>>103569291You have an entire website for your kind. Jk. It's ok to hear how /co/ anons feel about political issues in my opinion just keep it civil we all should love each other here.
>>103569199>>103569410>>103569536>>103569561I'm glad you guys aren't going to just let that claim slide. It's a pretty heavy one. On a kneejerk reaction I could see why it seems absurd but I'll justify it.
So no I don't think the U.S. is going to be totally absent from global affairs in the next 50 years. However, America will be the most stable market in the 21st century, on top of that the U.S. will have achieved near complete energy independence due to oil shale by the mid-2020s thanks to Barack Obama and Donald Trump. No we won't "secede from the world" but it seems likely the Bretton Woods system is going to die in the next ten years. I wouldn't call it Neo-isolationism but America will, as Trump has already begun to demonstrate, begin to treat its power as something that needs to be bought rather than given. Obviously, with the Soviet Union dead and Russia and Europe even more opposed than ever before, there is no reason to prop up the EU's economy and security without some major kickbacks. Remember, America's economic and military involvement in Europe was about security when it began and so it remains today. Outside of Great Britain being out Air-strip one into the European theater, we have no real concerns in Europe. Russia has no future and the EU market is to old to be a good market for consumer goods. If they want us to stick around they'll need to start incentivizing the U.S. which, faced with no other option they will probably do. That's just the European side, the Asian side is different in nuance but more or less similar.
tl;dr not saying isolationism 2.0 is going to happen just that the U.S. will no longer be propping up a global system it does not need nor benefit from.
