A spiking on EastEnders, a section 21 eviction on Coronation Street, and the King's Speech. Sometimes, the universe aligns.
Why, Nigel Farage has even been able to be both in Wisconsin and in Westminster. Or else he had better get a wiggle on. The Republican National Convention closes tomorrow, and when he is not voting with the Labour Government against amendments to the Humble Address on arms sales to Israel and possibly also on the two-child benefit cap, then Farage is famously indispensable to Donald Trump.
Since great empires last far longer than American hegemony has, what if the United States is not in decline at all? What if it is only just getting started, but as a basically Latin American country, complete with a taste for caudillos? What if the 300 years from the middle of this century will see the world carved up between that and China?
That sounds right, a Latin American U.S. as one of the two great powers, the other being China. Trump as the first caudillo of a country in line with its hemisphere, oh the irony.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet also the inevitability?
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