• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Can’t wait until Trump dies choking on a fish filet and all the allied countries he alienated immediately come back into the fold as though nothing had ever happened.

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      2 days ago

      They’re not coming back to the fold, I hope trump lives a long life and I hope America fractures under him. If America fractures the entire planet would be a less violent place for most humanity rather than just white masters

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        no shot the u.s. doesn’t coat the globe in nuclear hellfire the instant it seems like shit is going to go sideways

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          I mean they can, it won’t save them, it would just destroy the world. By that logic so could Pakistan, so could china, UK, France, india and so on. But nukes require intelligence and some level of organisation to maintain and, America is losing allies, therefore bases to operate nukes, firing nuclear workers, gutting the government. America is the most powerful armies on the planet, but half of its power comes from its mass network of allies and military bases, without those you are just the most well defended and isolated nation on earth but invading? Good luck, you couldn’t beat afganistan with nato.

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            it won’t save them, it would just destroy the world

            nothing you said is wrong and it’s just a gut feeling but i personally believe the people in charge find that preferable to a world where the u.s. is no longer dominant.

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              You are absolutely right. I just hope whoever is in direct control of the nuke realised the gravity of their actions and defy orders if need be. Im sure every individual who is even remotely close to such an action understands the gravity of it

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        On the contrary, one of the likely outcomes of Trump’s actions is nuclear proliferation.

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      Yeah this is not just about Trump. Trust in the American voting public has eroded. Even if Trump’s successor reverses everything he has done, America’s allies will never trust the US in the same way.

      Most countries are pursuing strategies to reduce any and all dependencies on the US. While the US continues to hold 20% of the worlds purchasing power (much of it concentrated among the wealthiest Americans) the rest of the world is working to make its economies as robust as possible with the remaining 80%.

      We’re witnessing a change in the world order. The end of American exceptionalism, leaving a power vacuum that will likely favor China and Russia for the forseeable future.

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          He didn’t have a pro tariff administration that time. His win was somewhat unexpected and it didn’t seem like the republican party was ready for it. There were factions within the party that were not on board with his growing popularity.

          He’s surrounded himself with protrctionists now and he has a playbook (Project 2025) to follow.

          This is going to have much longer lasting implications than anything from his first term. We’re not even three months in and the entire world is rethinking the global economic structure and how the US should play a smaller role in it if it is no longer stable or reliable.