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Can I ask, who exactly is an ally of the USA at this point? Up here in Canada, and from talking to my friends in the UK, nobody is a fan of that country, for r
by lostgame 8y ago
Can I ask, who exactly is an ally of the USA at this point?
Up here in Canada, and from talking to my friends in the UK, nobody is a fan of that country, for reasons like:
- It's corrupt-at-best[1], ignorant[2], contradictory[3] and racist[4]-at-best leadership, not to mention the fact that the general populace was ignorant enough to vote for that leadership, even if the popular vote[7] showed someone else won, the corrupt voting system of the states, which allows anyone to be bribed, essentially, means that this turd keeps his office.
- It's constant placement of self-importance above all other countries ('America is the greatest country in the world!'),
- Its tendency for meaningless war[5] - to the point where it actually made an attack on it's own country in the form of 9/11, something (I will pull up the source for this to validate) the majority of people outside the USA know/believe to be true.
- The consistent denial of climate change, and the instance on making it worse - check out the climate change report the US govt. cleverly hid by releasing on Black Friday, for example.[6]
Are there any other countries who, right now, especially under Trump's 'leadership', actually think the USA is OK? The fact that I've been able to pull up 5 sources confirming these things is...disturbing at best.
No offence to anyone who lives in the states, I'm just expressing what I've seen the rest of the world express, and backing it up with references, so I don't get a slew of downvotes.
I imagine my opinion won't be popular to those who live there, but it is quite a real thing, especially the climate change stuff. That's just awful.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/opinion/trump-administration-corruption-conflicts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/opinion/trump-administrat...
[2] https://www.vox.com/2018/10/14/17975644/trump-60-minutes-interview-transcript https://www.vox.com/2018/10/14/17975644/trump-60-minutes-int...
[3] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-contradictions-213869 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump...
[4] https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/media/nbc-trump-immigration-ad/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/media/nbc-trump-immigration-a...
[5] https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-us-militarys-strength-being-wasted-pointless-wars-21826 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-us-militarys-streng...
[6] https://globalnews.ca/news/4695268/al-gore-trump-climate-change-report-black-friday/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4695268/al-gore-trump-climate-cha...
[7] https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final-count/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary...
- richliss 8y agoI'm from the UK and I'm extremely grateful that the USA is an ally. All politicians are self-interested and every now and again they'll do something I shake my head at but as a general rule the US people are good people and over the years have sacrificed their loved ones and spent breathtakingly large amounts of money to keep my little island (amongst others) in peace during my lifetime for very little in return.