Your description, up until around 1971 is accurate, though your analysis breaks down thereafter, likely on inadequate knowledge of foreign and defence policy.
1.When there is a global hegemon the world is more peaceful. This is also true of regional hegemons pre-globalization. Rome and Qin both governed over peace and prosperity because neither could challenge the other. You want to live in a unipolar world, whether you know it or not.
2. Critics of American hegemony need to take a careful look at the alternatives. I don't mean merely the war of all against all which is the anarchy of a world without a dominant hegemon. I also mean those countries which were powerful enough and attempted to implement global hegemony. They include Hitler's Germany, Imperial Japan, and Stalin's USSR. There were alternatives to an Anglo-American world order in 1940, and also in 1944. They included things like hell ships, death marches, concentration camps, mass deportations, and artificial famines.
3. No other country, not even the EU Euro can create a truly global reserve currency. And the ECB was modeled after the Bundesbank, which was modelled after the Federal Reserve Board.
4. China, much as I love Chinese people, is currently incapable of either forming its own global reserve currency let alone ousting the dollar.
Just like the USA likely cannot oust the CCP (nor should it!) China cannot oust the dollar and for its own economic well being really needs to stop advancing that line, since a bad global economy is a bad Chinese economy which in turn destabilizes the CCP.
The one way to get rid of the CCP? Ruin the global economy. Best way to ruin the global economy? Ruin the US financial system. They are each others' hostage, in a strange way.
Yeah, that's ridiculous as in ludicrous also known as risible.
You are ignorant or deceptive and either way ignore the Stalinist Holodomir and forced deportations not to mention Katyn, Hitlers murder factories, Imperial Japanese chemical and biological warfare "experiments" on Chinese people the rape of Nanking, the various communist blood purges and red terrors, Mao's Great Famine Forward or the "Cultural" revolution. Did I mention "the one child policy" and its forced sterilzations and cumpolsory abortions? China had a declining population for the last 2 years despite an increasing life expectancy.
You are simply wrong. The alternative to U.S. hegemony are really fucking horrible, just ask the people being victimized by Putin in Ukraine or Israel by Iran. They are, after all, opponents to the U.S. hegemony you decry! You should love them!
My adversaries die or surrender, fyi, and it is their choice.
You can't produce a rebuttal to my essay and that is why you resort to propaganda-style tactics. I don't understand why you think talking about Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany gives credence to your hypothesis. Btw, Japan and Germany are in the "West" today aren't they?
P.S. You don't have adversaries. You're a biased academic sitting on a sofa using selective bias and selective history to support his pre-conceived notions.
Excellent article. Love the way you constructed your thoughts. Many thanks.
Thanks James. Some people can appreciate ;)
Your description, up until around 1971 is accurate, though your analysis breaks down thereafter, likely on inadequate knowledge of foreign and defence policy.
1.When there is a global hegemon the world is more peaceful. This is also true of regional hegemons pre-globalization. Rome and Qin both governed over peace and prosperity because neither could challenge the other. You want to live in a unipolar world, whether you know it or not.
2. Critics of American hegemony need to take a careful look at the alternatives. I don't mean merely the war of all against all which is the anarchy of a world without a dominant hegemon. I also mean those countries which were powerful enough and attempted to implement global hegemony. They include Hitler's Germany, Imperial Japan, and Stalin's USSR. There were alternatives to an Anglo-American world order in 1940, and also in 1944. They included things like hell ships, death marches, concentration camps, mass deportations, and artificial famines.
3. No other country, not even the EU Euro can create a truly global reserve currency. And the ECB was modeled after the Bundesbank, which was modelled after the Federal Reserve Board.
4. China, much as I love Chinese people, is currently incapable of either forming its own global reserve currency let alone ousting the dollar.
Just like the USA likely cannot oust the CCP (nor should it!) China cannot oust the dollar and for its own economic well being really needs to stop advancing that line, since a bad global economy is a bad Chinese economy which in turn destabilizes the CCP.
The one way to get rid of the CCP? Ruin the global economy. Best way to ruin the global economy? Ruin the US financial system. They are each others' hostage, in a strange way.
1. The world doesn't seem peaceful to me.
2. Ridiculous.
3. We will see. Don't cross a river that is on average 4ft deep.
4. You are thinking too linear.
My analysis doesn't break down, it's the US that is breaking down.
" the US that is breaking down"
Yeah, that's ridiculous as in ludicrous also known as risible.
You are ignorant or deceptive and either way ignore the Stalinist Holodomir and forced deportations not to mention Katyn, Hitlers murder factories, Imperial Japanese chemical and biological warfare "experiments" on Chinese people the rape of Nanking, the various communist blood purges and red terrors, Mao's Great Famine Forward or the "Cultural" revolution. Did I mention "the one child policy" and its forced sterilzations and cumpolsory abortions? China had a declining population for the last 2 years despite an increasing life expectancy.
You are simply wrong. The alternative to U.S. hegemony are really fucking horrible, just ask the people being victimized by Putin in Ukraine or Israel by Iran. They are, after all, opponents to the U.S. hegemony you decry! You should love them!
My adversaries die or surrender, fyi, and it is their choice.
You can't produce a rebuttal to my essay and that is why you resort to propaganda-style tactics. I don't understand why you think talking about Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany gives credence to your hypothesis. Btw, Japan and Germany are in the "West" today aren't they?
P.S. You don't have adversaries. You're a biased academic sitting on a sofa using selective bias and selective history to support his pre-conceived notions.
I did in fact rebut your bullshit. Bye!
Really enjoy these big picture articles.
Thanks Trey, much appreciated. It takes a good month to go from start to final form for an essay like this.
Oh I bet. Nothing like being a fellow writer to appreciate the work that goes into it.
Seriously... thanks again TH
When exactly did NATO and the EU expand to Ukraine? Did I miss something?