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TL;DR: less than a full week after the election and more than two months before Inauguration Day, a German-based publication declares that the United States is
by MrZongle2 10y ago
TL;DR: less than a full week after the election and more than two months before Inauguration Day, a German-based publication declares that the United States is now in decline and the civilized world must rely on great leaders like Angela Merkel to survive.
In other words: more reactive, hysterical nonsense.
- ggggtez 10y agoTldr other countries are just reiterating what America is doing. Trump's platform was that America was no longer strong enough so other countries are just agreeing.
- devnonymous 10y ago> In other words: more reactive, hysterical nonsense. While I partially agree that this is a knee-jerk reaction, one thing that stuck out as insightful is the emphasis on the fact that the notion of the 'westen world' and what it represents, is at a risk. The way I read it, the article is saying that while America was instrumental in defining the modern western world, it seems to have succumb to its own hubris by voting for Trump. The belief that America was great and did it all... and all alone, by itself, has led it to a dangerous place. All the other nations that helped it along the way to establish this notion of the wonderful West should now be concerned. Well, at least that's what I got from the article. (in case it wasn't already obvious not-an-american here)