From “ The Other 98%”
The world is uniting against Donald Trump. This week made that impossible to ignore. On Saturday, the leaders of Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, South Africa, and Uruguay stood together in Barcelona at a summit built specifically to counter him.
Spain’s Pedro Sánchez told the crowd: “They know their vision of how the world should be ordered is falling apart. From now on, they can be the ones who feel ashamed.” Mexico and Spain shook hands for the first time in years, setting aside a longstanding colonial dispute to stand in the same room against the same man.
Brazil’s Lula said the UN is broken because “the countries that created it do not respect it.” He was talking about one person.
Trump responded by attacking Sánchez on social media.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, who just turned a minority government into a majority by running explicitly against Trump, declared at Davos in January that the world is experiencing “a rupture, not a transition.” He looked at the camera and said: “We know the old order is not coming back.”
In Hungary, Trump’s closest European ally just lost in a landslide. Vance flew to Budapest to campaign for him. Trump posted “I AM WITH HIM ALL THE WAY.” It wasn’t enough. Now even Nigel Farage and Italy’s Meloni are distancing themselves. Being seen with Trump is becoming a liability across Europe, including for the European far right.
In Ireland, a protester took a hatchet to a U.S. military aircraft at Shannon Airport. Spain closed its airspace to American warplanes. NATO allies refused to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz despite direct demands from the White House.
The Pope told reporters from a plane bound for Africa: “I have no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly.”
And in the Bronx on Saturday, Barack Obama sat on the floor of a childcare center with New York City’s mayor and read to three-year-olds. One week after Trump said the government can’t afford daycare.
The most powerful man in the world is losing in every room across it.
6 comments:
It is about time! There shall be a new world order. An order in which America, like the British Empire before it, loses its Empire. The days of American hegemony and total unchallenged superiority is rapidly coming to and end.
As the American Empire crumbles under the weight of its own fiscal irresponsibly and ignorant refusal to change course even when circumstances demand it the American people, the immigrants, the middle, and the less fortunate will initially pay the heaviest price. As they ALWAYS have.
But ultimately, it will be a better, world after the fall of the American Empire and neccssary adjustments have been made.
History shows that all Empires eventually collapse under the weight of their own arrogance. America is simply following the patterns of prior collapsed Empires.
Times are going to be very tough for awhile. Very tough and hard. I'm now damn glad I'm 74. But am extremely sad for my children and grandchildren. They're path in life will be extremely difficult going forward.
The trump, Project 2025, and Christian Nationalism are but visable symptoms of an Empire in decline. Watch as the trumpublican party and Evangelical Christian Nationalists double down on the very things that will accelerate the decline and eventual collapse.
Coming of age in the 60s and 70s, many of us saw America as great, but flawed.
We couldn't shake the war habit, and racism was still a curse, but we saw progress in voter rights, civil rights, women's rights, and environmentalism. Times were turbulent but moving forward. Unions were still active.
Now times are turbulent and moving backwards.
I fear Les may be right in his view of empire. The UK was essentially marginalized after WWII. They all end, they all fall. I wonder what the impact on the American psyche may be.
But, let's not pin this all on Trump. Sure, he may be the last domino, but we've been on this road for awhile, mostly a road paved with hubris.
We believed we understood the far east and enabled wars in Korea and Vietnam. We toppled democratically leaders in the Middle East in another area where we understood little of the culture. We supported the creation of a new nation, carved from another with little or no care towards the future and the people that action displaced.
We've essentially acted as a benevolent bully since the end of WWII and now, as Jeremiah Wright once noted, it does in fact look like the chickens are coming home to roost.
I was talking to friends yesterday here in Mexico. All of us came to the same conclusion. The US, Canada and Mexico should form a free enterprise zone, with free movement, free trade and mostly rely on ourselves.
At the very least, we'd have a long supply of tacos, salsa, mezcal and tequila in the event it all goes bad.
I think you Dave, and your friends, have a marvelous idea. In my limited view I belive a lot of Canada and the good parts of Mexico (excludes the drug cartels) would, if absorbed by US culture, help make the US a better place.
However, trump and MAGA after they're done may render that an impossibly. They alienate everybody it seems.
Trump's polls in Greenland are below zero.
That high?😅😅😂😂🤪🤪
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