Putin Won
Putin Won
The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.
The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.
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No he hasn't.
One of the biggest gripes I've had with Americans over the years has been their perspective that America was the whole world. The rest of the world was just "out there somewhere", some vague hinterland that news stories came from sometimes but that didn't really matter and was totally at the whim of whatever was going on in the real place in the world, America. Even now, even among the Americans who are horrified at Trump and what he's doing and want to say sympathetic things to the allies he's screwing over, we're still seeing this.
Putin's useful idiot has smashed America and America's global dominance. This is bad for America, sure. But it's not necessarily bad for the whole world, and it's not necessarily even good for Putin in the grand scheme of things. Putin is still three years into his three-day "special military operation", with his troops travelling to the front lines on crutches and donkeys to die in meat waves. Finland and Sweden joined NATO. The EU is allocating hundreds of billions of Euros to defense. Germany just elected a government that seems willing to stand up and join them in combating Russia. Russia is still completely hosed. It is not bending the world to Putin's vision.
Sure, it would have been nice to have America fully on board with defeating him too. But America's only a part of the whole world, and an increasingly smaller part these days. Let them go wallow in the isolation they seemingly crave.
What nonsense. This is great for Putin. There's no American Isolation, USA has begun switching to the authoritarian side and is now directly moving against the democracies. Finland and Sweden were hardly worth it in trade.
That's what everybody seems to be missing! Trump and his cronies are already trying to influence foreign governments. Trump and Musk are directly intervening in Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Panama, Germany, UK, Poland, Ukraine, and even Australia. This government is like a cancer, you can't ignore it because it's going to spread throughout the whole body if you do.
It is pretty fucking bad for Ukraine as well.
I'm glad to see this perspective. I live in America, and I thought surely the rest of the world doesn't see it like this. We are out, and of our own god damn volition. But that doesn't mean Putin won. If anything, weakening America so much just means our government couldn't possibly come to his aid in any meaningful way when the European countries inevitably have to put him in his place.
Well, if the US is now Putin's country, I don't think Europe is strong enough to take on both Russia and the US (with it's huge army that's actually functional and has bases inside Europe). Europe is fucked.