Fourth Note to “American Grand Strategy”

The catch, however, is that while America cannot dominate the whole world, it cannot withdraw from the world either. Trump’s plan was to withdraw from Europe and to go into a cocoon at home and abuse minorities every day. The core Trumpian assumption is that it is clever and smart to abandon Europe and to go into a cocoon at home and abuse minorities every day. But just as we dissected all other assumptions through the course of this blog endeavor, we are dissecting this one as well and we will push back and contend that it is not clever and smart to abandon Europe and to go into a cocoon and abuse minorities every day. Moreover, this assumption stems from something deeper, or perhaps an even deeper assumption, which is that the difficulty and the failure to adjust and acclimate to the globalization that has been brought about by technological changes justifies abandoning the world to go into a cocoon and abuse minorities every day. We assume we can abandon Europe and go into a cocoon at home and abuse minorities every day because of the difficulty and thus our failure to adjust and acclimate to the globalization that has been brought about by technological changes. And contrary to these assumptions, the fact of the matter is that there is no choice but to adjust and to acclimate to the globalization that has been brought about by technological changes. And of course, part of this adjustment and acclimation involves not abandoning Europe and going into a cocoon to abuse minorities every day.