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U.S. Credibility Dies
May 3, 2026
AI Analysis: Name Calling
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Like everything else Trump touches Grab another coffee. Rebecca Solnit drew attention to an essay at the Guardian that explains how Donald Trump and Trumpism have undone U.S. primacy in the world: One thing striking to me about Trump and Trumpism is that while constantly squawking about manliness and strength, it’s a bunch of weak men weakening the United States in every way possible.
Another is that by taking a lot of right-wing agendas to their logical destructive conclusion, it helpfully demonstrates the folly of those agendas. Here’s an excellent essay on the response to the USA becoming, under Trump, a rogue nation. (That response could mean the end of US hegemony, which could maybe mean we could down the road stop spending so much money on the military.) “The highly unpopular and illegal war in Iran is fast becoming a vivid example of the chaos and instability bred by unilateralism,” said Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Brazil’s ambassador to London, in a speech . “It is laying bare a perception that the world will not be made unipolar again.” That’s because beneath the surface “something is happening. Something is moving.” The rest of the world is climbing out from under U.S. domination. Patrick Wintour cites Harvard University’s Prof. Stephen Walt, writing in The Guardian: American influence is not just a function of its wealth or power. It’s also a function of how the US is viewed. He said it was important for allies “to think that the United States
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