The more congressional Republicans threaten international economic stability, the less the world will look to the United States as a global leader. (via MaddowBlog)
I don’t envy U.S. diplomats who have to field calls from international officials concerned about the debt ceiling crisis. “Well, yes, the United States certainlypay its bills,” I can imagine them saying, “but we have a political party that doesn’t want to unless their demands are met.”
“Of course I understand that an economic catastrophe here will affect your country, too,” the diplomat might say in this imagined conversation, “and we’re all hoping that Republicans agree not to hurt us all.”President Biden left for Japan on Wednesday for a meeting of the leaders of seven major industrial democracies who get together each year to try to keep the world economy stable. But as it turns out, the major potential threat to global economic stability this year is the United States.
That is, of course, a striking summary of an extraordinary set of circumstances, though I’d quibble with the specific nature of the threat: It’s not the"United States" that’s prepared to cause a deliberate economic catastrophe, it’s Republicans in the U.S. Congress. Nevertheless, as the Times’ report added, our allies have spent many years counting on the United States to serve as the world’s “most important stabilizing force.” That, of course, was before Republican lawmakers embraced government shutdowns, debt ceiling crises, election denialism, and the routinization of “
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