What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ramble81@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

So now we can add “directly capturing a sovereign leader” to the list of crap the US has done. So what do you think will actually be “the straw that broke the camels back” for world leaders to actually do something? Think it’ll be significant or something mundane?

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freeman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Well a big part of the world needs to cleanse it self of US loyalists in it’s politics, military and intelligence/security. It’s going to be tough, a lot of expertise is going to be lost and the rebuild is going to be hard.

After that they can boycott and sanction the USA but they need to militarize to protect themselves. Expansion of nuclear weapons is a good tactic if you can get it to happen fast. Tactical ones as well to strike at US expeditionary assets.

It’s not going to be pretty, stopping the Nazis was not pretty.

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- Amberskin@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  We also need to get rid of dependency on USA tech companies. Right now the POTUS can shut down the European economy with an EO ordering cloud providers to stop servicing European banks.
  
  Not easy, it will require extreme protectionist measures to allow European alternatives to thrive. It will be expensive and will probably induce a recession. But the alternative is way worse.
  
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  - oeuf@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Perhaps expensive briefly but the overall savings would be colossal.
    
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  - drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Right now the POTUS can shut down the European economy with an EO ordering cloud providers to stop servicing European banks.
    
    That would be a straight up declaration of war though and if that happens broken e-commerce would be the least of our worries.
    
    The real reason to develop alternatives is to simply keep money and power away from US as that’s the only thing US really cares about.
    
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olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Invading or pissing off Japan, China or Canada. All of whom own a sizable amount of the US national debt. Any one of whom can dump said debt and cause a default on the US debt causing hyperinflation. With hyperinflation, they can’t pay for their military and thus are dead in the water.

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Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
War, either world or civil. Unfortunately I don’t see any other way at this point

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- Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’m glad you’re not smart enough to be in charge!
  
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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
STOP REPRODUCING

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trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I think a workers revolution could do the trick. Get yourselves organized down there and get some head’s rolling.

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- DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  How are we gonna do that if some workers are the more hardline extreme Republicans?
  
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  - trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Organize to educate and unite people on a class front. It’s not about left or right, it’s up or down.
    
    Mamdani won support from Trump voters by listening and running on a class campaign. People just want to eat.
    
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theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
We wait it out. It’s a collapsing empire, a real war would prolong the collapse, they’res plenty of historical precedent

We’re doing our best to speed run it, guys. Maybe make fun of us for healthcare more, it’s a real sore spot

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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
General strike.

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SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Major economic crash or civil war. Or someone whacks Trump.

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- eightpix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  None of these things will stop the US. What will is a general strike, a new constitutional convention, and the reconstruction of the nation from the ground up.
  
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  - treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Zero shot that a constitutional convention in the near future would be for the better.
    
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  - AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I agree that a general strike could do the trick, but the challenge will be getting almost everyone onboard while still allowing the working class to eat and have shelter. By design, working class Americans have little means of weathering a long term general strike, and the upper class has enough wealth to ignore it unless it’s a prolonged effort. A general strike for a few days will not cut it.
    
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  - SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Trump is the entire reason this is working. All of Trump’s minions are too incompetent to be able to hold everything from crashing down once he croaks. They have a time limit. They’re trying to turn the US into a full blown dictatorship before Trump dies.
    
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- DrDickHandler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Americans too lazy for a civil war. They are too busy slowly dying to capitlism while blaming trans.
  
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  - ekusea@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
A revolution

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- saimen@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  More like civil war
  
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criscodisco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The world has to hold us accountable. Sanction us. Make it hurt.

Americans aren’t the only ones being “cowards” in all of this, as Europeans online love to throw around these days.

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EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
What’s it going to take to truly stop Russia?

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- AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  dot world is a parody of a parody of reddit
  
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  - EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I haven’t watched the Simpsons in over a decade so I don’t get the reference, but my point was the similarity between the world’s response to the invasion of Ukraine and the likely response to continuing US aggression.
    
