When Romney argued in that debate that Russia was the chief geopolitical rival to the United States, it was easy for Obama to dismiss him, and for the country to laugh it off. At the time, America was riding the high of its great victory over the Soviet Union, Russia was crouched in a passive stance, and it seemed that the only security challenges that now remained were bush wars in the Middle East. But in 2024, who in the American political and foreign policy establishment would doubt Senator Romney’s total validation?
uh, me. the USA's chief geopolitical rival is China
With the rapid demobilization of American armies in Europe, however, it was obvious that this threadbare European alliance had dismal prospects in the unthinkable event of war with the Soviet Union.
lol is this a conscious or unconscious reference to Operation Unthinkable
It has become a standard line, of course, to condemn this American defense strategy as fundamentally cynical and sinister, replete with language about American imperialism, its meddling in foreign governments, and complaints about the spread of a vapid American consumeristic culture which atomizes societies. America is frequently abhorred as an eternally expanding blob which is gray and featureless, yet simultaneously emblazoned with the gaudy colors of the rainbow.
Such opposition is understandable and highly sympathetic, but we must acknowledge that the core of America’s global defense strategy is not irrational, but aligned with critical American interests, at least in its highest order objectives.
this motherfucker doesn't have any clue what imperialism means if he thinks it's "irrational"
the thing that pisses me off the most about the attempt on Trump's life is it interrupted all the beautiful Biden collapse schadenfreude we were savoring