There are 200 countries and the US is one relatively small, isolated pocket hurting mostly themselves.
US problems benefit their rivals immensely and are influencing their former allies to become more independent and form new local alliances; there’s no benefit to either to long jump into one isolated hornet’s nest.
Sanctions are specifically difficult against the US because 1) they’re largely hurting themselves, most countries don’t agree the US is doing the wrong thing about Palestine/ foreign/other policy to warrant sanctions and 2) the US still has so much rapidly dwindling legacy political and financial/banking influence that sanctions won’t make much of an immediate impact if an issue to sanction was agreed upon.
If your dog starts defecating on the floor and rolling around in it, you clean up your dog.
If your neighbor starts defecating on their floor and rolling around in it, well…
putin benefits from countries becoming isolationists to some sort. so russia can eventually take over ukraine, and move onto other former soviet block countries.
…you call for a welfare check on them? I mean, clearly there’s some mental issues going on with your neighbor.
But what are you going to do? Go over there yourself??? Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Easy buddy. This is America. They probably have a gun, and are already proven to be mentally unstable! Plus, they’re covered in shit! I just cleaned my dog. I don’t want to smell MORE shit!
The last time the US enacted global tariffs, it created the Great Depression, which hit the entire globe and was one of the major contributing factors to the Nazis rise to power. What happens here might only be hurting Americans and killing American minorities at the moment, but the psychotic demagogue in charge here will have real international repercussions soon enough. Honestly though, I think the tariffs have done what international sanctions couldn’t do, which is help convince some of Trump’s cult that he’s the one hurting them. Sanctions would just let him blame the outside world.
You should keep in mind, it will take time for everybody else to truly divest themselves of the orange shit-gibbon and all the corporations based here, and that means time in which the fan spraying shit can turn towards Europe.
And when your neighbor starts defecating in your house and also all your other neighbors houses and also onto their own wife and children in plain view of everyone else, daring them to do something all while their armies and aircraft carriers point in every direction including at themselves?
I think the answer is still you do nothing. But man would I like to be wrong on this one.
thier propaganda machine mostly is working better than thier military. backed right wing governments into supporting things russia wants to happen(anti-immigration, wokeness, racism,etc)
Sure. I’m not trying to say the US and Russia are equivalent in the volume nor nature of how they implement imperialist and domestic violence (though there are increasingly more similarities as of late). But I perceive the US as a crazed madman with as many arms as Shiva and has amassed more weapons than anyone else, with a gun pointed at the head of everyone in every direction, including at it’s own head. I also view other imperialist nations as having a similar psychosis going on, just with a few less arms and very different origin stories as to how they got there.
I’m just saying telling everybody it’s solely up to the nation to clean up its own mess is, while correct, way too simplistic. I admittedly don’t know how we solve it though, and I’m cynical enough to believe most of us don’t have an answer, and even if we did, we wouldn’t have a strong enough consensus and momentum to pull it off. Hence why I believe nothing will be done.
We, the citizens in these imperialist nations are both slaves and slave masters, with guns pointed to our heads, by both nation states and corporations, they don’t just control whether we live or die, they hold our hearts in their hands, ready to squeeze out our humanity and empathy at their discretion. We in turn wield the whip at our own slaves in those countries in which we colonize. We all have this done to us and do it unto others until we look in the mirror and mistake the monsters we have become as the best humanity has to offer.
Thanks. I appreciate simple, correct solutions and I understand why emotional investment and habit makes those solutions difficult to accept and implement.
If you take a step outside of your situation, it will quickly become apparent that the grip you believe others hold you in is largely insubstantial and based on empty proclamations and threats. Magnates can plead for your attention, but you don’t have to give it to them(climb a mountain, play video games), your government can scream for your taxes and you don’t have to hand them over(IRS form 2555, foreign earned income exclusion).
The world is huge and no matter how important someone demands you think they are, you don’t have to.
Look, I wish I had your viewpoint, but truth be told I have no plan of leaving my homeland. Imperialist fascsism comes for us all eventually, and that’s kind of my point. You, me, all of us, actually have got nowhere to run. You either fight or succumb. But my take on life is that I live solely to spite my enemies, not because I believe I can beat them, but because I refuse to make victory easy for them. Perhaps I’m wrong, perhaps we can win this fight and solve the climate crisis, but I’ll not get my hopes up. Only spite remains that stirs me from my bed in the morning now.
In this way, my enemies control me, they define me. I am nothing without them now. Such is the horror of imperialist fascism, they do not relent, they are never satiated, and they do not ignore any corner of the world. And so it consumes me.
