alt Hacker News> This is sanewashig this whole thing.
This was being called back during the Biden admin and before Trump even ran again.
Back during the Obama admin, even!
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/no-piv...
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/us-pivot-asia/
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-biggest-...
If the US can't build strong coalitions with Europe, it wants to spend its energy elsewhere.
Even pop-geopolitik wonk Peter Zeihan was pointing this out during Covid. I can't find his videos, but this has been top of mind for a lot of people for a very long time. These are anti-Trump people, too.
Multipolarity means instability, violence, fights over resources, fights over trade. Post-WWII was unusually (relatively) stable.
The US can turtle up, just like it did before WWII. It doesn't share a land border with any other major powers, unlike European and Asian countries. It commands the two oceans on its sides (and soon Arctic), and doesn't need anyone else - this was the US' defense posture since its founding.
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Honestly, the idea of Trump making geopolitically informed decisions is so out of the realm of my perception of reality I don't even know how to engage with you. Trump is a narcissistic idiot that you voted into power. Your geopolitical direction is dictated by his narcissistic whims. "National security reasons Greenland" or "EU collaboration with China" or whatever is exactly what I initially said - sane washing a lunatic.
But, anyway, good luck. You'll need it.
You’re right. It was in the book Disunited Nations by Zeihan.