Originally Posted by
Skroe
Negotiations? Over what precisely. Most arms treaties are dead. NewStart is next. The WTO is frozen. Globalization is facing a rollback. The Doha round of the WTO is basically dead. There is no global response to climate change. The prior 20 years of peacemaking has made zero progress on Afghanistan, the Middle East, the South China Sea, or Ukraine.
We are not entering a time of peacemaking. We are entering a time of war making. Is the writing on the wall not clear enough?
I hate to “sweet summer child” this shit but this 1990s worldview died the moment China decided to contest the US for global primacy. That world and the things that were valued into it is dead and not coming back.
I’ve said for years now the US needs to double the size of the State Department.
Now ask with everything I said, why would I say that? To make great new treaties? No. To bilaterally box our adversaries in by being everywhere.