Eventually the world’s problems end up at your doorstep, whether you had a hand in creating them or not. I just refuse to look away.
I hear you and understand your resignation; tender despair is the most common result of whirlwind threats and proclamations.
You don’t have to leave your spite behind, and I’m not telling you to; I’m letting people know that if they want to live for themselves and others rather than dying for their enemies, it’s possible and I’m here to help.
Yeah, I can’t trust you. Your community you founded is some strange travel blog that gives off marketing vibes. If you try to sell me something, I immediately am suspicious. Sorry, blocking you now.
The US is an existential threat to Canada and countries in the Americas that MAGA has bones to pick with. Maybe also Iran. The vast majority of the world is mostly safe, because America has no interest and/or capability to start shit there. For your Germany example, Hitler made it clear exactly what he wanted to do in Mein Kampf.
So the US is a threat because… it might not help Europe? That’s not really how the word “threat” works, setting aside how Russia isn’t even a military threat to non-Ukraine Europe in the first place assuming the EU’s mutual defense mechanism holds.
i think the most dangerous mistake one can make is to underestimate the power of a military budget that’s almost half that of the world’s military budget.
such mistakes can be made only once before the country gets couped or taken hostage by the US.
in these times i think it’s important to band together and set aside our differences!
I don’t think you understand where US military power was coming from. It was not just the money, it was the ability to project that power easily (having bases in Europe, etc for example).
That was the ‘soft power’ everyone was talking about. Orange mongoloid had now destroyed that and I don’t think it’s coming back any time soon.
Everyone is basically letting idiots destroy themselves and watching their moves. There is nothing anyone else can do right now.
Except Chinese and Russians. They are rolling on the floor laughing…
I mean there’s that… but there’s also the fact that nobody has been stupid enough to break the seal on the Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear issue. Report after report shows trump is really really anxious to find a reason to use a nuke.
There are no failsafe assurances anywhere, but some places are safer and more comfortable than others and I’m very happy to talk about how you can move to those places.
I’m originally from the US and have mostly been living abroad for over a decade since I left over many of the issues US Americans still deal with today.
Perspective on the US is much more clear from the outside.
If you’d like to live abroad, I can definitely help you do that with information and advice.
tldr is get a passport, secure $500 USD in monthly income (English teaching is in very high demand), buy a plane ticket.
Someone from the US I’ve been offering advice to this year literally left the US today based on that tldr.
I’m very happy to go into details and supply more context for anybody interested in living abroad.
The US certainly punches above its weight economically and militaristically. But its population is still a fraction of the global population. While it has wealth and massively destructive weapons, the rest of the world absolutely does have a say in how important we let it be.
If there was a global initiative to not respect American intellectual property and people were universally turned off by its politics / lack of morality, it could become a backwater pond in no time. I believe in human ingenuity to accomplish that.
Now of course the US would respond with violence but in a circumstance where it truly was the globe versus the US I actually dont like the US’ chances very much.
The world is much, much bigger than one sparsely populated country, and there are far more important metrics than the physical size of the US.
Metrics like population, geographic isolation, health care, political instability, violent crime, technical superiority, countless others that mark a country like the US as an entity to be safely disregarded.
Thailand passed the US in health care years ago, China passed the US in renewable and next-gen tech, not to mention manufacturing, most countries citizens enjoy much more robust civil rights.
Yes, the physical country is large, but the US is s small, insecure, violent pocket of the world that people don’t need to pay nearly as much attention to as its groupies demand.
The US looks very tiny from out here, and even tinier from the inside after seeing some of the rest of the world.
There are 200 countries and the US is one relatively small, isolated pocket hurting mostly themselves.
US problems benefit their rivals immensely and are influencing their former allies to become more independent and form new local alliances; there’s no benefit to either to long jump into one isolated hornet’s nest.
Sanctions are specifically difficult against the US because 1) they’re largely hurting themselves, most countries don’t agree the US is doing the wrong thing about Palestine/ foreign/other policy to warrant sanctions and 2) the US still has so much rapidly dwindling legacy political and financial/banking influence that sanctions won’t make much of an immediate impact if an issue to sanction was agreed upon.
If your dog starts defecating on the floor and rolling around in it, you clean up your dog.
If your neighbor starts defecating on their floor and rolling around in it, well…
putin benefits from countries becoming isolationists to some sort. so russia can eventually take over ukraine, and move onto other former soviet block countries.
…you call for a welfare check on them? I mean, clearly there’s some mental issues going on with your neighbor.
But what are you going to do? Go over there yourself??? Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Easy buddy. This is America. They probably have a gun, and are already proven to be mentally unstable! Plus, they’re covered in shit! I just cleaned my dog. I don’t want to smell MORE shit!
