Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Trump is on the march" video.
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I think the Economic History from 1914 onwards is on part a history of the US using its financial power to hobble it's rivals. The Special Relationship myth obscured the hard-nosed truth about Geopolitics and financial and economic Imperialism of that period. Let's not be shy about it. Both world wars were opportunities used to elbow its rivals - mainly France and Britain - into complying with its plan to dominate the world economically and financially as its rivals had done before. "Geopolitics is a poker game where all the players are lying," and nothing has changed that truth. Perhaps if we were more willing ourselves to confront our own history of Imperialism, weight be better equipped to recognise its appeal to others. But our elites don't want to open that can of worms, because they're still involved in it many ways. Hence, the hypocrisy and avoidance of confronting our complicity in many ways in the present. In avoiding facing up to it, we in turn become victims of it, because no empire, figuratively or literally, lasts forever. History practically is the best tool to reveal this truth. Knowing our economic and financial history, and linking it to political and geopolitical changes would have warned us much earlier of people like Trump, being the consequence of when one global economic hegemony is coming to its end of its potential for growth. The declining power turns to economic and political aggression to stave off its decline. It starts to try and find new sources of wealth for money to throw at the problem. That's what we did with our empire, and that's what the US is doing now, and they are so desperate that they turn on their allies and attempt to shake them down and bend them to their will. It's the imperialistic form of looking for change down the back of the sofa, when the prepayment meter is running out. So much for the heavies, turning to protectionism and intimidation of those they deem weaker.
It's not the first time our country has been subject to such treatment, and it won't be the last. Our domestic politics is literally a scramble for change down the back of the sofa, because winter has come, because our oligarchs deceived themselves, and deceived us in turn about the harsh truth. What to do? Put aside the delusions, because they will not help. Trump is trying to rattle us, because he perceives us as weak and clueless. And in some ways, we've been naive. We should stop lying to ourselves about what is being done in our name. We should stop appeasing the asset wealthy, because they're aren't focussed on solving our problems, but satisfying their obsession with having more at any cost. They shaped the narrative to suit their goals, and if we let them, they will impoverish us further and damage our economic potential permanently. And they need to give up their untenable obsession with infinite wealth on a finite planet. We are at a tipping point in history, and the only way to not damage ourselves further is not to pretend that there is no alternative, as we falsely keep being told. We need to push back on that.
Richard's 14 Questions need to be asked not only of Keir Starmer or Labour, but of every politician wanting to govern us. Indeed, the American people should be asking this of their leaders too. Because, we need to face up to the fact that what they are proposing can't work. Business as usual isn't going to work to rebuild economies whose foundations have been neglected and need attention to survive, and are weakening our social fabric. There's nowhere to hide from this. There's no ladder to pull up, as the latter itself is rotting. So we need to look at things more differently and more honestly if we are to come out the other side permanently diminished economically and socially.
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