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Says the rivals or the US will pass the US if they remain unchecked and the global trade system continues to evolve as it did earlier. He says they recognized this in the US Trump has his politics for this reason. These are the realities they have to face:
- China has advantages in demographics, tech, capital. Their military disadvantage is less. The US economy does not work without Chinese suppliers, and with time they become more and more the creditor of the Western world.
- Russia won the war. Without deploying troops, in the number of hundreds of thousands this victory cannot be reversed. And they don't want to send troops.
- It is possible to do business with Russia, but they cannot be separated from China in the coming decades.
- The US losing space in the Pacific region. China pushes them out. China without firing a shot, slowly but surely integrates the countries into her own economy.
- The EU is weak and will stay weak.
So based on these facts they decided:
- The US have to concentrate home and collect herself, and collect resources.
- Self-reliance in energy, raw materials, forcing investors to put their money into the US, tariffs and tariffs - lowering the deficit.
The US deconstructs the global economical order and regional economies emerge all around the globe.
They also stop exporting Democracy. They don't want to lecture anyone lol they still do all the time - I'm looking at you JD!. Everyone should do at home however they want, along their nature and culture, do whatever politics. But the US also returns to Great Power politics, there are no international rules everyone has to conform to.
So he talks a about Realpolitik vs Liberalism in international relations. What we can expect: might does not make right, but might make things happen. Woe to the weak and vanquished.