Summary
The Munich Security Conference report warns that Trump’s proposed territorial acquisitions, including Greenland, Panama, and Canada, have damaged the U.S.'s global standing, making it seen as a risk rather than a stabilizing force.
The report highlights the decline of U.S.-led global leadership amid a shift toward a multipolar world, with China and Russia expanding influence.
European leaders will press U.S. officials on NATO commitments and Ukraine support.
Survey data shows U.S. risks are now perceived as greater than Russia’s in many G7 nations.
After decades long alliannce-building, the US don’t seem to value them anymore. It’s a strange phenomenon where someone works so hard for such a long time, only to throw it all away some day. Trump frames it all as if the US is being taken advantage of. The truth is that the US gets tremendous benefits from it’s central position of power. If the US breaks away from their alliances, they risk the tides turning against them. If the US is being taken advantage of by appararently all others countries in the world, isn’t it remarkable how it’s doing so well economically? That normal folks aren’t doing well is not a consequence of the economy as a whole not doing well, because by comparison it’s doing phenomenal. It’s because all the money goes to companies and shareholders.
current usa leadership are as much americans as nazis were german. They are, but in such rotten way its like saying cancer is part of you.
It could also be the Elon musk effect.
“Why have three fasteners. Why not two?”
In the same regard they are pushing their allies till one of them breaks. Then they know that’s the point to stop where they get maximum benefit
That’s because everyone who was on the same page about this was slowly supplanted by Tea Partiers with no understanding of how power systems work. Their only reference is the propaganda that wasn’t meant for the elites, but the previous generation of elites didn’t tell anyone else because name one elite who shares with competition.
I think it’s a lot more malicious than a neglect of institutional knowledge.
The people are suffering economic anxiety, Trump points at <insert economic partner> as the cause of their economic woes, and builds popular support for some stupid land grab that trades the country’s soft power for some quick corporate profits. By the time the long-term damage sets in, they are off to the next grift a few hundred billion dollars richer. Tale as old as time…
They know the damage they are causing–they just don’t care.
It’s even more malicious than that: the erosion of US soft power is good for Russia, and Trump is a Russian asset
“Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven” is not the best ideology for the general wellbeing if the population.
The previous generation of non-elite* who lived through it didn’t tell their children either. The flower children sold out. This has been going on since Operation Paperclip.