The World Without the US

[TX-Beau]

Oh dear.

Rzzia is on the rise because of Africa, India and Pakistan.

The US era appears to be over.

US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return

The world is more divided than ever, but there’s still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The U.S. is unloved.

www.politico.eu

Meh, we've been unloved for decades. The only reason anyone outside the West tolerated us was cash. That won't change.

 

[rareboy]

^ I think you are shortselling the US.

For all the failures and horrible things it has done around the globe...it was still always seen as our great hope. Not because of money but because the arc of history alwats seems to bend toward justice and it would still push back against some (not all) of the worst anti-democratic and anti-humanistic acts and ideology...if only to pay lip service that us lesser powers would point to.

I think what is slipping away now is hope. Hope that the US would be the king-pin of the western democratic world order.

 

[rareboy]

Ouch. Moody's has downgraded America's debt for the first time in over a century. TrumpCo. and the GQP Congress
are destroying not only the reputation of the US as a world leader of Democratic nations, but economically
as well.

 

[rareboy]

Welp...Greenland has made it clear where they see their future and security.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3yslujsoyubpvznf5maiuqm/bafkreie4qojz3wouu6zuz2xltqbqaydojlvhcvido2oajfacfg45ctiuri@jpeg

 

[rareboy]

And....as predicted, for an incredibly low price, China has just displaced the US as the most powerful force in the WHO after TrumpCo. withdrew the US.

The WHO wasn't only about Health.

It was about soft power.

China just bought the support of a lot of 3rd world countries and a lot of clout when the next round of pandemics hit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/china-who-donation-500-million

 

[NotHardUp1]

Welp...Greenland has made it clear where they see their future and security.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3yslujsoyubpvznf5maiuqm/bafkreie4qojz3wouu6zuz2xltqbqaydojlvhcvido2oajfacfg45ctiuri@jpeg

My, how the turn tables.

I sincerely hope the Chickenshit-in-Chief can't sleep for days because the Pentagon won't let him invade.

 

[rareboy]

Just an update:

All of these countries have issued USA travel advisories:
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- Denmark- Finland
- France
- Ireland
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Belgium
- Norway
- Canada
- New Zealand
- Australia
- Mexico
- Venezuela
- Uruguay
- Japan

 

[rareboy]

Namibia (or Nambia as Trump knows it) isn't fucking around.

After requiring all US migrants to have a Visa...they are moving on...hopefully not to PutinCo.

But if they do, Trump has only himself to blame. Which he won't.

This is the future of US hegemony. A dwindling influence in the world.

 

[rareboy]

What is the US doing?

 

[NotHardUp1]

Go, Sweden!

 

[NotHardUp1]

The voice of truth from Canada:

 

[rareboy]

Charlie has become the voice of reason and the unofficial bullhorn for the government ....he is retiring so he has no Fucks to give.

And he is a great guy with a great sense of humour.

He is echoing the sentiment of Canadains....we loathe TrumpCo. beyond imagining.

And I'll bet there are a lot of Canadian nana's who would put a real bullet through Trump's ear if he turns up for the G7. I know my grandmothers would have.

This is Canada's neighbour.

This is why we were were terrified about Trump winning and what keeps many of us awake at night worrying about what Trump and the Broligarchs are plotting and planning.

 

[NotHardUp1]

So much winning: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5349497-trump-deals-foreign-conflicts/

 

[Norri]

So much winning: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5349497-trump-deals-foreign-conflicts/

His ‘deal making’ is mythical as is much of his success.

 

[NotHardUp1]

And I'll bet there are a lot of Canadian nana's who would put a real bullet through Trump's ear if he turns up for the G7. I know my grandmothers would have.

I've been considering how precarious the times are. If Trump's Russian manipulators were to stage an assassinatiton attempt, successfully, and clandestinely, laying a trail of domestic source from the left, MAGA would erupt in destruction and the US would be at our own throats in chaos. NATO would be broken. Canada would be in peril, and Greenland, as Vance would surely make the worst reactionary moves possible, and the rest of the know-nothings would do even worse.

In truth, the Iranians, the Russians, the Chinese, or anyone in the Levant could follow the same game plan and we'd be in ruins.

The ice is very thin now.

 

[NotHardUp1]

His ‘deal making’ is mythical as is much of his success.

Orange is the new orange.

 

[rareboy]

I've been considering how precarious the times are. If Trump's Russian manipulators were to stage an assassinatiton attempt, successfully, and clandestinely, laying a trail of domestic source from the left, MAGA would erupt in destruction and the US would be at our own throats in chaos. NATO would be broken. Canada would be in peril, and Greenland, as Vance would surely make the worst reactionary moves possible, and the rest of the know-nothings would do even worse.

In truth, the Iranians, the Russians, the Chinese, or anyone in the Levant could follow the same game plan and we'd be in ruins.

The ice is very thin now.

The problem is that pure evil survives until the very last moment ...Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao....what we in Canada know is that Trump's lust for Canada and Greeenland is the result of a dikat by Musk and the Broligarchs to seize rare earth minerals...the same thing that is driving Putin and his oligarchs in Ukraine.

 

[Norri]

I've been considering how precarious the times are. If Trump's Russian manipulators were to stage an assassinatiton attempt, successfully, and clandestinely, laying a trail of domestic source from the left, MAGA would erupt in destruction and the US would be at our own throats in chaos. NATO would be broken. Canada would be in peril, and Greenland, as Vance would surely make the worst reactionary moves possible, and the rest of the know-nothings would do even worse.

In truth, the Iranians, the Russians, the Chinese, or anyone in the Levant could follow the same game plan and we'd be in ruins.

The ice is very thin now.

It’s a good time for another country to invade us, the only thing we could unite against is actual space aliens and the further away you get from that the less unity you will get.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It’s a good time for another country to invade us, the only thing we could unite against is actual space aliens and the further away you get from that the less unity you will get.

I don't think anyone is interested in invading us.

No other nation or coalition could maintain control with such a large land mass, so many military forces, and a highly armed populace.

No, we're much more valuable as a weakened former superpower, embroiled in domestic dis-cord so as to be unable to act with a unified will on the world stage.

We're worth more as a zombie nation, leaving the world's competition to go on without us. There are plenty of players who welcome our exit and demise.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's 30 minutes of your life worth spending. He succintly stitches together the disparate components of Trump's gambit. We are exactly where Wolff declares: