Global approval of China surpassed the U.S. in 2025, the widest favorability gap between the two countries in almost 20 years, according to a new Gallup poll released Friday. Gallup found that Chin…
You have to remember that the regimes in Europe are not actually representative of the public opinion. They’re deeply unpopular polling under 20% in France, Germany, and UK which are the major European powers. And as the energy crisis hits, Europe might actually enter revolutionary conditions. The standard of living is collapsing, everybody can see how the wars are destroying their standard of living, and how the US is raping Europe. The US is not winning in the court of public opinion in Europe in any sense.
And for the US, it’s difficult to say how it plays out, the question is going to be how the US manages to navigate its own economic crisis that’s now brewing. the economies of the vassals crashing will necessarily spill over as well as imports and exports become affected. So, that will feed into the domestic crisis as companies start shuttering and laying people off.
It’s certainly possible the US becomes a full on fascist dictatorship, but the big question is how it will manage material production. Trump’s attempt to reshore industry was a spectacular failure, and industrial base in the US is actually shrinking faster than before the tariff war. The US is also highly dependent on China for a lot of critical inputs like rare earths. And as the US retrenches, it’s going to lose much of its ability to extract labor and resources from the Global South.
Finally, should Iran prevail in West Asia, that could be the final blow as the US will lose control of the Gulf and petrodollar will be broken with shipments through Hormuz having to be settled in yuan.
You have to remember that the regimes in Europe are not actually representative of the public opinion. They’re deeply unpopular polling under 20% in France, Germany, and UK which are the major European powers. And as the energy crisis hits, Europe might actually enter revolutionary conditions. The standard of living is collapsing, everybody can see how the wars are destroying their standard of living, and how the US is raping Europe. The US is not winning in the court of public opinion in Europe in any sense.
And for the US, it’s difficult to say how it plays out, the question is going to be how the US manages to navigate its own economic crisis that’s now brewing. the economies of the vassals crashing will necessarily spill over as well as imports and exports become affected. So, that will feed into the domestic crisis as companies start shuttering and laying people off.
It’s certainly possible the US becomes a full on fascist dictatorship, but the big question is how it will manage material production. Trump’s attempt to reshore industry was a spectacular failure, and industrial base in the US is actually shrinking faster than before the tariff war. The US is also highly dependent on China for a lot of critical inputs like rare earths. And as the US retrenches, it’s going to lose much of its ability to extract labor and resources from the Global South.
Finally, should Iran prevail in West Asia, that could be the final blow as the US will lose control of the Gulf and petrodollar will be broken with shipments through Hormuz having to be settled in yuan.