Summary
The Munich Security Conference report warns that Trump’s proposed territorial acquisitions, including Greenland, Panama, and Canada, have damaged the U.S.'s global standing, making it seen as a risk rather than a stabilizing force.
The report highlights the decline of U.S.-led global leadership amid a shift toward a multipolar world, with China and Russia expanding influence.
European leaders will press U.S. officials on NATO commitments and Ukraine support.
Survey data shows U.S. risks are now perceived as greater than Russia’s in many G7 nations.
That’s because everyone who was on the same page about this was slowly supplanted by Tea Partiers with no understanding of how power systems work. Their only reference is the propaganda that wasn’t meant for the elites, but the previous generation of elites didn’t tell anyone else because name one elite who shares with competition.
I think it’s a lot more malicious than a neglect of institutional knowledge.
The people are suffering economic anxiety, Trump points at <insert economic partner> as the cause of their economic woes, and builds popular support for some stupid land grab that trades the country’s soft power for some quick corporate profits. By the time the long-term damage sets in, they are off to the next grift a few hundred billion dollars richer. Tale as old as time…
They know the damage they are causing–they just don’t care.
It’s even more malicious than that: the erosion of US soft power is good for Russia, and Trump is a Russian asset
“Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven” is not the best ideology for the general wellbeing if the population.
The previous generation of non-elite* who lived through it didn’t tell their children either. The flower children sold out. This has been going on since Operation Paperclip.