I find it so terrible how his followers are now celebrating this, how America’s voice has changed in such a short time to just malice, resentment, betrayal and megalomania.
I despise this so much.
And it makes me sad too. I’m not indulging in any illusions, I know we all have to live with it now. That’s just the way it is now and will stay that way for who knows how long. America is lost to us…that has now become clear to even the last person.
That this was coming with the orange poodle is no surprise.
One wonders how many People voted for him,unaware the were voting for Putins poodle.
It was pretty obvious,sadly,though few would have expected Their President to cosy up to Putin,quite so quickly.
This is a serial dummy spit because he hasn’t got his own way,particularly on minerals.
He understands the implications. All the buffoonery is there to mask the the greater implications of gutting America’s ability to do, well, anything. There’s a pattern in all this designed to deteriorate and destroy their ability to project power externally while also paralysing and undermining their internal structures. At the same time, the population is divided and all but powerless to stop the decay especially given that large swathes are gleefully cheering the insanity on.
At best the US finds itself a non player striken by internal dissent while the world realigns, at worst the descent into facism takes hold and leads a global anarchy. I’m tending to lean to the former because I don’t think a rogue US is what Putin and Xi want; they want a compliant and dumbfounded US under their thumb and control which is exactly what Trump is providing.
i know in this particular post you have only quoted other people, but you have made posts inline with this, in an almost, taunting like manner…
just two quick things…
America spent 80 years building this position, and has prospered greatly from this soft power, its a position the american government have courted and maintained…the fall out from having no exit plan will be castostrophic…i dont think the american government get to just point at a set of budgetory figures and rip the bandaid off without consequences to its reputation
and point two is, as people argue over the point of european military expenditure, just take a look at the hill you are prepared to die on…
Russie…Putin…and a deal brokered by Trump…its surreal…
Companies like Google, meta, nvidia etc have gone down quite a fair bit in the last 2 weeks compared to about a month ago , even after deepseek , nvidia picked itself up now its around $114 ( was something like $144 before deepseek, picked up to around $130 odd shortly after)
That’s a topic for a whole different thread, but the US is generally down, which was the point of my post, but some Asian markets seem to be okay (RIP Nikkei)