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Did USA give up any power? I'm missing something or people are not paying attention at all?
Yes. We are losing soft power and allies all around the world thanks to the orange menace.
Our soft power has taken a greater hit from our unwavering support for Israel than this. How many countries outside of Europe have come out to condemn this? Meanwhile u.n. vote after u.n. vote everyone except for the u.s. and it's proxies vote to condemn this genocide and the u.s. sending weapons.
This definitely doesn't make us look good, but it's not the unprecedented foreign relations catastrophe people are making it out to be.
Some truth there but Israel has been expected due to prior policy.
Shitting on your supposed "ally" makes other allies wonder when you gonna do it to them.
Soft power is when your allies play ball with out a gun to their head. Allies support israel by and large and those who oppose won't under mine their US relationship over it.
So from soft power perspective shitting on Ukraine very bad optics especially in light Trump pulled out a chair for bibi and then suck his dick on camera for the world to see.
Right or wrong (it is wrong in my opinion), supporting Israel and letting them do whatever the fuck they want while shoving weapons down their throat and no one daring to fuck beyond with them beyond words because you're backing them is an extreme show of the extent of your soft power I would argue.
Pulling support from a former ally in open war against your historical arch nemesis because your leader feels like they didn't thank them enough is the opposite. It tells everyone else that your words mean nothing. What about Taiwan tomorrow? Did they thank Trump enough to be protected from Chinese aggression?
That's the literal opposite to unwavering support of your ally even if that ally behaves like a lunatic (read: genocidal maniac).
How is USA losing soft power and which allies are they losing?
Translation: you’ve either been under a rock, or you’ve been watching nothing but Faux News.
This, folks, is why it’s important to stay informed with actual news and information. So you don’t ask a silly question like this.
I think you have been living under a rock because despite what politician talk on tv nothing seem to have changed
Yes, there were definitely talk about taking over Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Greenland before last month.
Oh wait, no they weren't.
For context, this is who you are responding to: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33348325
Yeah. I remember that. As unbelievable now as it was then.
Appreciate that!
This looks like a display of power to me
Ok, but now you admit things have changed
we are talking about US losing power
Yes. And the US talking about taking over its allies loses us power with our allies.
Keep up
Did you forget the /s, or are you just not paying attention?
Canada, Mexico, the UK, the EU.
I can guarantee Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand... All countries are paying attention.
All are recognising the US as significany weaker than they have been in a long time. All of them are making power grabs by supporting Ukraine and investigating new trade alliances/deals not involving the US, further weakening US power.
While these are absolutely the moral and correct things to do, and supporting Ukraine is the human thing to do, bolstering international security - there is also a huge amount of soft power to be had in the support, and a good reason to up domestic arms production which helps replace/offset Americas hard power (IE military might).
Where countries have relied on American weapons before, the threat of America "switching off" a countries jets and missiles cannot be ignored.
So what changed between these countries and USA?
How are they doing that?
Power grabs to what?
and so on
Wow. What a lovely conversation we are having.
Just asking questions, aye?
Power is quite quantifiable these days. If you want to prove that US lost power you have to provide some concrete evidence that they did. To me it doesn't look like they lost much
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2021304/norway-fuel-giant-refuses-fill
This is what losing soft power looks like but lot of it won't be noticed until all of our allies start doing these small things.
https://www.reuters.com/world/norway-says-it-will-keep-supplying-fuel-us-navy-after-company-calls-boycott-2025-03-02/
and this is what not actually losing any power looks like
you don't understand the concept of soft power.
One of our greatest strengths is that we build coalitions. We just told the world that if you ally with us, you better be ready to grovel.
For example, places like Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan are capable of building nuclear weapons but they didn't bc they trusted us to protect them. Each of those countries are now imagining themselves sitting there in front of cameras being berated for ingratitude.
Without our allies we are much less powerful.
They didn't do it because they can't without US approval.
That is false. But I think I see where you're coming from, you may be more interested in [email protected]
I can't figure out if that community is supposed to be satirical or not.
Either way, it's a great place to direct people to.
It’s a troll community. Nothing more.
a troll made it but the community can be anything we want
did not chad get the ban hammer recently?
either way, subbed
I suppose that’s true, but if you’ve seen how they moderate that community, it’ll be impossible to have that place be anything other than what they want it to be.
And I hadn’t noticed them getting banned. Might have to look into that.
thank you please look into it
reported for disinformation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists
Iran is a geo political enemy... nobody cries about this.
If US starts going this route with allies, it won't end well for US. They can't enforce hegemony at a gun point if we don't have the coalition of major world economies behind our back. In that scenario, we will need to be worried about them fucking us over if we get bogged down in Vietnam or Afghanistan etc.
North Korea build the bomb and so did Iran and they even developed lunch systems.
US literally transferred nuclear weapons tech and material to Israel to enable their "rogue" program.
But yes... US killed an Iranian guy for working on nuclear weapons. Trust me dawg... we have done a lot more reprehensible things
The fact you dont have a clue speaks volumes.
Please highlight me on which power USA lost so far
Look at everyone elses replies to you fucking dolt. You want me to do your fucking homework lmao.
Go suck some more Putin dick.
No replies here actually point out to evidence that US actually lost a significant amount of power
Why are you thinking of him? perhaps that's what you want to do?
Yes they do.
Losing Navy refueling points from allies could be considered loss of power. https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/norwegian-company-refuses-to-refuel-us-ships-1740880391.html
Yes but it's not happening...
https://www.reuters.com/world/norway-says-it-will-keep-supplying-fuel-us-navy-after-company-calls-boycott-2025-03-02/
The people (and mainly the private companies) of an allied country redused to help America. Only under threat from the Norwegian government did the US ships get fuel. Sounds like a loss of power to me
"Huge credit to the president of Ukraine restraining himself and for keeping calm even though USA put on a backstabbing TV show. It made us sick... No Fuel to Americans!," the company said in a now deleted Facebook post - just a good excerpt from the article
Some company tried to go against US and they got immediately rectified, that's the power we are talking about at work.
So, you can't see how more and more people going against the US is equal to losing power world wide? How a government treating its citizens to be freindly isn't actually friendly?
We literally would gas up all the time in Norway no questions asked but now we're not and you can't see the problem?
Trump and musk got shit talked for a decade straight and still managed to win elections. US power worldwide isn't "talked" they actually have concrete power on almost every country in the world.
For now