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I'm sorry, this is just Republican apologetics. This is about a single party. How in the world could you possibly suggest otherwise?

I'd love to hear how Biden, Obama, or Clinton got us into forever wars. Or how they threatened allies. Or how they destroyed our trade or deal-making reputation. Where are the Democrat newscasters saying we should invade Canada? The figure heads calling for internment camps?

Are we all affected? Sure. Does everybody in the world view us through the lens of our worst (people/behavior)? Of course. But it IS about a single party on every. single. issue.

If the Democrats were to regain control and we had public trials for all involved for war crimes, constitutional violations, etc, it would do a lot to fix the damage. Not pretending it would all go away, but actually holding the one party accountable would help because everyone on the planet knows who is responsible.

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The Iran war has demonstrated the US cannot adequately defend its allies in the region, regardless of bases, whose existence was predicated on them having that capability. No?

All the current conflict has done is make obvious that reality.

It is interesting how many people seem to have failed to notice this absolutely crucial detail. Suddenly US bases are no longer seen as an asset but as an immediate risk.

This is what specifically caused me to make the late stage empire comment. When the flip comes, you know you are in that phase. Speaking as a Brit. Other indicators are loss of reserve currency status, inward looking elite factions (can be of any party, it is not a partisan matter), and a few other things. One might have said “changed from creditor to debtor” but almost everyone is these days!

The US economy is so fragile it is scary. And meanwhile they continue to make more and more 'frenemies', some of whom might start to wonder what happens when you kick the table the house of cards is built on. At some point the continued price of trying to pretend things are normal versus the price of forcing the problem to go away is going to reach a tipping point. It almost happened over Greenland, the general atmosphere in Brussels was 'ok, if you insist'...

It's difficult to reply to a comment like this because the existence of it disproves what it is arguing for.

I wish this was just a Republican thing, or that people abroad perceived it as such but the reality is that people around the world no longer care about this Democrat - Republican split.

No one outside of America cares a Republican party started this shit. They care that this shit was started at all, because it means that the American system is out of control.

No one outside of America cares ifyou're a democrat or a republican. They just see you as American. And they see America as the source of so many of the world's problems.

Which means they see you as the source of those problems.

Israel's actions horrify me, but I still disagree when people totalize Israelis. They assume the entire citizenry signs on to the atrocities, easy to do but it's bullshit. It's not good when random Israelis get hit by an Iranian missile, same when a US soldier gets hit, or when an Iranian one does, or an Iranian civilian, or an IDF soldier, and so on. Totalization is always a lie. If the world wants to blame me for some crazies I despise making the world worse then that's what it is, but it's just another case of the world being stupid. No better than when those crazies in my own country totalize Iranians to justify their own bloodlust.

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