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There are numerous reasons for the failures of U..S. leadership that I won’t digress upon. Alaska of course is subject to political control by oil corporations that support the state government. Imperialism was the traditional way of commerce for the British Empire-a little island with big economic ambitions-and Bill Clinton supported that on Wall Street during his Presidency. Global imperialism through business may be good for Britain yet it’s bad for the U.S.A. Developing easy breezy foreign interests neglects one’s national interests-that brought down the Roman Empire and it can bring down the U.S.A. Britain needed imperialism yet the United States always had plenty of resources to support its own development needs. If America can’t make it on its own no one else probably can either. The people of the world have too big of economic appetites with natural resources sufficient to support the habit.
Some may say that imperialism isn’t the issue. The problem is just that government and business exist in a networking, bureaucrat and finance heavy drug using immoral social environment where government can’t really do anything besides occupy the big chairs in the big jobs and plan for retirement with lots of foreign vacations. That may be so. N.P.R. was worried about the Norfolk naval bases flooding in a century from sea level rise. Poor navy-they will need to get boats to save the admiral’s homes from drowning.
The U.S. navy could become something of a bureaucracy itself with no surface battles for a century. A zillion micro-drone fast attack force delivery packages could track and sink any significant surface vessel in a decade or less. Maybe the Navy should plan for something else in ruling the waves for bureaucrats and Wall Street. Assuredly people need to be able to get about on the ocean yet new military paradigms could develop that don’t comprise copious imperial spending and anachronistic security criteria.
Alaska’s Governor has supported minor cross-border exchanges with Russia. It would be good if an Ecosphere of Commerce were to arise with government and business supported perhaps coordinated by Amory Lovins and other seriously green individuals. The Anthropocene Era of mass extinction perhaps including human life is upon us. One should never misunderestimate the ineffectiveness of government and its inability to created or allow political reform in the era of bureaucratic-financial networking glamor inertia.
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