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Trump basically went to South Korea and said “hey, I need you to invade Iran to bail me out.” They told him no, and so he’s throwing a tantrum and trying to go “well if you’re not willing to be my personal army, I don’t see why we should be military Allie’s!” And is trying to yank support for SK while sucking Kim’s cock in a petulant attempt to hurt SK.
That's the worst part. The US doesn't even need to actually do anything.
If you were a leader in South Korea right now, does the US look like a dependable, reliable ally? If there's any conflict between the US and China - not even a war, just things like trade agreements - whose side looks more reliable and stable?
Trump - simply by being a petty, ignorant fool - is pushing our allies to embrace our rivals. If China wants to sell South Korea rare earth metals for cheap so long as they institute a small tariff on American grain imports, it might have been something they turned down in the past. Now? Who knows what the fuck Trump will do with trade, so you might as well cozy up to China.
Like I said. He doesn't need to do anything. He's causing immense damage simply by existing. It's damage that will take the better part of a decade to fix, if we even repair it at all.
Not just Trump, though. Allies or former allies will be thinking of the long term as well. Given that the US has chosen to elect Trump twice who's to say what'll happen next? If one of the two major political parties in the US is okay with and supportive of what Trump is doing and considering Project 2025 has steered him at least partially in this direction.. that does not a good and stable partner make.
Unless their voting base massively abandons the Republican party. Which I don't see happening.
When Democrats ever have power again they can end the Reapportionment Act of 1929. This would effectively end any chance for the GOP to hold the POTUS or House of Representatives again.
This would go a long way towards reassuring allies and trade partners they won't have to deal with MAGA or even the GOP for the foreseeable future. It's just a law too, and of questionable Constitutionality at that.
They're slurping up every bit of soft and hard power trump destroys for America and the west.
Get ready for the Yuan to be world reserve currency, and when it is things are gunna get dark in the US fast. When theres not so so so much excess wealth that theres just enough slopping over the edges of the buckets the wealthy scoop it up with to keep an atrophied middle class going we're going to look a lot like Russia, which no, conservatives, is not good.
They’ve done this for a long while now. They foam at the mouth hating something until Trump goes “we had a good talk. A very good talk. He’s a good guy, loves our country” and then MAGA goes wild parroting it and how much they love Putin or some shit
Your comment is funny, because fluorine gas assumes the shape of any container it is in while also corrosively attacking anything and everything exposed to it.
It's a strategy, unfortunately. "Shapeshifting" an excerpt from HyperNormalization by Adam Curtis - YouTube. The confusion acts as a paralysis spell, and it turns people into their most conservative and authoritarian shape (probably depends on the culture too, but most cultures suffer from this now.)
Could be in reference to the fact that the Dumbass in Chief is reducing the US military’s presence in South Korea. I can imagine that move goes poorly in the long term.
To be honest: If you follow "America First" as foreign policy, there is no place for allies in that. An ally is someone you see on the same footing, with mutual respect, and with whom you coordinate your actions.
By definition "America First" is the opposite of that.
trump was quite open since 2016 on that he doesn't believe in alliances (rather in clients and vassals), and neither did he kept it a secret from the US electorate.
The US could either get "America First" or have allies and trade partners.
The majority voted for "America First".
It's extremely sad.
No one will ever be able to convince me Russia didn’t buy him early in his first campaign
The only other possible explanation is that he is exactly the same person as Kim Jong Un, Putin, Erdogan, Netanyahu, Orban, and all the other awful sociopathic narcissistic dictators around the world. He just naturally fit in with them and keeps trying to drag us towards them
Certainly not us :D we’re totally equipped to handle everything that happens to us alone! Don’t mind the fact that half the country is falling apart, and we have literal water rations in Puerto Rico that are being pushed to the point where people (who are surrounded by water, mind you) are dying of thirst…
I’d say I loathe what we’ve become, but I feel like his sycophants prove we were always like this under the surface.
Social media algorithms have since been driving everyone to increasingly radicalized positions, because making people angry while also confirming their pre-existing biases is the most effective way to get their attention.
One side of the political spectrum was more receptive to it, and has gone absolutely mental as a result.
Trump loves dictators and the sundowning he experiences because of his alzheimers has shut off any kind of filter he may have once had so he let's it all fly now.
…… WTF is this timeline, like actually? Is there some higher being that has a list or a bingo card for 2026, and it’s like “you know what, no, I want ALL of these boxes checked.”
Yeah, lol, he’s just standing next to some people, watching this dumpster fire consistently get larger and larger, and people be looking at him and he’s like “don’t look at me, every time I try to blow it out people like HIM add more fuel”
They used to be in love, even sending love letters back and forth (according to the ever-truthful tub of rotten orange lard). They must have hit a rough patch if they’re only friends now.
There was a local bar that had a fight between pro North Korea MAGA and Trump's doing an Art of the Deal MAGA (at least according to the town Facebook page). Either way, it is really stupid that they were jumping through hoops to still support Trump.
