• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    IMO there’s a good chance that Trump’s second term will mark the end of the United States as a super power.

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      A has-been empire with a massive military and an aggressive desire to get back to the days when everyone respected them.

      They’ll probably decide, fear is as good as respect…

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      If only there were signs that a spoiled, deranged imbecile, pedofile who bankrupted so many companies that he ended up as a game show host wouldn’t be a great leader

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        Enforced by a foreign occupation after half of the tyrant’s supporters got killed, but the occupation doesn’t bother killing or at least keeping the rest of them from running the state and corporations like nothing happened?

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          There can’t be a foreign occupation. Our nuclear warheads guarantee that the only way the USA falls is from civil unrest. No one is going to rush a nation capable of Mutually-Assured Destruction.

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      The dismantling of NATO, all of the “soft power” has gone down the drain, the US being subservient to Russia. It has basically already happened. We are just waiting for everyone to acknowledge it, because every leader in the Western world are desperately clinging to a world view which no longer exists.