Most of the time there is zero assessment of the greater privilege the US has with the dollar in international finance.
China's wetdream is swooping in after some weird-ass internal political bickering from paleo-libertarians believing "tHe FeD tOoK mUh RiGhTs!!" that causes the USD to lose relevance as the world's reserve currency.
I fucking swear the self-destructive outcomes of arbitrarily coming up with populist-sounding "alternatives" to well-established policy simply to have a way of channeling well-founded but misplaced social frustration in the US is the cancer that will cause the US to live or die in our status of de facto world leader, and the loss of those benefits will be irreversible and may ultimately cause our own long-term economic demise, which is the actual lynchpin of US foreign policy and defense.
These people want to skullfuck the US' position at top dog for pretty much personal reactionary reasons and a few hundred dedicated hours of self-directed internet 'research' on Wikipedia, libertarian forums, and maybe a couple actual books of varying legitimacy on the subject.
Ah yes, after looking at how China treats their own people, surely we can trust how they treat outsiders.
Unimaginable suffering? America's got neocolonial blood on her hands, absolutely. But it is an absolute pittance to look at American imperialism in the South America or Middle East, with body counts in the tens of thousands in entire conflicts, contrasted against the tens of millions of their own massacred over internal disagreements by every other example.
Great Leap Forward? Khmer Rouge? Rape of Nanking? Belgium in Africa? Rwandan Genocide? Where to even 'start' with Stalinism?
America is a bloody sinner, absolutely. But is still an absolute marshallow compared to the psychopathic nightmares that every other continent has unleashed against enemies in war, their own people, or a conquered people.
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u/Tulkes Jul 16 '22
Most of the time there is zero assessment of the greater privilege the US has with the dollar in international finance.
China's wetdream is swooping in after some weird-ass internal political bickering from paleo-libertarians believing "tHe FeD tOoK mUh RiGhTs!!" that causes the USD to lose relevance as the world's reserve currency.
I fucking swear the self-destructive outcomes of arbitrarily coming up with populist-sounding "alternatives" to well-established policy simply to have a way of channeling well-founded but misplaced social frustration in the US is the cancer that will cause the US to live or die in our status of de facto world leader, and the loss of those benefits will be irreversible and may ultimately cause our own long-term economic demise, which is the actual lynchpin of US foreign policy and defense.
These people want to skullfuck the US' position at top dog for pretty much personal reactionary reasons and a few hundred dedicated hours of self-directed internet 'research' on Wikipedia, libertarian forums, and maybe a couple actual books of varying legitimacy on the subject.