Jonny Weeks/Pool via GettyLONDON—The main aim of President Biden’s European tour this week has simply been to show that the United States “is back!” at the heart of the Western diplomatic consensus.Unfortunately, the world is a little more complicated than that. By Saturday night in England, it was beginning to look like the White House had been a touch over-confident in just how far the charms of Biden would take him in persuading other G7 leaders to swallow all of his policy positions. Even th
Why are the English speaking countries always at the front of the anti-China propaganda train?
Couldn’t be lingering bitterness that the Empire never fully colonized and subsequently crippled China like they did with India, right? Hmm…
My opinion? If Eurasia unites into one economic supercontinent, with fast railways delivering Chinese electronics and Russian/Iranian oil to Europe, then the US/UK become economic backwaters and their naval supremacy becomes less important. There is no way that the US remains a superpower in such a world.
Isn’t that why the US has never liked the idea of the European Union?