re: Biden blowing up the pipeline would do more to fight "globalism" than anything Trump

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Like some countries raising taxes?

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To me, the great reset appears to be a bundle of policies which together make certain tenets of middle class life unaffordable for most people. These policies, usually made in the name of sustainability and climate change despite doing nothing to materially effect either, serve to arbitrarily inflate the costs of goods in key industries like: food, timber, fuel, energy, medicine, and housing. The end result will be a population with far less economic, physical, or social mobility more subject to the whims of an authoritarian government with far far less leverage or levers of power at their disposal.

Now, if one digs deeper, these movements don’t just seem to be geared at making A/C and road trips unaffordable, but at arbitrarily reducing the carrying capacity of the Earth and inducing a sort of mandated Malthusian crisis. This could result in billions of deaths. While this seems crazy, I see terrible terrible policy being pushed every day by the same cast of characters.

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Like some countries raising taxes?

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It's a bit more than that. The redistribution is economic/financial as well as in authority.

There is a reason the UNSC actually runs the UN. Have you seen the insane stuff they pass as resolutions? Or, hell, look at FIFA.

There are lots of countries who have no real populations or power who would love a system where they had as much say as the US or UK.

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That's not aggression. When did NATO enter into Russia? THAT is aggression, in your example.

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JFK would disagree, as well as most of this nation at the time. You don't have to agree but it's not some bizarre concept.

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Uh, Russia has veto power via UNSC. The only times NATO was permitted to be the aggressor was without Russian objection. They could have vetoed it in any of the examples you care to cite of NATO using its military aggressively.

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LOL

In this very thread, you have called Putin a war criminal, yet also claim that NATO would allow him to veto any action plans they have.

Insanity. NATO and the U.S. can and will do as they please, regardless of some make-nice bylaws on the books.

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You’re not familiar with the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Sure, I assumed as much. Hence why I replied that was a stupid comparison. The Cold War is over, and has been for 30 years.

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So what? The principle is still in play.

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But the conditions aren't.

Those conditions make the principle absurd.

The world is, by and large, friendly with each other. We all want to be friends and have good relationships with each other. This makes everyone prosperous.

In the Cold War, the conditions underlying foreign policy were much different, leading to different threats and likely scenarios.

Wait, so the stammering idiot that just asked if the dead lady was here and that he thought she was supposed to be there, did something you’re touting as good? Do you really think he did ANYTHING but crap himself today? Bro, you’re part of the problem if you can’t admit this zombie is doing anything at all that requires thinking.

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The world is, by and large, friendly with each other.

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"by and large" is a nice qualifier. The country that we were in the Cold War with is fighting an actual war with one of our allies, and we are mainly funding their defense.

The State Department has issued a: Russia Travel Advisory: Do Not Travel and Leave Immediately

Kind of Cold War-ish if you ask me.

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Why are you worried about potential aggressors on your doorstep, bro? The Cold War is over.

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The world has changed a lot since the Cold War.

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I assume the U.S. would have no issues with Mexico joining BRICS, you know with the Cold War being over and all.

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Again, the post-Cold War Pax Americana makes this a stupid decision for Mexico to make. We already have good trade deals and implied security agreements. Why would they reject that for BRICS?

That's the whole issue with looking at this like Putin. Even China isn't supporting him fully. Putin is an outlier, kind of like the Kims in NK. They want to go back to a more combustible world but that path is costly and unlikely.