These are rather like serf states, potential hostage states, what used to be called vassal states.
They are all required to be democratic now, so that is a sticky wicket, but that is how it now is.
They are politically correctly democratic, at home.
Foreign Policy, however, is a whole other thing.
Domestic democrats, global serfs!
They can throw up elaborate smoke screens, curtains pulled together or aside, but the reality behind the illusion is that they are taking orders from others.
The issue of trade, dittohead!
Trade has been the obedient handmaiden of security.
They are democratic and environmental at home, but global trade agreements completely queer every domestic trade, welfare, currency, fiscal, governance, and product safety agenda of advanced societies.
Free trade has meant ' free ' or almost free security, for a long time now, started out ostensibly to win the so called Cold War.
What free security, locked in with free trade, has meant has been globalization and reductionism of product quality, fragmentation and dispersion of domestic product sourcing, and product safety, along with price, critical loss of control over crucial strategic and commercial technological and industrial advantages, and most crucially, reduction of income, employment, and prosperity among the vast majorities in advanced societies.
The servants in Upstairs Downstairs had a higher standard of living than the poorer American, half of whom are on welfare.
Victorian servants' lives in Britain did not compare with American colonial servants most of whom were basically white slaves for 5 to 7 years, often on southern plantations. Probably half died before their term of servitude was over...
The servants in Upstairs Downstairs had a higher standard of living than the poorer American, half of whom are on welfare.
Victorian servants' lives in Britain did not compare with American colonial servants most of whom were basically white slaves for 5 to 7 years, often on southern plantations. Probably half died before their term of servitude was over...
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