Comment by bamboozled
15 hours ago
One way is for the the US to be more politically stable again (some how). Every country with an army will want its own star link now for trust reasons.
15 hours ago
One way is for the the US to be more politically stable again (some how). Every country with an army will want its own star link now for trust reasons.
For how long?
Because this thing is happening right now, it's happening fast, and it's happening without any effort to fight against the trend.
If your answer is "let's revisit this in 2050", then it isn't an answer.
And it will continue to happen and nothing can be done about it. Except global nuclear war, I suppose. That's not off the table.
Yeah well it means a lot of satellites are going to end up in space then.
The US is politically stable already (by historical and international standards), and has been since 1865. If you ignore the rhetoric and focus on actions there has been very little substantiative difference in foreign policy across the last 7 presidential administrations.
Going from a treaty and cooperation with Iran to cutting them off was a pretty substantial change that has already had global implications.
The US civil war is not the only time the US has been politically unstable. The civil rights movement, the labor disputes of the 1970s, the economic shocks every decade or so from market crashes all have been moments of instability.
What is January 6th if not a concrete example of recent political instability?
As for foreign policy consistency, 7 administrations takes us back to Reagan... The entire movement to sell out our industrial capacity to China and now the movement to try to reverse that have occurred in this time frame. This is just as important as our endless wars in the middle east, imo.
I don't disagree totally but I felt the need to put some nuance here.
Stability doesn't mean statis. The USA has been remarkably resilient to those minor shocks you listed. It continues to be the most politically stable of all the countries that actually count for anything in international affairs.
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