    A lot of strongly worded letters and not much else is what I expect.
    
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- Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Russia has invaded one country in the past 35 years. The USA has invaded several and is enacting genocide in Gaza. False equivalency.
  
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  - EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Netanyahu actually would’ve been another good comparison.
    
    My comment wasn’t a “Russia = bad” deflection, but a comment about world leaders’ response to the invasion of Ukraine and what I expect their response to the continuing aggression of the Trump regime to be: strongly worded letters and not much else.
    
    Also, let’s get our facts straight on the genocide in Palestine. The US hasn’t put any boots on the ground yet, despite Trump’s promises from earlier in the year. As of the time that I’m writing this, the US is enabling the genocide but not an active participant. That could change tomorrow or may have already changed, but we don’t need to make things up about the government when there’s already so many evils to point at. They’re already war criminals, we wouldn’t want them to get off on account of making false accusations.
    
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- phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  And China
  
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Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
This is the thing, regarding Venezuela it’s become a bit of a hot topic worldwide now, in that it’s created a controversy not in the way you would expect. See currently a lot of Venezuelans hated that guy and are happy he’s been taken. So it’s a bit hard on how to play that,

Don’t get me wrong, how trump did this and the reasons he did it are entirely greedy but at the same time a lot of terrorized individuals are now seeing him as a hero but still very oblivious to his end game on how he’s going to destroy their home for his gain yet.

From the frying pan into the fire.

he didn’t do it for them. They don’t know that yet.

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- ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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- lando55@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Everything this guy has ever done is transactional in nature, and he’s openly admitted the agenda for Venezuela. It’s wild how many Venezuelans haven’t come to this realization yet.
  
  A lot of Americans hate DJT but if a foreign power abducted him and his wife, superseded the line of succession to assume control, and expressed interest to harvest natural resources, I don’t think it’d go over so well.
  
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  - iggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    We haven’t been dealing with Trump for as long as Venezuela has been dealing with Maduro (and Chavez before him). Give us a couple more decades and I’m sure you’d see more people happy to see him “arrested” by a foreign power. Fwiw, I’d be happy to see it tomorrow, but I know a lot of my fellow USians wouldn’t take so kindly. Not because they actually like Trump, but because it’d be a sobering reminder that we’re no longer top of the food chain
    
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  - Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s also wild how much of Taiwan don’t see the problem with trump either. Once upon a time he noted they are their own country now they feel he can do no wrong. I’ve even had to tell a relative from there he’s a kiddy diddler and they still went on about how they are finding some benefits here.
    
    These people are like when a beaten girlfriend goes from a physical abuser and jump right into a manipulative emotional abuser relationship and say “at least he doesn’t hit me”
    
    once your standards are that low in a country your life isn’t as great as you think it is. “At least I’m alive”…mmm ok so that’s your standard. Like maybe you want to live past your next meal before celebrating.
    
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- Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Anything’s possible when you make shit up
  
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- sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  At the moment, it looks less like a regime change, and more like puppetting the same regime. It looks like the Maduro opposition in Venezuela doesn’t have support of the generals, so we’re just bribing/coercing the rest of the Maduro regime.
  
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GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Only US citizens can stop the US. We’re counting on you guys!

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- DrDickHandler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Jesus fuck. I hope this is a joke because no one is realistically counting on Americans to do the right fucking thing.
  
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  - Soulg@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Go fuck yourself
    
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- Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Prepare to be disappointed
  
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CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The EU, China and other major trading partners (many of which are EU afilliates like Japan) could cripple the US overnight by dumping american bonds and finding new trading partners. This is already happening though in a very slow way designed to minimize damage.

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abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Invading NATO territory and triggering Article 5.

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Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Maybe they can just fuck with US elections online.

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- Saprophyte@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Israel, Russia, and China do that in every one of our elections. The problem is that they’re always trying to get the most disruptive candidate installed to weaken the US. Legitimate countries always take the stance of “we don’t want to get involved with yada yada”
  
  A handful of countries are willing to put Trumps in charge and no one else is willing to stop them or put someone more friendly to the rest of the world in charge. Our elections are influenced on social media by Russia, economically influenced by China, and candidates are paid for by AIPAC and a south African billionaire. Our elections are as much the will of the people as the direction of the wind is, and we have just as much influence over each.
  
