>> Just as clearly,
>> the US has no strategy to deal with the multipolar world.
>
> [WS:] Well, it does pawn the family silver to buy time and coast, which
> is a strategy of a sort, especially for a plutocracy with underdeveloped
> central nervous system, no?
True, and the final irony is that hocking the silver won't buy them more than a couple years anyway. The semiperiphery is only buying T-bills these days -- no financial bubbleware, no junk from the family attic.
-- DRR