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Poll: Trump era tilts US allies toward Beijing
(www.politico.com)
It's so over:
The king has no clothes.
Trump has done more to destroy USA in a year than Bush did in 8, and Trump himself did in his first 4 year term.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that China will have clearly surpassed USA as the global leader in 10 years.
USA has abandoned all its allies, and USA alone is no match for China. Obviously EU alone isn't either. Only USA together with allies had a chance, but US leadership sucked anyway, for instance in failing completely on environmental issues.
So here we are, we can only hope China will be a better world leader than USA. Or at least not too much worse.
Not that these are wrong, but I wonder about recency bias. Have these indicators been trending downward for 20 years, or is this just a response to our current crop of morons?
If Obama v2 was elected tomorrow, would these instantly reverse, like the international opinion seemed to when he took over from W?
Have these indicators been trending downward for 20 years,
They have trended down at least since Bush. Obama restored a lot, more than I thought possible. But 2 times electing Trump has resulted in people not trusting USA anymore, even if there's a better administration next time.
So I think that for sure these numbers have generally trended down for about 25 years now. But the 2nd time with Trump is clearly the worst. This is not "trending down" anymore, this is the numbers falling off a cliff. Again because the distrust is in the USA population too. We can't trust a new administration either, because the next could be another Trump. Trump is a symptom not the cause.
the next could be another Trump
E.g. Prez Tucker Carlson on an anti-Israel + pro-deportations ticket
There's probably going to be some reversal in such a scenario but I think this time it goes deeper than that. People see it's not just the clowns in the White House, it's also all major American corporations and their owners. Those won't change with the coming of Obama v2, and they're not about to start exracting less from us. Meanwhile China's gonna keep taking more and more mindshare by delivering more and more high and low tech products in people's lives. I think a significant reversal that puts the US above China would only occur under an FDR-like figure that curbstomps the whole US oligarchy.
This fucker is singlehandedly dismantling global US economic and political hegemony.
Honestly, with USAs track record over the past century, it's probably well deserved for it to crash and burn. I'm just worried about the flaming fallout that will crush everyone else underneath, and what new monster will step in to take its place.
MAGAts bro, they are usually extremely low IQ individuals, and believe everything he says.
They were a problem before he came along, they will stay a problem after he is gone.
Magats really need to face a lot more consequences for being who they are than they face. It should be fair game to just run up on anyone in a magat hat and beat the living shit out of them
The US hegemony needed to die, I say as a really angry, scared, and sad citizen, but this is not the best way for humanity for it to happen imo. So many people are going to suffer than needed to.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, yeah, they're forced into a compromise with the Middle Kingdom, as fittingly it wants to speedrun to 2049, the supposed target for achieving its own hegemony while expecting the US to plunge into Balkanization.
Right now china is probably our least of problems. This is probably why.
Yeah but even though they seem like the adult in the room, they're still a dictatorship aggressively taking over the world with less explosive methods and enacting a genocide on their own people.
They have a lot going for them to claim the throne, but they're any more trustworthy. Just smarter about it.
Oh I know, but in a situation where I get shot If I wheren't to choose, China is still the "lesser evil" right now. The least worst option.
EU citizen here:
One major issue where USA has failed completely since the 70's, is sustainable green energy.
Europe has worked on that consistently since the 70's, and we now use about half per capita of USA for similar productivity!
China takes this issue seriously, and does way more than USA, despite USA is the worlds biggest economy, they are among the countries that have done the least.
This is even more important than democracy, where USA is absolutely failing too, and not even supporting Ukraine against Russia. An innocent democracy attacked by an authoritarian aggressor that has decided to be the enemy of the west that wants to rebuild a former empire, when there was a strong opportunity for cooperation and economic growth.
USA is also threatening allies militarily, and is waging a trade war against partners and allies.
There is nothing left to cooperate with USA on. USA has placed itself morally below China on all major global issues. And has shown complete disrespect for national sovereignty and international law in every way possible. Something China respects, and has promised to keep respecting.
But Republicans have dramatically increased in their American arrogance and disrespect of other nations and even their own democracy since Bush, So USA isn't even an allied country in the western goal to protect democracy anymore.
On the contrary they are working to undermine Ukraine, something USA also did under Biden at the same time as Biden helped Ukraine economically and with military equipment, Biden tied Ukraine's hands on their back, forbidding any kind of attack into Russia! And for 4 years USA has given Russia unhindered access to Starlink, and recent data shows that Russia had 3 times as much traffic using Starlink as Ukraine had!
USA is not a friend to anyone anymore not even their own population or their own rule of law or their own democracy. USA is looking a lot like Russia did in the early 90's. So no surprise that people are beginning to see China as a lesser evil than USA.
At least China respects sovereignty and international law, and isn't warmongering like USA.
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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