Is This the End of Pax Americana?

Posted by Arenologist

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  1. >Perhaps U.S. financial pressure can also get the near-bankrupt autocracies in Jordan and Egypt to accept Gazans who’ve been locked into Gaza — not to permanently dispossess them, but simply to take care of them while Gaza is rebuilt.

    Is this what he really thinks will happen?

  2. Not entirely, but it’s certainly trending in that direction at alarming speed. The last two weeks alone have utterly destroyed a significant chunk of goodwill and crediblity that took seven decades to build up.

    I’d hesitate to argue that Pax Americana completely dies (the US isn’t really in a position to be totally supplanted in that regard), but the damage that has already been done will have crippled American foreign policy for at least a generation if not more. And if the idiocy of the last few weeks is any indication, I see little reason to assume it won’t continue getting worse.

  3. Yes and the funniest part is it’s so unnecesssty and self inflicted rather than imposed by outside events

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