Comments by "surely you joke, mein failüre" (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531) on "How will the Biden presidency impact US foreign relations? | US election 2020" video.

Well, if you look around and note that the US has no German/French/NATO/Belgian/Norwegian/whoever military bases all over the US, you'll begin to realize just how lopsided certain aspects of the alliance are. Your view sounds remarkably unaffected by any facts.
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I'm definitely sleeping better now.
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Rejoin the Paris Climate Accords; strategic arms limitation treaties; repair relations with Iran and apologize for the nutball who's presently on the way out; apologize to our allies for what the departing nutball said and did; allow ICC inspectors into the US; deliver Stephen Miller, professional ghoul, to the Hague so he can answer questions about US policies that violated several parts of Hague 33.
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One of the key differences between the US and China is that many in the US power structure keep trying to roll things back to a simpler, 1950s-esque Norman Rockwell type past (with all the goodies of modern technology, of course, but without the high marginal tax rates that made American prosperity more widespread) and China is rolling right ahead towards the future. Clean cities, high speed rail, public healthcare and education, STEM education, using science to improve things instead of trashing science, etc. The US is basically still a buggywhip manufacturer in those ways :(
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@CommonSense-nh4cn My view has been informed by a number of friends who travel regularly to China on business, also to Europe. I hear of the things they have there - networks of clean high-speed trains that go everywhere - clean cities - modern, well-maintained infrastructure - strong public healthcare systems - robust business communities - and way more. Meanwhile here in the US .. :(
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@lisadiane10001 That's perfectly OK. The fact that you would post such a denial of the obvious is a perfectly good afternoon laugh for me. You're hardly the first person I've run into who insists that up is down, left is right, war is peace, and slavery is freedom. America is the #1 producer of people like that these days.
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@lisadiane10001 Over in Europe, if you want to fly from Berlin to Warsaw, you just buy a ticket from a credit card kiosk machine and get on the plane. Over here, we're still taking off our shoes and putting them in plastic buckets. It's not just the business sector, it's the entire public sector over there that enjoys fast clean cheap transit and healthcare and many other things.
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Well, if you look around and note that the US has no German/French/NATO/Belgian/Norwegian/whoever military bases all over the US, you'll begin to realize just how lopsided certain aspects of the alliance are. The US military (not NATO) has 21 bases in Germany alone. Obviously the Germans aren't insisting on having bases all over the US, but then, they're not preparing to refight WW2 the way we are - and that's an expensive activity that we're participating in and no one else is. Hence our large share of the costs.
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@Sleepy_Apocalypse Clearly you missed the point of what I wrote. ONCE AGAIN note how it is the US that insists on having forward military bases all over the world. Hundreds of them. That's on us. We're choosing to do that. It's expensive. It's our choice so it's our expense. Nobody else chooses to do that so nobody else has those enormous expenses for forward military bases all over the world. Do you need me to use smaller words and shorter sentences?
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@Sleepy_Apocalypse The surety with which you say that almost completely means the truth is the opposite. Like when Trump claims he has a very, very large brain and knows better than everyone else. Once again, the US of its own volition chooses to maintain an incredibly expensive array of some 800+ US military bases all around the world. We're essentially asking the host countries to bear more of the cost of our occupation there .. and, ironically, the quartering of British troops in the (then) Colonies during peacetime was one of the original grievances listed on the declaration of independence. So you're not just full of yourself and none too bright, but you're ignorant of history as well. Fitting for an anonymous fool who I'll probably never encounter again and certainly won't remember.
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