Our soft power has taken a greater hit from our unwavering support for Israel than this. How many countries outside of Europe have come out to condemn this? Meanwhile u.n. vote after u.n. vote everyone except for the u.s. and it’s proxies vote to condemn this genocide and the u.s. sending weapons.
This definitely doesn’t make us look good, but it’s not the unprecedented foreign relations catastrophe people are making it out to be.
Canada, Mexico, the UK, the EU.
I can guarantee Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand… All countries are paying attention.
All are recognising the US as significany weaker than they have been in a long time. All of them are making power grabs by supporting Ukraine and investigating new trade alliances/deals not involving the US, further weakening US power.
While these are absolutely the moral and correct things to do, and supporting Ukraine is the human thing to do, bolstering international security - there is also a huge amount of soft power to be had in the support, and a good reason to up domestic arms production which helps replace/offset Americas hard power (IE military might).
Where countries have relied on American weapons before, the threat of America “switching off” a countries jets and missiles cannot be ignored.
Power is quite quantifiable these days. If you want to prove that US lost power you have to provide some concrete evidence that they did. To me it doesn’t look like they lost much
Yes. We are losing soft power and allies all around the world thanks to the orange menace.
Our soft power has taken a greater hit from our unwavering support for Israel than this. How many countries outside of Europe have come out to condemn this? Meanwhile u.n. vote after u.n. vote everyone except for the u.s. and it’s proxies vote to condemn this genocide and the u.s. sending weapons.
This definitely doesn’t make us look good, but it’s not the unprecedented foreign relations catastrophe people are making it out to be.
How is USA losing soft power and which allies are they losing?
Translation: you’ve either been under a rock, or you’ve been watching nothing but Faux News.
This, folks, is why it’s important to stay informed with actual news and information. So you don’t ask a silly question like this.
I think you have been living under a rock because despite what politician talk on tv nothing seem to have changed
Did you forget the /s, or are you just not paying attention?
Yes, there were definitely talk about taking over Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Greenland before last month.
Oh wait, no they weren’t.
This looks like a display of power to me
Ok, but now you admit things have changed
we are talking about US losing power
Canada, Mexico, the UK, the EU.
I can guarantee Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand… All countries are paying attention.
All are recognising the US as significany weaker than they have been in a long time. All of them are making power grabs by supporting Ukraine and investigating new trade alliances/deals not involving the US, further weakening US power.
While these are absolutely the moral and correct things to do, and supporting Ukraine is the human thing to do, bolstering international security - there is also a huge amount of soft power to be had in the support, and a good reason to up domestic arms production which helps replace/offset Americas hard power (IE military might).
Where countries have relied on American weapons before, the threat of America “switching off” a countries jets and missiles cannot be ignored.
So what changed between these countries and USA?
How are they doing that?
Power grabs to what?
and so on
Wow. What a lovely conversation we are having.
Just asking questions, aye?
Power is quite quantifiable these days. If you want to prove that US lost power you have to provide some concrete evidence that they did. To me it doesn’t look like they lost much
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2021304/norway-fuel-giant-refuses-fill
This is what losing soft power looks like but lot of it won’t be noticed until all of our allies start doing these small things.
https://www.reuters.com/world/norway-says-it-will-keep-supplying-fuel-us-navy-after-company-calls-boycott-2025-03-02/
and this is what not actually losing any power looks like