I’m sorry but this article is a laugh: “But while it has fallen short in the past, there was always broad bipartisan agreement over what the U.S. should be: a reliable ally; a country that supports those less fortunate, stands up against tyranny worldwide and is a beacon of freedom for human rights defenders.”
I think it would be more accurate to say that the USAs optics have tried to pander this way. But now they are not even bothering with their PR. The USA has been wheeling and dealing even during WW2.
Conservatives have absolutely destroyed America’s soft power. At least for an entire generation. They’ve made the rest of the world believe their shitstain childlike behavior is how all Americans act. This rapist president has made it clear to the rest of the world that agreements with the U.S. are worth no more than the paper they’re written on.
These fucking knuckle draggers are weighing us down and will continue to do so after their rapist idol is dead and buried.
The Democrats were unabashedly supporting genocide in Palestine and ran a candidate who vowed no deviation from that policy. If you think it’s just Conservatives, you haven’t been paying enough attention.
Yup.
Where I live we have square kilometers of american GI’s that liberated europe. As a first in human history victors did not loot or rape. Instead they scrambled to be home by christmas. Europe is forever indebted to these men and the people that led them.
Yeh and 99.5% of them have since passed away, all that’s left is grift riding on the coat tails of stolen valor.
I’m a German guy from Berlin, next year I’ll be 50. My dad was born in 1944 and it’s pretty safe to say he survived being cut off from food supplies by the Soviets only because Americans pulled off the Berlin Airlift. These brave pilots helped save the lives of people they had considered enemies not much earlier.
So I would not be alive were it not for Americans. Am I indebted to America? Fuck yes, of course I am.
Having said all that, it’s so painful to see America turn to fascism - the very thing those GIs you mention fought against. A country I love, people I love, losing their minds and their hearts. Literally turning evil, led by a criminal lunatic who so obviously follows the demagogue playbook…
If you’re German, then your government aided and abetted the genocide in Palestine just like America did. I’m not sure what Germany’s current state of involvement is, but I doubt they’ve entirely severed support for the fake state. It’s not just us being run by criminal lunatics.
They have always been. It’s now just impossible to ignore.
Not now… Always have been
But now to white people in Europe, too! Not just brown people in South America… and the Middle East… and Southeast Asia… and Africa.
The triumph of disinformation, greed, and self-centered ultraconservatism; a country about to implode.
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but yeah, that’s what i’m saying. you are the baddies.
How about Trump & the five people who like him… THEY’RE the baddies.
I can’t help that I was born in USA 😢 I don’t want to be a baddie.
it’s your responsibility to help change things for the better, then.
if it were just a couple of people and just trump. this would not be an issue. it goes way deeper.
it’s your responsibility to help change things for the better
Yeah, we know. We’re working on it.
Thanks to MAGA, the 1st World views the USA on the same level as Russia, China and their allies. The article is spot on in regard to the future.
I think they are deliberately trying to anger and not just being incompetent.
Why are they doing this? There’s money to be made with this somehow, and it has to be a LOT of money, so obviously the USA is planning to fuck them over financially in some bigly fashion.
Seizing every nation’s accounts would be my best guess, but I thought Trump would lose so what do I know.
IDK, it seems almost transparent to me those in control of the US are doing a racketeering-like thing to solicit bribes, and doing whatever whoever bribes them the most wants. They aren’t thinking on a national level, just personal; and would burn the US or any other country to the ground to gain more power and wealth.
Ding ding ding! The US went from being a covert to an overt kleptocracy. Now you know what it’s like to live in the Balkans during the 90s.
So, Musk and Bezos and Saudi Arabia? My top 3 suspects
bin laden warned us!!! !!! !!! !!!
If you only consider Europe most the world it would be true bit no the usa beem a malign actor for several decades
I was gonna say, only now? I’m in the US and can see it’s been a bad actor since at least the end of WW2.
The Native Americans called about their genocide way before WWII.
I suspect when our founding fathers were blowing up and murdering their fellow colonists as seen in the Sons of Liberty they were bad actors.
Before WWII was also very bad
For sure, but was it our primary internal relationship before?
If that was a typo and you mean international, then certainly for Spanish speaking, African, and nearby countries as well as china (which is all we could manage at that time, though we probably would have aggressed Europe as well if we could have). If you’re talking about domestic, then yes if you weren’t the right kind of Christian white man.
Banana Republics come to mind. But during the time frame the US was doing that, Most of Europe was still doing their own colonialisms.
It was only when Hitler brought colonialism back to Europe that they started to wake up to how bad it was. Well, some of them. France and England had to start losing colonial wars, mostly due to losses suffered in due to WW2, before they slowly started freeing colonies.
Just shows that everyone is shit, and cheering for a team is kind of stupid.
I mean, the Marshall Plan was benevolent. USAID and similar may make us net beneficial to Africa.
Let’s not talk about South America.
I mean, the Marshall Plan was benevolent.
No, it wasn’t. It was meant to stop the URSS from expanding further west, and as a bonus shackle the rebuild countries as loyal lapdogs that attended to any and every USA whim.
USAID and similar may make us net beneficial to Africa.
