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Trump administration is weakening the US in ways and with speed that our enemies could never accomplish.

• netsharc 2y ago
  Xi Jinping must be pleased, he can call countries around the world and be treated as the sane, reasonable superpower... (And he's got the superpower-wannabe Putin on a leash, and to continue the dog metaphor, Putin in turn has Trump licking his balls)
  • usefulcat 2y ago
    Exactly. Trump has gifted the Chinese a golden opportunity to really step up in a diplomatic, international sense. Even if not all nations agree with everything China does, they at least look like sane, competent adults compared to the shitshow that is the current US government. And even if we were to get a sane government in 2028 it wouldn’t matter much because Americans have already demonstrated not once, but twice that they will willingly elect an utterly incompetent fool.
• AtlasBarfed 2y ago
  It doesn't matter if Trump is actually a conspiratorial russian asset/agent. The policies of the Trump administration are completely in line with him being one, and it is those actions that are the damage. To review a bit: - trade and tariff wars with near neighbors and allies - threatening to steal territory from allies - parroting openly false propaganda by Putin in the world media - disrupting the Five Eyes - mass firings at FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA - open support of right wing fascist parties in European elections - withdrawing aid from Ukraine - threatening Starlink access by Ukraine Of course he's now stating that the sactions will be ending soon as well. Honestly, this is actually MORE than I would expect from an agent, because I would assume the KGB or GRU or equivalents would have slow-played him for long term effect.
• dragonwriter 2y ago
  Our enemies could and did and Trump was the tool they used.