Pretty heartening macro view

"This 1-per-cent view has skewed our perspective on collapse and history. What we need now is a history of collapse for the 99 per cent. Only with that can we truly understand what the rise and fall of empires meant, both for the people of the past and also for us today."

#history #empire #collapse #hegemony

https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse

this's remarkably good on hegemony post trump

"Hegemony is not a birthright. It is a practice, renewed daily by choices—some grand, some mundane. The U.S. had immense resources, allies, and reservoirs of goodwill in 2016. But these assets have and are now being squandered at an extraordinarily rapid rate, definitely in part by simple malice, but even more so by neglect, confusion, and the ever-present temptation to turn inward"

#internationalRelations #hegemony #diplomacy #politics

https://braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-on-the-closing-of-the-path

this's remarkably good on hegemony post trump

"Hegemony is not a birthright. It is a practice, renewed daily by choices—some grand, some mundane. The U.S. had immense resources, allies, and reservoirs of goodwill in 2016. But these assets have and are now being squandered at an extraordinarily rapid rate, definitely in part by simple malice, but even more so by neglect, confusion, and the ever-present temptation to turn inward"

#internationalRelations #hegemony #diplomacy #politics

https://braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-on-the-closing-of-the-path

"When you are a dominant empire like the US...and you make bets that are exclusively based on power rather than technology, innovation, research and development, education, a growing prosperous middle class, history tells us that you will eventually fail, and that is the ugly reality."

#USPol #US #hegemony