I am a bit confused. Where are you?

You say from "outside" but use American spellings like "thru", and the words "our", "we" and "us", so I take it you are an American as your profile says, but either living in another country or with an unusual ability to step back and examine what is happening around you within America.

So I respect your analysis as how you see the present condition of the United States of America, as by a writer who knows the country and does want it to be stable and successful.


However, I am not convinced that will help ensure "world peace" because the USA does not and can not run the world, despite spending the last fifty years or so trying to do just that.

Much of the first half of that time was spent in facing Communist imperialism, from the USSR and in Asia although at the time China was mainly preoccupied with her internal development and her own, appalling misjudgments in that.

Since then, the world has changed considerably. I see:-

- USSR metamorphosing into the hard-Right-wing, Russian Federation now run by an ex-KBG die-hard who resents the loss of the USSR's European empire,

- the still-Communist, expansionist People's Republic of China jockeying with strongly Right-wing, capitalist United States of America to be the world's Top Dog economically and politically,

- Middle Eastern theocracies scrapping over sectarian differences and territories but largely regarding "the West" as a common political and cultural enemy,

- Israel acting too big for her own good, thus encouraging groups like Hamas and their ruthless, anti-Western, anti-Israeli backers including Iran,

- various guerilla movements like ISIS trying to exploit all this strife for their own ends, including a dream of hard-line, worldwide theocracy; and being civilian guerillas largely immune at large scale to conventional war tactics - the losers are the populace in the way,

- peculiar alignments of theoretically opponents against their perceived common enemies (China + Afghanistan, China + Russia, Russia + Iran, America + Saudi Arabia, UK + Saudi Arabia, etc.),

- a mish-mash of small, unstable, mainly dictatorial countries like some of the African and South American ones; many now in financial and political thrall to China; and

- even democratic(ish) blocs like the European Union with somewhat protectionist import controls (yes these affect my country, the UK, too).


So the growth of major ideologies, most totally at odds with that of the USA (and "The West" generally), and with each other. Worse, some of those powers' strengths have been a response to, or been encouraged by, those decades of the USA trying to tell them what to do in all sorts of ways; and not always in the most diplomatic manner.

So while I agree with your analysis and desire that the USA must address her own, serious internal difficulties, and should be prosperous and happy; I am afraid that ideal will not have much effect on all those lands beyond the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

She may be able to sort herself out, but cannot run the increasingly fractured and fractious world.

You have confused me. You state that you are from the US, how then can you write about the outside looking in.

True, there have been some splits developing over the years and some bad things done, but until 10 years ago, there have been amazing progress in civil rights, health care for previously uninsured, etc. advances in clean air and water.

Many of not most of such advanced are rapidly being reversed!

Even when all the issues so well laid out here are mitigated, there still remains the problem of America repaying the close to $40 Trillion in debt that it owes around the world. Much of which is in the hands of nations who do not have Americas best interests at heart. I see no solution as to how that will be paid. Nor do I see default as a realistic option, because America relies on imports for much of its own manufacturing. And because much of the domestic consumption of these Treasury Instruments is in organisations like pension funds and US financial institutions. Default would cause massive failures there..
The demise of America will bring a level of instability politically as nation jostle for power. But the world will adapt and move on. Apart from America. The future there is uncertain, but I dont see a happy ending..😷

Yup, the fortunes of those 25,000,000 illegal alien Central American and South Americans imported by land, sea, and air by the previous administration sure have reversed

Sorry, Comrade, your BS sounds more like a Christmas wish list. If a lib were in office, I might agree with some of that... but with Trump, not a chance.