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Rainbow Roxy's avatar

Interesting perspective on the US economy. I found the shift from the "rules-based order" particularly thought provoking. How do you envision this impacting broader international cooperation and stability?

Brian Lantz's avatar

Thanks for you comments and question. First, it is all a work in progress, and John Quincey Adams would appreciate the need to replace empires with an evolving “community of principle among sovereign nation states.”

I think that the negotiations ongoing in the Middle East, with the overarching concept being the Abraham Accords, is a work in progress. It represents the shift towards full regional cooperation and stability. All the nations in the region are being approached on a more or less equal footing.

The U.S. is now adopting careful negotiations/- rather than color revolutions and endless wars. I think that this exemplifies - despite the warts - real progress. Likewise the overlapping and intense negotiations regarding the Ukraine crisis, and the tougher economic negotiations with China.

The threat of wider wars is being damped down. Real economic development, advanced in the process, is the glue that can and already is consolidating these developments.

Excuse any typos!

Brian