Indeed and the fucking MAGAts are sucking down the Kremlin stirred Orange Kool-Aid.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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The president grovels to putin: This is an unprecedented loss of u.s. soft power and the world is judging America for it's cowardice.
The president, congress and every major media organization grovels to netanyahu: ....
This does look bad on our part but the main thing making us look bad on the world stage is our support for Israel. If you ask the average person outside of the west what they find most offensive about this administration they'll probably say its genocidal policy in gaza, not it's shakedown of an ally.
That’s just not true
Countries threatened by China care a lot more about this than Gaza
Maybe, but that's a small amount of countries / people. Mostly Taiwan and to a far lesser extent south Korea and Japan. Most other countries aren't threatened by China, and the few that are aren't allied enough with the u.s. to plan there defense around u.s. support.
Meanwhile the Israeli genocide has brought together the large swaths of the Muslim world with progressive anti colonial movements in the global south against Israel and the u.s.
The world isn't just the u.s. and its allies. Most people live in countries outside that political sphere, though most within it tend to forget that.
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"No country in history" is a pretty bold claim. Surely Britain ceding India for example would be a counterexample, just off the top of my head.
But honestly, uh, good? I don't want the US acting as global hegemon. The power and influence wielded by the nation-state only goes to benefitting the rich and powerful. It doesn't benefit ordinary people in any way, whether domestically or abroad.
I don't know why it's assumed that heading a global empire is supposed to be a good thing, it certainly doesn't align with my values as a leftist.
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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.
Canada, Mexico, the UK, the EU.
So what changed between these countries and USA?
All are recognising the US as significany weaker than they have been in a long time.
How are they doing that?
All of them are making power grabs by supporting Ukraine
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.
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
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.
Look at everyone elses replies to you fucking dolt.
No replies here actually point out to evidence that US actually lost a significant amount of power
Go suck some more Putin dick.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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
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?
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Another big winner here is China. I would love to know the contents of that meeting between putin and xi, I think back in 2022(?)
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It wasn't disinformation - it is a pedophile who had minors delivered into his bed and was filmed during the atrocities. The resulting child pornography is what makes orange guy the lap dog of a psychotic killer.
The rest was easy with an asset that high in the ranks.
Could be. It could also just be bribes.
The current situation is really nice for countries like Russia, Saudi-Arabia and China. They just need to pay a few billion to Trump and get stuff that cannot be bought and are easily worth hundreds of billions from the US empire.
Their new crypto grifts really take this to an extreme level. Hundreds of millions just directly given to Trump as bribes now, its actually insane.
It could be either of those things certainly, but I feel like no amount of money Russia could provide would be enough for Trump, he's in control of the United States Treasury and can direct money anywhere with impunity (see also: Starlink). If they came out with a video he'd just call it fake - particularly in this age of AI - and it would have zero effect.
Russians throw people out windows all the time though. I'd be willing to bet that the threat of physical harm is all that is necessary to control him.
Or quite possibly, all three things. Keep us happy and the money keeps flowing, the porn stays in the vault and you won't be unalived.
One thing is certain: it's not nothing.
It was mostly disinformation though, if you look at how most of the social media, and MSMs ran, it's mostly talking points from Russia in some form another