On Contact: Decline of the American empire with Alfred McCoy

On Contact: Decline of the American empire with Alfred McCoy
117,127 views

2.2K

170

SHARE



RT America
Published on Nov 26, 2017
SUBSCRIBED 563K

Alfred McCoy, Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains the decline of the United States as a global power and the rise of the Chinese empire.

Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT

Find RT America in your area: http://rt.com/where-to-watch/
Or watch us online: http://rt.com/on-air/rt-america-air/

Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTAmerica
Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_America
Category
News & Politics
License
Standard YouTube License

776 Comments
SORT BY
 Auggie Giuseppe
Add a public comment...
William Schutter
William Schutter
7 months ago
So much of what you say is correct. Some of us saw this coming 30 years ago.

123

REPLY

View all 25 replies
 William Schutter
William Schutter
7 months ago
Pure genius. Thank you.

128

REPLY

View all 13 replies
 William Schutter
William Schutter
7 months ago
The post WWII "trials" were for show. Just look at the sentencings.

60

REPLY

View all 27 replies
 William Schutter
William Schutter
7 months ago
No. Obama ran into national sovereignty. He did not overlook all the corruption. He was counting on it. And Trump dished TPP  apart from the support of any Dems. Your assessment of the fragility of empires is unimpeachable.

23

REPLY

View all 9 replies
 William Schutter
William Schutter
7 months ago
I grant that Obama saw this. I do not grant that it was ever practicable, nor that it could ever amount to anything more than a ruse to co-opt brilliant Liberals like you to back him. It worked. You gave us Trump.

16

REPLY

View all 11 replies
 Frank Blangeard
Frank Blangeard
3 months ago (edited)
McCoy thinks that the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush was the turning point. What about Vietnam?

8

REPLY

View all 2 replies
 Charles Kesner
Charles Kesner
7 months ago
Seems right to me. Thanks

18

REPLY

Frank
Frank
7 months ago
if this kind of television is Russian propaganda.....give me more!

126

REPLY

View all 9 replies
 Inisfad
Inisfad
7 months ago
Brzezinski was a criminal - all he cared about was the destruction of the Soviet Union, due to his own, personal history.  To view him as anything other than a corrupt puppeteer for his own personal satisfaction, is absurd, as is evidenced by his response about Bin Laden, the Middle East, etc.  These issues made no difference to him . His entire political world revolved around the destruction of the USSR.
Read more

27

REPLY

View all 3 replies
 Inisfad
Inisfad
7 months ago (edited)
Only elites benefited from these trade agreements.  The US middle class has disappeared, and more than one-half of the population now lives on a salary of less than $50,000 per annum.  Yet, this professor seems to think that the rise of poverty, on a personal level, is far less important than the American ‘empire’ and its globalist conclusion.  I imagine this professor would have been against storming the Bastille.
Read more

26

REPLY

View all 2 replies
 day tripper
day tripper
3 months ago
Carter began the slip of American power with the hostage crisis, and then we beat up former. Allies. Then the corporations took control and now we have nothing but a leveraged country with a game show host as president.

4

REPLY

Malcolm M
Malcolm M
7 months ago
China doesn't need to go to war to beat out the US. Their strategy is to take an opposite route that doesn't include guns in people's faces.

50

REPLY

View all 3 replies
 gerald geaf
gerald geaf
7 months ago
This professor is a true patriot - even in 2017 he still believes the bullshit of the US standing for democracy and freedom.
He made me laugh when he said "the BBC is until today recognized world wide as the standard bearer for news and objectivity"