Indeed. At best, over the next couple of years, it will become commonly acknowledged that almost all of the world that matters is a US empire, where even the most compliant vassals are monitored with a paranoid fervor.
We have bred a neoliberal monoculture, and we'll be fucked when that proves to be brittle and we have no alternative models being practiced. We were promised an End of History and we're determined to have it.
Who is being insulted? How is a nation "insulted." You have the deep state, who are willing participants in this system of managing the people, and you have politicians who are the window dressing, who consent as well. Then you have the people, who are not to blame. Who, in this picture, would be "insulted?"
People could elect politicians that choose to reduce ties with the US but they do not out of self interest. You are claiming they are all victims of a worldwide conspiracy.
Are you claiming Germany does not have a history with a deep state? To be more specific, are you claiming the US has not been effective in steering the direction of German domestic politics?
Germany is a special case due to severe restrictions on them after the holocaust, you claimed "almost all of the world that matters is a US empire". A claim which should be laughed at.
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Indeed. At best, over the next couple of years, it will become commonly acknowledged that almost all of the world that matters is a US empire, where even the most compliant vassals are monitored with a paranoid fervor.
We have bred a neoliberal monoculture, and we'll be fucked when that proves to be brittle and we have no alternative models being practiced. We were promised an End of History and we're determined to have it.
That is pretty insulting to other nations and demonstrably false as they clearly have agency.
Who is being insulted? How is a nation "insulted." You have the deep state, who are willing participants in this system of managing the people, and you have politicians who are the window dressing, who consent as well. Then you have the people, who are not to blame. Who, in this picture, would be "insulted?"
People could elect politicians that choose to reduce ties with the US but they do not out of self interest. You are claiming they are all victims of a worldwide conspiracy.
Wait, you must mean highly autonomous Japan. Ha. Ha.
South Korea?
No? How about a less developed highly populous Asian country like Philippines? Surely they must be democratic and "have agency." Oh snap!
Shall we talk about how the term "banana republic" was coined?
Are you claiming Germany does not have a history with a deep state? To be more specific, are you claiming the US has not been effective in steering the direction of German domestic politics?
Germany is a special case due to severe restrictions on them after the holocaust, you claimed "almost all of the world that matters is a US empire". A claim which should be laughed at.