Category: Global power politics
The global world order is changing, with nations like China and India gaining influence, and the US abandoning its long-term allies.
- Alliances of nations
- World politics is not just about the big players.
- Asset-stripping the US
- The Trump administration is overseeing a massive degradation of government services and loss of intrinsic value. Seem familiar?
- Can have control or equality
- If wanting to be in control, expect to pay for that privilege, otherwise expect to share that control.
- Failing wars lead to regime change
- When despotic leaders are facing dissention in their own country, they often try to distract their population by rallying them around some nationalistic and racial lies to promote a war abroad.
- Five eyes turned blind
- The alliance between the five countries comprising the UK and its major former colonies has been on a steady course of weakening their democracies.
- Is the US a failing country?
- The only answer is yes!
- Nationalism creates inequality
- Nationalism is the favouring of one's own nation over others, and so necessarily requires denying equitable distribution of resources throughout the world according to need.
- Paper tiger forces
- We have been seeing that the armed forces of many nations seem to be strong, but are actually far less capable than what they appear.
- Suppressing China
- Both the Biden and Trump administrations have been trying to prevent China from growing as an economic power. This is the wrong approach.
- Taiwan is not Ukraine
- Some feel that a successful invasion of Ukraine by Russia may give impetus for China to invade Taiwan. This largely ignores a critical difference between how the world sees the two target countries.
- The glamour of Russia
- The Russian revolution in 1917 was the start of veneration of Russia as a sort of leftist utopia. It continued even when Stalinist Russia was known to be far from that utopia.
- The right to bear arms
- The United States has a distinct aversion to limits on their citizens' ability to bear arms, yet on the international stage, they want some nations to be restricted from having nuclear weapons.
- The system isn't the saviour
- Capitalists and socialists often frame their arguments as if just changing to their systems is enough to make society better, but is that a valid assumption?
- Time for Europe to stand up
- The Trump administration has released its National Security Strategy document sharply criticising Europe.