Introducing American power

For decades, allies From the United States, she lived comfortably in the midst of American hegemony. They built their financial institutions, communications and national defense systems at the top of the United States’s infrastructure.

And time now, you may wish they hadn’t done so.

Once again in 2022, Korea Doctor Form The term “ENSHITTIOTION” to describe a course that has been repeatedly played in the online economy. Entrepreneurs start providing high -thinking promises to get new users to try their platforms. But once users, sellers and advertisers – through the effects of the network, collective work problems are unacceptable, and high switching costs – tactics change. The owners of the platforms begin to press their users for everything they can get, even with filling the platform with more low quality ever. Then they start pressing sellers and advertisers as well.

People do not usually think about the military and US dollar and satellite towers as platforms. But this is what they are. When American allies buy advanced military technologies such as F-35 fighter planes, they only get a plane, but the group associated with communication technologies, parts supplies, and technological support. When companies participate in global financing and trade, they direct their transactions regularly through a platform called the dollar clearing system, which is managed by a handful of organized institutions in the United States. And when countries need to create an internet connection in hard-to-reach places, the opportunities that depend on a conservative constellation-Starlink-by one company with profound relations with the American state, Elon Musk’s Spacex. As with Facebook and Amazon, American hegemony is preserved by Network Logic, which makes all these platforms difficult and expensive to stay away from them.

For decades, America’s allies have accepted US control of these regimes, because they believe in the American commitment to “the international system based on rules.” They cannot persuade themselves anymore. He is not in a world in which President Trump threatens the attachment of Canada, and he undertakes to acquire Greenland from Denmark, and Advertise Foreign officials may be banned from entering the United States if they were “demanding the adoption of American technology platforms.

Since Trump regained his position in January, in fact, rapid discrimination has become the organizational principle of the fold of the United States. This time, Trumporld realizes that – in controlling the global financing infrastructure, technology and security layer – it contains vast machines of coercion at its disposal. “The United States has begun to liquefy its domination,” said Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada recently.

So what is the ally to do? Like individual consumers surrounded by Google Search or Facebook with the deterioration of the basic product, many still learn how difficult it is to get out of the network. And like countless startups that tried to create a alternative to Twitter or Facebook over the years – they have now been forgotten, a few of them successful– The other allies are desperate to know how to build their own network.

The infrastructure tends to Be invisible until you start using you. In 2020, the United States imposed sanctions on Hong Kong CEO, Carrie Lam, to suppress democratic protests on behalf of China. Everywhere, Lam has become unique to the power of the dollar clearing system – a layer of financial mechanism in the world that most people have not heard.