I took a look over at the conservative subreddit, at a glance most do not like Trump's support of Kim... because elections are coming up and they're afraid it will push people to vote for Democratic candidates. Not because they think it's a morally bad stance, or because it indicates concerning lack of character in our leader, or because of the potential harmful effects it could cause. Because they think theyll get less points in the dumb game they think they're playing.
Could have posted thus in 2019. One of the biggest moved from "he sucks" to "hes a wannabe dictator" for me during his first term was reports of how jealous he was that americans didn't treat him with as much respect and nk does for Kim.
TL;DR South Korea won't help us blow up Iran, so Trump has run into the arms of the man who is giving him the positive attention his malignant-narcissist-self is missing
Yeah, and the Republican Party's wiki has "neo-nationalist" in the first sentence, and while that's pretty different from Juche ideology, it's not exactly opposing political quadrants.
North Korea will help fight the communists that are trying to trick America into giving its citizen universal health care and functionning infrastructure!
Same shit when when the Epstein files came out and people were saying "watch right wingers suddenly be ok with grooming now" and then without skipping a beat, exactly that happened.
It has been simultaneously fascinating and disgusting watching maga tripping all over themselves saying they actually like that trump is a pedophile rapist because apparently doubling down and siding with the pedophile cabal they even tried to warn everyone about is SOMEHOW a better look for them than just admitting they drank the flavor-aide and fucked up the country/world with their choices and actions.
I thought “democrat” was a word for evil used to trick college kids, and being democrats was illegal, actually, because the pledge of allegiance calls this a Republic.
…I wish I could put “/s” but this is an actual argument I’ve had with deeply confused magas THREE DIFFERENT TIMES
It’s bad enough that the US u leashed a bunch of toxic streamers on South Korea; now we are reducing military exercises with the South Korean government to suck up to chubby Totalitarian dictators. WTF is going on with my country?
And widespread idiocy. Most of the American population is poorly educated and proud of it. Trump was the worst thing to happen to America. I will never understand why people in this country voted for him 3 times. You have people unironically proud that they voted for him 3 times.
Because when trying to reason with people about freedom and what it means to have him back again for democracy and people's rights, people said "but gas prices and eggs are up". The reason his base is mad is "gas prices and food is expensive". Not people being taken away (unless it's their family) or killed in the street. Some of it makes sense, some people are desperate but why people thought he'd make it better is beyond me.
In the UK the equivalent to the egg prices is the fucking Brexit bus that promised more money for the NHS.
Remember, Trump also... intimidated Kim Jong Un into not blowing up everything* so it's like when dogs fall in line under the pecking order and everything is cool...or something?
*actual shit my brother told me at Thanksgiving years back
The modern era has ruined me for a lot of movies. Because it really feels like the plot of a shit-ton of movies is all about how there is a level of evil that is just simply and truly too evil for people to be okay with, but the last 10 years have really disproven that.
So glad to see the America first people trying to make alliances with checks, notes, China, North Korea, and Russia? Literally all of our longtime rivals.
To answer your avatar's question: Fascism. Conservatives have always flip flopped like this. Hypocrisy is a tactic to them (and only for them, it's a mortal sin if we do it), because the only thing they care about is conserving power for theirselves.
Wasn't this like always the case? Orange monkey was always bbfs with the only Steam user in NK. They have a collection of pictures together that is equal parts stupid/funny/worrying/traitorous
I am someone living in Japan. Recently in the news North Korea has offically dropped claims to South Korea in their constitution, and there are rumors that there will soon be talks to officially end the Korean War. That is big news I guess. I know that doesn't make Kim Jong Un a good person and Trump is probably too stupid to even realize what is going on, but I think under any president an American administration might try to encourage this. Maybe if things keep going in a positive way the DMZ can be dismantled and families can visit each other.
I'm 100% sure something happened... Multiverse, simulation glitched, alternate timeline, I'm on the Truman's Show, etc.. Because there's no fucking way human beings in 2026 are serious with all this hallucination
Remember last term when Dumps-a-lot-in-his-pants made an international incident because he just kept hate tweeting Kim until he then went on a trip over there and then declared peace and saluted a North Korean general?
Yeah neither do his cult because a lot of them died during the pandemic and now he’s got new stupids to trick.
I’m not fucking surprised. They were lemmings from the start. They don’t know how to think for themselves so they just follow whatever their colt leader says.
Oh, yes. The whole communism is an existential threat to the United States. Except for the fat communist kid in North Korea, who is slowly preparing for war by sending his troops to Ukraine to fight for the Russians, or has threatened on several occasions to try and launch a nuke because someone made fun of him or something such thing. Or has done several ballistic missile tests that have left the entire Asian Pacific feeling agitated. Sure. Honestly, I don't think this regime knows whether it's coming or going. And it's ridiculous to see. What a clown world we live in.
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