Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign
Muehe@lemmy.ml 19 hours agoThe argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.
US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.
Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
And how has any of that damaged us? Give me some real world examples, not theory. What has changed? How are we damaged?
My day isn’t any different.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The Canadian boycott of US goods and travel.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Classic conservative thought, i am not affected therefore nothing is wrong.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I think they are doing an awesome job. And so do the people who voted for him. Which so happens to be the majority of the voting public by the way. So seems a LOT of people disagree with you.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You can think they are, doesn’t make it true. A lot of people are regretting their vote, less than half of voters wanted trump. I’m happy that fascists, and their supporters disagree with me.
Muehe@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn’t damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.
And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I’m opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it’s done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I don’t care about that. You all can fix your own shit. If you don’t like how we do something, then you all fucking do it. Everyone shit on us anyway. lololol
I don’t think so. We were carrying too much of the load and you all just bitched at us constantly. Now you can take care of your own shit.
Again, if your country doesn’t like how we did something, then do it yourself.
Muehe@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
You know what, if that is how you feel, fair enough actually. I just don’t think that’s how your former and current governments, including Trump, really feel about it.
You don’t think losing the US dollar as the world reserve currency would hurt you economically? Because that’s where this is going.