To all those folks on Mastodon complaining that American news stories such the air out of the place and any US news story needs to be labeled with a CW:

Good luck seeking to live in a protected bubble in which what happens in the US doesn't affect you outside the US.

Britain tried that approach with Brexit, vis-a-vis Europe. How's that working out?

#CW #ContentWarnings #USNews #isolationism #Trump #indictment #globalism
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🚨New Article Alert🚨

Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis

By Yeongkyun Jang & Jae-Suk Yang

The results of a #network analysis, including a BERGM, indicate a trend towards #isolationism in the #economic arena since about 2010; in contrast, a trend towards expansionism has been continuously evident in the #political and #military sectors throughout the study period.

https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12448

‘Even if the United States faced no immediate threat of military attack, Roosevelt warned in his January 1940 State of the Union address, the world would be a “shabby and dangerous place to live in—yes, even for Americans to live in” if it were ruled “by force in the hands of a few.”’

#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon

“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”

Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.

#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon

You're using the term ‘#Orwellian’ wrong. Here’s what George #Orwell was actually writing about

by Barbara VanDenburgh, January 2021

"Orwell hated #fascists so much he went to war with them

“'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for #DemocraticSocialism, as I understand it, Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay handily titled 'Why I Write.' That was the year Orwell joined a leftist militia to fight in the Spanish Civil War against fascist Francisco Franco’s military uprising in Spain.

"Eric Arthur Blair (Orwell was his pen name) was born to British civil servants in India, a member of what he called the 'lower-upper-middle class.' A deeply moral thinker and writer, Orwell didn’t sit comfortably in his privilege but was a committed democratic socialist, 'along the lines of a #BernieSanders,' as Yetur describes him. He was also, Ulin says, a brilliant critic of pre-World War II British liberal #isolationism."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2021/01/11/using-term-orwellian-wrong-george-orwell-explainer-1984/6616511002/

@oatmeal @QasimRashid
We ladies in the USA can still #protest and express our opinions. Women under the #Taliban don't even have that much freedom.

Besides... #Isolationism , #nationalism , and ignoring #fascism & #extremism in other countries has never turned out well for the USA. Invariably, it bites us in the backside.

#Democracy does not thrive in a vacuum. And decency does not survive without empathy.

We MUST care.

#Afghanistan #AfghanWomen #WomensRights #FreedomOfSpeech

Amazingky concise powerful &!pithy summary from @JKleinschmidtIR@twitter.com

RT @JKleinschmidtIR@twitter.com

#NeoIdealism is a normative approach to politics that leaves behind the commercial #neoliberalism epitomized by #Schröder and his ilk, the #isolationism and #populism of the #Trump brand, and the cynicism of great power #geopolitics. Read all about it in this 🧵 by @bctallis@twitter.com! ⬇️ https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1612105940441915395

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JKleinschmidtIR/status/1612118166708027392

…I told him if you want #Isolationism so much as a country don’t go around invading countries like Iraq and always expect other countries to join and have to fight then, or buy your American cars or Heinz ketchup if you only put America First and don’t realize it is a #GlobalEconony , Trumps simple catch phrase #MAGA worked for simple minds that do not know anything about how the global economy works. When #trump started the #tradewar with #China it ended up driving prices for the entire WORLD!

Wow! We've known the Tw*tter platform was going to hell, but this is a mind-blowing level of cluelessness about how social media works. Making your 'platform' a self-referencing island isolated from the rest of the world is the stupidest thing anyone who considers themself a technologist (or entrepreneur) could possibly do with a platform. #twitter #isolationism #socialmedia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/18/twitter-to-remove-accounts-promoting-other-social-platforms

“Donald #Trump has no philosophy,” #Bolton tells Ali Velshi. “There is no Trumpism and there’s no real succession to Trump.” While he acknowledges that there’s a “virus of #isolationism” within the #GOP, he downplays Trump’s politics as “#performanceart” and says it’s “delusional” to think his party is unfixable. “It’s the job of #Republicans to repair the damage [Trump’s] done.”

https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/john-bolton-donald-trump-has-no-philosophy-it-s-performance-art-157985349542

Here's goes the new server, new #introduction

I'm an historian at The Ohio State University. I focus on the role of ideas in US foreign relations & politics, with an emphasis on #isolationism, #internationalism, #globalization. Gilded Age & Progressive Era. 1918 Flu Pandemic. Baseball. Passionate advocate for humanities.

Latest books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations (2022), co-edited w/David Milne, Rethinking American Grand Strategy (2021), co-edited w/Elizabeth Borgwardt & Andrew Preston.

"Not surprisingly, the discussion about the European #nuclear “umbrella” itself was initiated not now, but during the presidency of Donald #Trump, when American policy had especially clearly shown the presence of an internal demand for #isolationism."

Listening to #CBCIdeas ... It's all very well to go through the history of #uspol interfering in foreign governments, but it's foolish to ignore the degree to which this was a matter of competition with other great powers. If the US had returned to #isolationism in 1946, would the world have been better off?

Sure, the US worked hard to make support the Christian Democrats in the 1948 Italian election; but the Soviets had their agents in Italy as well.

#itpol #ColdWar

Tuesday #column: Do you ever feel tired of others taking advantage of you? Have you had enough of your young ones giving food to strangers? Are you staunchly convinced that you'd be better off on your own? Why not just close down your borders! Just like what #Nigeria has done!

Wait... what?

#politics #ClosingBorders #isolationism #writing

A Wakandan Dream:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/a-wakandan-dream/

Almost two and a half years into his term, the orange imbecile in chief promises to build a stronger, bigger, better and cheaper wall. Once a snakeoil salesman, always a snakeoil salesman. The Trump brand stinks of #fearmongering, #xenophobia, #islamophobia and #isolationism. These are not indicators of strength. These are signs of #weakness. Build bridges, not walls. Or better yet: Repair bridges that you've burnt down, petulant manchild. #USA