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JD Vance opposes military aid, NATO membership for Ukraine. He's now Trump's VP pick
(kyivindependent.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2024
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I'll answer the "why would it now lead to disaster" part, and by shuffling names, places, & contexts around I believe much of that can be obliquely backported to the same question with respect to runup to the world wars of yore.
USA's multi-decade cultural imperialism and dogged pursuit of economic hegemony led to it imposing itself as a global barometer and gatekeeper (despite being famously incompetent at both). The upshot is that now, even though philosophically it would be wonderful for the US to finally stop enforcing a petrodollar-driven serfdom on so much of the world in the name of "infinite (US economic) expansion", pragmatically speaking a magical and abrupt "pull out" would be wildly irresponsible, much like yanking an arrow out of a wound in the direction from which it entered (causing a Jackson Pollock's worth of collateral damage). That would largely be because the sudden power vacuum would not be able to be filled in time by other countries (who are under-resourced due to aforementioned hegemonic squeezing), leaving not enough people to "not tolerate the intolerant", leading to explosive expansion of the "ignorant bullies masquerading as politicians" brigade (not unlike Hitler's opportunistic power-grab while the politicians who should have been the ballwark against him hubristically sat on their hands). See: https://www.ournationalconversation.org/post/explaining-the-paradox-of-tolerance
Well, the U.S. doesn't have to worry about enforcing the petro-dollar, because the Global South is pulling away from the petro-dollar. The U.S. is going to have to start looking into opening up those oil reserves that Biden closed and bringing jobs back to America that were exported to other nations. Self sufficiency, at least more so than current, needs to be the goal. The world, outside of the Western World, is turning its back on the U.S. and rightfully so... sooner or later so too will the Western Powers turn their backs on the U.S.
I agree though that an abrupt pullout like Biden did in Afghanistan is a stupid fkin idea and should be done gracefully.
Manufacturing jobs, and most other low wage jobs, never left the US. That is a lie fed to you by your wage slave masters. The US currently manufactures 300% more products than we did in 1972 which was the last year of the golden age of the 20th century US. The wage slave masters automated those jobs, so we do triple the production with 1/100 the workforce.
We are already self sufficient. Isolationism will not help any of your stated goals, and will cause global instability.
So I work in the IT industry... almost everything IT related, some portion of it has been exported overseas. Same goes for the customer service industry.
Sounds like you need unions. One of the many reasons I left IT was the complete lack of unions.