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| The Shape of a Post-American World |
| 2014-03-28 |
| [SultanKnish] The post-American world will be many things, but multilateral isn't one of them. There will be no world government and international organizations will be good for little except sucking up the last drops of wealth and prestige of the United States. It will be a chaotic place with everyone out for themselves. The Cold War map of the world divided into two camps was simple and clear. The post-American world will be a much more ambiguous place. Instead of two global ideological alliances based around two world powers, there will be three post-ideological powers, no longer global in scope, and one worldwide ideological alliance. The United States, Russia and China are post-ideological states. Russia and China have abandoned Communism. The United States is even abandoning nationalism; to say nothing of capitalism, democracy or freedom. Its rulers cling to scraps of global leftist ideology that isolate them from their own people. Russia and China are run by powerful corrupt elites who emerged from the old Communist order to build economic oligarchies enforced by the ruthless use of force. The United States is increasingly run by an oligarchy of ideological bureaucrats, corrupt technocrats and leftist academics that has a distant resemblance to the USSR and the PRC; but its long march through the institutions hasn't turned fully totalitarian yet. That may be less than a generation away. Russia, China and the United States are all demographically unstable. Russia and the United States are both on track to become majority-minority countries. China's demographic disaster will be the outcome of its one child policies, gender abortion and its war on the countryside. The United States will probably weather its demographic problems better than Russia or China, because the former faces a fatal Muslim demographic takeover and the latter a conflict that will tear its society apart, but like Russia and China, the demographic crisis in the United States will be exacerbated by the lack of common bonds to see it through a period of social stress. Russia and China will fall back into their own history, collapse and isolationism for China, barbarian rule for Russia. The United States has no such history to fall back on and its elites have abandoned any meaningful national identity that doesn't rely on pop culture and liberal pieties. There is little to unify Russia or China except greedy oligarchies playing at nationalism. It's an unconvincing nationalism because the sons and daughters of their elites spend more time abroad than at home and sometimes even hold American citizenship. The KGB oligarchs of Russia and the Communist princes of China are as globalist as any Eurocrat. They have few national commitments. Their goals are wealth and power for their families and associates. Unfortunately there is even less to unify the United States after the left embraced multiculturalism at the expense of exceptionalism. The erosion of everything from free speech to the free market has reduced the American Dream from individual opportunity to vulgar exhibitionism. Uncontrolled immigration has imported masses of hostile populations everywhere from Nashville to Minneapolis radically changing quintessentially American cultures and replacing them with balkanized minority coalitions who have little in common except a mutual hostility against the United States. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #11 The Shape of Post-Apartheid South Africa. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-28 20:05 |
| #10 High Entropy. Lots of people will be killed. Multicultural heaven. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-03-28 19:48 |
| #9 The Post-American world looks like it will have many more crazy guys running around with BFG's than does the current world. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-03-28 19:33 |
| #8 Ever notice that not many people mess with a crazy guy carrying a BFG? Until he tries to break into your home, Pappy. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-28 14:33 |
| #7 Actually, if you'll think out it RJ, Israel is a lot better off in bi-polar world. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-28 14:32 |
| #6 We Americans have to be rid of Obama, not just rid of, but have his programs thoroughly eradicated, and his memory destroyed, no more Obama anything, He's proven a sociopath, liar, and can't be trusted. NOT "Because he's Black" Because h's not American, a Socialist Black Foreigner, and does NOT have America at heart, he's in it for the cash, not for America. And that's a poor President. Israel, look out. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-03-28 11:15 |
| #5 there is all the difference in the world between being a sole (and not particularly sane) super-power and being powerless? Ever notice that not many people mess with a crazy guy carrying a BFG? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-03-28 10:24 |
| #4 Russia and the United States are both on track to become majority-minority countries. Strange isn't it how Hispanics are treated as non-white in so many demographic projections? Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula, aka Spain and Portugal. If you check the European map, they're there. They certainly exported the culture and social caste order, versus that of Northern Europe, as well to the Americas. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-03-28 08:38 |
| #3 Why does it have to be post-American---there is all the difference in the world between being a sole (and not particularly sane) super-power and being powerless? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-28 04:23 |
| #2 "The US is even abandoning Nationalism, to say nothing of Capitalism, Democracy, or Freedom" > Yuuuuppp. OF COURSE YOU KNOW THIS MEANS WAR! But first, a Cinnamon Roll. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-03-28 02:29 |
| #1 Don't neglect the comments. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-28 01:49 |