chrisrossini on Nostr: When the Soviet menace collapsed, an opportunity for America to be a normal country ...
When the Soviet menace collapsed, an opportunity for America to be a normal country was becoming quite obvious.
Jeane Kirkpatrick was in the Reagan Administration.
She wrote in 1990 that it was time for the U.S. to get rid of:
“the dubious benefits of superpower status and become again a usually successful, open American republic…a normal country in normal time…an independent nation in a world of independent nations.”
Did America choose to be a normal nation? NO!
Instead, America would venture off into the Middle East and Ukraine.
None of it was for the benefit of America, and the costs are beyond mathematical justification anymore.
With the election of Trump, there (once again) is a desire to be a normal nation.
But that desire is countered by the pull of the Middle East and Ukraine.
Areas that have nothing to do with us.
Why can't America just be normal?
It's as if America has no independence of its own.
Jeane Kirkpatrick was in the Reagan Administration.
She wrote in 1990 that it was time for the U.S. to get rid of:
“the dubious benefits of superpower status and become again a usually successful, open American republic…a normal country in normal time…an independent nation in a world of independent nations.”
Did America choose to be a normal nation? NO!
Instead, America would venture off into the Middle East and Ukraine.
None of it was for the benefit of America, and the costs are beyond mathematical justification anymore.
With the election of Trump, there (once again) is a desire to be a normal nation.
But that desire is countered by the pull of the Middle East and Ukraine.
Areas that have nothing to do with us.
Why can't America just be normal?
It's as if America has no independence of its own.