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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Canada, Mexico, the UK, the EU.

So what changed between these countries and USA?

All are recognising the US as significany weaker than they have been in a long time.

How are they doing that?

All of them are making power grabs by supporting Ukraine

Power grabs to what?

and so on

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow. What a lovely conversation we are having.
Just asking questions, aye?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

you don't understand the concept of soft power.