Re:I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)
by permo-w on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:25PM
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that doesn’t make sense from an economic perspective. The larger your bloc is, the stronger your negotiating position is. The stronger your negotiating position is, the more you can make the US pay for your goods and services
It makes very little sense to want simpler negotiations in lieu of a strong negotiating position
It doesn't care if its German run, Russian run (as long as it is market based and not marxist based), or “not-German” wink run like today
It would have been tolerable just like Saudi Arabia is tolerable
Liquidity, market depth, and less people to negotiate with is the American priority
The moral highground arguments that it upholds now and in hindsight are just to continue deriving support from its own people, who culturally eat that shit up, but it can successfully package any moral argument for any scenario even if they are complete lies