Pax Americana finds its end in the midst of the economic crisis
By Khayam
@Khayam (346)
Romania
December 13, 2008 7:59pm CST
The media coverage from the last weeks seem to signal that America is no longer interested in being the "Guardian of Democratic Values" as its systemic problems and its imploding economy can't sustain the paychecks associated with this global role.
Despite the popular beliefs, America's economy is now nothing but a body beyond resuscitation. It will take more than some quick injections in the country's imploding economy in order to get US back on track. For the rest of the World, America's fall is dramatic. With U.S. troops and millitary high-tech back within America's shoreline, the rest of the world's exposure to danger raises exponentially.
Are we moving from unipolarity towards a multi-polar system of power? Is America able to cope with the crisis in order to maintain its international status? What do you think it will happen?
2 responses
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
14 Dec 08
The international stage certainly is changing, I don't think anyone can dispute that.
Some people who've been observing the patterns of the world's economy (among other things) have said that America probably won't be THE major superpower in the future (and others more have said that we won't be a superpower at all).
It honestly depends on how we handle this situation. So far, we're doing a bang up job. Seriously, our government's making the problems worse.
They think that if they just spend money willy nilly, devaluing our currency, that they can just fix everything. Which is utter crap. But there you go.
The fact that this economic crisis is gutting us and making ourselves (and perhaps, in turn, everyone else, like you said) more vulnerable is a no brainer...and something I try to dedicate some thought to as I observe what's happening (and try to get people to do SOMETHING, like voicing displeasure with our government in order to try to steer them away from doing something stupid). Because seriously, if we're not careful, this could go so badly for us in the future.
No one, at present, can really say what things will look like once we're past the peak of the storm. Or who'll still be standing strong enough to define the sort of system the world over will have.
There's too many factors to crunch, to many details to consider, and then trends to determine the likelihood of hundreds of scenarios.
I don't think that America will be over after all this, but I do think it will be a different kind of place than us Americans had known or expected to ever live in. *shrugs helplessly*
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
14 Dec 08
Honestly, we do need to focus on things at home for a while, besides, we get nothing but flack when we help out in the world anyway. We intervien and help out and we're "sticking our noses where they don't belong" or we're "war mongers". Honestly and I know this sounds cold, but the world can go skrew itself, countries need to start handling their own problems for a while, we have issues of our own to deal with.
