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Yes, USA is not. But not because of just Trump. The process started a while ago, when USA elites decided that they’re “exceptional”, and started to promote so c
by selivanovp 1y ago
Yes, USA is not. But not because of just Trump. The process started a while ago, when USA elites decided that they’re “exceptional”, and started to promote so called “rules based order”, with the only rule that reads like “USA may do whatever they want to do, and you have to obey our orders, or you’ll be punished”.
Diplomacy is dead in USA. These days nobody sane in the world believes anything coming out of White House, not even a paper, and Trump is just a current facade for the same elites that nobody trusts.
- jimbob45 1y agoUSA may do whatever they want to do, and you have to obey our orders, or you’ll be punished It's our fault for being the only ones to take defense spending seriously? We just reopened the shipping lanes clogged by the Houthis, which literally the entire world profited from. That could have been done by anyone else but wasn't, because they happily benefit from US interventionism but then pretend to hate it too. You can't have it both ways.
- sixothree 1y agoFairly clear we wouldn't have allowed anyone else to do that.
- achandlerwhite 1y agoThe US maintaining order (and providing foreign aid) is a form of soft power which this administration doesn't seem to value (or maybe even understand). It also benefits US corporations and their interests' abroad.
- BuckRogers 1y agoTariffs grant an extremely significant diplomatic lever for both affairs and world peace.
- Animats 1y agoThe "rules based order" period worked a lot better than the period that included WWI and WWII.