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Bi-polar, Mono-polar, Multi-polar; The world changes all the time
Topic Started: Sep 14 2015, 03:44 PM (163 Views)
corky

Over the last few years the world has moved from a bi-polar power arrangement to a short period of mono-polar power to what is likely to be a long period of multi-polar power centers. The place of North America in this world is what we are now shaping, it is likely to be very strange for many in the U.S. and hard for them to comprehend, as is shown by the coming fracturing of the Republican Party.

It is time to refocus our center of interest more narrowly economically, and this is going to change the political power structure and social views dramatically.


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Corky, that is almost too cerebral to follow.
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corky

I expect the people here to have the brain power to understand it, the concepts aren't that hard and we don't have to worry about dumbing it down to Moolah level I hope!

Trump is the by-product of the inability of many to apply their minds to the world as it is. The modern version of the "Knownothing Party" scares the crap out of me.


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Jackd

History only repeats itself.
Great civilization have come and gone. Rome, Egypt, Greece, Islamic, Britis, Incas and other were once one at the top of the pack but would not (or could not?) maintain their dominance when outside forces tried to emulate their actions.
It looks like humans do not accept monolithic leaders (power?) which, one after the other, fall back to a lower level of power (dominance).
An excellent book on the subject is Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall
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Colo_crawdad

I think p0osts like Corky's above may explain why many on the right think still today that we should be able to dictate the terms of international agreements. - a desire for power.
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corky

The costs in blood and treasure of being the only power in the "known world" always end-up being to high for most people.

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Colo_crawdad

Yeah, we could just stop spending our treasure on welfare to help those in domestic trouble and spend it on International power.
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corky

Why waste money on rebuilding infrastructure and bridges when you can have a nice photogenic war and funnel money to the defense and big corps?


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