The damage is not as superficial as a name or a building. The USA allowed this to happen. The checks and balances that were supposed to be built into the system have failed. The United States of America, it’s government, and it’s whole social structure is no longer reliable. It does not end with the removal from power or even the death of Trump.
The thing that the whole word has learned is that there’s NO limit to what the American people will shrug off and do nothing about, whether they like it or not. None whatsoever.
You’re right that others have previously found themselves on the wrong side of that, apparently nonexistent, limit, and already learned that their lives didn’t matter a bit to any Americans. But the attack on Venezuela and economic war against Cuba – formally unsanctiones acts of wanton destruction, carried out for the lulz in the name of all Americans – were very much not believed to be in the cards, even by those countries.
Earlier this year, Denmark – fucking DENMARK – a vassal state of ~5 million people – prepared for a fight with the US to the point of sending blood bags to Greenland. But the very idea of that doesn’t even give Americans pause, Trump voters or not.
At least people in Nazi Germany feigned ignorance, Americans straight up don’t give a fuck.
This viewpoint is flawed and dangerously naive.
The damage is not as superficial as a name or a building. The USA allowed this to happen. The checks and balances that were supposed to be built into the system have failed. The United States of America, it’s government, and it’s whole social structure is no longer reliable. It does not end with the removal from power or even the death of Trump.
In 2016 the world got to know Donald Trump. In 2024 the world got to know the American people.
FTFY. Places that had to live with the consequences of US bombs and CIA regime change already knew what the American people were like.
The thing that the whole word has learned is that there’s NO limit to what the American people will shrug off and do nothing about, whether they like it or not. None whatsoever.
You’re right that others have previously found themselves on the wrong side of that, apparently nonexistent, limit, and already learned that their lives didn’t matter a bit to any Americans. But the attack on Venezuela and economic war against Cuba – formally unsanctiones acts of wanton destruction, carried out for the lulz in the name of all Americans – were very much not believed to be in the cards, even by those countries.
Earlier this year, Denmark – fucking DENMARK – a vassal state of ~5 million people – prepared for a fight with the US to the point of sending blood bags to Greenland. But the very idea of that doesn’t even give Americans pause, Trump voters or not.
At least people in Nazi Germany feigned ignorance, Americans straight up don’t give a fuck.