Not by any means… but that is what the media would have you believe.
More countries are closer to the US than ever before, which is why China is nervous. BRICS is failing. NATO countries are being ordered to get their act together. Trade is being leveraged to the advantage of the US for once.
The US is reasserting its place and role as the dominant and benevolent power in the world and is reordering it such that it will no longer function as the world’s sole peacekeeper, bank, etc. The American people (myself included) are done working half the year to earn money to pay taxes to make the world function and get none of the benefits, while the rest of the world puts their taxes towards benefits for their own society (social safety nets, paying for unlimited migration, etc).
When the status quo has been the US being taken advantage of by the whole world, you can expect there’s doing to be discomfort and pushback by most institutions (including the media) and countries when the US changes the status quo such that every country needs to contribute. That our president has reordered as much as he has in slightly more than a year is astounding.
No. Most countries are not. However, they have managed to get into tense situations with Russia, China, most of the Middle East, parts of Africa and Latin America.
Most of Europe and Canada are in a difficult situation with the USA right now.
How complex of an answer do you want? I typically flag posts like this for lacking curiosity and substance, as much as I abhor war.
In a broader context, the Cold War was already America's Mexican standoff with "the world" and they won by default. You live in a hegemony where America gets the first and final say in trade, warfare, nuclear deterrence, missile defense and surveillance. You don't have to get jingoist about it, but maintaining that hegemony is the goal and it will eventually end with a standoff against China, probably focused on the First island chain.
With that info, you should be able to generally extrapolate from [YOU ARE HERE] and "Invasion of Taipei" if you've got a loose understanding of geopolitics. If not, start here:
I think Trump like most politicians is the shiny object to distract us, while most decisions are made in boardrooms and conferences. Most of the US presidents this century have been clown figures apart from Obama and he was a war monger, so did what the military industrial complex wanted.
Not by any means… but that is what the media would have you believe.
More countries are closer to the US than ever before, which is why China is nervous. BRICS is failing. NATO countries are being ordered to get their act together. Trade is being leveraged to the advantage of the US for once.
The US is reasserting its place and role as the dominant and benevolent power in the world and is reordering it such that it will no longer function as the world’s sole peacekeeper, bank, etc. The American people (myself included) are done working half the year to earn money to pay taxes to make the world function and get none of the benefits, while the rest of the world puts their taxes towards benefits for their own society (social safety nets, paying for unlimited migration, etc).
When the status quo has been the US being taken advantage of by the whole world, you can expect there’s doing to be discomfort and pushback by most institutions (including the media) and countries when the US changes the status quo such that every country needs to contribute. That our president has reordered as much as he has in slightly more than a year is astounding.
when Ronald Reagan was president, 87% of Swedes said that USA is greatest threat to world peace.
No. Most countries are not. However, they have managed to get into tense situations with Russia, China, most of the Middle East, parts of Africa and Latin America.
Most of Europe and Canada are in a difficult situation with the USA right now.
How complex of an answer do you want? I typically flag posts like this for lacking curiosity and substance, as much as I abhor war.
In a broader context, the Cold War was already America's Mexican standoff with "the world" and they won by default. You live in a hegemony where America gets the first and final say in trade, warfare, nuclear deterrence, missile defense and surveillance. You don't have to get jingoist about it, but maintaining that hegemony is the goal and it will eventually end with a standoff against China, probably focused on the First island chain.
With that info, you should be able to generally extrapolate from [YOU ARE HERE] and "Invasion of Taipei" if you've got a loose understanding of geopolitics. If not, start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence
I think Trump is a madman
What does he do that convinces you he is “a madman”? What would the ideal leader—from your perspective—be doing instead?
Senile rather than mad.
I think Trump like most politicians is the shiny object to distract us, while most decisions are made in boardrooms and conferences. Most of the US presidents this century have been clown figures apart from Obama and he was a war monger, so did what the military industrial complex wanted.