That’s basically what has happened.
Political leaders and journalists have visited and done “welfare checks” on the US, and come to the same conclusions you just have.
The last time the US enacted global tariffs, it created the Great Depression, which hit the entire globe and was one of the major contributing factors to the Nazis rise to power. What happens here might only be hurting Americans and killing American minorities at the moment, but the psychotic demagogue in charge here will have real international repercussions soon enough. Honestly though, I think the tariffs have done what international sanctions couldn’t do, which is help convince some of Trump’s cult that he’s the one hurting them. Sanctions would just let him blame the outside world.
You should keep in mind, it will take time for everybody else to truly divest themselves of the orange shit-gibbon and all the corporations based here, and that means time in which the fan spraying shit can turn towards Europe.
And when your neighbor starts defecating in your house and also all your other neighbors houses and also onto their own wife and children in plain view of everyone else, daring them to do something all while their armies and aircraft carriers point in every direction including at themselves?
I think the answer is still you do nothing. But man would I like to be wrong on this one.
Do you mean Russia? Their attacks have resulted in external military buildup near borders, NATO assurances, local military alliances.
Russia’s aggression directly harms and threatens other nearby countries.
Different measures for different circumstances.
thier propaganda machine mostly is working better than thier military. backed right wing governments into supporting things russia wants to happen(anti-immigration, wokeness, racism,etc)
Sure. I’m not trying to say the US and Russia are equivalent in the volume nor nature of how they implement imperialist and domestic violence (though there are increasingly more similarities as of late). But I perceive the US as a crazed madman with as many arms as Shiva and has amassed more weapons than anyone else, with a gun pointed at the head of everyone in every direction, including at it’s own head. I also view other imperialist nations as having a similar psychosis going on, just with a few less arms and very different origin stories as to how they got there.
I’m just saying telling everybody it’s solely up to the nation to clean up its own mess is, while correct, way too simplistic. I admittedly don’t know how we solve it though, and I’m cynical enough to believe most of us don’t have an answer, and even if we did, we wouldn’t have a strong enough consensus and momentum to pull it off. Hence why I believe nothing will be done.
We, the citizens in these imperialist nations are both slaves and slave masters, with guns pointed to our heads, by both nation states and corporations, they don’t just control whether we live or die, they hold our hearts in their hands, ready to squeeze out our humanity and empathy at their discretion. We in turn wield the whip at our own slaves in those countries in which we colonize. We all have this done to us and do it unto others until we look in the mirror and mistake the monsters we have become as the best humanity has to offer.
EDIT: spelling, grammar, wording.
Thanks. I appreciate simple, correct solutions and I understand why emotional investment and habit makes those solutions difficult to accept and implement.
If you take a step outside of your situation, it will quickly become apparent that the grip you believe others hold you in is largely insubstantial and based on empty proclamations and threats. Magnates can plead for your attention, but you don’t have to give it to them(climb a mountain, play video games), your government can scream for your taxes and you don’t have to hand them over(IRS form 2555, foreign earned income exclusion).
The world is huge and no matter how important someone demands you think they are, you don’t have to.
Look, I wish I had your viewpoint, but truth be told I have no plan of leaving my homeland. Imperialist fascsism comes for us all eventually, and that’s kind of my point. You, me, all of us, actually have got nowhere to run. You either fight or succumb. But my take on life is that I live solely to spite my enemies, not because I believe I can beat them, but because I refuse to make victory easy for them. Perhaps I’m wrong, perhaps we can win this fight and solve the climate crisis, but I’ll not get my hopes up. Only spite remains that stirs me from my bed in the morning now.
In this way, my enemies control me, they define me. I am nothing without them now. Such is the horror of imperialist fascism, they do not relent, they are never satiated, and they do not ignore any corner of the world. And so it consumes me.
Eventually the world’s problems end up at your doorstep, whether you had a hand in creating them or not. I just refuse to look away.
I hear you and understand your resignation; tender despair is the most common result of whirlwind threats and proclamations.
You don’t have to leave your spite behind, and I’m not telling you to; I’m letting people know that if they want to live for themselves and others rather than dying for their enemies, it’s possible and I’m here to help.
Yeah, I can’t trust you. Your community you founded is some strange travel blog that gives off marketing vibes. If you try to sell me something, I immediately am suspicious. Sorry, blocking you now.
No trust necessary; like IRS form 2555, it’s all publicly available and verifiable info.
As a traveler, I have a travel community. Not very strange.