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  - Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Im just saying, OP seems to be pleading with the rest of the world to do something about the democratic decay of the US but is seemingly unaware that other countries revel in it.
    
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Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The USA will undergo spiraling inflation until it collapses in on itself.

Our federal government is far more trouble than they are worth. We should be like individual states, but united. I declare it the… United States of America! Oh, wait.

But really, we will collapse and split into collections of states, some alone, some allied with others, I’m not sure if it’s officially a balkanization, but close enough.

Our state governments will replace the fed automatically and easily (easily as in possible, not easily as in staving off empty shelves, fuel shortages, etc).

Our banking will stay basically the same, because they’re not even the government, the Fed is a collection of bankers representing our various super banks.

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- BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The Banking system and Media will still be controlled by Israel
  
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  - Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Israel is a player, but not bigger than the banks, THEY are number one! Check out the history of, say, Deutsche bank. Older than most governments), and much wealthier than most of them, too. Israel does have their own very powerful “banking families” of course, it’s an international interest, not national.
    
    I don’t think the banking families are concerned about, say, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They will sell to everyone involved, and make sure the winner is financed with many loans from the IMF or elsewhere.
    
    Media? Yeah, US media is probably their biggest international ally after the US government, I think. Not an expert, new information always desired.
    
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  - Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The banking cartels are a lot older than Israel, you’re putting the cart before the horse
    
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- sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The ultra-wealthy shooting for stuff like The Network State and corporation-governed city-states.
  
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SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Maduro and Trump are friends

Maduro gets to escape his country and save face instead of being assassinated or executed.

Trump gets to manufacture a conflict so he can start martial law and become a dictator, and to distract from us learning he came inside little girls.

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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
To stop this immediate idiocy, Trump has to have a massive stroke, just enough to debilitate him but necessarily replace him. MAGA isn’t going to blindly follow Vance cause he’s got zero MAGA charisma. The GOP controlled Congress is going to be stuck between implementing 25A or not, cause if they remove Trump they’re committing political suicide.

So the best bet is for a lame duck government as a whole.

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- Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Imo if I was like a dem politician I’d offer to send trump and hegseth to the hague for trial since the courts here are rigged.
  
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Knightfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
WW3, that’s literally it. The rest of the world has done jack and shit about Russia and Ukraine beside sanctions and providing resources. People like to meme about Canada being badass, but they have such a small military presence that NATO has been upset with them for about 5 years for not doing their part. Outside of that there is no one in North or South America that can stand up to the US.

Africa isn’t doing much militarily. No one close to China is going to drop their guard to go after the US (Australia included since they have China breathing down their necks as well). That leaves Europe and the Middle East. The Middle East probably isn’t going to do much and if the US takes Venezuela’s oil then they need the Middle East even less.

Europe will probably spin wheels and denounce actions, but the important members of Europe are either 1.) part of NATO 2.) not prepared to defend themselves from Russia if they leave NATO. They can’t meaningfully sanction a military ally without breaking that alliance and once that alliance is officially broken NATO doesn’t have the US backing against Russia and also faces even more risk of Greenland or Canada being attacked by the US.

Best bet for stopping the US is Brazil, Russia, or China saying they will intervene for Venezuela, the EU and other NATO nations saying they won’t support the US, and then BRICS all jump in to fight the US. Maybe this weakens the US and BRICS effectively passes NATO but now Europe is sitting in the crosshairs for Russia.

Honestly, trying to go against the US is more likely to cause the Republican leaders to dislike European or international opinions even more. Republican’s have been complaining at home for 20 years about freeloading foreigners who spend their military budgets on lefty progressive ideas, foreigners complaining about US domestic policies, and all the while the US polices the world for them. It’s this sort of foreign attitude mixed with Russian and Chinese propaganda which has caused the US to drift further and further away from a positive relationship with Europe. Trying to go against the US is more likely to cause a Nazi & Stalin dividing up Poland situation rather than hurting the US.

