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Its seeming like they are trying to speed run it. What I think they may have failed to understand was that global integration with the US was a relationship of consent and respect.
I forget who said it recently.. something like "You dont have the cards".. their name escapes me. Global chip manufacturing, RAM, automobile components, silicon wafers, lithium, lumber, and on and on and on..
Its far easier for the world to get along without the US than it is for the US to get along without the rest of the world.
Pat Buchanan:
"If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire we will end up like the British Empire."
The same was true for Nazi Germany. They didn't have the oil to run a war or many of the other resources, and they only had such amazing military success because every other nations was slow in rearming after the peace of the previous war. That and appeasement.
The stupid coil of shit thinks he's Cool Hand Luke.
that was vice president and vice puppet JD Vance
i think the trumpists understand perfectly and that's why they're working to destroy it.
I honestly think there is a good portion of the fan base who fully drink the koolaid and think other countries are not viable without them. And have forgotten or not understood America is the world police by their own choice
Yup, so many of my fellow Americans simply don't understand literally anything about diplomacy and soft power. No concept of the give and take, fully fail to understand that we've burned allies and simply won't be invited to the table as often if at all.
The complete abandonment of 100+ years of building soft and hard power globally has certainly been a wild choice.