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US has been building soft power like this for decades, and Trump is pissing it all away.
If this process to get rid of dependency on US gets well underway, there's no turning that ship. US won't recover the position it had in fifty years or more.
I've been pro US imperialism for a while now, but honestly I'm glad that the rest of the world is shedding the worst of our power projection.
On one hand the heel position has really pushed a lot of the world in a positive direction, but there's gotta be a better fucking way then, like you said destroying half a century of international relations and cooperation. That's not to mention the bigger issue of US supported genocide in Palistein and the ethnic cleansing operation in the states, which I can't excuse for any 4d accidently good things on the geopolitical scale.
This is not a bad thing. Over dependency on any one nation or even a bloc of nations is a bad thing.
I can’t help but think the dependency on the US that has been created played some role in what’s happening now.
Honestly, I can see that. America has been top dog for so long, it doesn't value what it has.
Not even that. I’m thinking too much money, power and influence all consolidated in one place.
The US has the most billionaires at 989 and I’m guessing of the remaining ~2400 billionaires in the world, a not insignificant amount have substantial interests in the US.
It’s good the rest of the world is watching it happen. I hope they’re taking notes because it’s not stopping in America.
Well of course. The whole point of US trade policy was to maintain global dominance. You don't think that politicians were sending money to other countries purely out of the goodness of their own heart, do you? ... Of course some of them have good intentions some of the time, but let's not pretend no other reasons came into consideration.
Nope. The US isn't teaching people to fish, its forcing them to learn How to to feed themselves. In the past they handed them the fish so they could control them. That power is lost now.