Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
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Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#2How did it take that long after everything the US has done in the last 20 years. In what exactly is/was the US a world leader? Making money? It sure wasn't justice, Healthcare, infrastructure, human rights, poverty, homelessness etc. List goes on and on.
Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#3I think it would be better to compare opinions now to already-surveyed opinions before the pandemic; it's easy to say that you lost trust during the pandemic even if you had low trust before it started.
Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#4How did it take that long after everything the US has done in the last 20 years. In what exactly is/was the US a world leader? Making money? It sure wasn't justice, Healthcare, infrastructure, human rights, poverty, homelessness etc. List goes on and on.
You’re clearly not following USA network news. I cringe every time I hear (on center left leaning MSNBC) “American exceptionalism”, “leader of the free world”, “the most powerful man/country in the world”, or “the greatest nation in the world”. They clearly don’t get how far their idea of the USA is from that of the rest of the world of them. If it wasn’t for Hollywood propaganda, it’d be even worse.
Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#5How did it take that long after everything the US has done in the last 20 years. In what exactly is/was the US a world leader? Making money? It sure wasn't justice, Healthcare, infrastructure, human rights, poverty, homelessness etc. List goes on and on.
Hollywood is an extremely powerful marketing tool, exporting the American patriotism around the world. Movies that involve the military also tend to paint a very positive picture of the US military. And those movies and series is what kids and teenagers around the world grow up with.
Whereas to see poverty, homelessness or infrastructure problems you actually have to travel to the US.
Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#6How did it take that long after everything the US has done in the last 20 years. In what exactly is/was the US a world leader? Making money? It sure wasn't justice, Healthcare, infrastructure, human rights, poverty, homelessness etc. List goes on and on.
Hollywood is an extremely powerful marketing tool, exporting the American patriotism around the world. Movies that involve the military also tend to paint a very positive picture of the US military. And those movies and series is what kids and teenagers around the world grow up with. Whereas to see poverty, homelessness or infrastructure problems you actually have to travel to the US.
CIA will edit those scripts to be lookin' good too.
Fock!
Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#7Europe has 400 camps and 47 000 refugees (pg 106 Necropolitics A. Mbembe) so they need to activate the imaginary split between themselves and the failing Empire in hopes they can recuperate enough power to step into it and take charge.
Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#8The EU should put on their big boy pants and forge their own path independent of the US .. WW2 and the cold war are relics of the past.
Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#9I think it would be better to compare opinions now to already-surveyed opinions before the pandemic; it's easy to say that you lost trust during the pandemic even if you had low trust before it started.
Absolutely. all surveys should have data before an event. Otherwise there is no benchmark to compare your results to.
Re: Europeans' trust in US as world leader collapses during pandemic
#10Before coronavirus I thought that the dominance of the United States internationally would last another 20 or 30 years, but now it seems that it might all fall apart much sooner. It wouldn’t surprise me if the US dollar lost its position as the world reserve currency as the result of all this, especially given that the fed is directly propping up the whole financial system with trillions of dollars out of thin air. That can’t continue forever. Plus, the whole world has gotten a look behind the curtain, and they can now see how corrupt and useless our political system has become, how desperate and angry the populace is. Our failure to deal with coronavirus wasn’t because the government didn’t want to deal with the issue. The failure happened because it is unable to. Most declining empires follow the same path.