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Our "world leadership" is rapidly becoming a distant memory.
by DidYaWipe 2y ago
Our "world leadership" is rapidly becoming a distant memory.
- metalliqaz 2y agoit's already gone. as soon as we re-elected the felon, everyone knew they couldn't trust us
- wraaath 2y ago[flagged]
- Sabinus 2y agoThe sense I got is that it could be overlooked as an anomaly. The second time he was elected, and the actions he has taken since, have absolutely ended all that. The Allies are truly incensed, the US's reputation won't recover for decades.
- Aeolun 2y agoIt’s a loss of trust. We were in the process of getting better relations with Russia, but then when Putin goes and invades Ukraine you can sort of rationalize it. Communist gonna communist right? All the actions potato head has taken are a deliberate slap in the face of all their allies. Maybe something we’d expect from potato head, but not from the United States. Even given he was elected we’d expect the rest if your political system to stop a single man from burning down all bridges. Clearly that was an incorrect assumption.
- School-Cotton 2y agoPutin isn’t in any way a communist.
- wraaath 2y agoHe's an autocrat acting on delusions of empire building. That is the root of Russia invading Ukraine. All the other excuses are ancillary or nonsense (Nazis etc)
- School-Cotton 2y agoTrue, but unrelated to whether he's a communist. There are authoritarian and libertarian communists but Putin is neither.
- Braxton1980 2y agoAs a former KGB officer wouldn't he be the most likely to want a return to the old ways?
- School-Cotton 2y agoWhat does the KGB have to do with communism? A lot of countries have had draconian secret police and spy agencies, regardless of whether those countries were communist or not. For example, the Gestapo in Nazi-era Germany.
- Braxton1980 2y agoIt has nothing to do with communism and I didn't say that it does. I was referring to the single party authoritarian government of the USSR
- School-Cotton 2y agoSure, but the person I responded to asserted it had to do with communism, so that’s the context I was replying to.
- Braxton1980 2y agoThen I apologize for jumping in the conversation. Either way Putin is evil and Republicans are all traitors for supporting him
- catdog 2y agoExactly that. Not only he got re-elected, during his first term he did bad things but what he did now while not even 2 months in office seems way worse. Also it's clearly visible that the checks and balances are now severely broken, you have an administration not even abiding its own countries laws in very fundamental areas, that does not spark trust. Heck he even discredits and breaks trade deals signed by himself, who can trust such a country? It was easy to justify sitting out Trump I as a (former) US allied, Trump II demands immediate action.
- SoftTalker 2y agoBiden was elected in 2020.
- wraaath 2y agoHighly likely that Trump's bumbling of COVID resulted in Biden's election. In NYC there were refrigerated tractor trailers parked outside of hospitals for the overflow dead. I'm sure it was just as bad in other parts of the country during those months. Curious how quickly people forget, and I'm sure we'll have to relearn these lessons yet again.
- tdeck 2y ago> Curious how quickly people forget, and I'm sure we'll have to relearn these lessons yet again. I think some of this forgetting was attributable to the Biden administration's decision to suddenly start acting like COVID didn't exist. It's pretty hard to remind people of metrics from the past when you're also simultaneously trying to avoid talking about those same metrics in the present.
- jajko 2y agoNah its much much worse now. Personal, humiliating, watching literal elephant in porcelain shop fucking up everything and everybody in all directions (apart from russians and israelis, I guess like-minded leaders). He got way more senile, but in his case its not movement to incoherent bumbling but more hatred, pettiness, little napoleon complex etc.
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- DidYaWipe 2y agoActually, re-electing GWB was the early confirmation to the world that something was very wrong here.
- graeme 2y agoThis is downvoted but for those outside the US it's actually true. Or more specifically once the new admin began acting erratically. For instance, in Canada he has repudiated a trade agreement he himself negotiated in his first term and threatened repeatedly to annex us. Americans who treat foreigners as abstractions shrug off that sort of thing and assume you can go back to normal but reliability is shot and trust is broken. In term one the remaining vestiges of Republican and state apparatus ensured continuity on many fronts. That's all gone.