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[–] DarkWinterNights@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The article is a Trump hallucination.

He’s not wrong that leaders flatter him; but it’s not respect, it’s geopolitical strategy. They’re managing chaos, hedging with China and others, and responding to a weaker US position largely created by Trump himself. This isn’t strength; it’s a soft power collapse that’s opening dangerous doors, mainly for Americans most of all, but likely for everyone else too.

What Trump sees as deference is actually diplomatic triage. World leaders aren’t engaging him because they admire him; leaders are trying to keep the global order from unraveling faster than it already is. The cost of alienating the U.S. is high, but increasingly, so is relying on it. That shift is the real story, and it’s one that leaves America more isolated with each bluster.

[–] Gudl@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No no just a massive stroke so he's incapacitated but able to move his little hands and to barely speak. Let it be constitutional crisis when he refuses to step down cause of his ego and the Repugs are too scared to remove him.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Brain damage,just moves hands and can barely speak coherently.... Wait, did he acrually have a stroke?

[–] Souroak@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

No, he specifically told us that he did not have a series of mini strokes.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like where this is going. Trump being dependent on other people for the rest of his life, who secretly hate him.

[–] runeko@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Like his entire life up to and including now?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And this is why Ireland, France and others weakening the EU response to US tariffs for alcoholic beverages is dangerous. This is only encouraging him and he will use any sign of weakness to bolster himself.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Give Trump an inch and he'll think he's a ruler

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Hopefully the optics of them kissing Trump's ass will piss the populous off enough that they put pressure on their leaders to not take his shit.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Heard it on my morning news program here in Canada. “I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir,” he chuckled. Sounded like he was making fun of an abuse victim. Like that time he mocked the disabled. Filthy predator.

That any media outlet is featuring his latest truth claim in an uncontested headline is wild. Look at the amount of commentary already produced that assumes his version of events is what's actually happening.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 1 points 2 months ago

We've already seen that the media don't have anyone's best interests at heart but the elite. We have to stop expecting them to change.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure that's what his handlers tell him while they're changing his diaper.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As disgusting as it is, that seems to be exactly what most of the world seems to be doing, trying to get into trump's good grace and not get fucked by the tariffs.

Well except for China, who seems to have slapped back just as hard.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People have been thinking Trump will let China invade Taiwan. Like, no. Trump is vehemently anti-China from the beginning in any shape or form. So, in that respect, China knows there is no pleasing the orangecrat and therefore doubling down on tariffs will not lose them with anything more. Besides, the tariffs is actually making China and EU come closer together-- as strange as it sounds.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

As China boosts its internal consumption and increases standards of living, along with a growing highly educated population, I can see their values very much aligning with the EU. That sounds like a very decent world order...

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope other countries realize that entering into trade agreements with the United States is a meaningless endeavor given that we don’t believe we have any responsibility to abide by agreements that we make anymore. We are an entirely unreliable partner.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At best, world leaders may be trying to salvage their current investments in the US and trade sources in the short term. But they are also immediately starting the process to divest from the US, maybe permanently. He may get a short term gain from a handful of countries, but is tanking us long term as everyone distances themselves from us.

Trade, investments, debts, these things bind countries together and promote better economies the world-wide. The point of Tariffs are to reduce or eliminate these connections to other countries in the effected markets, to isolate and insulate your domestic market from the international market at large. When you put a blanket tariff on all markets on all countries, especially when openly trying to use those as extortion tactics against other countries, you are guaranteeing this isolation. We are well on the way from being isolated from the world, like North Korea, all because of one man without any sense, decency, or limitations. We are fucked.

[–] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's 78, do you really think he cares? He wants to be in history books, must have hurt a lot that nobody gave him any attention during Biden's term

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's going to end up in the History books with roughly the same level of infamy as Nero.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Instead of a fiddle it'll be a Big Mac

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's what a trillion dollar in "defense" grants you, everyone kissing your ass.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

hmmm I am increasingly believing how ineffective the USA would be against a real enemy... the USA loves to chicken hawk on third world countries on the other side of the planet... but now trumpf is poking China hard... WWIII is heating up

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

hmmm I am increasingly believing how ineffective the USA would be against a real enemy… the USA loves to chicken hawk on third world countries on the other side of the planet…

How do you think they chicken hawk people on the other side of the planet? Are you aware of the scale of USA army and what they do?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

meaning i'm not sure how well things would go against an anemy that is not fighting with smuggled 25 year old equipment and unable to strike usa territory

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jhex@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

I have no idea what point you are trying to make here