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"rest of the world" should ask what their leaders are doing to stop Trump instead of hoping only for Americans to stop him. Keeping US in NATO, and saying nothing about Venezuela and Gaza/Iran, and submitting to absurd rationale for accepting tariffs that will reduce their own economic resilience is simply emboldening Trump's abuse of them. It doesn't matter if US manufacturing keeps declining, as long as the colonies tacitly agree with how evil they were to America all along, and how much they enslave their people to supporting what are always US wars, but now with the colonies suffering all the death and damage.
We collectively have the power to collapse the US. Not doing so, emboldens the US into unlimited oppressive power over us. No amount of slaps or harder slaps stops you from being a bitch.
No country wants to start a war, and any of your suggestions are the kinda thing which can start wars.
Either civil or multinational
That's absurd. The starting premise was that the Americans should do things, but they risk getting shot or arrested. Now you're saying no other country can take substantive action... So Trump is unstoppable? ... But nobody believes that.
Imagine a toddler that's got access to a nuke
Spain has refused the 5% of GDP for US weapons, war on Russia, and refused port access for Gaza/Iran support fleet. Some mean words from Trump, but no action. No civil discontent over the policy. There's strong resistance to all budgets that attempt to accomodate austerity and military drafts for the new Napoleonic defeat. (France most clear example).
Not even denouncing Venezuela evil, similar to fake concern expressions over Gaza and Iran, is a new low in sycophancy and cowardice among the colonies. But, it wouldn't cause an act of war. The UK, the most sycophantic of all colonies who made the most submissive trade deal in Europe, got rewarded with Musk coming to speak ordering whites to overthrow parliament or all be killed by immigrants. More demands this week (buy chlorinated chicken) from white house. Sycophancy doesn't get rewarded.
While Trump makes fascist executive orders on his own, the colonies are all using regular democratic concensus for even worse laws against speech. All the while begging the US for more orders to follow from them.
Condemning US evil is not an act of war against them, nor likely to result in a declaration of war against the speaking nation. If you base your propaganda on a "rules based world order", mentioning that rules apply to your master too, once in a while, would make the propaganda/value system more credible.
And you trust Trump to not overreact?
I don't
Following along with a fascist is never a winning move. When you refuse to stand up for yourself you've already lost without them having to do a thing.
Aye, I agree, but I'm not a world leader