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
โ #1 Venlil Enjoyer (@EmpressThaliaa) January 27, 2025
Itโs the fact that Americans have 0 idea how important it is that America has so many Allieโs around the world that Trump is just now cutting off one by one for absolutely no reason because he failed to communicate.
โ You were warned ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ (@Rickie99_) January 27, 2025
I canโt believe weโre burning down the world for literally no reason. I am never forgiving republicans
โ Flaming (@FlamingAUS) January 27, 2025
me when i have to end my alliances built up over a century because i'm bored
โ Amadรกn (@Mr_Elephant2004) January 27, 2025
its true lol. i think many countries are going to rely far less on the us now
โ 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
โ Jan202021 (@Dixie202021) January 27, 2025
losing power in the global south speed run (new record: 6 days)
โ SandstormRefrigerator (@Pokemonprimed) January 27, 2025
Yeah, it's basic diplomacy. America would lose badly in Sid Meyer's Civ right now.
โ 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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@Allende are both right, Guns germs and steel is a neat broad overview that makes lots of sense on the macro scale. When you get into the weeds historians all have sticks up their asses against one size fits all shit as they should, even when it makes literally perfect sense.
I was friends once with a native Hawaiian dude though who was majoring in their own history shit and they had a canned rant about 2 hours long about how the only reasons Hawaiians were so easily conquered/subjugated was because there was no iron in the soil of hawaii or some shit, basically point for point with the Jared Diamond shit, claimed if there was iron in hawaii they would have gone to the moon or something based on their historic propensity for finding hawaii with a survival rate of 1/1000 sea canoes.
So it's both a great book and also not meant to be gospel which Diamond made very clear throughout the book iirc but a lot of people read it like the bell curve or something and go full r-slur and miss the main points.
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