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Summary

Trump's confrontational approach to U.S. allies—threatening tariffs, pushing Canada and Mexico, and pressuring Colombia—risks alienating key partners.

Analysts warn this could push nations toward China, which is eager to capitalize on diplomatic rifts. Panama, after Trump's canal threat, opened talks with Beijing.

Critics argue Trump's aggressive diplomacy weakens trust, while supporters claim it reinforces U.S. strength. Despite the rhetoric, some policies, like repatriation flights to Colombia, remain unchanged.

Experts caution that isolating allies may bolster China’s global influence at America’s expense.

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[–] cerement 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

won’t happen but would be hilarious to see Canada and Mexico applying to BRICS …

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] genfood@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Better apply for an EU membership then…

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The wealthy have known for some time that American financial hegemony is over. To preserve their wealth from the masses, they have decided to consolidate their control. It’s the Dark Enlightenment:

Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the “Dark Enlightenment.” Among other things, it openly promotes dictatorships as superior to democracies and views nations like the United States as outdated software systems. Yarvin seeks to reengineer governments by breaking them up into smaller entities called “patchworks,” which would be controlled by tech corporations.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wow that sounds absolutely dreadful.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It just sounds like the ideology of an extremely mentally ill authoritarian narcissist.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah. I've worked in tech for over a decade. Tech CEOs can barely CEO. Just like every other sector, C-suites tend to be primarily Chicago Schools MBAs who don't actually know anything about running sustainable businesses. They mainly know pump and dump.

That is what his handlers want.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The more we make the US socially look like China, the closer they'll push Americans towards China.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago