Originally posted by aldra
short-term the world economy would implode, long-term is impossible to predict like pulling someone's spine out and guessing how they'll land.
nononono and no.
theres no reason for the world economy to implode. america today has become 'too big to fail'. even without its military, the world would still want to put america at the top, as apex purchasers because the worlds reserve currency is still the US$.
everyone has their skin in the US federal reserve and therefore for the purposes of self preservation. its in everyones better interest for US to remain up and running and keep the money press going.
anyone who says otherwise is agent of the NWO and neocons and the swamp collective whose sole existential purpose is to convince americans and the rest of the world that US military is indispensable.
military force, or more specifically the threat of imminent military force is a cornerstone of US hegemony; without it the others (global finance, control over major shipping lanes etc.) would crumble (they already are to a degree).
you onky need firestarters at the begining.
All of these institutions are designed to benefit the empire but also to be integral to the way the world currently operates so they can't simply be discarded. Russia and China are creating multilateral alternatives (Russia and China already have alternatives to SWIFT and have built BRICS funds specifically to compete with the IMF), but capacity is low, not all requirements are answered for and there's no way it'd be a smooth transition if other countries were forced to cut over without warning.
buying startups are more easily done than setting your own startups. it would make more sense to pursuade the US to put in place china and russia friendly policies than trying to take its place.
at least thats china's POV.
which is another thing - if the US were forced to withdraw all of their foreign-stationed military, would Russia and China also have diminished economic and military power? what of Europe? the more powerful players still standing, the quicker the system would stabilise. if only one or two we'd likely see the same thing as the US, how it became sole hegemon after WWII by virtue of being the only industrial country that was largely untouched by the war. if none, it'd take much longer and much more suffering.
what doctorine are you following ?
