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Ok, so have you told Lemmy this? Because Lemmy seems to think we are the only bad guy. Did you let Lemmy know your theory?
And wow, if we forced dependency on everyone, the how is it we are falling apart? Lemmy says it's over the for US. But you make it sound like we are plenty powerful.
Sounds like the good country pool is getting smaller and smaller. Hmmm, what do you think about that?
americans began forcing the dependency on latin america during the 19th century and then started doing it to the rest of the world around world war 2; it accidentally started declining thanks to nixon and reagan unwittingly kicked it into overdrive. the power is still there but it's spread thin thanks to ukraine, taiwan, isreal, venezuela, colombia, cuba & mexico all happening at the same time; the world starting to distrust the united states because of its support for isreal despite the gazan genocide live-streaming on social media; and trump alienating the other colonial powers that have been trusted american allies until now.
your child-like characterization of countries as "good guys" or "bad guys" is one of the big reasons why westerners (especially americans) don't know why trump is in power, or why the other countries like the united states is embracing fascism, or why the united states power has been spread so thin and no one (not even lemmy) will learn it until people like you drop this child-like characterization and start reading books that aren't written by westerners.
Then by your logic, other countries without these "child-like" issues, shouldn't have a problem being self-sufficient and not depend on us. Because what does it say about these awesome non-western countries that are still so dependent on a child like us? :)
your logic is child like; the united states power is not.
Ok. So the United States is still a powerful country then. Right?
it's a powerful country that started to lose power sometime in the 1970's. the vietnam defeat was the first sign that it had lost some of its power and afghanistan has confirmed that it is still happening.
So you are saying we started losing our power 50 fucking years ago?! Um, seems we are still pretty powerful. I get it, you hate the US. I don't care. We are still the most powerful nation in the world and people are too afraid to try to make a go of things without us.
it usually takes generations for an empire to decline and you've got it all wrong again; when you love something, you can see its flaws and recognize how to fix them.
Oh oh oh, ok. So generations. Because Lemmy is trying to tell me that it's all over for the US right now. You mean, that's not true. The US isn't over right now? Hmmm, wow. Imagine that.
Guess since we are so bad then, the other countries who think we are so terrible should work on not having to count on us. :)