We have had that role for far too long. Seventy-five years, if you don't count WWI and the years before we declared war on Germany during which it was (rightly) assumed that we would step in again to save Europe.
Who says we have led the world for too long?
You won’t enjoy living in a world where the United Staes is no longer on top. You won’t like it when countries that you thought of as protectorates, thumb their noses at us meaningfully. Small gestures like tMI-6’s decision to stop sharing intelligence in the Carribian are tiny in comparison to what will happen when former allies reject major American initiatives.
This is more down to Trump’s consistant duplicity, his disloyalty, incompetence and bad faith.
His ugly American act plays to his cult, and the Fox types think it’s great.
In the world, every time Trump does it, he gets smaller and less serious. A President who can be safely ignored.
No one will resent that more than folks like you, the very folks who cheer for failure and cowardice.
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Not at all true. Our so-called "allies" are nothing more than our protectorates. They are a drain on our power, not an enhancement of it.
Where do you get that notion. The GDPof the EU is roughly the same as the United States. Together, we collectively are the richest block in the world.
Cut that in half, Like you want to, and the Russians will look more powerful (particularly if Trump gives Ukraine away). A Russian victory in Ukraine would be the biggest boost for Russian expansion in 80 years. Not to mention that it would be a huge boon to Chinese ambitions.
You want to give it to them. Why? Apparantly because Trump said so.
Roadblocks? He was the one who sent lethal aid to Ukraine - before the Russian invasion - after Obama sending only blankets and first aid kits. You are deliberately making assertions counter to fact.
Trump made noise about that aid, and then sat on it…..for months and months.
After he was out of office, he used his ability to bully the lickspittles in the GOP Congress to sit on Biden;s aid package for over a year.
Of course, if you were a real American, the question you would be asking is why Trump isn’t sending lethal aid to Ukraine NOW.
If Trump is throwing roadblocks to Ukraine's defense, why did the Ruskies not invade until his first term was over? What sense does it make to invade when Joe Biden was in office and was sure to give harsh speeches against them, plus send a little aid?
I think there are a number of factors.
Trump had been driving wedges between the United States and NATO since late in 2016.
He started his Administration by trying to return the safe houses the Obama administration confiscated from the Russians.
He routinely sided with Putin and engaged in a number of stunts that made him appear subservient to Moscow.
On his way out, he launched the first political insurrection Imus history.
Planning for the Russian invasion began about two weeks later, and was well underway before the evacuation of Afghanistan.
Which Putin interpreted as another sign of American weakness, leaving a power vacuum.
Of course, once the invasion was launched, Trump publicly endorsed it.
So much for us standing with our allies.
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