Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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The only reason the US ever gained "trust" was because their late joining of WW2 allowed their industry ramp-up (remember the US was selling equipment to both sides until Pearl Harbor, to the point where when Allied forces landed in continental Europe and began pushing into Nazi occupied territories, they noticed how parts for their trucks etc. were all compatible, in an age where cars had no standardisation even within a manufacturer), and the war playing out away from their homeland allowed for said industrial uplift to remain untouched.
Meanwhile Europe was ravaged by the wars - remember the primary reason for Hitler's rise was the overly aggressive Versailles Treaty that put considerable financial drain on the Central Powers (Hungary being split up was obviously a larger thing, but Germany also lost territories and had to pay restitutions), which limited the economic recovery of the countries, resulting in poor working and living conditions that people blamed on the newly formed democratic government - which in turn allowed Hitler to gain support using the usual far right demagogue, populist crap that is gaining traction today.
All that meant that Europe, while it had the manpower, lacked the available resources and ways to utilise them, and heavily depended on the Marshall Plan, which made the western European countries dependent on the US, making the latter appear as a reliable friend.
And for the Eastern European countries... The US continued a constant propaganda of "helping countries under Soviet rule fight for independence" (see Radio Free Europe) - and somehow managed to maintain the position of being a helpful friend after willfully ignoring the 1956 Hungarian freedom fight for which the US promised military help, then promptly ignored because a more lucrative opportunity in the shape of the Suez crisis, surfaced at the same time.
So yeah it's high time for Europe to realise just how fickle the US is as a partner. They've been literally the cause of every single major market crash in the past 50 years, allowing their internal financial clusterfuckup to spiral out and affect other countries even worse, taking absolutely no responsibility for it while reaping all the benefits... They've also pretty much caused all major wars in the past 50 years as a way to justify maintaining and increasing their "defense" spending (the one honest thing Trump has done in his second term was renaming the DoD to Department of War), forcing their subpar, overpriced military crapquipment on their "allies" and even demanding said allies to join unjustified wars through any means necessary...
No, fuck the US, it's time for Europe to wake up and be truly independent of their crap. The failed attempt at "freedom" failed enough by now. Let them collapse, let them burn, and maybe they'll rebuild something that actually resembles a country from the ashes.
Sure but we the world let them the reason their finacial situation spirals to everyone is we let the US become unreplaceable. And yes they are as of now. Their economy is so big that they can't be replaced by increasing trade with outher countries as the other countries are not big enough to replace them. And they consume a lot of goods far more then other countries.