07-16-2018, 05:08 PM
(07-16-2018, 04:58 PM)Millhouse Wrote: No one is the leader of the free world as there really hasn't been one in a long time, at least since the days of the cold war when no other country or countries could counter the Soviets like the U.S. did. Because in those days, we truly were the leader of the free world with our military might, which made the President back then the de facto leader of the free world.
I don't disagree, but it's more than just the size of a military (of which we still have one of the largest, most well armed).
It's also about being able to facilitate discussion. Used to, if the US asked you to sit down and work things out... or at least stop blowing each other up... most countries listened. If not, we threw our economic weight at them, or we parked a few ships off their coast. But some bad decisions and backing down/leaving things undone has hurt that ability. Could we get it back? Sure. But it's going to take more than just running our mouths and wasting our resources.
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