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Originally Posted by direwolf
Treating Putin and Russia like a friend while treating their closest allies like enemies. F*** this a**hole forever. What the U.S. has become under this administration is beyond shameful.
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Trump and Musk are basically just destroying the United States as an empire, because they don't understand how anything works.
They for example clearly think that things like USAID, military aid, trade deals etc. are just the US being nice to with everyone, while everyone who actually understands the system knows that blowing up USAID and the trade deals basically just blows up a ton of leverage the US used to have over other countries. Along with it went every ounce of trust anyone used to have in the the US as a negotiating partner, which means a crapload of potential deals have now been permanently removed from the table for the US, not just for this administration but probably for decades to come.
No one will look to the US for longterm help anymore, and every country that has an option will look for additional/alternate alliances and trade partners elsewhere, even countries that Trump hasn't harassed in way yet. Everyone will want to be less reliant on the US, and that will again hurt the global influence US has on a generational time scale.