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- Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  If America is allowed to concentrate 100% of its military budget purely and ultimately for ourselves then everyone is fucked.
  
  A large part of the balance of the world really comes down to America has 50+ years of spreading it self thin.
  
  America going full ham on a proper war would not end well for anyone including the American people.
  
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TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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- iggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  We must be looking at different polls, because the ones I’ve looked at clearly show him having terrible approval ratings. Definitely not even close to a simple majority or “wide, perhaps perfect, acceptance”.
  
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- Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The current Swedish government is a bunch of right wing assholes that want to replicate USA, copying some of the dumbest policies just because.
  
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- morkyporky@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  braindead comment. “Wide, perhaps perfect, acceptance among the US populace.” This is so wrong and stupid. Also, every US president carries out direct acts of war against sovereign nations without congressional approval so that is not a valid criticism of Trump but of the whole country.
  
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Be real nice if someone would just fucking nuke DC

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- iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s literally how The Handmaid’s Tale history went.
  
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AZX3RIC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
World War 3 isn’t the answer, not with the biggest players in the defense industry being US based.

If the change in power were due to military power, the EU would have to switch to not relying on the US…which is what they’re starting to do!

A more reasonable scenario would be financial: the world deciding to not use the US dollar as the currency standard and start cashing in the US debt.

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Slashme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s nowhere close to that level. The GOP/ MAGA has been eroding international trust in America for a while now, but realistically, everybody else is on the outside looking in, and even if America removed all women’s rights, including the right to vote, or annexed Panama, all that would happen would be strongly worded protests and further political isolation of America from the rest of the world.

Nobody wants to fight a war against the USA, and barring something cataclysmic like an invasion of Mexico, nobody wants to sanction the largest market in the world.

TL;DR: America would have to become much poorer or much weaker before anybody does anything.

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- Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Invading Mexico is definitely on ~~Trump~~ Miller’s list.
  
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Darkness343@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Kidnap their leaders while they sleep

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I think losing an aircraft carrier would give the US serious pause. Outside that, no idea. Maybe we finally pull the trigger and nuke someone, and that scares the rest of the world enough to start actively sanctioning us. Maybe not, though.

It does seem like most of Europe, Canada, and East Asia are happy to be in the pocket of US financial interests. Even folks who don’t like Trump haven’t bothered to break away from JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs.

Nobody wants to risk fucking with the money of the global hegemon.

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- SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  And so long as the US is the wealthiest nation on Earth, what’s going to deter them?
  
  I think the answer to your question is contained within the question. Americans are greedy people and a coordinated effort by China, Japan, and the UK could sink the US economy.
  
  But I doubt that would even be necessary. Why kill someone intent on suicide? The US economy will likely collapse on it’s own if it continues on the path it’s on. I’m not talking about some recession like in 2008, I’m talking a collapse you’ve never experienced. Something similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  
  Also if you were going down the military strike route, an aircraft carrier would be stupid. Trump has broadcast to the entire world what the achilles heal of the US is and it isn’t the aircraft carriers. It’s something that’s dug up from the ground and needs to be processed by refineries.
  
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Americans are greedy people and a coordinated effort by China, Japan, and the UK could sink the US economy.
    
    These three countries aren’t aligned, much less in alignment ideologically. Hell, they aren’t even aligned internally. The US isn’t the only county that reverses directions every four to eight years.
    
    Bo Xilai was very nearly China’s Premier and would have taken the country in a radically different direction absent his expulsion in 2013.
    
    The US economy will likely collapse on it’s own if it continues on the path it’s on.
    
    The county cycles through recessions every 10 years or so. If anything, we’re overdue. It doesn’t end after a bad business cycle.
    
