The international standing of the US is literally never going to recover https://t.co/k21jJ9fv0z
— #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025
Like I don't mean to be overdramatic, but this is straight up the end of the American century
— #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025
It’s the fact that Americans have 0 idea how important it is that America has so many Allie’s around the world that Trump is just now cutting off one by one for absolutely no reason because he failed to communicate.
— You were warned 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@Rickie99_) January 27, 2025
I can’t believe we’re burning down the world for literally no reason. I am never forgiving republicans
— Flaming (@FlamingAUS) January 27, 2025
me when i have to end my alliances built up over a century because i'm bored
— Amadán (@Mr_Elephant2004) January 27, 2025
its true lol. i think many countries are going to rely far less on the us now
— pierbi (@pierbiwierbi) January 27, 2025
the hostility is insane, the amount of people on here who act like its deserved and shows the us is strong is insane aha. comes across as incredibly petty and weak
— Jan202021 (@Dixie202021) January 27, 2025
losing power in the global south speed run (new record: 6 days)
— SandstormRefrigerator (@Pokemonprimed) January 27, 2025
Yeah, it's basic diplomacy. America would lose badly in Sid Meyer's Civ right now.
— Tom (@iamtomgranger) January 27, 2025
Anyway remittances from the US account for 3% of Colombia's GDP so a single deportation flight is pretty devastating to their national economy. And the threats worked immediately
So we are thankfully not going to be deprived of all the many things Colombia exports here. I don't know what those things are besides coffee and cocaine but X (formerly Twitter) informs me it's a lot and very important. Crisis averted.
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I havent read the book, so I cant speak to whether its r-slurred or not, but I'm with redactor on the fact that most historians are r-slurred and spend more time trying to prove the lessons of history line up with their ideology than just helping the world to actually understand our history.
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What the frick do you think Diamond is doing?
Historians have always been a bit r-slurred dating back to Herodotus. What's important is the development over time of the Historiography. Right now the west is in this dumb shit DEI woke phase, but it's gone through Chud Phases, socialist phases, peasantry focused phase etc. Its the discussion between these phases that gets you to some semblance of the truth.
The problem is Diamond's ideas aren't just r-slurred for their ideologically filter, their actually just r-slurred starting points that don't make sense.
I listened to a very lib historian argue that the Byzantine empire was actually a form of Republic. I don't know if I agree but it was intriguing and he argued it well.
Versus diamond showing up with his
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Yeah, but its easy to read. If historians could stop being so socially r-slurred and try to give the rest of humanity some sort of factual narrative lens to see history through, these r-slurred ideas wouldnt stand a chance. So once again, its the historians' fault.
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Tom Holland has really nailed this. His religious books are pretty dense and hard to read, but his books on Persia and Rome read really well.
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Thanks for the recommendation!
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