Steve HermanThe Trump administration's move to dismantle key elements of U.S. soft power "represent a systematic contraction of the United States’ capacity to make a credible and compelling case for its policies and behaviors in the global information space." https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/strategic-impatience-and-undoing-american-soft-power
MacCruiskeen@newsguyusa "The global information space"? What the fuck does that mean?
Finitum@maccruiskeen @newsguyusa anybody buying what we're selling either literally or metaphorically? If we say listen to us, use our hardware/software/banks/trade rules, the reply "why should we" gets easier every day.
There's only so many group chats wonderboy Jared can maintain simultaneously. The competent people at State left in his first admin. Dwindling influence across competencies and for nothing gained. At a cost of a rounding error in the budget relative to whats spent on pentagon.