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OK, but what about the rest of the world that doesn't get to vote for this?
by tigroferoce 2y ago
OK, but what about the rest of the world that doesn't get to vote for this?
- bretanac93 2y agoEasy, the rest of the world gets to watch, and solve their own problems.
- tankenmate 2y agoThat's the problem though isn't it. A lot of the problems don't just belong to the US, or just belong to everyone else. The problem with isolationism is that everyone else gets to do their thing without your input.
- benfortuna 2y agoIf at all possible, I am perfectly fine with a diminishing role of the US in world politics.
- smatija 2y agoHistorically main problem of a large part of the world (from Vietnam to Yemen) is USA bombing them ...
- DeathArrow 2y agoIt's called "protecting democracy and freedom".
- tmoravec 2y agoRight now it's Russia bombing them, and Trump threatening to withdraw vital support.
- Paradigma11 2y agoPretty sure the South Vietnamese didn't share your point of view. Let's not forget it was North Vietnam that invaded.
- smatija 2y agoPretty sure no one in Vietnam appreciates USA use of Agent Orange.
- Paradigma11 2y agoYes, all parties did horrible things that nobody appreciated in that war which the SU and China supported North started.
- wrren 2y agoYou forget that America is the cause of many countries’ problems, see the Middle East and South America for prime examples.
- nathanaldensr 2y agoIf you cared to ask you will discover that a huge cohort of people "on the right" do not want the US involved in foreign entanglements, including with Israel.
- t43562 2y agoMore like the solution - Iraq threatened all of the Middle East. So does Iran. America is a security guarantee to countries who don't make a noise about it all. As can be seen in Africa now, if America doesn't intervene then Russia or China will - there's no nice safe forum to criticise such actions in Russia. Sri Lanka - poor old Tamils got "sorted" with Chinese help. Then the US oil price will go up no matter how isolationist it tries to be. That will hit people's pockets.
- dspillett 2y ago> More like the solution … goes on to suggest that the US is getting involved for everyone's good, then… > Then the US oil price will go up … hit people's pockets. states one of the few reasons the US political system really cares about these places in the slightest.
- t43562 2y agoAll countries do what suits them. Fortunately that's sometimes the same thing.
- smatija 2y agoTell that to 12 million victims of US in Korea, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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- cmrdporcupine 2y agoImagine thinking and saying something this parochial and isolationist in an era of massive, evident climate change. Wow.
- dspillett 2y agoBecause none of the rest of the worlds problems are going to be affected at all by this turn of events… I'm all for sitting back and watching the leopards eat US faces, I do like a little schadenfreude, but other parts of the world are going to be negatively affected too as is well documented.
- poincaredisk 2y agoAs the rest of the world, why would I care about elections results on another continent? US should sort their problems themselves. I don't even want a vote, our countries are independent from each other and we both decide for our own.
- verisimi 2y agoMigrants in S. American states care!
- tankenmate 2y agoBut most of the truly thorny problems aren't "owned" by any one country.
- black_puppydog 2y agoAs someone with a german passport (federal elections next year) and living in france (next presidential in 2027) I do care. Europe is next. Make no mistake, the money that bought this election will try to get the european power houses at a discount, now that they have an ally in the white house.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoThey probably will. The EU is a neoliberal institution; it is not long for this world.
- simgt 2y agoIndeed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Network https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Network
- simiones 2y agoThe money in this election was mostly on Harris' side. It lost. It's not money that decided this election, it's hubris and bold face lying by a charlatan.
- mv4 2y agoMoney did not buy this election. Attempts were made on the Harris side, however.
- card_zero 2y agoPoor Ukraine.
- nathanaldensr 2y agoThey have their own countries with candidates to consider. They should mind their own business and US citizens should mind theirs. The US needs to move closer to isolationist policies for that reason.
- dewey 2y agoVery naive view of a very globalized and connected world.
- nazka 2y agoIt was true 2 centuries ago. In the age we are now where each country is interconnected at every level of a society (economy, culture, trade, innovation, research, military…) that’s not possible anymore. WW2 showed it. You can’t play head in the sand and think that everything will be fine. Since then every major economy drawbacks showed the world we live today is all interconnected and interdependent. And that’s the same for any other type of backlash or drawbacks from politics, alliances, society…
- blitzar 2y ago"The rest of the world gets the America they deserve." - Me 2024
- justin66 2y agoPolitical solutions for the rest of the world would appear to include increasing the amount of money you spend on your national defense and/or the amount of money you spend renting rooms at Trump International Hotel Washington D.C to curry favor.
- noobermin 2y agoMy honest opinion is we need a multipolar world. Then the US can do as much shit as it wants but the rest of the world doesn't have to care.
- reshlo 2y agoAs someone whose regional hegemon in that scenario would almost certainly be China, I don’t think that’s a good idea.