Mostly posturing. If the USA were serious about benefitting Africa they’d do something similar to what China is doing right now, partnering and building infrastructure, instead merciless exploitation and throwing a few breadcrumbs here and there.
Let’s not talk about South America.
But we should. What the USA has done here can only be labelled as evil. Overthrowing governments left and right, supporting murderous dictatorships, merciless exploitation like what it did in Africa as well. Foul, evil stuff.
I was gonna say, only now?
We love to play the “Obama/Biden were the good ones, they knew how to bomb people and sanction countries ethically” game.
For all Trump’s poison, he was dead to rights on the idea of the Deep State - the core bureaucracy of the US government that demands global hegemony and just can’t decide how to achieve it.
Trump’s been miserable at executing hegemony the liberal way. And we’re expected to believe this will make his administration a failure.
But then you look at fascist Middle Eastern states expanding their territory, South American dictatorships sprouting like weeds, and far-right parties gaining ground all over Europe. Hard to ignore that Palantir is doing just fine. White Nationalists are having a heyday from Texas to Tel Aviv.
Clearly, US hegemony is expanding, just not in the way the Clinton/Cheney neocons imagined it.
Corporate Media can’t seem to decided whether we’re undergoing a fascist takeover or finally Making America Great Again.
I dread to read what the history books say about our country in another ten years, knowing what kind of fucked up AI is writing them today.
That’s not what Trump has ever meant by the “deep state”.
Trump complained that a secret inner cabal of career bureaucrats would oppose him. And he wasn’t wrong. The various federal agencies are a seven layer dip of careerist holdovers from prior administrations, many of who were hostile to his brand of politics for one reason or another.
Trump’s framing of the existence and internal opposition by career bureaucrats was that of some insidious anti-American cabal. But the fundamental problem is one every new President faces. Namely, the Burrowing In of political appointees to civil service career roles.
This isn’t a new problem, either. Thomas Jefferson was complaining about the problem hires left behind under the Adams administration. Burrowed-in Democrats plagued Lincoln for much of his tenure and were behind many of the smears aimed at Kennedy after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion (an Eisenhower-era plot that cost Allen Dulles his job when it humiliated JFK).
How presidents deal with recalcitrant career staffers and opposition party moles can define their administrations. This isn’t a problem Trump just made up. It’s one he doesn’t know how to deal with gracefully.
hostile to his brand of politics for one reason or another.
Because his brand of “politics” is dumb, destabilizing shit that’s bad for America and Americans. That is what they’re there for, to serve the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America.
Trump only serves himself, Putin, and indirectly, Xi.
Also, did you just link me Trump admin propaganda justifying their firing of anyone not loyal to the furher?
Because his brand of “politics” is dumb, destabilizing shit that’s bad for America and Americans.
We’ve had dumb, destabilizing policies in this country since its founding. That’s got nothing to do with the politics of the civil services. Plenty of civil servants are full-on MAGA adherents (and have been even before his first election in '16). Plenty more are die-hard Hillarycrat Libs who have dragged the country in another direction. Trump’s game is to stack his MAGA cronies above the Hillarycrats withint compromising the function of the civil service entirely, rendering it useless.
Trump only serves himself, Putin, and indirectly, Xi.
Jesus fuck dude. Have you really been watching US politics for this long and still not seen Trump acting in the explicit interests of the American billionaire class? Why do you think the Chinese President is closer to his heart than the people he pulled into his own cabinet - Lutnick, McMahon, Vought, and Loeffler? Nevermind Peter Thiel, a man who has become the nation’s premiere military contractor over the last year.
Nevermind fucking Israel.
How are you liberals this fucking blind? Trump’s CIA is systematically picking apart what’s left of Russian industry. His Pentagon is fixated on purging Chinese businesses from the Western Hemisphere. His Treasury has made cryptocurrency speculation a central tenant of fiscal policy. But y’all can’t stop saying “Foreign Men Did This” every time you look at your own decayed socio-economic system.
Also, did you just link me Trump admin propaganda
Go Lib Out to the WaPo if that’s your poison of choice.
Or reference Congress.gov for an official definition.
Or just bury your head in the sand for another four years.
You’re also blind if you just say “America bad” at every opportunity. No, many of the things he’s doing are absolutely not in the interest of the billionaire class. How do you think bringing back measles benefits them?
Some of the dumb ones might think the pressure on the Fed to lower interest rates is good for their bottom line, but they’re idiots.
All of them will suck up to him regardless, for survival. It doesn’t mean they think everything he’s doing is right by them.
And yes, he’s serving some of them, particularly Peter Thiel. But he’s mostly serving Putin and himself.
We have a wealth disparity/capitalism problem. We have a Trump problem. There’s some overlap, yes, but they’re not the same.
And even Hillary isn’t the devil incarnate you think she is. She’d be more content with the status quo than I’d like, and I voted for Bernie over her, but she’s not part of some grand conspiracy to keep the American people down.
Yeah this isn’t really headline news, unfortunately.
Most, cause USA is still part of the world.
More like apart of this world rn tbh
always has been
This silly bitch works for an organization that’s named after one of the shitbirds that put them in this position.
God, what a bunch of fucking idiot cowards.
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