Over the decades, laughs In the United States living comfortably among the Sprawl of American Hegemony. They have established their financial institutions, communication systems, and national defenses above the US infrastructure.
And at the moment they may wish they weren’t.
Back to 2022, Cory Doctorow Linudo The term “slander” to describe a cycle that is playing online economy again. Traders begin to make vows with mind to get new users to try their platforms. But once users, vendors, and advertisers have been locked in network effects, unchangeable collective action problems, tactics that change. The platform owners begin to infuse their users for all they can get, although the platform is filled with a more than high quality slop. Then they started compressing vendors and advertisers too.
People do not usually think of military hardware, US dollars, and satellite constellations as platforms. But that’s them. If American allegations buy advanced military technologies such as military jets such as F-35 fighter jets, they are not just a plane but the assuat suite of communication books, technology, and technology support. If businesses involve global finance and trade, they often rip their transactions through a platform called the dollar’s clearing system, led by a certain regulated US institutions. And if countries need to build internet connection with difficulties in areas, times they will depend on a constellation of a company with deeper relationship with American Spacex. Like Facebook and Amazon, American hegemony is backed by network logic, which makes all platforms difficult and expensive to lose.
For decades, America’s allies accepted the US control of these systems, as they believed in the American commitment to a “international order rules.” They don’t attract themselves to that. Not in a world where President Trump threatened Annex Canada, who promised Greenland from Denmark, and informed That foreign officials can be prohibited from entering the United States if they “ask that American tech platforms adopt global sociations in the global soct content.”
Since the Trump Roook Office in January, indeed, the motivated organizing has become the principle of the United States. At this time, Trumpworld knows that the restricting layer of global financial, technology, and security – it has many machinery to force it. Meanwhile Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, recently put it, “The United States began to monetize it.”
So what does an ally do? Like individual consumers trapped in search of Google or Facebook while the main product is getting worse, many have learned how hard to get out of the network. And like countless startups trying to create a Twitter or Facebook option for many years – mostly forgot now, some success-The allies now say knowing how a network is creating themselves.
Infrastructures are likely Can’t see until it starts using against you. Return to 2020, the United States imposes the sanctions of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, due to resisting protests in Chinese democracy. Suddenly, Lam became extraordinary learned of the power to clear the dollar system – a layer of financial machinery in the world that most people have never heard of people.
