as carney said at davos: the international rules based order has always been a farce and; up until trump; our epstein overlords have understood the importance of maintaining the appearance of international cooperation to justify genocides and ethnic cleansing for profit seeking control all over the world.

trump is the first american leader to openly believe that hard power is the only thing that matters and that soft power is burden at best to the us empire's prowess; that's why he respects russia for its perceived military capabilities and shutdown usaid & withdrew memberships from several international governing bodies.

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That is false. The US followed a clearly different strategy before. Yes, it has slowly shifted indpendently from Trump but the outright hostility towards Europe does not serve any US interests. It is entirely self harming for the US. Not investing into European strategic assets is one thing, openly attacking Europe and threatening with annexation of territory of allied nations, making it clear by actions (not merely talking) that one considers Russia more of an ally than the EU, is an entirely different thing.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That sure is a lot of assertions you made without evidence

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What assertion? Hard to respond to something entireky unspecific. Most of what I wrote were no assertions but simple facts. The US literally threatened to annex territory of a NATO ally for example.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

You see that 's' at the end of 'assertions'? That means it's plural.

Much of what I wrote were no assertions but simple facts.

My god. This is next level stupid.