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- FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  China is going to flip the script very soon. They have already overtaken the USA on some economic metrics, their industrial power is growing while the petro-dollar is in its death throes and American trade power is collapsing on every front.
  
  America’s only real power remaining is the military, which is incredibly strong, but maybe not enough to exert power over a world united behind China’s Belts and Roads diplomacy while simultaneously dealing with a divided populous at home.
  
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  - Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    If America has to go full warmonger those over seas will be fine if they can last the initial onslaught.
    
    It’s more Canada and Mexico that will just get absolutely fucked.
    
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    China is going to flip the script very soon.
    
    They’re one of the few rapidly developing economies left, following the post Soviet stagnation.
    
    But that just introduces another superpower on the world stage. It doesn’t eliminate the US in any material capacity.
    
    America’s only real power remaining is the military
    
    America’s biggest card to play is the Petrodollar. The military has facilitated destruction of competition. But our ability to dictate currency flow and command global trade via a monetary system our federal bank controls is so much more important.
    
    Everyone keeps saying Europe and Asia will go their own way. Let me know when they finally do. Because I’m still waiting.
    
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vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
For you fucks to vote for the Democrat candidate.

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- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  China fundamentally can’t be the world leader as it’s incompatible with the rest of the world it would have to lead. Here we are talking about this on american led internet - not Chinese great firewall. The only thing people want from China is the stuff they make not the Chinese culture or leadership.
  
  The reason why US is so successful at leading the world because it’s basically a giant haven for other world cultures which makes it easy to integrate anywhere.
  
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  - BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    China doesn’t necessarily have to lead to control. Look at their investments in Africa over the past decade. The US stopped investing in developing nations so China took the lead over the fastest developing continent. They’ll have a ton of influence there for a generation at least, will be able to secure deals and lock the US out of them.
    
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- Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Blaming China for the US being a shitshow is hilariously stupid
  
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  - BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    VGA meant to say that China would replace the US if they acted better. VGA is not blaming China for the US.
    
    However I will assign a little blame to China for Trump because TikTok helped get Trump elected. I strongly suspect that there was a backroom deal between TikTok/China and Trump prior to the 2024 election.
    
    This article is the most damning: theinformation.com/…/how-tiktok-courted-conservat… (archive/non-paywall: archive.is/TUjo9)
    
    The top leaders pushed through content moderation changes that made TikTok more accepting of some conservative views on the fairness of elections or transgender rights, including by updating policies on banned content or enforcing them differently.
    
    I hate the way they worded that. What they really mean is allowing the big lie (false claims the 2020 election was rigged) and transphobia.
    
    See: theverge.com/…/trump-tiktok-ban-maga-influencers (archive link: archive.is/DMOLf)
    
    MAGA influencers also view TikTok as a relatively reliable platform to publish pro-Trump content without fear that their accounts will get demonetized, restricted, or worse, deactivated.
    
    Also see: foxnews.com/…/maga-republicans-defend-tiktok-cons… (archive link: archive.is/RGBC8)
    
    “Trump won the election because he listened to first-time voters like myself and joined TikTok to get his message to us directly,” RNC Youth Advisory Council Chair Brilyn Hollyhand told Fox News Digital of the impending ban.
    
    Also see: apnews.com/…/ap-top-news-courts-john-bolton-polit…
    
    President Donald Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects, according to a scathing new book by former Trump adviser John Bolton that accuses the president of being driven by political calculations when making national security decisions.
    
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Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Getting rid of the Republican party and their major billionaire donors

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- MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  & the democratic party. Build a multi-party system
  
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- anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Starts locally. And honestly, we need to stop thinking party and invest in quality leaders.
  
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the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Y’all remember that time a bunch of morons actually charged the capital?

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DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
SANCTION THE FUCK OUT OF US

Hit us where it hurts. Our wallets. Fuck our economy up (even more).

And if that doesn’t work, start forming military alliances and building up your armies as a show of force.

I am here in America and I can tell you there are A LOT of dumbfucks here that can only learn through pain. So make it hurt. America needs to learn a lesson.

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