Los Angeles may not get the Olympics in 2024 because the folks at the International Olympic Committee are angry at the United States for pursuing doping charges against Russia.
This is a great example of how globalism works:
1.) We have an Olympic competition run by international bureaucrats.
2.) The Russians are plainly cheating by doping their athletes.
3.) We try to stop the cheating.
4.) The international bureaucrats get angry — not at the cheaters — but at us.
Now, if this is how the rest of the world reacts to something like the Olympics, how do you think they react when we try to enforce trade rules, or try to persuade our “allies” to live up to their treaty commitments?
What the globalists don’t understand — or don’t care about — is that because of the enormous anti-American sentiment around the world, it’s almost impossible to create a multinational organization that actually advances U.S. interests.
This was true of the U.N., of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), of the World Trade Organization (WTO) — and it will be true of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as well. NATO may have advanced our interests during the Cold War — because so many elites in Western Europe were genuinely afraid of the Soviets. But those days are gone.
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Under these circumstances, the best strategy for the United States is to preserve its own independence as much as possible — thus leaving ourselves free to pursue our own interests. Otherwise we will be stuck in international organizations where we will always be unloved and outvoted.
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