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Great powers often decline through self-inflicted blows. By starting a trade war he was unable to follow through on, Donald Trump may have just dealt a severe one to the United States.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He killed 1 million Americans.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

He's just getting started.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He does like to act like he’s the best at everything. I wonder if he’s proud of this one.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Funny how he doesn't brag about this one.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Right? He's the ultimate victim, he could totally have claimed the US suffered worse than anyone else and he did such a great job to finally put an end to it or whatever spin he fancies, nothing matters anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump is a foreign adversary.

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

US used to be the abusive one in a relationship, but it was sweet enough, think things like, I'm sorry I didnt mean to start a war near your territory or sorry I overthrew your government, but we can still be friends. It has now gone fully bully and so countries will stop coming to the same playground.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago

It has now gone fully bully and so countries will stop coming to the same playground.

More like: It has now started bullying its lackies/people who can fight back. The change in Trump 2 isn't that America became more of a bully, but simply that it's now bullying countries that were part of the cool people club. Looking from the Middle East for example you'd scarcely be able to tell anything even changed.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Trump’s Tariffs Have Done What No -- other -- US Adversary Could

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don’t pretend that Putin didn’t have some influence on this