Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

Interesting report from the world of diplomacy and military alliance.

The headline quotation is a direct quotation of a non-American senior official to the Americans at the meeting.

80 years of effort to build up a world of shared values burned in under a year. 80 years of soft power tossed in the compost pile and recycled into fertilizer. 80 years of blood, sweat, and tears as Americans laboured to make the world safe for America.

All gone in the tantrums of a decrepit toddler.

Indeed, USA: We genuinely will never fucking trust you again.

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 days ago

    There are plenty of other democratic countries in existence some more democratic than the USA ever was.

    Correct. Which one grew to the size and power level of the US and managed to maintain that same level of democracy? Or any kind of remotely similar type of scale?

    Like I say, it’s more easy at a small (“small”) scale of an individual country. It’s not easy, but it’s not the same. Now that the EU is growing to the same kind of unified power structure in early stages, they’re talking about chat control, they’re denying visas to doctors who want to talk about what happened in Palestine, they’re doing all these pre-fascist things, because that’s what large powerful states start to do, and I fully expect that they will go in the exact same direction as The Great Satan unless they take some lessons from our 20th-century history and hopefully try to build on them and get closer to something decent. That’s my point.

    Now democratic backsliding has started it’s not clear if it will remain democratic and how long it will take to recover to full democracy assuming it does return to full democracy at all. It could very much just get worse until there is a collapse.

    I feel like you must have stopped reading before my last paragraph, if you feel the need to lecture me on this. I live here. I’m well aware.