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Other NATO countries might start thinking the same way as Slovenia. They are surrounded by EU countries. They don't need to be in NATO.
Problem is regardless of what they do you can bet people in the EU Commission like Ursula will continue to push for increased military spending anyway.
Problem is regardless of what they do you can bet people in the EU Commission like Ursula will continue to push for increased military spending anyway.
If the new higher cost of NATO membership guarantees fiscal and economic implosion, more and more countries will be tempted to pull out. Especially countries far from any front line with Russia.
The fundememtal difference between China and US, or rather between China and the entire western world, is China has more than a millenia of mertiocratic tradition, while the weste has the same amount of theocratic fedual tradition.
Modern political systems are really just wrapper on cultural traditions, Chinese tradition always believed in postpriori knowledge, that is result based determination of a person's value, while western tradition always believed in a priori knowledge, that is a person's value derives through birth or promises.
US cant actually replicate China's model, because for state involvememt to be successful, officials of the state must be competent, and western culture inherently do not believe competency is required for power, never did and never will.
At end of the day not all civilizations are equal, over the last few centuries the west benifited from their religion fueled psycopathic need for conqust in a world where others did not, but now that they lost their abilility to steal, not that they're not still trying, they fundementally lack the civilizational attribute to compete with superior civilizations.
I don't think that the US is fundamentally unable to do much better. If they could recover the vitality they had in the post-World War II era then they'd be far better equipped to handle the new multipolar world. Just look at how much that version of the US loved science and how it was valued and compare to the mess we see today. The current US is in a state of pretty steep decline and it's hard to see how they can arrest that fall, but I don't think that the matter of civilization values plays that much into it.
The 1950s-1970s scientific achievements of white males was made possible through exclusion of women, minorities and foreign ideas.
This was great for white men in a time where you didn't need to be internationally competitive and you were already ahead so you could set the standards. And they were ahead because they were untouched by WW2.
It doesn't work when you are behind and following the standards of others. For that you need to humble yourself and learn.
will that happen? I don't think so. It is a proven fact that white males show increased aggression and insubordination to females and Asian leaders in the workplace.
I agree with pretty much all these things, but I still think that there's a marked difference between the vitality of those years and the US of today. I would believe that that old US would be able to put in a national effort to accomplish great tasks, and I don't think that's possible any more.