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I think so, too.

The US decided that, instead of being all imperial and trying deal with long-term occupation, we'd go with something different. Free trade! Everyone can trade with everyone else, and we'd protect the shipping lanes.

Also, we'd grant full access to our markets, which was the largest to survive the war, and our cheap, abundant resources. This pretty much made it so that imperialism in Europe and Asia was no longer necessary.

This was all done to basically bribe the rest of the world (including Japan) to be our allies against the Soviets.

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Edit: Quick rundown by him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIdUSqsz0Io

Edit edit: Relevant excerpt: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/6jdtcn/why_did_us_rebuild_japan_after_ww2/dje0hgj/

So, the first thing I'd suggest is starting to look past what "conservatism" means, or even considering this new Trump-Bannon-Right as "conservative."

I've been shilling this particular article since it was published in May, and it appears to be coming true.

Along with recommending Zeihan's book: The Accidental Superpower, I believe Trump and those advising him are trying to:

1. Disentangle the US from the rest of the world, period, in a GLHF sort of way. We would for example no longer guarantee the free flow of commerce with our Navy, etc. We'd have our inner circle of besties but basically abandon NATO, the IMF, the WTO the UN, the Partnership for Peace, most bilateral trade treaties etc. This will be the most painful part.
   
   
2. Rearrange the American economy into one of almost entirely domestic production and consumption, and lock in partners to provide what we cannot, like rare earths. Again this is going to be excruciating for a while.
   
   
3. Provide top-down, big-government heavy subsidies to the working class - which is anathema to 20th century GOP orthodoxy.
   
   
4. Move the GOP past the culture wars, period.
   
   
5. Promote the yes, I'll say it - supremacy of American culture. Whether this is racial or not is up in the air, but I've seen an example of something like this first-hand in moving from CA to TX. Texans distrust people who move here that want to change it, or don't acclimate to the culture. Start slipping in some y'alls in your speech patterns, eat at Whataburger, buy some Texas Flag stuff or a truck, and get interested in guns and you are "in" regardless of what you look like (and I am pretty gd Asian brown). Whether civic nationalism wins over ethnic nationalism is legit my only fear now. Thank God for the 2nd Amendment.
   
   5a) They cannot stand 'multicultural globalism' with a passion, please see that bit in the politico article about where the Dems are going, i.e., a supranational, multicultural, technocratic elite. Bye bye unions, UberSchool for all!

Hi there Genecio -

Normally we would discourage this type of post as the moderator team has placed links to many solid sources of information in both the sidebar and the Wiki. However, it seems that many people do not know about this so:

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   As to the video you linked, that's Peter Zeihan. He's a pretty popular and influential American author. His most famous book is called The Accidental Superpower and if you liked that talk he gives in the video, you'd probably like the book. It's less dry than many other books on the subject, which I appreciate.

> But it would suck the least for the USA

Sounds a lot like what ...
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
Peter Zeihan says. I'm sure these are common ideas, but his 2 books really lays it out clearly with recent references.

The book that this talk promotes is actually pretty garbage though. It's short on on citations and reliable figures. It uses a lot of Statfor internal data, that I don't think has been reasonably vetted. It makes a good read while drunk though.

That being said, kudos to Zeihan for being one of the few people who actually gets the big picture vis-à-vis coming american strategic independence and the russian crisis. The problem with his predictions is that you can't expect people to always be rational actors though. Emotions get in the way, and sometimes people do stupid things.