I don’t get what the plan is either to be honest. Perhaps from US perspective, they now realize that they lost their global hegemony and the goal is to force their vassals to cut themselves off from the rest of the world which would force them into complete dependence on the US. The worse the relations between the west and the rest of the world are, the easier it becomes to enforce bloc discipline.
IMO, I think there is something fundamental with the organization of the American political project. There is no more collective political projects compare to the liberal imperialism there is only individual interest (to climb the social ladder, money,etc.).
The emphasis of promoting PMC mindset within the bloated political bureaucracy inevitably lead to incompetence because the individuals have no incentive to better off the overall collective when it is probably easier to lower their heads and follow orders to maintain the status quo in a more and more everchanging world.
I don’t get what the plan is either to be honest. Perhaps from US perspective, they now realize that they lost their global hegemony and the goal is to force their vassals to cut themselves off from the rest of the world which would force them into complete dependence on the US. The worse the relations between the west and the rest of the world are, the easier it becomes to enforce bloc discipline.
IMO, I think there is something fundamental with the organization of the American political project. There is no more collective political projects compare to the liberal imperialism there is only individual interest (to climb the social ladder, money,etc.).
The emphasis of promoting PMC mindset within the bloated political bureaucracy inevitably lead to incompetence because the individuals have no incentive to better off the overall collective when it is probably easier to lower their heads and follow orders to maintain the status quo in a more and more everchanging world.