Historian @NFergus cautions an increasingly isolationist America: “The greatest problem with empire is always that the costs are more visible than the benefits.”
“The benefit of having the reserve currency is not trivial... Americans may complain about the loss of manufacturing jobs, but they don’t celebrate the cheapness of consumer goods...
The thing about losing your status as a superpower is it’s very hard to get it back when it’s gone. And it depends who succeeds you... If the United States is succeeded by China... and that form of totalitarianism is then exported... the world is a much less pleasant place to be an American.”
The King will lead the nation in marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day at a series of events in May to honour our war heroes
Listen to King Charles reading an extract from George VI’s diary which describes his grandfather's experience of #VEDay 80yrs ago
@AFCMax9 It was Arteta’s decision to not buy an attacking reinforcement, the money is there, it’s out of his own volition that we are in this torrid predicament.