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China Increasingly Views Trump’s America as an Empire in Decline
(www.nytimes.com)
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That's not a viewpoint, that's a fact.
Trump has undermined relations to all allies in multiple ways, to a degree that the coherence of NATO is in doubt. Trump has single handedly destroyed NATO, forcing NATO allies to seek new alliances.
On trade we are in a shadow trade war, where the response to US tariffs, is for trading partners to seek independence from American technologies.
The Iran War has ruined the reputation of the US military, that is currently the laughing stock of the world. Because USA can't handle a poor country that has been economically sanctioned for decades. And technically USA has already lost that war from many perspectives.
The Gulf states too are unhappy with how USA has handled this, and the Petro dollar is highly threatened.
Since Trump took the presidency, the use of the USD as the international reserve currency has dropped 30%!!!
USA was already losing their position as world leader before Trump, with EU already seeking greater independence from USA, and China positioning themselves more internationally. But Trump has put a rocket launcher on what was mostly idling along, and he has made it clear for ALL allies and trade partners , that they can't depend on USA anymore.
If we try to speculate a bit, the position of USA is in eminent danger from several sides. The American economy is held up by AI, but many claim that AI is a bubble, if that bubble burst, it will hit the American economy hard.
The American economy is dependent on total global trade, not just their own, because global trade is often done in USD.
If global trade declines, the demand for USD will decline too. And without a strong reserve currency position, financial institutions will be less prone to seek refuge in USD, but will choose for instance gold instead. So the dynamic that has been the saving grace for USA for 80 years, is coming to an end. And next time USA has a crisis, the world will not help USA finance their way out of it as we used to.
OK I'll stop here, because I think the point should be clear. USA was already in decline, but after Trumps liberation day (Tariffs), it has been downhill ever faster. Threatening Canada who has been the closest ally to USA since before WW2, threatening NATO allies with taking Greenland by force. Of course threatening numerous other countries, even kidnapping Maduro, and now USA is in the most stupid war USA has ever engaged in, and USA is being embarrassed by an inferior power! And USA has caused the worst oil crisis the world has ever seen.
US democracy has been in decline for many decades now, and this is the result of a dysfunctional democracy.
americans wont read anything more than four words
I hate where USA is now, but so do many Americans, and I bet a good portion of the upvotes to this very US critical post, was actually Americans upvoting it. Because many Americans understand the problems.
You are probably right regarding the MAGA crowd however.
As many of us that understand the problem, there is a white supremacist culture in the southern states invested in oligarchy that act as a rope around our collective necks. idk how to fix it but we cant do anything when they control the senate and through a mix of gerrymander and well funded propaganda networks, the house.
There absolutely is, and they have a sick sense of entitlement, as if they inherited and own the country, contrary to everyone else, who are merely allowed to be there.
I am not American, but from the outside there seems to be a sick level of such thinking. By the same "logic", the 1% is entitled to their wealth I guess. That is really what they mean by taking the country back. That the ruling class is highest, white people are part of that, and everybody else is below them.
Racism is everywhere, and it is extremely harmful.