[3askhg]

Until the press and the public do not examine the real long term strategies of the US establishment, this won't change.

All you hear is reporting about Trump's daily contradictory statements, "leaks" in Axios that peace in Iran is imminent, then 40 tomahawk missiles. Next are probably fake peace talks again.

Until the press grasps that the US establishment wants a protracted forever war that hurts the EU, Japan, and India, no change will occur. The US wants to force investment of these countries in building valuable industrial infrastructure in the US and shake them down with high US energy imports.

The US population is suffering collateral damage. The billionaires are willing to take that sacrifice.

[JumpCrisscross]

> the US establishment wants a protracted forever war that hurts the EU, Japan, and India, no change will occur

This presumes way more competence at the top than we’ve got.

> US wants to force investment of these countries in building valuable industrial infrastructure in the US and shake them down with high US energy imports

Americans want lots of things. Current policy isn’t promoting those interests. Currently, the war in Iran is causing long-term demand destruction for the sort of energy products America exports among our allies.

[w3qkjh]

> This presumes way more competence at the top than we’ve got.

That is the intended perception because the public figures are imbeciles. The people in the background are highly competent and controlling energy flows to US "allies" has been a priority issue since Reagan blew up a Soviet pipeline to Germany.

Or make the starting point the Suez Crisis when the US unseated Britain in the Middle East and took over.

[JumpCrisscross]

> people in the background are highly competent and controlling energy flows to US "allies"

What’s your evidence? Because nothing done recently has supported American hegemony, even among our allies. Many of whom yes, are buying a bit more from us energywise, but a lot more from others all while accelerating decarbonisarion.

It’s always nice to think someone is in charge. The truth is modern societies are too complex to control in this cartoonish manner for any meaningful durations. People who convince themselves it is and wind up in power demonstrate the folly of that worldview repeatedly.

[forshaper]

Yet, growth mindset.

[JumpCrisscross]

Not following.

[forshaper]

Someone could be in charge one day.

[martythemaniak]

There are no long term strategies, neither the "establishment" nor the public (ie you) seem to grasp that simple fact.

Americans simply do not wish to engage with reality any more, and that's why they're perfectly happy to elect a TV personality for a president who filled his cabinet with TV personalities who can do nothing more than LARP as statesmen.

I think your comment is another instance of this LARP, where the public can't tell the difference between reality and TV.