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Don't forget about the European countries. The disdain in Spain for the US is palpable for example.
Yes, and that's why US tourists should stick to visiting coastal regions when visiting, as the disdain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
Nah, it's actually the anti-tourist squirt guns in the plain - the 19th century Brits just couldn't understand such a superior technology when they coined the rhyme.
Your closest allies are aghast and trying to work out how to divorce themselves from what they thought was a great relationship.
It's hardly surprising that those who were at best ambivalent are now actively hostile.
What exactly did you expect.
Enjoy your new best buddy Russia.
If it were just divorce, that would not be as bad. Former allies are increasingly concerned they are going to be the next target of Trump's greed. Canada and Europe, automatic American allies forever, have to make contingency plans for a US invasion. That's absolutely nuts.
Divorce proceedings happens to be a time in which domestic abuse tends to spike. So it’s actually a pretty apt description.
It’s like being in a relationship with an abusive spouse. You act like everything in okay on the surface, if not a little detached, and then once all of your planning is in place, you execute it before they have a chance to react.
Since vietnam. Europe should have started decoupling from the US empire but they was benefiting from american imperialism
Good, kill the USA hegemony. Let this serve as an example for future people on what not to do.
Apart from all the obvious US policy failures, there are also the less obvious ones.
The current admin has no understanding of soft power. The US spent decades building trust in the Voice of America. Sure, it was US propaganda in some ways, but it was often much more truthful about the facts than the local government news. The people who worked at VoA cared about being reporters and wanted to tell the truth. They had bureaus around the world broadcasting in local languages, and it cost almost nothing. It was old fashioned radio, a technology that's a century old. Something that might have been useful in Iran where the Internet has been cut off for months now. So, Iran can now get their narrative out to all the other countries nearby, and the US has no way of correcting / countering the Iranian propaganda.
The US also used to know the value of diplomats. The Trump admin doesn't think expertise matters. So, the Iran deals are being conducted by the President's son in law, and a buddy of Trump's who's also a real estate developer. Unsurprisingly, they're not succeeding. Ambassadors have always been a cushy job, often given to big donors or friends. But, Trump has made it so entire embassies are effectively useless.
The kinds of damage being done in just a couple of years will last for decades. I don't know if the US will ever recover from this. Many of the problems probably won't even show up for more than 5 years. Instead of a US military base in a foreign country having a lease that's easy to renew, the next time it comes up there will be pushback or refusals.
The US dominated world sucked in a lot of ways, but at least it was stable. My guess is that the next few decades will be a lot less stable. Maybe the end result will be better. I'd love it if Europe stepped into the vacuum left by the US. They're doing a lot of good things when it comes to environmental laws, privacy, anti-monopoly, etc. If it's China that steps forward, I'm less confident it will be an improvement on the US. Other than those two, I don't really see any other country or bloc of countries that could try to do the necessary work.
China would at least be better than the US for environmental and anti-monopoly laws, and at this point, I think it’s fair to call it a parallel move on privacy. That’s rough to realize.
I don't think that's true. Yes, the Trump admin is horribly corrupt, but a collection of states just won in court, finding that Ticketmaster was an illegal monopoly. There's a chance that after Trump goes away / dies that whoever replaces him will take monopoly enforcement seriously. It's a popular bipartisan issue.
Meanwhile, in China, what President Xi wants, he gets. At the moment he doesn't seem to be doing the Trump speed run of corruption and personal enrichment. But, rule of law in China is limited because ultimately it's whatever Xi decides.
Privacy is basically non-existent in China. Sure, the US tries to spy on its citizens, but often the FBI is reduced to buying data on Americans from private companies because they can't spy on people directly. There's a lot of self-censorship in the US, and oligarchs are buying up media to restrict what views are published. But, that pales in comparison to the Great Firewall of China, and the massive internal censorship network.
And, keep in mind, that's what China does to Chinese citizens. When they show up in Africa they definitely don't treat Africans the same way Chinese people are treated. They are happy to help Chinese companies do corrupt deals that would never be permitted in China, but when it's Africans that suffer they really don't care. The US was hardly an angel around the world, but at least it made tiny steps towards trying to curb things a bit, like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Trump may be speed-running overt corruption and self dealing, but there are still remnants of the old system of laws and rules that occasionally stop some of the things he's doing. Xi is not as obviously overtly corrupt, but the Chinese system has never been in any way democratic. It has always been one where the people at the top get to dictate how the people at the bottom live their lives. Personally, I'd prefer a fighting chance against a corrupt mob boss style dictator who hasn't yet fully corrupted the entire system, vs. being ground under the boot heel of a "president for life" who maybe was making decisions that he thought was best for his country, but who isn't even willing to allow protests or mockery, let alone the free communication of ideas.
Okay, I'm trying to be as nice as I can about this, but most of the world legitimately doesn't give a shit about anything you just said. Why would someone from Africa or South Asia or South America care what America or China allow to happen in their own borders? Do you seriously think the "freedoms" afforded to Americans but American law mean anything to an Iraqi whose life was and remains defined by the fallout from American imperialism? That's not how modern empires work; neither China nor America are going to treat a third party anything like they treat their own citizens, and in a comparison of how they treat others' citizens China has nothing that can top this. Your appeals to tiny steps and corruption aren't just meaningless; they're outright insulting to the hundreds of millions of lives that were ruined by America around the world.
