• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    4 小时前

    I don’t think that the US are stupid and run by an idiot.

    They are, they are destroying their own power in every way, they are losing allies left and right, and Trump is ruining US trade (USA has been using trade as leverage internationally for decades) and destroying both the petro dollar and the dollar as the global reserve currency, and finally slowing down the US economy do China will surpass them faster. So the current administration is undermining US power in every way possible. And everything they do is idiotic. The secret genius is a myth.

    • plyth@feddit.org
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      4 小时前

      Have you seen that Peter Thiel, the man behind Musk and JD Vance, believes that the masses need a scape goat?

      Compared to Iraq, the US don’t behave more reckless. It’s just the communication that has changed. Instead of having a moral justification, people blame each other.

      The chemical weapons were a lie. People still accepted the war.

      The difference to now is that the internet reveals all lies. The Iraq war wouldn’t be possible today.

      The US have adapted their population management to the new constraints of the internet. They don’t rely on morality anymore.

      For politicians, nothing changes. The cover stories and morality was never part of their considerations. It has always been the power of the US, and that hasn’t changed much.

      destroying both the petro dollar and the dollar as the global reserve currency, and finally slowing down the US economy do China will surpass them faster.

      The petro dollar was not sustainable. It worked with Japan and Germany who are friendly and don’t threaten economic war and keep holding the bonds. China created BRICS and a global basket currency. The EU is more dangerous on paper, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élysée_Treaty controversy, it’s a US creation.

      Tariffs are the other option to manage the US economy, instead of the trade deficit. To not give China back all their dollars, devaluating the Dollar is even rational. But it’s difficult to communicate. A mad Trump is the solution.

      The Chinese economy is supposed to not matter because China, and Russia, is going to be isolated. The strategy is called decoupling. The oil from Iran is the start. I am worried that that doesn’t work because then the US only has the nuclear option.

      • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works
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        Peter Thiel

        Peter “the antichrist ist coming” Thiel. Sounds more like an unhinged conspiracy theorist than some smart mastermind.

        The difference to now is that the internet reveals all lies. The Iraq war wouldn’t be possible today.

        The internet has existed back then, too. One might even argue it was a better internet, because all those “social media” propaganda mills were still in their infancy, or didn’t even exist yet. If the change of the internet has done anything compared to back then, then it has made it easier to spread lies to the masses.