Contents of said letter from daily beast: https://archive.is/YFBK3#selection-773.0-779.748
“Dear Jonas,” the president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT.”
I do not envy the successor who’s going to have to unfuck Americas reputation in the world.
I’m not sure it will be unfuckable to be fair. The amount of damage (reputational and whatnot) is so big that the country is right now a banana republic with a toddler autocrat. The only reason people still cater to him is his army. But even for that to keep working, he needs money. And there’s a limit to how much other countries can tolerate.
He’s dumb enough to not realize the US is drowning in ever-growing debt that other countries could simply cash in and send the whole manbaby imperialist fantasies to hell in a month or less.
He has pretty much torched all of the USA’s soft power and standing as a trade partner.
GWB had already done some damage to both, which Obama tried to repair (more so on the trade front). Then Trump I happened and made it very clear that the USA were no longer a reliable partner and probably not even politically stable in the medium term. Biden tried to salvage something but then Trump II happened and conclusively buried what little goodwill the States had left.
I don’t think the pax americana is going to survive the decade and neither is the petrodollar. It remains to be seen whether the States will become a local hegemonial power, a failed empire with lasting ambitions á la Russia, or will even fade from relevancy entirely. I don’t expect them to remain a superpower.
The way he’s pushing his shit, I’d be surprised if the states are still united bè the end of the decade.
I thought the whole idea of project 2025 was to devalue the dollar to buy back any national debts with gold and oil? I think destroying any global connection of the US is their goal
I just read something about this, and it jibes with my own thoughts on the topic:
From this politico article
I mean, let’s play out the possible scenarios for 2028… I don’t see a single one that results in slowly rolling back everything that happened since 2016. And even back then the USA was not the most democratic; it was easier for Europe to not see it back then, but that is not the case anymore.
Even if the next president tries to repair the damage there’s a decent chance the one after that will be a fascist piece of shit again. I wouldn’t trust America to pick up the pieces anytime soon. Maybe in 20-25 years when most of the boomers are dead can you begin to build something permanently better…
Yup, I understand not all boomers are conservative and Gen X and Z (but less so millennials) are drinking some red Kool-Aid, but even the influence leading to that is due to boomer billionaires like Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers, Larry Ellison and others (set Elon aside for now since he’s just mentally ill by default).
Basically, we’re waiting out the effects of lead paint and pipes.