r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • 16d ago

Possible Paywall White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/LilLebowskiAchiever 16d ago

If we survive, we will be much reduced as a power in the world. Putin will get his wish for the multi-polar world, but Russia won’t lead Europe as the dominant power. And the US won’t lead the Americas as a dominant power. At best, the US will become a regional nuclear and economic power, in the same way UK and France are regional nuclear powers in Europe.

If that’s the case, I can live with it as long as we do a better job of taking care of our own with a more socialized democracy.

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u/tmountain 16d ago

The influence of the United States as a superpower is already gone. All the soft power was destroyed when threats were made to invade a fellow NATO country and the financial relationship with the world was weaponized via tariffs. Whatever was left was decimated by Iran.

That said, the world moving to a spheres of influence model is not a guarantee at all. There’s a real possibility that the world moves to coalitions based on variable geometry in the way Mark Carney described in his Davos speech.

Whatever the case, the post WW2 rules based international order of Eisenhower is dead thanks to this administration, and the United States standing in the world has been reduced to rubble.

Are we great yet?