florgeWhy isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?
bitofaramblerThere are 200 countries and the US is one relatively small, isolated pocket making terrible decisions and hurting themselves. Many countries hurt themselves and the US is just one of them.
US problems benefit their rivals immensely and is influencing their allies to become more independent and form new local alliances, there’s no benefit to anyone to long jump into one isolated hornet’s nest.
Sanctions are specifically difficult against the US because 1) they’re largely hurting themselves, most countries don’t agree the US is doing the wrong thing about Palestine/ foreign/other policy to warrant sanctions and 2) the US has so much, albeit dwindling, legacy political and financial/banking influence that sanctions won’t make much of an impact.
If your dog starts defecating on the floor and rolling around in it, you clean up your dog.
If your neighbor starts defecating on their floor and rolling around in it, well…
dog if you think the US is “relatively small”
look at what Nazi Germany, an even “smaller” country did – it started a world war and nearly took over an entire continent.
the fascist US, with a much larger influence, is an existential threat to the world.
The US looks bigger and more influential from the inside. Its tantrums look tiny and rambunctious from out here.
i think the most dangerous mistake one can make is to underestimate the power of a military budget that’s almost half that of the world’s military budget.
such mistakes can be made only once before the country gets couped or taken hostage by the US.
in these times i think it’s important to band together and set aside our differences!
I don’t think you understand where US military power was coming from. It was not just the money, it was the ability to project that power easily (having bases in Europe, etc for example).
That was the ‘soft power’ everyone was talking about. Orange mongoloid had now destroyed that and I don’t think it’s coming abxk any time soon.
Everyone is basically letting idiots destroy themselves and watching their moves. There is nothing anyone else can do right now.
Except Chinese and Russians. They are rolling on the floor laughing…
CileTheSaneWhat do you expect other countries to do? A preemptive strike?
BaroqueInMindSounding extremely privileged.
Without doxxing yourself, what country are you from to say something like that and be assured you are safe from U.S. influence and shenanigans?
I’m being serious. I want to move away and be safe with you over there.
There are no failsafe safety assurances anywhere, but some places are safer and more comfortable than others.
I’m originally from the US and have mostly been living abroad for over a decade since I left over many of the issues US Americans still deal with today
Perspective on the US is much more clear from the outside.
If you’d like to live abroad, I can definitely help you do that with information and advice, I’ve helped several other Americans move abroad.
tldr is get a passport, secure $500 USD in monthly income (English teaching is currently in high demand), buy a plane ticket.
Someone from the US I’ve been offering advice to this year literally left the US today based on that tldr.
I’m very happy to go into details and supply more context for anybody interested in living abroad.
Key words: so far.
The last time the US enacted global tariffs, it caused the Great Depression.
The US is an existential threat to Canada and countries in the Americas that MAGA has bones to pick with. Maybe also Iran. The vast majority of the world is mostly safe, because America has no interest and/or capability to start shit there. For your Germany example, Hitler made it clear exactly what he wanted to do in Mein Kampf.
To us Europeans, the US also feels like a threat because it means an ally less against Russia.
You’re extremely naïve if you think the rest of the world is safe.
So the US is a threat because... it might not help Europe? That's not really how the word "threat" works, setting aside how Russia isn't even a military threat to non-Ukraine Europe in the first place assuming the EU's mutual defense mechanism holds.
In war, if it’s not an ally it’s an enemy.
If the us is not an ally it’s an enemy.
That’s a threat.
That’s the fucking reality of real war. So if shit hits the fan yes. The US is a threat to the EU.
In war, if it's not an ally it's an enemy.
Uh... no?