Or at least that’s the idea.
There’s a lot for Oligarchs to like with Trump, less taxes and less restrictions, but he is just too darned erratic, you know? If only he could have stayed with making rich people richer he’d be starring in his own show maybe forever. But instead, he pissed off the so-called Allies who do heavy lifting for the U.S. Pissed off everybody.
The best strategic path to world dominance calls for a Presidential Tone that pisses off as few people on the Home Team as possible, one which in fact has a calming effect as people’s lives go to hell. This Tone does not describe Bernie Sanders. It describes Joe Biden, Uncle-in-Chief.
The U.S. has spent so much time and money on War since September 11, the numbers have no effect. The U.S. is a permanent War Economy. War is not a nice little supplement to the Manufacturing sector. There is no Manufacturing sector. There is only a War sector.
Joe will not be able to lead us to a calm place unless Wolf Blitzer is your idea of calm. The falling-apart and cobbled-together War Economy can’t exist on just Afghanistan and Syria and Yemen much longer. It needs something bigger. Something like what World War II gave the U.S. economy eighty years ago.
Time is not on the U.S. side. Other nations that are perceived as adversaries and are forced to become adversaries are getting stronger. The U.S. hold on what is still unironically called the Free World is loosening. Bolivia was able to resist, despite what Elon Musk thinks can be done. Venezuela hasn’t buckled. Washington’s Covid-19 performance diminishes its clout.
Instead of relaxing at this moment, I would prepare for serious anti-war mobilization, whatever that means. Opposing recruitment efforts. Countering government support for More and Bigger War with the same door-to-door intensity that comes out when we believe in a candidate.
If we believe in Peace, we will need to show it.