If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton
This story appears in the June 30, 2014 issue of Forbes.
One hundred years ago this summer the assassination in the Balkans of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, set off a chain of events that led to the greatest human-caused cataclysm in history.
The Great War, what Winston Churchill rightly called Armageddon, should never have happened. But it did, and because it did we should be concerned at how events are unfolding around the world today. Unlike WWII, the First World War didn’t occur through premeditated Hitler-like aggression. One thing led to another, hideous missteps were made and manifold unimaginable horrors ensued.
China, Russia and terrorists truly believe that the U.S. today is a declining power, that the financial crisis demonstrated basic flaws in free-market economics and that our political turmoil is evidence of America’s inability to get any serious structural changes made. In their minds we are a continent-size Belgium, with a shrinking military and no appetite to engage with the world. Much of the same trope was around during the malaise-ridden 1970s, but at least in those days we didn’t have a President whose core ideology is that U.S. involvement in the world has been a force and source for all sorts of evil things and that the more isolationist we are, the better. Obama’s unshakable belief in this is stunningly wrong, ahistorical and genuinely dangerous.
China’s growing belligerence after 2008 with Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam and others would never have surfaced if Beijing thought we were the Reaganesque U.S. of yore. Nor would Vladimir Putin be moving so quickly and aggressively to create a new Russian empire to replace the collapsed U.S.S.R. Nor would Iran be moving so impudently forward on developing nuclear weapons. Nor would Saudi Arabia and Iran be on a collision course in a collapsing Iraq.
It is in just such an environment that an unplanned crisis might erupt and fateful miscalculations emerge. The world will be an infinitely more unsafe, more precarious place if Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran and others come to possess nuclear weapons.
Profound 1930s-style ignorance of economics and, in particular, monetary policy (http://www.amazon.com/Money-Destruction-Dollar-Threatens-Economy/dp/0071823700) is another volatile factor that will be a source of subpar growth and new crises.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2014/06/18/weak-u-s-means-terrible-trouble/
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