Who says it won't work for Europe or the US? Since when were you given the honorary role of informing folks of what works, or not, for Europeans or Americans? Don't hide behind slogans. And don't do to other people what you wouldn't want done onto you. It's as simple as that. We have the resources at hand, right now, to kick oil to the kerb in less than 50 years. We're in the Middle East ONLY because oil companies and out government are playing geo-political battles that are obviously backfiring on us.
Anything else is a slogan from Fucks (Fox).
Too late in the game. That's why it doesn't work. Please give reasons why it would work. I have giving reasons why it wouldn't. And please give examples on when it did.
Plus, if his whole "globalization" being pushed down everybody's throat the option of "leave them alone" doesn't work. Then there are the human right's violations, UN, all the other stuff.
It seems to me that you advocate isolationism, which will fail in his world.
There are no real solutions to getting off oil. Electricity is one, but expensive, and they still figuring out how to get better storage, and then there is the rare earth metals/minerals that are needed. And guess where there is a large concentration of it? Afghanistan. Oh, so just "leave them alone" right? The Chinese aren't thinking that. In fact, China is eating the US lunch, engaging in many countries in Latin America and Africa---countries which are deemed off limits by American ccompanies and businesses due to political regimes and human right's violations.
There is also hydrogen fuel cells, which many countries are investing in.
Oh, and think you know that oil companies have big lobbies, and buy up a lot of tech that could help us...
And then you are forgetting one big thing, people travel. You want to forbid certain people from traveling or moving to certain areas? You see, you open up a Pandora's box of problems when take a "leave them alone" stance.
And one more thing, FDR didn't want to get involve in in the war, even when Churchill asked him, and it took some building of friendship.
What would have happened if FDR had said, "The Germans are Europe's problem"?
Leave them alone...yep, that works wonders doesn't it.