Where’s the Crisis?
17th October 2019
Scott Adams lays it out. (Start at the 22:00 minute mark.)
What’s the crisis? Can somebody describe to me what the crisis is? Now, I’ve heard the speculative what-if crisis … the what-if speculative crisis goes like this: If people can’t trust the United States because of our President abandoning the Kurds, that will hurt us later, in ways that we can’t quite specify.
But will it? Is there a country that won’t do a trade deal with us because of this? No. Is there a country that won’t partner with us militarily because of this situation? No, cause what are their other options? Partner with us to defeat your local enemy, or don’t partner with us, and good luck.
It turns out that when you’re the strongest country in the world, people are still going to work with you, because the second choice is way worse.
Who is not going to work with the United States? No one. Which countries uncritically trusted the United States under all conditions when we promised we’ll do something? Which countries believed that we’ll definitely do something if we way we’ll do it? How about nobody? How about nobody believed that. Because at the very least we elect a new President every now and then. Is there some county that could trust that the next President won’t reverse everything that this President did? No. Nobody could trust that. We have a system–because democracy–our system guarantees that we can’t be trusted. We can never be trusted. Because we’ll just vote in a different government and we’ll have different priorities.
So there’s one thing that people can be sure of, that the United States can’t be trusted, forever, because our priorities change and our government changes. They all know that.