A NEW ROUGE STATE?

 A new rouge state? 

 Who would have thought that one day the US of A will be on the way to becoming a rouge state? The US had taken the mantel of establishing democracy across the world, post WW2. While that was the pretext,  the real intent was to gain moral high ground and subtly spread American influence everywhere, oppose the USSR/ Russia and later China. 

That phase has outlived it's utility  now and other nations have become powerful and smarter. American military might is now not good enough as the opponets too have  similar weapons America's  inability  to take in war  based loss of lives or casualty. Erosion of their economic clout.

All these have left the US with few options. 

So now with a Bully in office and his dislike for lawful institutions, would mean that the US  will drop all pretensions and use might, at some cost. To act as a state that does not  respect international law or the  UN charter ( which was made to prevent a repeat of Nazisim and rouge sates from plunging the planet to a devastating world conflicts) would be the alternative, enabling them to do what they want.

The world will take time to understand and decide what to do. Things will now not  quickly plunge into choes, as such, but will slowly  slip into another devastating phase. 

While it's easy to imagine that  China, Russia, Iran, Middle East, Europe etc will not allow a rouge state of America to do what it wants, realpolitics   is more complex. No one knows the end game. As I said earlier , short term alliances , based on military and economics,  will  emerge. Add technology like AI  that will add to this complexity and unpredictability and then you have a situation that would seem that Atlas has shrugged!  One thing is sure,  no more dull and insipid international diplomacy . It will be regular fireworks , for sure.