There are two really big problems with this analysis. The first being that NATO, the EU, or both are going to fail hard. There is no way the French can spend upwards of 5% of their GDP on defense as long as wealthy Frenchmen and French companies can just move to Ireland, who only spends 0.25% on defense. Same goes for Germany. How can they spend 5% when their companies and people can walk across the border and set up shop in Austria, who spend about 1%.
This is the fatal flaw in the whole globalization, free trade ideology. Disconnecting trade from mutual defense and shared values (democracy, rule of law, protections for workers and the environment) creates an international "Tragedy of the Commons".
Which brings me to the second point. Unless Europe can get it's act together, we need to either buy Greenland or walk away. Greenlanders can't even afford their one healthcare much less defend themselves. Denmark is too small and the EU incapable of defending Ukraine much less Greenland.
Sure Denmark is happy to let the American taxpayer spend as much as we want defending Danish territory. They would also love to see American businesses invest billions, hiring plenty of Danes to develop the mineral resources. Just think of the tax revenues that will bring in for them. We the American tax payer will ultimately have to heavily subsidize all this since the EU isn't going to back off their overly restrictive and counter productive Green madness. So the only way these companies are going to be able to make money is if we guarantee to buy the minerals at drastically inflated prices.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti trade or anti military alliances. It's just beyond time for all the supposedly smart people to quit thinking "commons problems" only exist when giving poor people welfare.
Really sharp analysis of how resilience rhetoric gets deployed to justify interventions. The framing around hemispheric security sounds defensive but Maduro's removal was textbook shock exploitation tbh. When domestic infrastructure is crumbing and we're pivoting to dramatic foreign ops, it's not really about stability. I worked adjacent to policy circles in 2019 and this exact patttern was discussed as the go-to move when approval ratings tank.
NATO will not be of assistance to us if we have to fight their war again. They all were either neutral or against us during WWII! Only England, who was literally being invaded, China, and Russia (later after split from Germany) fought along with us. Ironic huh? France gone in 3 weeks, everyone bailed! during WWII! come on they didn't fight back then and they won't again. They are all nihilists. They believe in nothing. What is taught in the schools and pushed by their so called "elite experts" Europe is gone 55 years wasn't bad though!
China - as soon as we can completely separate from them. They are bad news and always have been. They don't want us, fine. They are mostly racists. Goodbye.
Yes, rebuild Amercia! For the last 40 years we have lived off the fat of the land making easy money from our so called "free market" genius's. The neo cons have to go, there day is done. These young people have to build their own way, with old tired unworkable ideas and solutions no longer relevant or doing them any good. Schumer, Pelosi. McConnel, Newsome, Graham, out of the way. Your in these young peoples way trying to make their world work for them.
This is just embarrassing. Enough with the bullshit. I can’t believe this shit is still being posted. Jesus Christ.
There are two really big problems with this analysis. The first being that NATO, the EU, or both are going to fail hard. There is no way the French can spend upwards of 5% of their GDP on defense as long as wealthy Frenchmen and French companies can just move to Ireland, who only spends 0.25% on defense. Same goes for Germany. How can they spend 5% when their companies and people can walk across the border and set up shop in Austria, who spend about 1%.
This is the fatal flaw in the whole globalization, free trade ideology. Disconnecting trade from mutual defense and shared values (democracy, rule of law, protections for workers and the environment) creates an international "Tragedy of the Commons".
Which brings me to the second point. Unless Europe can get it's act together, we need to either buy Greenland or walk away. Greenlanders can't even afford their one healthcare much less defend themselves. Denmark is too small and the EU incapable of defending Ukraine much less Greenland.
Sure Denmark is happy to let the American taxpayer spend as much as we want defending Danish territory. They would also love to see American businesses invest billions, hiring plenty of Danes to develop the mineral resources. Just think of the tax revenues that will bring in for them. We the American tax payer will ultimately have to heavily subsidize all this since the EU isn't going to back off their overly restrictive and counter productive Green madness. So the only way these companies are going to be able to make money is if we guarantee to buy the minerals at drastically inflated prices.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti trade or anti military alliances. It's just beyond time for all the supposedly smart people to quit thinking "commons problems" only exist when giving poor people welfare.
Really sharp analysis of how resilience rhetoric gets deployed to justify interventions. The framing around hemispheric security sounds defensive but Maduro's removal was textbook shock exploitation tbh. When domestic infrastructure is crumbing and we're pivoting to dramatic foreign ops, it's not really about stability. I worked adjacent to policy circles in 2019 and this exact patttern was discussed as the go-to move when approval ratings tank.
NATO will not be of assistance to us if we have to fight their war again. They all were either neutral or against us during WWII! Only England, who was literally being invaded, China, and Russia (later after split from Germany) fought along with us. Ironic huh? France gone in 3 weeks, everyone bailed! during WWII! come on they didn't fight back then and they won't again. They are all nihilists. They believe in nothing. What is taught in the schools and pushed by their so called "elite experts" Europe is gone 55 years wasn't bad though!
China - as soon as we can completely separate from them. They are bad news and always have been. They don't want us, fine. They are mostly racists. Goodbye.
Yes, rebuild Amercia! For the last 40 years we have lived off the fat of the land making easy money from our so called "free market" genius's. The neo cons have to go, there day is done. These young people have to build their own way, with old tired unworkable ideas and solutions no longer relevant or doing them any good. Schumer, Pelosi. McConnel, Newsome, Graham, out of the way. Your in these young peoples way trying to make their world work for them.
Great article, thank you. Spot on brother.
500 years
Blowing up NATO is a feature not a bug. They are sabotaging American interests.