Insert ‘pithy’ joke about “free markets” riiiiiiiiiight here. The past year, year and a half, has been little more than Amerika brazenly displaying its ‘grade schooler at recess’ mentality with regard to taking every single under-handed trick to attempt to maintain hegemon over China and Russia.
The decline is happening all around us, and we have the forces of Red Scare-goggled reaction to thank for it.
Distinctly what it’s sounding like to me-- and one hell of an own-goal if you really mull it over. Spend upwards of 70 years attacking, warring with, attempting to discredit, and assassinating the figureheads of socialist thought; oppress one’s own subjects-of-empire when they start looking to socialist thought in spite of the Cold War raging around them-- only to piss it all away in a fit-of-pique bill that amounts to little more than an Amerikan temper tantrum.
Monty Python couldn’t write funnier.