The New Place

I think the present Italian government is going to surprise us all. Being in power is very different from being in opposition, and the two coalition partners will soon understand that Europe needs fixing, but not being destroyed. And I expect the lowering of some taxes will be compensated with a br...

China has no natural allies in the world. Culturally or politically. China will have ups and downs but will never become the world leader because it has no moral vision, and nobody admires it. It doesn't have any ideology or culture that the world is hungry for. It's just a place to make stuff for ...

Of course nations should do what they believe is best for themselves. Unfortunately, many of them lack sufficient self-respect and seek to hide under the umbrella of a "preferred partner." Lack of self-respect has nothing to do with it. Instead, their policymakers calculate their own country's stre...

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Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:43 pm

The US is the only game in town for at least 100 years.

American exceptionalism is just another form of insanity...

Perhaps you believe that there have been nations whose governments were so altruistic that they put the interests of other countries ahead of their own. If so, please enumerate. Otherwise your comments make no sense. To repeat the points I made on this thread: 1. The US is discarding partners as th...

A country dropping out of the euro because of poor performance would suffer a very steep and fast drop in its currency value, so it would experience all the woes I mentioned above. On top of that its foreign debt - in US dollars or euros - would suddenly become even more difficult to pay. I absolut...

Perhaps you believe that there have been nations whose governments were so altruistic that they put the interests of other countries ahead of their own. If so, please enumerate. Otherwise your comments make no sense. To repeat the points I made on this thread: 1. The US is discarding partners as th...

Sertorio wants to believe that the N Koreans love Fatty Kim because He can’t bring himself to admit that Socialism is a failure. In his fantasyland, Socialism is a great success in N Korea and so the people loves Fatty Kim. I'm still trying to figure out whether you are intellectually very limited,...

I have some comments on the Kim-Trump meeting, but I will not contribute to a thread with a childish designation of Chairman Kim of North Korea. Trust you to demand respect for the most loathsome dictator on Earth. Your opinion of Kim is irrelevant. What matters is what the North Koreans feel about...

As it happens, many Americans welcome anti-Americanism from any source. It assists the US in identifying those folks who cannot be relied upon as reliable partners in furthering US interests . Do you realize what you just wrote? Reliable partners are those who further US interests... And I thought ...