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>Further irony would be if Trump took the USA out of NATO they might strengthen the commitment! It wouldn't surprise me if he did. Trump seems to believe the US is somehow being swindled and cheated by every international agreement and commitment it has. It's a weird victim mentality for the world's last superpower to express, as if the US didn't force the current order onto the Western world at gunpoint, entirely fo…
First sign of decline of a super power if it no longer feels super(ior).
Honestly, the decline of American empire is the only potential upside to any of this for me.
The world can't pretend 2016 was just an anomaly. This is who we are now and the world will learn to move on without American "leadership."