{"id":29951,"date":"2023-02-18T19:43:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29951"},"modified":"2023-02-18T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:43:32","slug":"americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2023\/02\/18\/americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Real Adversaries are Its European and Other Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hudson has published the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/11\/americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America\u2019s Real Adversaries are Its European and Other Allies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWithout subsidy from these countries, especially as China, Russia and their neighbors de-dollarize their economies, how can the United States maintain the balance-of-payments costs of its overseas military spending? Cutting back that spending, and indeed recovering industrial self-reliance and competitive economic power, would require a transformation of American politics. Such a change seems unlikely, but without it, how long can America\u2019s post-industrial rentier economy manage to force other countries to provide it with the economic affluence (literally a flowing-in) that it is no longer producing at home?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this is in a nutshell why the current USA economic and political policies are not good for USA inhabitants,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hudson has published the article America\u2019s Real Adversaries are Its European and Other Allies. Without subsidy from these countries, especially as China, Russia and their neighbors de-dollarize their economies, how can the United States maintain the balance-of-payments costs of its overseas military spending? Cutting back that spending, and indeed recovering industrial self-reliance and competitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29952,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951\/revisions\/29952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}