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The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice (www.counterpunch.org)

submitted 4 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.

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[–] sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

While I absolutely agree that America has and continues to do abhorrent things overseas (and domestically), I fear that there currently exists no significant world power in position to replace them as #1 that isn't considerably more exploitative, sadistic, and cruel. We're currently in hell and have nowhere to go but down...

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is always my thought when I hear that kind of response too. "Replace US hegemony" great. With what? China? Russia? India? Iran? Maybe the EU would be better, but I don't see an EU hegemony replacing US hegemony successfully any time soon. I feel like in a lot of ways the US dominated world order is/was a lesser of 2+ evils... We might be about to find out what the greater ones are :/

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

The thing about the EU is it doesn't want to be a hegemony power like the US was, at least not when it includes military. Those who want are Russia (openly) and China (through the backdoors). Don't know enough about India.

Even with the current push for more military, the maximum I see from the EU is securing its most important trade routes and otherwise project soft power through economical influence.