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While others have made good points, your view is also valid. The messaging nowadays is more toward sovereignty even if the core direction hasn't fundamentally c

While others have made good points, your view is also valid. The messaging nowadays is more toward sovereignty even if the core direction hasn't fundamentally changed significantly. I do find it funny how the harder some folks push for an outcome, the more they bring about the opposite effect. I mean the US had this sense of confidence that they were at the top of the power structure, it was widely accepted and overall that position and deal seemed to benefit many others even if not to the same scale. For example with Europe, the US got favorable trade terms in exchange for defense. Then the Trump administration came in and started pushing the narrative of MAGA, to almost be professional victims. Winner of the world lottery and yet still not happy. And so instead of making America Great again, they are on the fast track of being cut out of favorable global trade. They over played their hand. And once others end up being self sufficient again, it is very difficult to get back in the good books. In trying to avoid being pushed around, they are now starting to see they could be pushed around.

Kuyawa 17d ago
That's what you get when you put a clown in power. I am not american so I don't care but the whole world noticed the bullying and acted accordingly. For example, US learned the hard way they can't bring down Huawei, tariff china or slow their frontier AI. Now Europe with Mistral and Japan with Moneka, both pointing in the same direction. Big middle finger if I've seen one
- Schlagbohrer 16d ago
  I hold out hope that a multipolar world will be more peaceful and stable, with no one national ruling class able to dominate other nations so easily, and developing countries having more options for whom to ally with to their own benefit.
  - Kuyawa 16d ago
    Unfortunately the UN, the organization that was created exactly for that, is just a puppet of the current hegemon because the money printer can buy anything and any soul. So a hard reset is needed in world politics in order to find a peaceful way again. It baffles me how China and Russia don't get together and form a new UN, like AN (Allied Nations) then both organizations UN and AN would fight for their members rights and get into agreements that would benefit all
Lumich 17d ago
« For example with Europe, the US got favorable trade terms in exchange for defense. » — It is occupation under the guise of defense, always has been. Keeping Germany divided for 35 years (when it could have become neutral and free in the early 50s), eager not to release control but to expand east instead, exploiting disunity, instigating the Yugoslavia wars of the 90s, more recently the Ukraine war (which goes back more than a decade in preparation).
- jech 16d ago
  You mean the only people innocent are the Russians?

Kuyawa 17d ago

That's what you get when you put a clown in power. I am not american so I don't care but the whole world noticed the bullying and acted accordingly. For example, US learned the hard way they can't bring down Huawei, tariff china or slow their frontier AI. Now Europe with Mistral and Japan with Moneka, both pointing in the same direction. Big middle finger if I've seen one

Schlagbohrer 16d ago
I hold out hope that a multipolar world will be more peaceful and stable, with no one national ruling class able to dominate other nations so easily, and developing countries having more options for whom to ally with to their own benefit.
- Kuyawa 16d ago
  Unfortunately the UN, the organization that was created exactly for that, is just a puppet of the current hegemon because the money printer can buy anything and any soul. So a hard reset is needed in world politics in order to find a peaceful way again. It baffles me how China and Russia don't get together and form a new UN, like AN (Allied Nations) then both organizations UN and AN would fight for their members rights and get into agreements that would benefit all

Lumich 17d ago

« For example with Europe, the US got favorable trade terms in exchange for defense. » — It is occupation under the guise of defense, always has been. Keeping Germany divided for 35 years (when it could have become neutral and free in the early 50s), eager not to release control but to expand east instead, exploiting disunity, instigating the Yugoslavia wars of the 90s, more recently the Ukraine war (which goes back more than a decade in preparation).

jech 16d ago
You mean the only people innocent are the Russians?