[_nrv9]

Under the Donald Trump administration, the US receded from its position of total global hegemony. This backtrack has massively hurt the United States.

[shostack]

Which raises the question of how much that may have been the point.

[refurb]

Are you are arguing ending US hegemony is bad?

[2muchcoffeeman]

I don’t know why this is being downvoted. My feeling is that globally, during the Trump administration, allies started making alternate plans.

Merkel even said after the NATO meeting, that Europe can no longer rely on foreign partners. In response to Trumps actions and the UK leaving the EU.

[CountSessine]

I agree - but what’s in it for the US?

NATO existed to fight off global communism by keeping the Soviet Union out of Western Europe. This was directly in the US national interest because the US didn’t want to face a pan-Eurasian communist front in a future war.

What does NATO do anymore? The US, as the only global superpower with a homeland separated from any potential, conceivable enemy by the two biggest oceans in the world, is largely invulnerable to invasion. And without an enemy with an energizing ideology behind it, what is anyone allied against?

[tengbretson]

When you hate Trump so much that you start defending American imperialism.