On: US quits Paris climate pact

[rayiner]

> Other countries don't care about post-facto rationalizations by partisans to demonize the other side in domestic policies.

Which is a key reason why international cooperation is so dangerous. It's insensitive to domestic politics and law.

[scarmig → rayiner]

But other countries can and do maintain international commitments and cooperation. The USA did for most of its lifetime. That tool is increasingly less available to the USA, as a result of this (and NATO).

[rayiner → scarmig]

The U.K. just pulled out of the EU because it was panicked about supernational institutions coopting democracy.

[gonvaled → rayiner]

There are things that must be dealt with at the international level.

[unityByFreedom → rayiner]

Not cooperating is more dangerous - - as far as blanket statements go.