Trump’s unhinged proposal to take Gaza, “relocate” more than a million starving people to an unspecified locale, and turn their bombed homes into a resort for the wealthy didn’t go over well. Following his threats to Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, and Greenland, the civilized world is ag...
The amount of soft power in the world the US has lost since the beginning of Trump’s first term is immeasurable.
China is celebrating Trump’s victory. Russia is seeing a return on their investments in Trump and Musk
Russian coverage is pretty fun as state-allowed news try to both ingrain the hatred of the West and celebrate this pack of leeches going full MAGA, sometimes in neighboring news pieces. And no, they don’t explicitly say they destroy the US and that’s the reason they cheer, they are just fanboying for them and their populism. Reading a couple of threads on local social media didn’t make me piece together how this even works.
Good. America is the aggressor internationally. Losing soft power is a net benefit for mankind.
If they lose soft power, what do they have to fall back on?
The limiting factor of American military action is neither will nor the number of adversaries. It is logistics. America will not suddenly be more prone to using violence when its soft power runs dry, because the core logistical challenge has not changed. In fact, the opposite will occur, having fewer methods to keep its allies from withdrawing support.
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