Anonymous #1 5w

Trump announcing the downgrade of the United States from “global superpower” to “regional power” like it’s a triumph is hilarious though

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America is currently still a global superpower despite all of Donald Trump’s best efforts to undermine that, yes

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But you don’t stay a superpower for long by having a dementia-addled leader surrounded by yes-men who does crazy shit like open acts of war against other countries that you admit are for oil, making territorial claims against your most longstanding and loyal allies, sabotaging your own nation’s foreign trade, eliminating the entire “carrot” half of foreign policy, etc.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 5w

You don’t maintain your status as a global superpower by sabotaging every positive relationship you have with other countries, making more enemies and giving your allies good reasons to distrust you. That’s actually how you speed-run losing your superpower status, because like all power, nobody can hold it alone. Superpower status comes from vast networks of allies more than it does your own ability to unilaterally destroy enemies.

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Anonymous #1 5w

Israel is also part of nato so we kinda have to back them or they won’t back us

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Anonymous #5 5w

They literally aren’t part of NATO where did you get that from

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Anonymous #5 5w

I think Israel is rapidly becoming more of a pariah state, and it seems that’s the main ally the Trump administration is really keen on keeping. A lot of NATO is getting sick of Israel’s shit and America’s current shit but rn they’re seeing if they can wait it out until Trump and his people are out of office

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Anonymous #6 5w

Yeah basically every NATO country supports Israel but they’re not an actual member state

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Anonymous #5 5w

If I were an EU leader right now, my thought process would be “well, I can’t burn the bridge with the USA unless they do something truly heinous even by America standards rn, but man if in 4 years they don’t change course heavily, we may just have to” and those are our closest allied nations

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