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Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 01:55 AM Feb 2017

America is going to learn in the coming months and years that it isn't as indispensable...

America is going to learn in the coming months and years that it isn't as indispensable as it likes to think it is. True it's a power to be reckoned with. But this isn't the 1950s anymore, there are many other legitimate players on the field now. Other countries are going to start to close ranks against the US. It may be painful at first but there are other trading partners, other markets, other opportunities. It's a big world with a lot of people in it. Not everything revolves around the US anymore. Trump is being a petulant child and crying, "I'm taking my ball and going home". Be careful, other countries don't have to suck America's dick as much as they used to. Eventually they are going to just say, fine take your ball, we'll use ours and play without you.

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America is going to learn in the coming months and years that it isn't as indispensable... (Original Post) Locut0s Feb 2017 OP
Oh I think to US is very indispensable. I shudder to think what other applegrove Feb 2017 #1
America has propped up many of those dictators over the years... Locut0s Feb 2017 #4
I'm very worried. We need a strong and great USA for the world order applegrove Feb 2017 #6
you confuse the American government / American people Skittles Feb 2017 #2
Truer words were never spoken. So sad Justice Feb 2017 #3
Hello China flamingdem Feb 2017 #5

applegrove

(118,462 posts)
1. Oh I think to US is very indispensable. I shudder to think what other
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 01:59 AM
Feb 2017

dictators will go nuts with human rights abuses with isolationist Trump in power.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
4. America has propped up many of those dictators over the years...
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 02:12 AM
Feb 2017

The US tends to only care a lot about human rights violations when their own interest is not at stake. That being said that's no different than most countries around the world. And I'm not saying that the end result will necessarily be better. What I mean is that if pushed far enough other countries will find ways of cutting the US out, it's much more possible in this day and age than it was decades ago.

applegrove

(118,462 posts)
6. I'm very worried. We need a strong and great USA for the world order
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 02:17 AM
Feb 2017

to be maintained and even bettered. I worry that under Trump the world will devolve.

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