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What do you mean? How do you think other countries should be moving, in response to Trump? And why?
Serious answer: look at the whole Project 2025 thing, and analyze what all of that implies on a geopolitical scale.
A hint: This is a tectonic shift in what the US is on the global stage. For the rest of the world, how precisely we got here matters a lot less than the fact that we ARE here: we’re breaking bad. We’re going authoritarian. We’re leaning towards theocracy-flavored fascism. They are changing things in places that many assumed would not be touched. People simply do not seem to understand how often and significant the guard railing was in his first term. This will keep going. This will get worse.
We have already betrayed and antagonized and undermined multiple allies. This will keep going. This will get worse.
We are making plans to become more isolationist, and to just drop a lot of defense agreements on the floor because “they’re not paying us enough”. This administration sees everything as transactional - and I mean EVERYTHING. This will keep going. This will get worse.
The best play right now, imo, is to engage in basic game theory - tit for tat. Even on shit that you thought was unbreakable, like NATO, or “having democracy”. Orangeboi does not care, his sycophants and inner broligarch circle does not care (and in fact, more than a few of them are openly accelerationists). You need to reframe your understanding of our country and our government. We are not your ally anymore. You need to not assume we are your ally. You need to not assume that we would never invade you, or do some “special military operation”, or try to openly destabilize your government (see: Canada. And side note: what the actual fuck how is this a real thing that’s happening). Pay attention. You ignore these changes at your existential peril. I am entirely, 100% serious.
Thanks for the reply but you didn't really answer my question.
You say other countries should be moving a lot faster, as though it is our responsibility.
Americans voted for Trump. Twice. And Americans are going to be most harmed by him. It is on Americans, including those in the military who took an oath to defend the constitution, to do something about Trump if they don't want to be harmed by him, nobody else.
'They rigged the election then I won' (or words very much to that effect.
Meaning they rigged the election in 2020, then I won (in 2024).
Certainly there were concerns regarding the security of voting machines. Eminent computer scientists wrote to Harris about it in around 2022. Then Trump made the comment about Musk knowing about voting machines. She had ample time to do something.
But nobody else (before you) has suggested the election was rigged.
Your only claim can be that because Trump made that comment regarding Elon knowing the voting machines, Americans didn't vote for Trump. It is a silly claim.