Ian Bremmer: Time’s Running Out for America

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We always say to fight fire, you must use fire. This is wrong. Fighting fire with fire will leave scars and a new flame will rise. We must instead use water. It is the opposite of fire, it extinguishes the fire, it cools, it refreshes, it heals. We are made up of 70% water, we are not made up of 70% fire. Please practice what we truly are
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Give me a quick run-down?

 
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We always say to fight fire, you must use fire. This is wrong. Fighting fire with fire will leave scars and a new flame will rise. We must instead use water. It is the opposite of fire, it extinguishes the fire, it cools, it refreshes, it heals. We are made up of 70% water, we are not made up of 70% fire. Please practice what we truly are
Quote from: Meta Cognition on May 27, 2015, 07:41:10 PM
Give me a quick run-down?
Basically its saying America is falling off its Superpower throne and countries like China are trying to tug the rug from under us by testing how much we will put up with their shit.

 
 
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I thought that was obvious, what with our influence on the world kinda slowing down. That and the signs are obvious. Cripping infrastructure, massive debt, incompetent government, not being seen as much of a "top" nation anymore (that can really apply for a lot of things. Education, human rights, etc).

Plus the rise of the EU is also a thing. In the modern world I think the term "Superpower" is really fading.
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We always say to fight fire, you must use fire. This is wrong. Fighting fire with fire will leave scars and a new flame will rise. We must instead use water. It is the opposite of fire, it extinguishes the fire, it cools, it refreshes, it heals. We are made up of 70% water, we are not made up of 70% fire. Please practice what we truly are

 
 
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Quote from: Forgewolf on May 27, 2015, 07:49:46 PM
Quote from: Meta Cognition on May 27, 2015, 07:41:10 PM
Give me a quick run-down?
Basically its saying America is falling off its Superpower throne and countries like China are trying to tug the rug from under us by testing how much we will put up with their shit.

You don't say.
This has been happening for a loooong time.

 
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We always say to fight fire, you must use fire. This is wrong. Fighting fire with fire will leave scars and a new flame will rise. We must instead use water. It is the opposite of fire, it extinguishes the fire, it cools, it refreshes, it heals. We are made up of 70% water, we are not made up of 70% fire. Please practice what we truly are
Quote from: Kitsunekun on May 31, 2015, 11:49:18 AM

Quote from: Forgewolf on May 27, 2015, 07:49:46 PM
Quote from: Meta Cognition on May 27, 2015, 07:41:10 PM
Give me a quick run-down?
Basically its saying America is falling off its Superpower throne and countries like China are trying to tug the rug from under us by testing how much we will put up with their shit.

You don't say.
This has been happening for a loooong time.
You don't say!? ; )

 
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He's totally correct. Not only has our foreign policy stagnated in efficacy, our allies have increasingly refused to share the  burden of the joint 'policing' role (and I hate to use that phrase, but it's mostly true). I don't really see a threat from Russia or China in usurping America as the top nation, because they simply don't have the economic, military, or political strength to enforce global concordance with their principles. I do see it as a point of destabilization, and the insurgencies spreading through the Middle East are representative of this. I think the U.S. really needs to champion nuclear power and remove the critical role of oil in global trade, and I'd really like to see space exploration become another priority, as that's proven to be a fruitful replacement for war in terms of competition between nations and it's a burgeoning source of innovation and technology which we haven't really seen in the past couple decades.

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We always say to fight fire, you must use fire. This is wrong. Fighting fire with fire will leave scars and a new flame will rise. We must instead use water. It is the opposite of fire, it extinguishes the fire, it cools, it refreshes, it heals. We are made up of 70% water, we are not made up of 70% fire. Please practice what we truly are
Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on May 31, 2015, 05:50:42 PM
. I think the U.S. really needs to champion nuclear power and remove the critical role of oil in global trade, and I'd really like to see space exploration become another priority, as that's proven to be a fruitful replacement for war in terms of competition between nations and it's a burgeoning source of innovation and technology which we haven't really seen in the past couple decades.
Yes please!