“Afghanistan is Your Fault” was a dry run for this moment. Four years ago the Atlantic said that Americans had voluntarily abdicated responsibility in Afghanistan because they were tired of dealing with it, the consensus in the voting public shifted sharply against it and politicians acted in response to that consensus, and now that horrible shit is gonna start happening as a result, when it does we should always remember: it’s what we wanted, it’s what we asked for.
If only they knew what was coming.
Agreeable_Umpire5728 on
Does anyone else get the sense that the only countries left that can save the rules-based order are Canada, France, Germany, and Japan?
The UK is surrendering its spot in the power vacuum, China and India are too self-interested, Korea too unstable, Italy co-opted by Trump supporters.
It’s definitely a scary time, 4 economies with massive long-term structural issues the only thing saving us from going back to pre-WWII era.
flatulentbaboon on
As a non-American, it pleases me to see this happen.
Although the way he’s going about doing this is doing real harm, including to my own country (Canada), I take comfort in knowing that this is the last time the US will have this much power over us and the rest of the world. The US will always have a massive advantage over us due to proximity, but it has become politically acceptable to tell the US to fuck off (diplomatically).
I hope the EU is eventually able to find retrieve its testicles from the snow globe on the Resolute Desk, grow a fucking backbone, and live up to its potential. The US (and China, because I know some dumbfuck is going to whine *”Would you rather China be the leader of the world?”* as they always predictably do when someone criticizes the US) cannot and should not be trusted ever again.
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“Afghanistan is Your Fault” was a dry run for this moment. Four years ago the Atlantic said that Americans had voluntarily abdicated responsibility in Afghanistan because they were tired of dealing with it, the consensus in the voting public shifted sharply against it and politicians acted in response to that consensus, and now that horrible shit is gonna start happening as a result, when it does we should always remember: it’s what we wanted, it’s what we asked for.
If only they knew what was coming.
Does anyone else get the sense that the only countries left that can save the rules-based order are Canada, France, Germany, and Japan?
The UK is surrendering its spot in the power vacuum, China and India are too self-interested, Korea too unstable, Italy co-opted by Trump supporters.
It’s definitely a scary time, 4 economies with massive long-term structural issues the only thing saving us from going back to pre-WWII era.
As a non-American, it pleases me to see this happen.
Although the way he’s going about doing this is doing real harm, including to my own country (Canada), I take comfort in knowing that this is the last time the US will have this much power over us and the rest of the world. The US will always have a massive advantage over us due to proximity, but it has become politically acceptable to tell the US to fuck off (diplomatically).
I hope the EU is eventually able to find retrieve its testicles from the snow globe on the Resolute Desk, grow a fucking backbone, and live up to its potential. The US (and China, because I know some dumbfuck is going to whine *”Would you rather China be the leader of the world?”* as they always predictably do when someone criticizes the US) cannot and should not be trusted ever again.