24th February 2023, 4:11 PM
I'll grant you all that. It's very interesting then that the U.S. seems to have forgotten all of that in the past 50 years of neoliberalism. We're definitely failing at the soft power game in the middle east, for example. Just handing lump sums of cash straight to their governments has rather literally blown up on us.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)