| ▲ | yetihehe 5 hours ago |
| USA is still very high, so they can go much much lower, but I think they might go to some still lower places, finding them where we didn't even know such places could exist. Some ideas: - Leave NATO - Start openly supporting Russia and North Korea - Arrest whole International Criminal Court - Preventively invade China |
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| ▲ | baby 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm convinced slavery will be reintroduced before 2028 |
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| ▲ | rurban 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reintroduce witch burning. Reintroduce death penalties on public squares. Taking Greenland and Venezuela is given, as they took most of Latin America already. Just the new Mexican president looks like the next thorn in their eyes. Too competent, too social, too anti-corruption. |
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| ▲ | potato3732842 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Support for NATO within the US is Isreal-lite for different demographics. Pouring resources into it isn't without downsides. |
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| ▲ | ThePowerOfFuet 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >Start openly supporting Russia Already done. |
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| ▲ | ycombigrator 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Trump is a born banana Republic dictator... |
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| ▲ | RonanSoleste 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They effectively already left NATO and openly support Russia already.
ICC members are already under fire and some had their microsoft account banned by Trump.
Trump will invade Greenland and Canada first. China is less of an priority. |
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| ▲ | rcbdev 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > They effectively already left NATO What the fuck are you talking about? Someone should tell Russia. | | |
| ▲ | vanviegen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | NATO works by projecting a united force. Nations unconditionally backing each other up. The USA is now clearly no longer a part of that. That's not to say that the USA will do nothing if a NATO member is attacked. It might. Or not. | | |
| ▲ | jonnybgood 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For much of NATO history, the US is NATO. The US doesn’t want it to be like that anymore because it needs to strategically shift to the other side of the world. So, the US says “What if Europe can be NATO? If we can force them to meet the GDP commitment then maybe we don’t need to worry about them too much and commit less of our own resources to this theater.” But of course people interpret this as if the US is abandoning the alliance. No, the US just has other problems to deal with in the world. | | |
| ▲ | exceptione an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That is the rationalization, but don't be surprised if the US would not confront China at all. The main flow of capital in the US had been going to the mil.industry, but that is not the case anymore. It is mainly surveillance tech that is receiving capital. In a very unhealthy economy, this all looks eerily pre-'30s. The US right now is only threatening weak countries, they don't have the industrial power to confront China, nor do they want it. This shouldn't be a surprise, some ideologues behind this maga-project belief in an America from one pole to the other. They believe in "spheres of influence", and as such China has their own sphere of influence. A sphere of influence means a kind of colony, where natural resources, people and industry are all resources to be extracted by them. It is the Russian model, it is the model of criminal mobs, it is might makes right, it is a multi-polar world. Meanwhile, re-industrialization projects have been scrapped, partners have been scared of, and tariffs have hit the industry that was still left in America. Monopolists are parasites on the economy, and the US is already very weakened from that. As the Japanese said, the US is still a great power, but the throne is empty. I suspect there will be skirmishes with other "great powers" over exploitative resources, like Africa, Middle East, Europe, but I don't expect the current crop to go all-in on China. | |
| ▲ | vanviegen 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes, the US has always been the driving force behind NATO. It provides close to 40% of the combined military personnel, and an even higher portion of military spending. No longer committing to defend other NATO countries, even if their military spending exceeds the target, is abandoning the alliance though. NATO is little else than that commitment. | |
| ▲ | ChocolateGod an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The US has been the biggest opponent to a European (or EU) army, fearing loss of influence and control. It was very much in US interest at the time. | |
| ▲ | benterix 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well, the very fact that we are even discussing it means Trump already weakened NATO as an alliance. |
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| ▲ | SirHumphrey 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | One can only imagine what America not fighting an attack on NATO member would have on nuclear proliferation. | | |
| ▲ | RobotToaster 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | We're currently in the position of the USA threatening to attack a NATO member (Denmark) | |
| ▲ | everyone 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Any country without nukes, that is not currently developing them, is stupid imo.. Nukes are the only thing that can guarantee sovereignty now.
Ukraine gave up their nukes. | |
| ▲ | thuridas 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Europe is already considering to have a nuclear shield. This is because if Trump |
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| ▲ | wisty 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's a left wing cooker conspiracy theory that the guy who gave Ukraine the Javalin anti tank missiles and forced NATO to increase military spending to 5% of GDP is actually a secret Russian agent. |
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