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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.