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The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice (www.counterpunch.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rome eventually fell, All Empires do eventually

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (6 children)

say what you want about the brits, but they wouldn’t have voted for brexit twice.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

You underestimate Putin's psyops and overestimate people's intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They kept voting for the conservatives for a while after Brexit. They kept voting for Boris fucking Johnson.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well to be fair, you can’t exit something twice

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might think that, but the United States exited from the Paris agreement on climate change mitigation twice: Trump first withdrew in November of 2020, then Biden rejoined in February of 2021, and now Trump is withdrawing for the second time.