Donald Trump’s new White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, said the Republican Party is “more popular than ever,” just days after voters handed Democrats control of the House and Senate the midterm elections.
Miller said in his speech that it was “the privilege of a lifetime to join President Trump,” before adding: “If it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now.”
“This man saved America,” Miller said. “He saved our military from collapse, he saved our economy from destruction, he saved our border from annihilation and he saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream forever.”
He still might. He’s already destroyed the system of alliances that you were using to prop yourselves up; you just haven’t felt the full consequences of that yet.
Who’s you? I’m Canadian
You don’t seem to understand the mechanics of power. Consequences tend to flow along the same lines that power does, either upward and downward, at a slant that favors one side over another, or across as equals.
Another word for alliance is partnership. If there are consequences, as you seem to be wanting to imply, they will be felt equally, or less so by the more dominant partner.
As an American I am tired of “alliances” that are really just parasitical, or created so that some few individual kingmakers benefit from the power-brokering while millions pay the bill. Israel is one. Let 'em all fall. The ones that are worthy to both sides will remain or be realigned, such as those with Ukraine: helping Ukraine helps the entire world. Other “alliances” far less so.
And it’s hard to believe these already doomed “alliances” are best kept alive while in the same breath people talk about “consequences” while deliberately not naming the specific alliances in question. A specific alliance cannot be measured by any other.
Or, to put it another way, I’m in favor of keeping NATO, but if you want to exclude the US and create a new NATO (with blackjack and hookers!) no one is stopping you, and the entire world would also benefit.
Get ready for the world order realignment, because it is upon us. The US will not be on top, nor should we be.