Trump is 'shredding' credibility with allies while China benefits, former national security advisor John Bolton says

The neocons had an intelligent banality to their evil. They could do things which rocked the boat, but they knew which rules to follow to get what they wanted. Trump isn't limited by these things.

Of course, neocons helped enable Trump.

It just frels weird to agree with him

Not in the slightest. But we are an empire in decline. A decline that was already happening before Chump. He just accelerated it. No empire has ever gone down quietly. Neither will ours. But it is going down. This is happening.

Best we can hope for is some kind of soft landing. But I'm expecting balkanization. It'll start with California. They're an economic powerhouse all on their own. Independent of the larger US as the 9th largest exonomy on earth. Texas will try. But it won't go well for them. It'll rejoin Mexico after a couple years of stumbling along on their own with the incompetent leadership they've had since the mid 90s. A lot of Canadian border states will join Canada.

We're in for a bad time. But that's ok. 300 million vs 8 billion is easy math. And without the US' regressive hand at the till this world can progress. Advance.

In practice they have been pretty hands off as they develop the global south afaik.

They're also only doing it for its resources, I think you could realistically assume, but it can't be denied that their approach has brought much better results than America's so far.

Bolton is a neocon shithead. He cares about exactly 2 things. Low taxes for the rich and warmongering. Don't you remember the Bush years?