I haven’t tried to sell a thing, and I have months of legitimate conversation, travel advice and information publicly available for scrutiny.
dog if you think the US is “relatively small”
look at what Nazi Germany, an even “smaller” country did – it started a world war and nearly took over an entire continent.
the fascist US, with a much larger army, is an existential threat to the world.
The US is an existential threat to Canada and countries in the Americas that MAGA has bones to pick with. Maybe also Iran. The vast majority of the world is mostly safe, because America has no interest and/or capability to start shit there. For your Germany example, Hitler made it clear exactly what he wanted to do in Mein Kampf.
To us Europeans, the US also feels like a threat because it means an ally less against Russia.
You’re extremely naïve if you think the rest of the world is safe.
So the US is a threat because… it might not help Europe? That’s not really how the word “threat” works, setting aside how Russia isn’t even a military threat to non-Ukraine Europe in the first place assuming the EU’s mutual defense mechanism holds.
Alright, I see you’re too naïve then. Bye!
In war, if it’s not an ally it’s an enemy.
If the us is not an ally it’s an enemy.
That’s a threat.
That’s the fucking reality of real war. So if shit hits the fan yes. The US is a threat to the EU.
Uh… no?
The US is small on a global scale (in terms of population) but adequately equipped to destroy the world.
The third most populated country is small in terms of population?
When there are 195 countries and they only make up 4% of the global population? Yes, that’s small relative to the rest of the world.
The US looks bigger and more influential from the inside. Its tantrums look tiny and rambunctious from out here.
Irritating and embarrassing, but largely self-contained so far.
i think the most dangerous mistake one can make is to underestimate the power of a military budget that’s almost half that of the world’s military budget.
such mistakes can be made only once before the country gets couped or taken hostage by the US.
in these times i think it’s important to band together and set aside our differences!
What do you expect other countries to do? A preemptive strike?
To build up their armies and get independent from American, Russian, and Chinese interests.
And to undermine fascism and its (potential) allies at every opportunity possible.
I don’t think you understand where US military power was coming from. It was not just the money, it was the ability to project that power easily (having bases in Europe, etc for example).
That was the ‘soft power’ everyone was talking about. Orange mongoloid had now destroyed that and I don’t think it’s coming back any time soon.
Everyone is basically letting idiots destroy themselves and watching their moves. There is nothing anyone else can do right now.
Except Chinese and Russians. They are rolling on the floor laughing…
I mean there’s that… but there’s also the fact that nobody has been stupid enough to break the seal on the Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear issue. Report after report shows trump is really really anxious to find a reason to use a nuke.
Key words: so far.
The last time the US enacted global tariffs, it caused the Great Depression.
Sounding extremely privileged.
Without doxxing yourself, what country are you from to say something like that and be assured you are safe from U.S. influence and shenanigans?
I’m being serious. I want to move away and be safe with you over there.
There are no failsafe assurances anywhere, but some places are safer and more comfortable than others and I’m very happy to talk about how you can move to those places.
I’m originally from the US and have mostly been living abroad for over a decade since I left over many of the issues US Americans still deal with today.
Perspective on the US is much more clear from the outside.
If you’d like to live abroad, I can definitely help you do that with information and advice.
tldr is get a passport, secure $500 USD in monthly income (English teaching is in very high demand), buy a plane ticket.
Someone from the US I’ve been offering advice to this year literally left the US today based on that tldr.
I’m very happy to go into details and supply more context for anybody interested in living abroad.
How the fuck do you consider one of the largest countries, in literally every physical, economical, military, and basically every other metric… Small?
The fuck crack are you smoking. Cause that’s some good shit.
The US certainly punches above its weight economically and militaristically. But its population is still a fraction of the global population. While it has wealth and massively destructive weapons, the rest of the world absolutely does have a say in how important we let it be.
If there was a global initiative to not respect American intellectual property and people were universally turned off by its politics / lack of morality, it could become a backwater pond in no time. I believe in human ingenuity to accomplish that.
Now of course the US would respond with violence but in a circumstance where it truly was the globe versus the US I actually dont like the US’ chances very much.
The world is much, much bigger than one sparsely populated country, and there are far more important metrics than the physical size of the US.
Metrics like population, geographic isolation, health care, political instability, violent crime, technical superiority, countless others that mark a country like the US as an entity to be safely disregarded.
Thailand passed the US in health care years ago, China passed the US in renewable and next-gen tech, not to mention manufacturing, most countries citizens enjoy much more robust civil rights.
Yes, the physical country is large, but the US is s small, insecure, violent pocket of the world that people don’t need to pay nearly as much attention to as its groupies demand.
The US looks very tiny from out here, and even tinier from the inside after seeing some of the rest of the world.
Cool music, though. Nice forests.