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<blockquote data-quote="Stonewall Jackson" data-source="post: 1350600" data-attributes="member: 17875">The right in America is increasingly isolationist. The left only likes small wars backed up by a large international coalition where they can claim moral superiority. Minorities generally don't support American imperialism abroad. There's really no constituency who is going to buy a major war, and public opinion does still matter.America is still going to be the preeminent power in the world for the foreseeable future. What I mean by that is we will be the only country capable of waging an offensive war anywhere on the globe. China might be capable of that in the future. Maybe Russia as well. But I suspect neither will reach that level.No flavor of the week 3rd world country (India, Iran, Turkey) will ever be anything other than a regional power. Western Europe is finished as well. If Germany, the UK, or France kicked out the foreigners, started having kids, and put 10% of their GDP towards the military they might be great powers again. None of those things are going to happen. And there is going to be no EU military force in the near future.I expect the compromise by all sides (conservative whites, liberal whites, and minorities) will basically be Trumpism. We keep pumping money into the military, both in manpower and new weapons systems, but we don't really use it for much over the next couple of decades. It will essentially be a welfare / job training program for conservative whites and minorities (not a bad thing IMO), while the military industrial complex still makes a large profit (not ideal, but we have bigger issues). Liberal whites will look the other way on this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stonewall Jackson, post: 1350600, member: 17875"] The right in America is increasingly isolationist. The left only likes small wars backed up by a large international coalition where they can claim moral superiority. Minorities generally don't support American imperialism abroad. There's really no constituency who is going to buy a major war, and public opinion does still matter. America is still going to be the preeminent power in the world for the foreseeable future. What I mean by that is we will be the only country capable of waging an offensive war anywhere on the globe. China might be capable of that in the future. Maybe Russia as well. But I suspect neither will reach that level. No flavor of the week 3rd world country (India, Iran, Turkey) will ever be anything other than a regional power. Western Europe is finished as well. If Germany, the UK, or France kicked out the foreigners, started having kids, and put 10% of their GDP towards the military they might be great powers again. None of those things are going to happen. And there is going to be no EU military force in the near future. I expect the compromise by all sides (conservative whites, liberal whites, and minorities) will basically be Trumpism. We keep pumping money into the military, both in manpower and new weapons systems, but we don't really use it for much over the next couple of decades. It will essentially be a welfare / job training program for conservative whites and minorities (not a bad thing IMO), while the military industrial complex still makes a large profit (not ideal, but we have bigger issues). Liberal whites will look the other way on this. [/QUOTE]

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