• Seleni@lemmy.world
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      Translation: you’ve either been under a rock, or you’ve been watching nothing but Faux News.

      This, folks, is why it’s important to stay informed with actual news and information. So you don’t ask a silly question like this.

      • index@sh.itjust.works
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        I think you have been living under a rock because despite what politician talk on tv nothing seem to have changed

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          nothing seem to have changed

          Did you forget the /s, or are you just not paying attention?

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      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.

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        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

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            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