@TURBORETARD9000 @admitsWrongIfProven we can’t know that, because we can’t know the counterfactuals. but i think your conclusion is way too incautious. the post-war period, first of dual hegemony, then of soke hegemony, for all its real atrocities, many committed by the US, was nevertheless much much safer and more peaceful than the prior half century. 1/

@TURBORETARD9000 @admitsWrongIfProven unmanaged decline in perceived US power and willingness to punish territorial aggression is likely to invite more adventures like Ukraine that undo that remarkable achievement. 2/

@TURBORETARD9000 @admitsWrongIfProven things have gone badly for the US and with the US the last few decades, no doubt. i’d like to find a more multilateral way of enforcing a principled norm against territorial aggression, and suspect that must involve some partnership with China on this one very limited principle to which both powers ostensibly subscribe. 3/

@TURBORETARD9000 @admitsWrongIfProven unfortunately, while the current crises run as hot as they are and the Taiwan status quo is unstable, it will be hard to negotiate that kind of partnership. /fin