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A month into the second Trump administration, I think it is fair to conclude that the American empire in its current form is collapsing. The post-1945 global order, with the United States at its apex, is no more. America itself is not going anywhere—at least not yet—but the foundation of the empire, namely its structure of alliances and partnerships, has been dealt irreparable damage. Western Europe, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and especially Canada now view America with suspicion if not outright hostility, and they are right to do so.
https://prospect.org/world/2025-02-19-musk-trump-causing-dumbest-imperial-collapse-in-history/
@AliceMarshall Absolutely scathing. 
”America suffered no military defeat. We were not outstripped economically by a bigger or better-organized competitor. Rather, we elected an insane tyrant who is blowing up the foundation of our international power for no reason, all while he lets a South African immigrant ultra-billionaire and his crew of teenybopper fascists tear the wiring out of the federal government—again, for no reason.
Never underestimate the destructive power of stupidity.”
Feral rats abound
@jalager @AliceMarshall absolutely spot on. We destroyed ourselves.
@jalager @AliceMarshall There is a reason. They work for Russia, as does what remains of the Republican party. There is no other possible conclusion.
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I understand the sentiment but using ableists words like stupidity and insane for authoritarian racists and fascists depoliticises and covers up these people's willful maliciousness and destruction. Eugenic vocabulary isn't a weapon against fascists and never will be.
@jalager @AliceMarshall Well, they are also doing what Poo-Tin requires of them. They are beholden. The USA has an enormous Insider Threat: Tangerine Turd and his administration henchmen.
There IS a systemic reason for this "stupidity", even if centrists refuse to understand it.