Here's another interesting piece ...

Can BRICS end apartheid against the Global South?

What's this “new world order that’s trying to take shape”?

Keep an eye on the upcoming annual meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York City but the meeting of the G77 + China meeting happening now in Havana will shed more light on the subject.

Global South leaders demand end to "plundering international order"

...letting your own words speak for themselves. Ahem.

My "own words" don't (never did and never will) need you to let them speak for themselves; however, said words were definitely meant especially for you. I imagine it isn't entirely impossible that the more often you avail yourself of the cutting and pasting and repetition of my "own words," you might surprise us all and actually learn something.

So, to recap: My "own words" already "speak for themselves" without needing anyone "letting" them; however, please repeat my "own words" and allow them to speak to you at every chance you get. You quite obviously had need of them. :)

Start focusing on more reliable sources of information!

I see you received my message loud and clear, and it really would behoove you greatly to act on it because your words resemble those of a raving right-wingnut loon. :)

Or maybe your mind simply isn't capable of keeping them "straight." It would be a much better use of your human spewage if you pissed all over Canada and took care of your own fires (literally) instead of blowing smoke all over US.

...letting your own words speak for themselves. Ahem.

With Fox News, the Falun Gong, and multiple right-wingnut sources prattling on and on incessantly about the "new world order" on a regular basis, it ain't exactly a revelation or even remotely some "new news."

Start focusing on more reliable sources of information! :)

What’s this “new world order that’s trying to take shape”?

Let’s recap: after WWII the United States offered the world a deal. We would guarantee freedom of the seas to all nations in exchange for the US writing the West’s security policies to counter the Communists. This was the start of globalism and the Asian miracles, for example, couldn’t have happened without this arrangement.

But the Soviets went belly up in 1991 and China is no longer Communist and American Presidents of late are less and less interested in policing the worlds oceans. Both Russia and China are terminally short of young people and are likely to collapse in a decade or two.

Here in North America, we DO have enough young people and we’re reshoring our supply chains. We’ll be fine.

But please do elaborate.

For whatever it's worth, those same "Big Three" credit raters were the very same guys who said the sub-prime mortgage bonds were all also "AAA".

It's worth nothing, Stucki, since I would wager you are well aware that you're making one hell of a false equivalency and you more probably than not are aware that not all of the sub-prime mortgage bonds were rated AAA, necessitating the investment banks to pay some handsome fees to the Big Three in order to obtain those AAA ratings to sell those structured products to investors. As you are likely also well aware, those with ratings lower than AAA were then bundled by the investment banks and sold as CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) and (even worse) synthetic CDOs.

And who paid billions to bail out that mess? You well know.

Coming close to not paying its debts, over and over again, especially given the current political climate in the US, is harmful enough.

You are conflating the asinine exercise of raising of the debt ceiling with not paying the debt.

Yes, I have conflated default with government shutdown. My bad.

Yes, you did.

There are so many American ills these days that it can be hard to keep them all straight.

Or maybe your mind simply isn't capable of keeping them "straight." It would be a much better use of your human spewage if you pissed all over Canada and took care of your own fires (literally) instead of blowing smoke all over US.

The point remains, however, that every single time the US demonstrates poor governance is a strike against Biden's effort to maintain the rules-based world order he still dreams about managing.

You sound like a right-wingnut echo chamber.

Insular Americans wouldn't know this but there is a new world order trying to take shape and it ain't being directed by Biden.

With Fox News, the Falun Gong, and multiple right-wingnut sources prattling on and on incessantly about the "new world order" on a regular basis, it ain't exactly a revelation or even remotely some "new news."

For whatever it's worth, those same "Big Three" credit raters were the very same guys who said the sub-prime mortgage bonds were all also "AAA".

United States has never not paid our debts and can definitely continue to do so while working on next year's budget. :)

Coming close to not paying its debts, over and over again, especially given the current political climate in the US, is harmful enough. ;)

Yes, I have conflated default with government shutdown. My bad. There are so many American ills these days that it can be hard to keep them all straight. Heh.

The point remains, however, that every single time the US demonstrates poor governance is a strike against Biden's effort to maintain the rules-based world order he still dreams about managing.

Insular Americans wouldn't know this but there is a new world order trying to take shape and it ain't being directed by Biden.

Elizabeth this is about government shutting down and not a debt ceiling default — get your Republican fiasco du jour straight!

Exactly!

Maybe we should brace ourselves for "fleeting default" and "new world chaos"... just kidding.

The United States has never not paid our debts and can definitely continue to do so while working on next year's budget. :)

The full faith and credit of the United States is on the line and has been sitting there rather precariously for a very, very long time.

The current credit rating of the United States is either AA+ or AAA as determined by the Big Three: S&P, Fitch, and Moody's. AAA is as good as it gets, and AA+ is a tiny notch below; as such, your characterization of America's credit is wildly incorrect and patently false and wildly incorrect.

Even if a deal is reached in time, as always, that would be another strike against the US from the perspective of the outside world.

So you're now speaking for the "outside world" and their "perspective" too? That's really rich since the vast majority of the "outside world" has a lower rating than the United States and would "kill" (figure of speech... for most of them, anyway) for an AAA or even an AA+ rating; there are literally hundreds and hundreds of countries with a lower rating.

If a deal isn't reached and the US government goes into default - even if it only lasts a day or less - then all bets are off and who knows what will happen to how the US is seen by the rest of the world.

You were the one who literally just claimed to know the "perspective of the outside world." Also, you are confusing the payment of the debt with passing of the federal budget... two wholly different things.

One thing that even a fleeting default would come close to guaranteeing ... Biden's dream of a new world order swinging ever closer to the nightmare of new world chaos.

New world chaos!? Fleeting default!? O. M. G. Reminds me of Ron Dee Santis claiming he will "start slitting throats" if elected president... totally unnecessarily overdramatic. :)

Even if a deal is reached in time, as always, that would be another strike against the US from the perspective of the outside world.

If a deal isn't reached and the US government goes into default - even if it only lasts a day or less - then all bets are off and who knows what will happen to how the US is seen by the rest of the world.

One thing that even a fleeting default would come close to guaranteeing ... Biden's dream of a new world order swinging ever closer to the nightmare of new world chaos.