military today "is a disgrace." But what do you refer to when you mention the progressives?





user-inactivated  ·  2974 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The progressive agenda is borderless. They would like to remap the world in their image. See for ref. the activity of the IMF etc throughout the last hundred years. I'm not sure the two approaches are equally destructive, but they're both tone deaf and display a lack of understanding about cultural differences.

Anyway, they can't push that if countries would rather get in bed with Russia e.g.