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Great powers often decline through self-inflicted blows. By starting a trade war he was unable to follow through on, Donald Trump may have just dealt a severe one to the United States.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He killed 1 million Americans.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

He's just getting started.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He does like to act like he’s the best at everything. I wonder if he’s proud of this one.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Funny how he doesn't brag about this one.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Right? He's the ultimate victim, he could totally have claimed the US suffered worse than anyone else and he did such a great job to finally put an end to it or whatever spin he fancies, nothing matters anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump is a foreign adversary.

Trump’s Tariffs Have Done What No -- other -- US Adversary Could

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

US used to be the abusive one in a relationship, but it was sweet enough, think things like, I'm sorry I didnt mean to start a war near your territory or sorry I overthrew your government, but we can still be friends. It has now gone fully bully and so countries will stop coming to the same playground.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

It has now gone fully bully and so countries will stop coming to the same playground.

More like: It has now started bullying its lackies/people who can fight back. The change in Trump 2 isn't that America became more of a bully, but simply that it's now bullying countries that were part of the cool people club. Looking from the Middle East for example you'd scarcely be able to tell anything even changed.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t pretend that Putin didn’t have some influence on this