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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 107 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (13 children)

Well done Ukraine, absolutely not considered a problem by your allies.

Fuck Trump and Fuck Orban. They both chose to stand on the wrong side of the russian invasion of Ukraine, and they both deserve to be punished for it.

Orban can fuck off back to Russia, we don't need Hungary in EU, when they choose to be pro Russian despite an invasion of a peaceful country in Europe.

USA too will suffer from this too, USA is no longer considered a strong ally by the "West" in general, and not even within NATO!
There are already defense agreements being formed around NATO, for instance between Canada and EU! The agreements includes development and acquisition of weapons, that will no longer be bought from USA, to achieve greater independence from USA in the future.

It's always sad to lose a friend, but even with a new administration, nobody can really trust USA anymore, USA is currently descending deeper into a authoritarian regime, and resistance is effectively being systematically removed. As it is, there seems to be little hope that USA will ever become a functional democracy.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (8 children)

It’s always sad to lose a friend, but even with a new administration, nobody can really trust USA anymore, USA is currently descending deeper into a authoritarian regime, and resistance is effectively being systematically removed. As it is, there seems to be little hope that USA will ever become a functional democracy.

I hope that a better US administration will come after this one and that it will improve the things that can be improved easily (tariffs, visas, rhetoric, and other transactional policies), but at this point Trump has poisoned the well and it will take a generation of good (or at least understandable and workable) behavior by both US parties to rebuild a fraction of the trust and soft power the orange idiot has squandered in barely half a year.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

4 years of a better admin won't fix this. 40 years of good admins won't fix this.

The real damage done was showing the world that the American system of democracy, long thought to be infalliable and a known constant of the international geopolitical sphere, was easily broken by a bunch of haphazard incompetent fascists in less than a decade. It matters not who is in charge anymore because it could flip on a dime at any second with no warning.

The US can NEVER be trusted unless its government collapses and is reformed in a different, more stable manner.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

America needs the same denazification that turned Germany and Japan into tolerant diverse democracies.

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