Geopolitics
The study of how factors such as geography, economics, military capability and non-State actors affects the foreign policy of states.
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Half of the governors in the USA support Abbot's position that Texas can use their state militia against the USA national guard.
Women's health is under attack through a massive cascade of judges throughout the country.
Lake Meade and Lake Powell are at catastrophically low levels and may never recover.
The capital of the USA was invaded by fascists and very little has been done about it.
Police are continuing to kill more and more people every year.
School shootings are on a continual rise.
Mass shootings are on a continuous rise.
Life expectancy in the USA is dropping as fast as it did in Russia under Western economic shock therapy.
Russia is outproducing the entire West in artillery shells.
China is dominating over 75% of all high tech domains.
Africa is incrementally pushing out Western influence.
The USA does not have hypersonics and does not have a counter to hypersonics. Meanwhile Iran has sold hypersonics to Venezuela.
China is building infrastructure all over the world and doing so on better terms than the USA-backed austerity organizations (WTO, IMF, World Bank).
German industry is in decline especially after the USA destroyed Nord Stream 2.
USA military intelligence has failed to maintain it's foothold in China. It seems likely based on world events that it is also losing its control over its former African and West Asian strongholds.
The USA lost in Afghanistan. It won in Iraq but is being pushed out incrementally. It has failed to cause regime change in Korea, Cuba, Russia, China, and Iran.
The USA debt is continue to balloon while nations in BRICS are selling off their US dollars and their US bonds.
More and more global trade is being done without the dollar. Alternatives to the Swift system are now online. Chip manufacturing is being decoupled from the USA successfully.
Diplomacy, for the first time in a century, is happening without the USA at the table.
Over 75% of the USA's newest fighter jets are unfit for combat.
Major US cities, including at least one state capitol, don't have drinkable water.
Infrastructure in the USA is literally falling apart, sometimes killing people. Climate change it exacerbating the problem, with entire apartment buildings collapsing. Meanwhile homelessness is on the rise despite housing stock being available, because the economy is relying on housing to buoy financial portfolios and that means property values must remain inflated.
Count the number of banks that have failed in the last 10 years. It's sobering.
Florida is threatening to send it's state militia to the Texas/Mexico border.
Book burnings, bannings, and vigilantism is on the rise all over the country.
Right wing terrorism literally disable power stations in the Southeast. Meanwhile, winter storms shut down one of the largest states in the Union and killed people without any remediation in response.
You cannot safely eat fish caught in any body of water in the USA.
The USA is holding migrants in solitary confinement in record numbers, a form of torture that can destroy a person's mental health. They even do it to children.
The prison population in the USA is still the largest per capita in the world and it still uses these prisoners as slave labor producing over $10 billion in goods and services yearly.
A study by Princeton showed that legislation passes only when the top 1% of the country support it, otherwise, popular sentiment is completely irrelevant, making this country not a democracy.
The American world order is slowly crumbling, it will take decades. They will get more violent and more brutal as it proceeds in an attempt to arrest the trend.
But my point remains, the alternative is not "dictators".