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Three quarters of Germans consider the United States to be an unreliable partner, according to a survey published on Thursday.
78% of those queried currently consider France to be a trustworthy partner and 74% consider the UK to be a trustworthy partner.
According to the survey, 40% consider Ukraine to be a trustworthy partner, while 48% of respondents believe that Germany cannot trust Ukraine.
??? “Rule of Law” has always meant obeying America, democracy always meant aligned with US interests.
Looking at all the lawlessness of the Trump administration with regards international law and how it is returning to “gunboat diplomacy” I think that position is a bit difficult to defend as being the only thing it has done.
More nuanced arguments can be made but it is a fact that we can just look at how things were historically if we want to see what the world will look like when there’s no international law or norms.
Democracy has certainly meant a lot more than just that to the countless people who got out of nondemocratic regimes imposed on them against their will. So much so that even the modern authoritarian tries to pretend he is supporting democracy by holding sham elections etc.
Correct, we can look at the dictators America put in place via coup, then kept in power with military aid over the last century.
The only difference is that you’re starting to notice it, but you will go back to brunch like all the other libs if Gavin Newsome wins in 2028, and continues 98% of Trumps policies, the same way Biden did, the same way Obama did for Bush.
When westerners talk about democracy, they’re not talking about Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuala, Bolivia, China, countries whose governments are overwhelmingly popular because they enact the will of their people, they’re talking about countries whose rulers do what US capital wants.
I agree the shit during cold war was bad and it was good that we had moved past that. Unfortunately it looks like that and worse is now again on the table for USA. What I was really talking about was even further back than that though. The real period of no international norms whatsoever, pre-WW1.
But yeah, I can see you’re one of those tankies who only wants to desperately see one thing so probably not worth continuing.