COVID-19 was unprecedented and for a while we all floundered. But private enterprise in the form of the huge pharmaceutical corporations backed by anxious governments and NGOs and academia won the battle both with preventative enforced measures and with vaccine development. Not, of course, without tragic deaths everywhere along the way. Transnational cooperation was key.
Where COVID was a grotesque and avoidable accident Donald-25 resulted from enough American voters in a flawed electoral system falling for the second time for an insane Snake Oil salesman. It defies belief. And the checks and balances supposedly present in the US Constitution have catastrophically failed.
Once again transnational cooperation is essential. The West (the non American part of it) should cooperate solidly with China to tackle a common economic enemy. This will require a “My enemy’s enemy is my friend” imperative not dissimilar to that of Roosevelt and Churchill with Stalin. Messy and uncomfortable for sure, but essential.
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Yes absolutely. Unless the West I mean the UK Canada and the EU develops strong political relationships with China, then Russia will. The evidence is already appearing.
Trump seeks isolation then the world should give him that.
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