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Did USA give up any power? I'm missing something or people are not paying attention at all?
Yes. We are losing soft power and allies all around the world thanks to the orange menace.
Our soft power has taken a greater hit from our unwavering support for Israel than this. How many countries outside of Europe have come out to condemn this? Meanwhile u.n. vote after u.n. vote everyone except for the u.s. and it's proxies vote to condemn this genocide and the u.s. sending weapons.
This definitely doesn't make us look good, but it's not the unprecedented foreign relations catastrophe people are making it out to be.
How is USA losing soft power and which allies are they losing?
Canada, Mexico, the UK, the EU.
I can guarantee Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand... All countries are paying attention.
All are recognising the US as significany weaker than they have been in a long time. All of them are making power grabs by supporting Ukraine and investigating new trade alliances/deals not involving the US, further weakening US power.
While these are absolutely the moral and correct things to do, and supporting Ukraine is the human thing to do, bolstering international security - there is also a huge amount of soft power to be had in the support, and a good reason to up domestic arms production which helps replace/offset Americas hard power (IE military might).
Where countries have relied on American weapons before, the threat of America "switching off" a countries jets and missiles cannot be ignored.
So what changed between these countries and USA?
How are they doing that?
Power grabs to what?
and so on
Wow. What a lovely conversation we are having.
Just asking questions, aye?
Power is quite quantifiable these days. If you want to prove that US lost power you have to provide some concrete evidence that they did. To me it doesn't look like they lost much
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2021304/norway-fuel-giant-refuses-fill
This is what losing soft power looks like but lot of it won't be noticed until all of our allies start doing these small things.
https://www.reuters.com/world/norway-says-it-will-keep-supplying-fuel-us-navy-after-company-calls-boycott-2025-03-02/
and this is what not actually losing any power looks like
Translation: you’ve either been under a rock, or you’ve been watching nothing but Faux News.
This, folks, is why it’s important to stay informed with actual news and information. So you don’t ask a silly question like this.
I think you have been living under a rock because despite what politician talk on tv nothing seem to have changed
Did you forget the /s, or are you just not paying attention?
Yes, there were definitely talk about taking over Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Greenland before last month.
Oh wait, no they weren't.
This looks like a display of power to me
Ok, but now you admit things have changed
we are talking about US losing power
The fact you dont have a clue speaks volumes.
Please highlight me on which power USA lost so far
Look at everyone elses replies to you fucking dolt. You want me to do your fucking homework lmao.
Go suck some more Putin dick.
No replies here actually point out to evidence that US actually lost a significant amount of power
Why are you thinking of him? perhaps that's what you want to do?
One of our greatest strengths is that we build coalitions. We just told the world that if you ally with us, you better be ready to grovel.
For example, places like Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan are capable of building nuclear weapons but they didn't bc they trusted us to protect them. Each of those countries are now imagining themselves sitting there in front of cameras being berated for ingratitude.
Without our allies we are much less powerful.
They didn't do it because they can't without US approval.
That is false. But I think I see where you're coming from, you may be more interested in !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world
I can't figure out if that community is supposed to be satirical or not.
Either way, it's a great place to direct people to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists
Losing Navy refueling points from allies could be considered loss of power. https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/norwegian-company-refuses-to-refuel-us-ships-1740880391.html
Yes but it's not happening...
https://www.reuters.com/world/norway-says-it-will-keep-supplying-fuel-us-navy-after-company-calls-boycott-2025-03-02/
The people (and mainly the private companies) of an allied country redused to help America. Only under threat from the Norwegian government did the US ships get fuel. Sounds like a loss of power to me
"Huge credit to the president of Ukraine restraining himself and for keeping calm even though USA put on a backstabbing TV show. It made us sick... No Fuel to Americans!," the company said in a now deleted Facebook post - just a good excerpt from the article
Some company tried to go against US and they got immediately rectified, that's the power we are talking about at work.
So, you can't see how more and more people going against the US is equal to losing power world wide? How a government treating its citizens to be freindly isn't actually friendly?
We literally would gas up all the time in Norway no questions asked but now we're not and you can't see the problem?
Trump and musk got shit talked for a decade straight and still managed to win elections. US power worldwide isn't "talked" they actually have concrete power on almost every country in the world.
For now