• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The US needs to act like a global citizen, not the global police.

    Saying that they have been a significant stabilizing pwer post ww2, and the changing world order would create significant upset.

    (Hate the term world order as it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist - I mean the actual international relations definition)

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Well for now the US remains the only global super power.

      People say China is a superpower now, and maybe they will be, and perhaps they edge America out in certain, specific economic or military measures, but they don’t have the high power, strategic alliances that America has.

      NATO, Five Eyes, NORAD, ANZUS, US France, US Japan, South Pacific Treaty, US Canada (most? of the arctic), US Brazil, US Australia. UK. South Korea. Mexico.

      Even in Africa, we have a string of alliances right through the middle (the part that isn’t just desert), and still lesser, but still significant alliances in south and north Africa. Check the receipts on mutual defense agreements, cooperation agreements, joint military exercises, to say nothing of the many energy, space, and naval alliances, strategic military bases and territory; Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Gaum, Samoa.

      Wow, China has more people.