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Well democratic (Western ones) countries don't often show how upset they are with other western countries unless it impacts them. They may not condone actions but I'm pretty sure none of them ever liked dealing with Trump.

There's that one picture of Trump in his first term sitting down while (I think) Merkle(sp?) was trying to explain something, there were other people in the shot and all (or mostly standing facing Trump) while he looked like a kid getting a lesson. They were okay for internal issues, well maybe not fine but mostly they wouldn't say anything, but this round he's fucked the world economy so yeah make sense. So I think they voiced their opinions previously as well just not in headlines as much.

Also the US has taken the lead so often, and (used to have) soft power that they managed properly.

Basically Trump (well his handlers) have effed up the social order so much it's time to set the line. Sucks it took this long, cause all should have been done first term when the US elected a petulant child as leader.

Though I imagine it comes down to money as usual as you said, cause heaven forbid we figure out a way to run a country without billionaires making their voice known.

It'd be great if the people's voices were heard for sure. Fortunately when time comes there are more of the regular folk than them. While I don't condone violence it sucks that they can use violence and legal issues to make their goals happen without pushback.

Long past time to say it openly, but now is second best.

First everybody needs to get their gold out of the USA, switch over all critical infrastructure and payment to home brew solutions and sell USA treasuries. Then the sanctions can start. But switching away from USA infrastructure in already a form of sanction.

Sanctions against the U.S. will, of course, not happen.

It would be more productive for the rest of the world to reduce its dependence on the US. This dependence takes a variety of forms and degrees but it’s this very dependence which makes sanctions impractical. It’s this very dependence which emboldens jackasses like Trump.

So just divest. Disentangle. If we could get there then there might actually be something we could do about a problem like Trump.

As things stand, it takes forever and a day to gather the will to merely speak out.

It is a reflection of the lack of integrity in the political systems of other countries that no sanctions have been imposed on the US in response to its brutal actions in Iran - this war is just as much a war of aggression in violation of international law as the one Russia is waging against Ukraine.

I don’t think that it’s a lack of integrity that’s resulted in sanctions not being applied against the US. We just wouldn’t be able to weather the financial consequences of sanctioning them.

Integrity is lacking but I don’t think that a government with 100% integrity would be able to afford to sanction the US.

I think they also need to come up with a better term than 'western countries', to something that does not include the US but is open to include others. 'Countries that try to not be complete asshats'? Idk, the bar is in hell. But there are quite a few non-western countries that could fit the bill if it weren't for US fuckery.

Does a strict two party system even constitute a democracy? There's so little incentive to do what the people want when the worst punishment is that you only have to wait until the other party fucks up worse than you did and then you're back in the game. In the meantime, just sit tight and snipe from the sidelines.

The Republican Party needs to cease to exist for what it's done. I don't know how that could happen but I don't see a bright future for the world if they're still around when the next Dem President starts to become unpopular.

If the democrats win as well as we're expecting they COULD take down billionaires and mass media propaganda machines that's behind all these right-wing movements...but I'm betting they won't. They probably won't abolish ICE, they won't stuff the supreme court, they won't cut off Israel, they won't roll back the insane power of the POTUS and executive branch, etc, etc.

This country is fucked for a generation at least, or as long as this two party government remains intact.

This exactly. I find it completely baffling that people are talking about this stuff like its as simple as changing your mobile internet provider or cancelling your Amazon account.

moving investments and reorganizing supplies takes time.

This is a salient point. Back in February 2025 when Donald decided to start imposing unilateral tariffs, other countries started crafting new trade agreements. Those take 1.5 to 2 years to take effect, so everything Donald is doing is, essentially, a time bomb that's going to go off after 2026 whether it's the BBB or our former allies rerouting trade around the US and through China. The vast majority of Americans don't have any real knowledge of what these things mean or Donald would be even more unpopular than he is now.

In 2028 the new order in the world will probably unrecognizable compared to 2024, and it could be a very bad thing. We Americans have been lucky in that most of us have never experienced real war and can't contextualize it, and that could change in the very near future.

BRICS is also making strides towards dedollarization and alternative payment systems (bypassing SWIFT) based on blockchain technology.

Glazing Netanyahu was also a not insignificant part.

It’s about a confluence of things, none of them good. I wasn’t going to comment, but then I saw this post:

https://mander.xyz/post/49900218

This is basically “what it’s all about”. Western neoliberal and overt colonial capitalism. Its extraction. All these rich elites are betting on the U.S. military maintaining “full spectrum dominance”, and if Iran fends us off, that’s the end of our projection of power, globally at least.

When you see Bezos and Musk and Altman and all these other parasitic freaks retreating to New Zealand, those are the biggest, fattest rats fleeing a sinking ship.

It's a nice thought, but there's no way. We here in the US didn't even kill the leaders of the Confederacy after the civil war, and those fuckers got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed in their treason.

The reason why cancel culture is so big here is that, often, getting someone canceled is the only meaningful recourse for being a piece of shit.

Trump is a Russian asset.

Or fools.