whatthesmack
8 hours ago
Not by any means… but that is what the media would have you believe.
More countries are closer to the US than ever before, which is why China is nervous. BRICS is failing. NATO countries are being ordered to get their act together. Trade is being leveraged to the advantage of the US for once.
The US is reasserting its place and role as the dominant and benevolent power in the world and is reordering it such that it will no longer function as the world’s sole peacekeeper, bank, etc. The American people (myself included) are done working half the year to earn money to pay taxes to make the world function and get none of the benefits, while the rest of the world puts their taxes towards benefits for their own society (social safety nets, paying for unlimited migration, etc).
When the status quo has been the US being taken advantage of by the whole world, you can expect there’s doing to be discomfort and pushback by most institutions (including the media) and countries when the US changes the status quo such that every country needs to contribute. That our president has reordered as much as he has in slightly more than a year is astounding.
mostlysimilar
3 hours ago
> The American people (myself included) are done working half the year to earn money to pay taxes to make the world function and get none of the benefits, while the rest of the world puts their taxes towards benefits for their own society (social safety nets, paying for unlimited migration, etc).
You are utterly delusional if you think Trump and the Republicans are interested in scaling down military spending in favor of social safety nets.
bigyabai
4 hours ago
> When the status quo has been the US being taken advantage of by the whole world
The US chose this status quo. America can forfeit it at any time, and give up the reigns to a country like China if they want. Nobody is forcing them to be the guarantor of global security.
Looking at a brushfire conflict like Iran, it's plainly obvious that America was wrong to instigate violence. The Strait closed, America's Navy is not getting support from bluewater vessels that actually matter, billions of dollars worth of US-owned munitions were expended, no Article 4 was ever declared, and the rest of NATO isn't chasing around blockaded tankers like Trump wanted. Until something changes, this is a net-negative conflict being gussied up in "well if we fight long enough then the debt goes down" platitude.
In truth, if we keep this war up for long enough then Americans will come home by the score in bodybags. And people like you will moan about how "America was taken advantage of" by all the countries that didn't want to kill their citizens for a Likud political objective.