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[-] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Modern power is based on more than having a bunch of people carrying swords. It's based on having the economic capacity to build more advanced fighters,, tanks, ships and having some soldiers to work it all, while maintaining the infrastructure to advance the technology that all those toys use.

The US didn't crush USSR in the jungles of Vietnam. It crushed it in the kitchens and living rooms of Europe and much of the rest of the world.

Now Trump is attacking the very source of the US' strength. The US never needed to occupy any of their allies capitals, to put tanks on the streets of Toronto, Manchester or Munich. NATO countries (despite Kremlin talking points) willingly joined NATO. Now, Trump wants to destroy all that because he doesn't understand it. A real estate developer of the worst kind.

The real nail in the coffin is that about 1/3 of the people of the US are cheering him on right now. Another third don't bother to vote. And Presidential authority is now akin to that of a monarch.

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