edy420 » December 24th, 2020, 3:14 pm wrote:The world is at the mercy of American politics and economy... Well at least NZ is, and most likely most of the Western world... Considering all the peace deals in the Middle East, then maybe them too.
This is true.
If America burns, NZ will have to fight spot fires.
This is not true. America is not burning. It's going through an existential crisis - as all nations must, periodically.
We seem to copy American political shifts, with a slight lag. If the American economy crumbles, then so will ours.
All economies
are crumbling - no "if". That's not down to US politics; that's the way global capitalism transpires. How capitalism 'normally' operates is on boom-bust cycles, which are usually localized to a country and its immediate trading partners. But now capital is cosmopolitan, can teleport anywhere it wants to at the touch of a button, all economies are attached in a single web. When something - a war out of control, a pandemic, a climate disaster - snaps a few of the strands, the whole thing comes unravelled.
That's inevitable. Probably not just yet, in spite of Trump's more destructive efforts, but pretty soon.
But it's got nothing at all to do with the right wingnut rumour-mill.
There's that, and then I appreciate, not being lied too.
In fact, you have recently shown yourself all too eager to be lied to - the bigger and less plausible the lie, the faster you seem to deposit its slightly mangled corpse on our doorstep.
You're lucky enough to live in a country that's not tearing itself to pieces, yet you can't take your mind off the mismanaged railway system of American public affairs.