Mearsheimer somehow thinks he can get away with behaving like we live in the early 19th century where the fog of war is so thick that states couldn't see the end of their own nose. He willingly ignores the enormous progress made in collaborative diplomacy since the second world war, with (ironically) the EU being the most outstanding example. He has such a hard-on for the CCP that he's unwilling to accept that any alternative can have long-term success.
Care to illustrate this with a few examples? I would counter that the EU GDP is nearly identical to that of the US, and with the Trump regime alienating the whole world except for Russia, I don't see Americans pulling ahead for a while. The big question for me is what the EU/China dynamic will look like.
Thank you for writing that longer post, it fills in a lot of detail that my friend tried to explain. It sounds like that transitional period will be VERY precarious. Would Serbians consider the help of an international group (the UN, or whoever you choose) to help keep things stable?
My understanding is that there isn't really an obvious opposition party, right? Do you think once big-lips is finally gone that the replacement will be a complicated German-style coalition?
I have one Serbian friend who lives in a small town there and has been keeping me up to date on this. There are big marches every weekend and smaller ones every day, especially in the four university cities (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis and Kragujevac). The particularly interesting (to me) point that he raised is how much respect and support Serbs are getting from neighbouring countries, which, if you know anything about the Balkans, is truly remarkable. If they can pull this off it may have positive repercussions not only in Serbia but in the whole region.
"The carbon tax is no longer the ballot box question," a Conservative source in Western Canada told Radio-Canada. "But we've invested so much money fine-tuning that message, it's hard to abandon it completely."
"The start of a tariff war with the United States is changing voters' moods. It's harder to talk about a broken Canada when there's a growing sense of patriotism," another Conservative source said.
"The challenge is to demonstrate that the party can adapt quickly, that the leader can go beyond slogans and that he has more than one trick up his sleeve," warns a third source close to the party.
I've re-read this at least five times and I'm still enjoying it every time.
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Mearsheimer somehow thinks he can get away with behaving like we live in the early 19th century where the fog of war is so thick that states couldn't see the end of their own nose. He willingly ignores the enormous progress made in collaborative diplomacy since the second world war, with (ironically) the EU being the most outstanding example. He has such a hard-on for the CCP that he's unwilling to accept that any alternative can have long-term success.