https://blog.exitgroup.us/p/deglobalization-is-over-determined
Excerpt: "President Trump will get the credit or the blame for whatever happens next — but it was always going to happen. The Administration has simply chosen to have the reckoning and dismantle the postwar economic order here and now, instead of later.
Historians will have opinions about whether waiting would have been better or worse, and the counterfactual will never be known — but there is no plausible scenario in which we could have forestalled it by more than a decade.
There are clear political reasons for this:
The US Government, as presently constituted, will be insolvent by 2035.
DOGE notwithstanding, USG burns ten billion dollars it doesn’t have every single day. The costs of this spending fall upon ordinary Americans, but also on foreign capital markets, and both parties are seeing less and less reason to prop it up.
In an important sense, the money printer is the empire:
The money printer finances the carrier strike groups,
the carrier strike groups provide global Security Guarantees,
the Security Guarantees keep everyone using dollars,
the global use of dollars allows the money printing"
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In summary, delaying the collapse of globalism does not prevent it — it simply weakens America’s control over the time and conditions of the break, and puts that decision in the hands of the Chinese.
And China is absolutely committed to the collapse of the American world order.
The Chinese are actively and openly undermining the empire in every domain where they can do so without provoking a direct military confrontation.
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