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Written by John on 2025-01-21 at 19:37

I don't often disagree with Nwanevu, but I gotta say the whole "everything will basically be the same, only this group will win and these groups will lose" just rings entirely false to me.

This isn't just "one more rung added to our ladder to hell". It's the Acceleration. The things Trump is doing/going to do are material to the status of the US as global hegemon. They aren't just "clown President does weird shit and our allies all sigh" like they were in 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/21/trump-is-back-and-the-resistance-has-been-humbled-into-near-impotence

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Written by John on 2025-01-21 at 19:39

First, nearly every tool Trump says he's planning to use to "reassert America's greatness" is a hammerblow to every relationship the country has. Many of them will break, and ones that have never been even remotely in doubt will crack and waver.

The right wing thinks that the US is powerful because it's been annointed by God; like true-bred imperials, they see the rightness and supremacy of their empire as a fait accompli. It need not be maintained because it cannot fail.

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Written by John on 2025-01-21 at 19:45

But this is folly. The EU, should it ever be roused from its comfortable, fat post-colonial post-War repose, would be a more than worthy rival. China has been doing the work the US has eschewed for decades, building an economic empire abroad in the same way the US did in the 50s and 60s. India continues to develop and as the worlds most populous country its needs will be driving its actions, not some fantasy of US hegemony.

What's coming won't just pass the world by. It involves them.

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