The World Without the US

[FrodoTX]

I travel to foreign countries several times a year. They all are very kind, but will ask in random conversation "what the hell is going on in the US?" The rest of the world sees us as a joke, thanks to the "Joker in Command"

 

[rareboy]

Other countries with no threat hanging over them from the US see the country as a joke...kind of the same way that the world saw Herr Hitler and his goose stepping minions as a joke up until 1938.

The rest of us see the US now as an existential threat, with a non-functional, grossly corrupted federal government, actively aiding the destruction of democracy and a complacent population of hand wringers
unwilling to fight back...instead, genetically married to the feckless politics of what is effectively a one party government.

As long as the US is now an aggressor, imperial rogue nation, invading countries and stealing resources...it is no joke.

As long as it continues on the path of racist white christian nationalism as the basis for its laws and politics, it is no joke.

Increasingly, it looks like it will engulf the world in war and devastate global economies.

 

[rareboy]

As predicted some months ago...the vacancy the US has created has been a huge boon for China's influence around the globe.

Trump is making China Super Great with his tariffs, isolationist policies, threats against other sovereign states.

Every time that he lies about the US being respected again, his cabal know this is not so. US America and increasingly US Americans are being perceived much differently
in major markets and countries. In Canada, we are looking to heal trade issues with China largely triggered by US pressure through the CanMUSA agreement as we see TrumpCo. moving to tear it up
completely and will now also be sounding out China on Trump's megalomaniacal goal of creating the Technate of America by force. This may be brushed aside, if as I expect, Trump has told China the US
will stay out of the Pacific and Taiwan in exchange for the US oligarchs having complete control over North and Central America.

Trump is making China – not America – great again, global survey suggests

Exclusive: US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies feel ever more distant, results show

www.theguardian.com

 

[rareboy]

To wit.

Canada is effectively giving a huge Fuck You to Tesla and the US by dropping the US led 100% tariffs on EV's.

This is a massive shift, although the number of vehicles are capped.

But we will expect our EV costs to drop a lot now.

Canada breaks with US, slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

In a massive shift in North American trade policy, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced today a new “strategic partnership” with...

electrek.co

 

[rareboy]

And of course, as noted in other threads, the US dollar is increasingly less desirable to back currency and liquidity by the world's countries.

‘The dollar is losing credibility’: why central banks are scrambling for gold

Experts say central banks are increasingly stuffing their vaults as an insurance policy in a volatile world

www.theguardian.com

 

[rareboy]

President Emmanuel Macron:

“Where Ukraine was eminently dependent on American intelligence capabilities by an overwhelming majority a year ago, today two-thirds are provided by France. Two-thirds.”

In fact, Europe is not sharing intelligence concerning Ukraine much any more because of the pipeline right back to PutinCo.

The larger issue is that western countries may now be looking to build a completely independent network as a permanent structure..one that avoids Palantir, Space X, CIA, etc. and one that now increases
espionage by NATO allies in the US intelligence networks.

 

[rareboy]

Not to be overlooked. The EU has also signed a massive trade agreement withthe Mercosur bloc in South America that is designed to reduce European and South American demand for US products as well. It was finally made possible after a long time because of TrumpCo's erratic trade policies and attempt to exert dominance over the western hemisphere.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trade-agreement-european-union-south-america-9.7050032

 

[rareboy]

And the EU has just stopped the ratification of the US/EU trade deal as a result of Trump's latest roid rage tariffs because of Greenland.

And:

Tim left out rrrZZZia.​

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

Europe and England have done this before. In 1938. At this point, NATO shouldn't even be commenting on Xitter...

 

[smokeshadow]

Europe Divorcing America Now Seen as 'Inevitable': Report

After 80 years of peaceful cooperation, President Donald Trump’s tariff threats against countries opposing his efforts to take over Greenland have become the “final straw” for many European governments, which now view a “divorce” from the United States as “inevitable,” according to a Politico...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

 

[rareboy]

Canadian Prime Minister Carney's speech was a declaration of divorce from the United States of America and a call to all the other so-called Middle Powers to
recognize reality and break free from their obsequious fawning and capitulation to the US regime.

As he noted, it is now a New World Order, with the super-powers including now, the US, using brute force to take what they want.

That the post WWII order and institutions no longer work to ensure global stability and prosperity as they get turned upside down.

Like Canada is actively doing, he urged every country to broaden and deepen their trade agreements with more countries and blocs, to increase their military security to defend their sovereignty and to stop being dictated to by the US threats of tariffs and aggression.

In a single moment, he emerged as another strong world leader delivering a message of strength to hopefully energize and galvanize other western democracies.

He got a standing ovation. And his speech may be examined in the future as being one of the moments that marked a turn in the world order.

Trump, on the other hand delivered a low energy, rambling litany of his usual complaints, weird bits of stories and threats in an overlong speech to a largely silent response with people in the room saying how embarrasing it was for the US and that it was nakedly evident that he has pretty much lost his status. Mixing up Iceland and Greenland is almost an understandable gaffe except when you are the person threatening to invade Greenland. In the future, his Davos speech will also possibly be talked about but only as a point where the actual power of the US over all the countries began to fade.

 

[rareboy]

If anyone has any doubts about where this is headed, Dementia Don reposting this is likely laying it all out for US Americans and the rest of the world.

He intends on trying to blow up NATO.

And withdrawing from the UN and likely kicking it out of the US.

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[rareboy]

Christine Lagarde, the French president of the European Central Bank, made headlines yesterday by walking out of a ranting dinner speech by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick when the speech turned into an insulting "ugly American" anti-Europe tirade.

Meanwhile, Al Gore booed Mr. Lutnick. He probably helped save the last shreds of credibility that the US has among European leaders.

This is what we need more of. Serious people treating these clowns like clowns. Too often, people are sitting silent while the US pours abuse on its allies and other sovereign nations.

This would help end the Trump Regime faster.

 

[rareboy]

A poignant memory. The WHO removing the US flag from its building.

 

[Essex Boy]

^
Fun with flags.

Joint Statement by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Even on our way out of the organization, the WHO tarnished and trashed everything that America has done for it. The WHO refuses to hand over the American flag that hung in front of it, arguing it has not approved our withdrawal and, in fact, claims that we owe it compensation.
...
From our days as its primary founder, primary financial backer, and primary champion until now, our final day, the insults to America continue.We will get our flag back for the Americans who died alone in nursing homes, the small businesses devastated by WHO-driven restrictions, and the American lives shattered by this organization’s inactivity.

 

[Essex Boy]

More about how the Health Department plans to repair the devastation wrought by the WHO.

US officially leaves World Health Organization

The US department said it would have bilateral relations with other countries to ensure disease surveillance and pathogen sharing, but were unable to provide information about which specific countries they had such links with so far.

In response to a question about global efforts to combat polio or HIV, officials said the US would partner with "NGOs and faith based groups" to continue that work, but could not give details of any partnerships yet established.

Asked whether the US would continue to participate in information sharing for and development of the annual global flu vaccine, officials were not sure.

 

[rareboy]

^
Fun with flags.

Such bullshit.

The US so grossly mishandled the pandemic under Trump, preferring instead to blunder along with recommendations for bleach and horse medicine.

Good luck to the US partnering with faith based groups that helped the spread of COVID the first time around by continuing to have people attend services unmasked.

The US HHS is now a complete joke around the world.

 

[rareboy]

Meanwhile, California, the world's fourth largest economy and a powerhouse that drives the US machine is exercising its own sovereignty.