Loosening the American grip on global power could be an essential first step towards achieving a more just and balanced international order.

United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs against most of the world tanked stock markets, disrupted the U.S. bond market and destabilized the global economy.

Trump has economically and politically threatened American allies, shattering the unity of the western world. But Trump’s chaos may have inadvertently produced an opportunity to create a better world.

Some western commentators argue that the U.S. has been a benevolent superpower.

That may have been true for a small group of mostly western states that have benefitted from American domination. But much of the Global South was victimized by American military, economic and political interventions.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Most of the world appreciates what the US has done in many ways, but we see it as a country founded in cruelty and genocide, a country that fought with itself over slavery rather than walking a righteous path, a country that sat out of global conflict until personally threatened while millions died, a country that then waged pointless wars in places where it had no business being because of a pissing contest with Russia and the need to pour money into the military industrial complex to make some rich people even more wealthy

    I appreciate the good that the US has done, but I frequently wonder if it outweighs the harm. The proxy wars, the cruelty that is still visited upon its own population in the name of profit

    There’s a huge part of me that just wants America to fuck off and sit in the corner until it grows up

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      16 days ago

      i never cease to be amazed every time i hear this narrative repeated and especially so by anyone calling themselves a democrat or a liberal.