Comment on So, is the USA screwed?
pohart@programming.dev 2 days agoA generation seems very generous. The only path back to US hegemony I see is Fascism and I don’t even think the current batch are interested in US hegemony.
Comment on So, is the USA screwed?
pohart@programming.dev 2 days agoA generation seems very generous. The only path back to US hegemony I see is Fascism and I don’t even think the current batch are interested in US hegemony.
Triasha@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Military power and wealth have an irrisisatable pull. China can still make deals and do diplomacy. Even North Korea can cut deals with Russia. Russia and Iran work together. One nations pariah state is anothers opportunity.
The rest of the world will hedge their bets, but if the US negotiators start talking sense again after the trump admin they will attend the meetings and make agreements hoping for the best. International law people live and breathe the hypocrisy of tyrants and democrats alike.
The optimism of the 1990s is dead, but that was a lie even then. The US reputation as the “leader of the free world” is dead. It was a self appointed title anyway.
The world will keep spinning and deals will still be made by non idiots.
If the predictions in this thread of a hot civil war in the US prove true, then deals will be made with whatever comes out of that.
I hope not, but I am not optimistic about the next few years/decades