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Zelensky ordered to leave White House without signing minerals deal after Oval Office clash with Trump
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The U.S. are no longer the leaders of the free world. It's up to Europe now. The U.S. is a fucking shithole.
It’s always been that way
Frankly, most of the time that was said it was said by Americans and the rest of us just smiled and nodded politely.
As an American, I've been more overtly disagreeing with the idiots saying this stuff.
America was only ever the “leader” of the free world because no other country wanted to bother with going up against their military. They have bases all over the world. Politely nodding was considered a small price to pay for not being targeted by them.
But this current administration has proved that politely nodding won’t keep a target off of your back. So now, countries have started rethinking their attitudes towards those American military bases.
EU governments were completely happy letting it be the case as well. Don't act like they were doing much to try and reduce their reliance on US aid.
Yeah, so? They were willing to play along as long as America was reasonably well behaved about it. That was the unspoken bargain of America's Cold War and post-Cold War international influence - they got to have plenty of soft power, and in exchange they got to play out their World Police fantasy.
Now that's going to be going away.
Yeah most Americans don't realize we've been slowly losing our Hegemony in world power since the world was well rebuilt after World War 2. But even I thought we had another few decades before we just shit the bed.
Fair enough. It's up to the E.U. now.
Let's see if they're going to get off their ass, or if they'll just try appeasement again.