Concerning the 'will the US recover?' question, my two cents:
I don't think the US will be able to recover the lost influence since the prerequisties for it reaching that level if power and influence have changed / are gone. The US dominated 'the West' in its fight againgst an authoritarian communist regime and build its global hegemony on the victory in this conflict. Even if the US could regain some trust the current system rival China is way smarter and more convincing in its promises to the regular citizen than the SU was during most of its time... eventhough both systems labeled themselves 'communis'.
That being said I don't think the modern US could realistically neither win an arms race based on state finances against China nor make a better promise for the insividuals future. The US hegemony crumbels and imho impossibly will return... if a chinese dominance is better, especially for western citizens, also remains questionable.
The US pivoted seamlessly from an imperial power that was using communism as a reason to overthrow democratically elected leaders, etc. to a cultural behemoth that used its economic power to bend laws in foreign countries so that they privileged US cultural exports and tech companies. It maintained a large military, but if you compare the 50s to the 80s in terms of how much and how that military was used to recent decades, there's a huge difference.
The Korean war and Vietnam were huge conflicts. They were drafting military-age men to fight in those "wars". By comparison, the first Iraq war was smaller, and waged with a very wide alliance of countries. The second one was bigger, but still significantly smaller than Vietnam or Korea.
I think the US as a cultural and economic world power could have lasted a very long time. Some countries grumbled about Google and Facebook making it hard for local news organizations. They didn't do much to stop these companies, only some small fines on occasion. The newest wave of companies, the AI wave, seemed to be happening the same way, with all the major companies being American.
I think most people from rich countries would still prefer the US to be dominant than China. The US at least talks a good game when it comes to freedom of speech, etc. China doesn't even try to pretend to care about that. But, the US is chaotic and belligerent, whereas China is mostly using soft power these days.
I think most people from rich countries would still prefer the US to be dominant than China
I don't think so anymore - even in Europe, you're seeing large splits. Germany might be content to follow the Americans to hell, but Ireland, Spain, and others are open about seeing the US as a much more dangerous and untrustworthy entity.
and build its global hegemony on the victory in this conflict
It also built its hubris which is now destroying it.
Not only did the US immediately set aside pretenses of international law once the USSR fell, but even the illusion of shared prosperity for US workers, who started seeing their wages stagnate and decline in the 1990s went along with it.
On top of all the Trump Christofascist nonsense (which has long lasting generational repercussions) The US debt increases by a trillion dollars a month. You don’t recover from that as a viable country.
The US dominated world sucked in a lot of ways,
Agreed
but at least it was stable.
Highly debatable.
I think we're going to appreciate how stable it was soon.
You are assuming it was stable for everyone. It used to be unstable for specific groups, now its unstable for everyone. Fair is fair I guess.
I really wish more Americans understood soft power and how much we used to have. Hell, I was on vacation to Montreal a few years back and I ran into a dude from France there. You know what we did? Quoted American TV to each other, in English. He knew lines from futurama and archer in English.
Hell at work I run into a lot of Germans and French folk and dispite not using imperial they knew how far a mile was in kilometers (1.6 for the curious)
In other news: water is wet
ETA: fuck ICE, & free Palestine
Also fuck israel
The Republican party's destruction of the US is almost complete and other countries are loath to follow.
I am sure in 30 years there will be plenty of Americans worship Trump just like they are doing now to Reagan.
Even though both of them fucked literally everything up.
The only good thing the Republicans have done. Hopefully this will reduce the US ability to enact crimes against humanity in the future if it loses allies and the “moral” standing people pretend it had.
[....] an America under siege in multiple media spheres by pro-Iranian actors that are exceptionally agile in the digital space.
What the fuck are they talking about?
This is hardly about who is better at propaganda, it's about who's doing what.
Please dont use or link politico. It is part of Springer Publishing, which is attempting to become the European equivalent of Fox News
Fox News isn't putting out a lot of stories that shed negative light on Trump.
Believe me, nothing good comes from this publishing house. In Germany, they are neoliberal and right-wing. They are largely responsible for right-wing ideas gaining acceptance even within middle-class circles. They are against climate protection policies, in favour of fossil fuels, against feminism, against migrants, nationalistic and racist, against social policies, in favour of militarisation, and against anti-fascism. They will always side with employers, persuade people to vote against their own interests, and defend the interests of capital. At the moment, they’re in a growth phase with Politico, and you don’t win over right-wing Europeans with pro-Trump rhetoric. After all, he threatens national European interests.
JD Pon Don once again confirming he plays an active role in the demise of the US empire. Classic
Don't worry, Trump's son-in-law is in the negotiations! He brought peace to the Middle East, he'll save us!
I am having a stroke please send short bus
The Bondulance?
Substitute Iran war with Donald Trump and now you have reality.
Trump is the modern world's version of "You will destroy a great empire."
The whole world has been bending to the will of the pedophiles regime, allowing the US to kill and loot... just since the start of 2026, USA is starving Cuba, stealing the wealth of Venezuela and trying to turn Iran into another Iraq or Syria.
Europe isn't stupid, Latin America and the middle east aren't stupid either, but everyone is playing ball, a mechanism of survival. Question is, if Iran continues to humiliate the Epstein regime, how quickly is the world going to start saying no to US and stop abiding by its sanctions and bullying.
Point is, Bahrain, Azerbaijan and Indonesia are just the start.
Have the day you voted for wanks.