0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 23 Oct \ on: Biden's Absurd War in Yemen Continues Politics_And_Law
Maintaining the Saudis dependence upon the US for military might ensures the Saudis don't move the payment of their oil to Yuan, like Iran and Russia have already done.
The naive idea Libertarians propagate that wealth and economic dominance does not come from resource hegemony is as absurd as it is demonstrably wrong.
What is the current global hegemony spose to do? Let the Iranian backed Houthis continue to harass international shipping without a credible response?
Libertarians seem to want to lie down and sleep while China gains global dominance.
They will be the first to cry and wail when the wealth and ease of life in the west is undermined if/when China gains the upper hand via its now multiple proxy wars against US hegemony across the middle east and europe.
So you're cool with the executive branch using military force whenever it decides? Screw the whole constitutional separation of power thing? How about the whole democracy thing?
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Have been protesting the use of drones to attack 'enemy combatants' in locations where there is no declared war, over the last 20 years.
However over the last 3-5 years where increasing aggression from Chinese proxies has been occurring I am also not ignoring that - unlike the article and some comments.
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That's my concern. Regardless of who's sitting in the white house the power of the executive branch to use military force seems de facto unlimited.
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Agree. Global hegemony becomes a fragile and vulnerable thing when there is an opponent that does not have to defer to democratic processes. US democracy has been compromised by the corporate bankers who own it, since at least E.O. 6102.
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Agreed
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