• Suavevillain@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The next President is going to have so much work to do repair country relations. This man thinks he is king of the world and can do whatever he wants.

    • CircaV@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      The sooner the US realizes there is no coming back from this, no matter who is elected in future - the better.

      • 7101334@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        There is no coming back from this because US dollar dominance is waning. Internal American decay is either secondary to that, or a symptom of that, or both. That’s what’s really behind the scenes in all of this (that and Israel’s dreams of their own Zionazi Lebensraum, Eretz Israel).

        The US used to be able to exert soft power to control the world, which lends itself much more towards moral superiority and an air of legitimacy than “do what I say or I bomb you or kidnap your president”. BRICS, mostly-failed Russian sanctions, and the slow death of the petrodollar are changing that ability. That they’re so desperate to maintain dominance that they now resort to borderline-world-war levels of violence is not an indicator of their strength to the world, it’s the desperate death throes of the old world order.

        The important thing is that the US Empire (so Israel as well) is stopped before they can reach a fully automated army and/or police force, because that’s violence that obeys without compunction. If it reaches that point, it’s a whole different game.

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        2 hours ago

        Why? What does that even accomplish, the only move there is to make is to start grinding away to repair things

        • CircaV@lemmy.ca
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          12 minutes ago

          Cause in either 4 or 8 years the US will vote in another Trump, but younger and smarter. Trump might go someday but his bullshit, neoliberal, hypercapitalistic, super charged climate change, pro-billionaire, pro-corporation, anti-free trade ideas won’t

    • npcknapsack@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      I suspect you’re significantly more screwed than just one next president.