philperth2010 wrote on Nov 8^th, 2024 at 10:32am:

To be fair, the US has been decommitting foreign military support and globalisation since Obama.

What drove post-WW2 US commitment to patrolling sea lanes and protecting its allies with boots on the ground was its need to contain Soviet communism - perceiving it as in the interests of national security.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, successive US administrations maintained their direct involvement in world security until the fiasco of the Iraq War after 9/11 and the catastrophe of Afghanistan - which the Obama Administration tried to extricate the US from but backed off as it risked an ignominious withdrawal. The Trump Administration was hobbled by COVID, but Trump let the cat out of the bag to the Taliban that he would withdraw from Afghanistan in his expected successive second term, thereby forcing the Biden Administration to follow through as the Taliban were now aware that the US did not have the will to continue and had become emboldened by that.

Since Obama through Trump then Biden the US has been decommitting from its world security guarantee.

The second Trump Administration will continue this decommitment with only a handful of countries on the exception list - Australia being one... for now - the reason being that the US wants to ensure access to as much of the world's minerals required for new energy production.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 9^th, 2024 at 2:12pm:



It was not "decommitment from the world" to recognise, this time in Afghanistan after 20 years of futile efforts, that there is no helping people who will not help themselves.

American generosity and naivete (like Soviet naivete half a century before and British naivete before that) had to end. The converts to Allah are beyond help.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 8^th, 2024 at 10:11am:


You are STILL trying to be clever in vain.




Keep pushing.