| ▲ | GJim 2 days ago | |
> how many people in the country still think he's doing a great job. 'In the country' being 'in the USA'. Everybody else outside the boarders of the USA is thinking "how the mighty have fallen". | ||
| ▲ | jghn 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yes. And for the context of this conversation, the people in the USA are what matters. It's not like this regime is going to give up just because other countries dislike them. Their core fan base think it's going gangbusters. | ||
| ▲ | dartharva 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Yes, that's what "in the country" means.. It is also exactly these same people of the USA whose thinking is going to matter for determining what happens next, not anyone else. It is immaterial what "everyone else outside the borders of the USA" thinks in the context of the country. | ||
| ▲ | IAmBroom 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The USA is so overwhelmingly powerful, the phrase is apt: "When it sneezes, the world gets a cold." The nation that owns the majority of nukes is run by an actual idiot with dementia, and his corrupt picks. The nation with the majority of aircraft carriers and submarines... The nation with the largest GDP... The nation that makes the tech most of the world runs on... It is terrifying, the international implications that a collapse of my country would cause, but even that pales to the malicious damage it can cause. | ||