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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Plib one of the ways that the US Gov't gets its way, that is imposes its ideology, on other countries is by using the Balance of Trade Negotiations as a bargaining tool.
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Australia is not the only country they've tried to bully, Canada and the UK have seen the ugly side of US dominated agreements as well, and these are the people who fought beside the US in Afghanistan and Iraq! It's mostly driven by the lobby groups, but it's the country that gets a bad name. US economic power is going to decline drastically in the next 20 years. It will be interesting to see how many "friends and allies" they'll be able to bully then. Or for that matter, how many friends and allies are left.